TAMPA The fiery explosion lifted the flaming car tire some 200 feet into the air. It was enough to make the students shudder. The boom came a second later and set car alarms off almost a quarter of a mile away. ...more

June 4, 2008

Taoist Master Dan Jia picks through the wreckage of the 1,500-year-old Erwang Temple, piling books in a stack and dusting off altarpieces. ...more

June 1, 2008

Half of this small town lay in ruins or heavily damaged Monday after a deadly tornado ripped apart a stretch of northern Iowa. ...more

May 27, 2008

CHINA - The search for survivors in the rubble of China's powerful earthquake grew bleak Sunday, with rescuers in some areas no longer listening for trapped victims. ...more

May 18, 2008

TAMPA – Eastbound traffic is limited to two lanes on the Selmon Crosstown Expressway near downtown this morning as firefighters extracted the driver of a box truck involved in a crash near a tollbooth. ...more

May 8, 2008

Two pickups and four motorcycles collided just south of town Wednesday morning, clogging traffic on Zephyrhills' main north-south artery. No one was seriously hurt, the Florida Highway Patrol said. ...more

February 21, 2008

The searchers had gone over the field once. It seemed unlikely that anything else would turn up. It was dark and rainy. Amid the awesome wreckage of the tornado that had just passed they'd found three dead. Some bodies had been flung hundreds of feet from their homes, landing in tangles of branches and across the roadway. ...more

February 7, 2008

The military telegram arrived in Peekskill, N.Y., on a springlike day in February 1945. The parents put it down unopened, falling to their knees to pray. Three of their five sons were pilots fighting overseas, and they were afraid to learn which of their boys was dead. ...more

February 3, 2008

The house was ravaged - its floors ripped, walls busted and lights smashed by owners who trashed their home before a bank foreclosed on it. Hidden in the wreckage was an abandoned member of the family: a starving pit bull. ...more

January 30, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Three people were transported to Tampa hospitals Thursday after a six-vehicle wreck at State Road 54 and Foggy Ridge Parkway, Pasco Fire Rescue said. ...more

January 25, 2008