State and federal law enforcement agencies will train Wednesday morning for the Super Bowl. ...more

November 7, 2008

Travelers at Tampa International Airport this morning will be the first to experience the new full-body imaging scanners that detect weapons, explosives or other dangerous items. ...more

October 24, 2008

A 44-year-old Tampa man has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of carrying a weapon on an airplane. Raul Gambe Mata admitted in a plea agreement that he brought a hunting knife with a six-inch blade in his carry-on bag when he attempted to board Delta flight 5634 from Tampa to Cincinnati on July 29. ...more

October 23, 2008

Just two weeks after a Nobel Prize highlighted theoretical work on subatomic particles, physicists are announcing a startling discovery about a much more familiar form of matter: Scotch tape. It turns out that if you peel the popular adhesive tape off its roll in a vacuum chamber, it emits X-rays. The researchers even made an X-ray image of one of their fingers. ...more

October 22, 2008

A woman says she waited 19 hours at Parkland Memorial Hospital's emergency department for treatment of a broken leg and never did get to see a doctor - but still got a bill for $162. ...more

October 22, 2008

Plans for Habitat for Humanity of Highlands County to build 100 two-story townhouses for workforce housing will go before the county's Planning and Zoning Commission on Tuesday. ...more

October 6, 2008

A long-awaited federal study of an X-ray alternative to the dreaded colonoscopy confirms its effectiveness at spotting most cancers, although it was far from perfect. ...more

September 18, 2008

This city still can call itself home to one of the world's largest electronics makers. ...more

September 13, 2008

Tony Romo's bloodied chin needed stitches and an X-ray, and Marion Barber's ribs were badly bruised. The Dallas Cowboys absorbed more than a few hard knocks Sunday. ...more

September 8, 2008

Dane showed her feisty side at first. The caged 250-pound African lioness spread her jaw, displaying her lethal teeth. Unfazed, her caretakers rubbed her soft face and patted her back. ...more

August 20, 2008