Hannelore Hoffmen could see the chaos and hear it outside of her neighbor's home Sunday night: the smoke, the crackling of the fire, the confusion from those who had been inside and the screams. ...more

November 17, 2009

Netflix declared a seven-member group from around the world the winner Monday of its three-year, $1 million contest to improve its movie recommendation system by at least 10 percent. ...more

September 22, 2009

The pain began in my stomach about an hour after dinner and sat there like an exhausted runner taking a rest. It never moved, it never grew. It felt permanent and that felt scary. ...more

March 4, 2009

Police are searching for a gunman in a Seattle-area shopping mall after shots seriously hurt two young men there. ...more

November 22, 2008

A 16-year-old girl was mauled by a cougar - but survived - when a neighbor saved her from the animal's cage at a northwest Miami home. ...more

November 16, 2008

3:49 p.m.: "It's been somewhat eerily quiet -- and that's a good thing," Secretary of State Browning told reporters during a 3 p.m. briefing. ...more

November 4, 2008

Chaos erupted Monday as a group of 86 people, including former army officers, a best-selling author and an ultra-nationalist lawyer, crowded into a prison courtroom for trial on charges of conspiring to overthrow Turkey's Islamic-oriented government. A panel of judges adjourned the proceeding, which later resumed with fewer suspects. ...more

October 21, 2008

Historians tell us that Democratic forms of government through the ages have had a life span of around 200 years. I sense that our country is on the threshold of its demise as a Democracy. Why do I say this? Consider the electioneering process we are now observing. I see a person, Barack Obama, who was unknown a couple years ago, mesmerizing people with his glib tongue and promising them everything. This is a man who I consider the epitome of deceit. He claims to be an African-American, which is not so. His ancestors did not come to this country in slave ships. His father actually was an African-Arab Muslim from Kenya. He plays down his heritage while electioneering, which I consider deceitful. Most people are proud of their origin and are not ashamed to say so. ...more

October 17, 2008

Residents of this hurricane-wrecked island city launched an ill-advised attempt to return to their crippled hometown Wednesday, but instead fumed in hours of gridlocked traffic only to be turned away at the bridge. ...more

September 18, 2008

Ten-year-old Ashton Lowry realizes that acting out and acting up would never be tolerated in any of her regular classes at Alafia Elementary School. ...more

July 16, 2008