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October 20, 2008

A Light in Financial Gloom: Gas Falls To $3 A Gallon Gut-wrenching declines in the stock market, a financial panic that some have compared to the Great Depression and the realization that the United States may be headed to its worst recession in more than a generation have trumped what should otherwise be good news: The return of $3-a-gallon gas. ...more

October 19, 2008

U.S. Coast Guard and local law enforcement officers continued their search for anyone who may have been aboard a capsized boat found in about 10 feet of water near Fort DeSoto Park this morning. . ...more

October 16, 2008

A U.S. Coast Guard rescue helicopter is hovering over a 46-foot cabin cruiser that is taking on water and in immediate danger of capsizing some 40 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico. ...more

October 11, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) - Hurricane Ike's winds and massive waves destroyed oil platforms, tossed storage tanks and punctured pipelines. The environmental damage only now is becoming apparent: At least a half million gallons of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico and the marshes, bayous and bays of Louisiana and Texas, according to an analysis of federal data by The Associated Press. ...more

October 6, 2008

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued four fishermen Friday morning after their boat sank in the Gulf of Mexico about 32 miles from Clearwater, Coast Guard officials said. ...more

October 4, 2008

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued four fishermen this morning after their boat sank in the Gulf of Mexico about 32 miles from Clearwater, Coast Guard officials said. ...more

October 3, 2008

Just in time for Halloween, the Renaissance Vinoy Resort & Golf Club in St. Petersburg is expecting a boom in reservations after being featured on tonight's "Ghost Hunters" on the Sci-Fi Channel. ...more

October 1, 2008

A 47-year-old man slipped on some sardines this morning while fishing from the Sunshine Skyway's south fishing pier and fell into Tampa Bay, St. Petersburg fire officials say. ...more

October 1, 2008

Fewer Cubans have been apprehended this year trying to enter the United States, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. ...more

September 29, 2008