Flying in the United States has been transformed since the Sept. 11 attacks, with passengers forced to remove their shoes, take out their laptop computers, and put liquids and gels in clear plastic bags. Yet it's legal to take a loaded gun right up to the security checkpoint at some of the biggest U.S. airports. ...more

October 16, 2008

A commuter train thought to have been carrying up to 350 people during the afternoon rush collided with a freight train Friday, killing at least 10 people, injuring dozens and trapping an unknown number of others in a mangled passenger car imploded by the train's own engine. ...more

September 13, 2008

RALEIGH, N.C. — Most of former professional wrestler Ric Flair's fights were scripted. ...more

September 9, 2008

Tarpon Springs police officers are asking for the public's help in locating an 86-year-old woman who was last seen at home about 3:45 p.m. today. ...more

August 27, 2008

A Lake Placid man remains in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $100,750 bond Monday, after Sebring police say he was caught shoplifting and then smacked a store loss-prevention agent in the head with a drill. ...more

August 12, 2008

Police are hoping someone out there heard or saw something that can help them capture an armed robber who held up the Winn Dixie supermarket Friday night. The store is located at 600 Sebring Square, in the Sebring Square Shopping Center. ...more

August 5, 2008

A crane that was removing steel beams to dismantle an old river bridge became overloaded and toppled Wednesday, killing one worker and injuring another. ...more

July 31, 2008

PINELLAS PARK - One of four people injured in a crash that shut Belcher Road for about two hours this afternoon has died, police said. ...more

June 30, 2008

Residents and businesses are coping with a rash of graffiti. The spray-painted scrawls began appearing several weeks ago at numerous locations in the neighborhood, including a sea wall near Martinique Avenue, a utility box on Channel Drive, a gas station on East Davis Boulevard and in the 400 block of Danube Avenue. ...more

June 28, 2008

SEBRING — It wasn't like finding a horse's head at the foot of the bed, like in "The Godfather" movie, but finding a dead deer on the hood of your mom's car parked in your driveway could be just as unnerving. "Weird," was how Sebring Police Lt. Bruce Crum put it Monday. Next to the deer's body and held down by a silver dollar was a poem Sunday morning on a torn slip of paper. The lyrics were from the song "Aenima" by an alternative metal rock band called "Tool." The police were called at 10:14 a.m. Sunday to the 1700 block of Myrtle Avenue, in Sebring. The complainant, a 21-year-old woman, told police that she and her boyfriend had returned home at about 3 a.m. Sunday and didn't see any deer then. ...more

June 16, 2008