Ken Parks hefted the Craftsman lawn mower onto a table. That's impressive for a 150-pound man who stands 5-foot-4. ...more

March 6, 2009

The Japan-based operator of a cargo vessel that dumped oily sludge into the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean was sentenced today to three years of probation and fined $1.75 million. ...more

February 24, 2009

Rich McCue had a choice - run the 5K at Gasparilla in Tampa or sludge through the sand, pine leaves and gravel along the Chinsegut Nature Center. ...more

February 15, 2009

The Sebring City Council approved an escrow agreement Tuesday with Highlands Utilities Corp., setting aside $300,000 of the purchase price after the seller was not able to complete two issues prior to the closing on Nov. 20. ...more

December 6, 2008

An effort by residents here to spoil the county's plan to dump thousands of cubic yards of slurry, dredged from the bottom of the channel onto a parcel on Eagle Nest Drive, appears to have worked. ...more

September 13, 2008

Several former residents reminisced about their naive youth as they revisited the deserted streets of the Love Canal neighborhood Friday, 30 years after a poison sludge devastated families with miscarriages and cancers and gave rise to the federal Superfund program. ...more

August 2, 2008

To hear activists say it, their community is contaminated, saturated with sludge and overdue for a more modern sewage system. ...more

June 29, 2008

County administrator David Hamilton sees community up close during a walking tour Saturday. ...more

June 28, 2008

A helicopter Monday dumped 250 gallons of river water onto a gutted sugar refinery where six workers died and two remain missing from an explosion that continued to burn more deeply than officials first suspected. ...more

February 12, 2008

When ethanol-blended gasoline started turning up at gas stations in the Tampa Bay area last year, Fred Richardson had a flash from the past. ...more

February 9, 2008