The Japan-based owner of a cargo vessel that authorities say dumped oily sludge into the ocean has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges, the U.S. Attorney's Office said today. ...more

November 10, 2008

Two people are in stable condition today after their catamaran overturned near Shell Island, authorities said. ...more

October 26, 2008

Mexico agreed Monday to deport Cubans who sneak illegally through Mexican territory to reach the United States, a step toward cutting off an increasingly violent and heavily used human trafficking route. ...more

October 21, 2008

Hernando County Sports Briefs ...more

October 20, 2008

A Light in Financial Gloom: Gas Falls To $3 A Gallon Gut-wrenching declines in the stock market, a financial panic that some have compared to the Great Depression and the realization that the United States may be headed to its worst recession in more than a generation have trumped what should otherwise be good news: The return of $3-a-gallon gas. ...more

October 19, 2008

U.S. Coast Guard and local law enforcement officers continued their search for anyone who may have been aboard a capsized boat found in about 10 feet of water near Fort DeSoto Park this morning. . ...more

October 16, 2008

A U.S. Coast Guard rescue helicopter is hovering over a 46-foot cabin cruiser that is taking on water and in immediate danger of capsizing some 40 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico. ...more

October 11, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) - Hurricane Ike's winds and massive waves destroyed oil platforms, tossed storage tanks and punctured pipelines. The environmental damage only now is becoming apparent: At least a half million gallons of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico and the marshes, bayous and bays of Louisiana and Texas, according to an analysis of federal data by The Associated Press. ...more

October 6, 2008

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued four fishermen Friday morning after their boat sank in the Gulf of Mexico about 32 miles from Clearwater, Coast Guard officials said. ...more

October 4, 2008

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued four fishermen this morning after their boat sank in the Gulf of Mexico about 32 miles from Clearwater, Coast Guard officials said. ...more

October 3, 2008