The largest oyster reef restoration ever is underway off the Texas coast, with material supplied by an unusual suspect: a Missouri quarry hundreds of miles from the nearest saltwater. Mark Dumesnil, an associate director for the Nature Conservancy in Texas, is...
For the nearly 58 million people who receive Social Security benefits, an automatic cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) of 1.5 percent will kick in next year. Thanks to almost dormant consumer prices – which Social Security increases are pegged to – next...
The exact motive that caused a 56-year-old Phoenix man to gun down four neighbors and two dogs before killing himself might never be known, but police have a suspicion it was loud barking. Phoenix police sgt. Tommy Thompson said there is “some indication that perhaps...
It might sound like a headline from a satirical news source such as The Onion. Former self-described Ronald Reagan Republican and Florida governor, Charlie Crist, has decided to become a Barack Obama Democrat in a renewed effort to re-capture his old office. Crist was...
by Derek Dowekk It reads like a Hollywood movie or maybe a cable television series. Charles Walker and Joseph Jenkins used forged documents that reduced their life sentences to 15 years to fool Florida Department of Law Enforcement prison officials into turning the...
