Warm water spreading across the tropical Pacific Ocean has provided a major benefit for Florida by blunting the hurricane season. ...more

November 7, 2009

Powerful storms across the Midwest brought heavy rain, strong winds and several apparent tornadoes, damaging homes and businesses, tossing railcars off their tracks and knocking out power to thousands. ...more

June 19, 2009

The Port St. Lucie baseball team scored seven runs in a pivotal fifth inning on Thursday as the Jaguars spoiled Sebring's final regular-season home game of the year with a 9-3 victory. ...more

April 25, 2009

The American Red Cross has begun the process of assessing damage caused by the strong storms that moved through the Suncoast on Tuesday morning. ...more

April 14, 2009

The worst sound Eric Funkhouser said he has ever heard was a 10-second "voom" followed by what he later found out were his neighbor's screams. ...more

April 12, 2009

6 Number of deaths blamed on tornadoes that hit Kentucky, Alabama, Tennessee and Arkansas ...more

April 12, 2009

Sebring took advantage of playing last-place Sarasota Booker by blasting the Tornadoes by a score of 13-1 a Class 4A-District 10 match on Friday night. ...more

March 29, 2009

Colby Delaney tossed a complete-game two-hitter and Zach Heckman went 3-for-4 with four RBI to lead Lake Placid to a 10-1 rout of Sarasota Booker in high school baseball at Ed Smith Stadium on Saturday night. ...more

March 23, 2009

As soon as the ball left his hands, Clearwater senior guard Regan O'Rourke knew the shot was going in. ...more

March 5, 2009

The Clearwater boys basketball team advanced to its first state tournament in five years by playing lockdown defense in the final quarter of a 47-35 victory in the Class 5A-Region 3 final Saturday at Jack Wilson Gymnasium. ...more

February 28, 2009