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Hurricane Sandy showed importance of heeding evacuation...

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:48:57 -0400

By LEE BOWMAN - Even as Americans marvel at the survival of so many in the Oklahoma tornadoes and forecasters predict a worse-than-average Atlantic hurricane season in the months ahead, a new analysis of deaths during last October's Hurricane Sandy underscores the need to heed evacuation warnings.

May: Of Benghazi, black swans and icebergs

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:58:46 -0400

"Humans are great at self-delusion," the polymath philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb has observed. I'm confident he'd agree that the humans who populate the foreign policy community are no exception. - Two years ago this month, Osama bin Laden was killed on President Barack Obama's orders -- a very good thing. Before long, however, sophisticated analysts were declaring that this was not just a battle won -- it was a war ended.

Fixture falls in Atlantic school, hits 3 students

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:14:27 -0400

ATLANTIC, Iowa - Three middle school students in Atlantic were injured when a light fixture fell in a recently renovated classroom.

Iowa shelters scrambling amid state funding cut

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:11:14 -0400

DES MOINES, Iowa - Domestic abuse shelters throughout Iowa are looking for new sources of money to keep operating after losing government funding they rely on.

Cook: Fleury must get another chance to help Penguins win...

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:49:52 -0400

PITTSBURGH - By RON COOK

Betty Miller, first female to fly solo across Pacific...

Mon, 06 May 2013 16:47:22 -0400

BOUNTIFUL, Utah - By TOM WHARTON

Maxwell: After 'Jesus' lesson, professor walks on...

Mon, 06 May 2013 10:17:41 -0400

By BILL MAXWELL - Kafkaesque describes how the life of professor Deandre Poole of Florida Atlantic University has morphed. His career may be ruined.

Moulton: One casualty of FGCU basketball success? Football...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:36:31 -0400

NAPLES, Fla. - By DAVID MOULTON

Basu: Conspiracy theories about the Boston bombings

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:24:41 -0400

As you might expect, the parents of the brothers accused in the Boston Marathon bombings say their sons were innocent and framed by the U.S. government. - As you might not expect, a Florida communications professor is saying the same thing. So are a host of U.S. websites, which depict the bombings as one big government conspiracy and offer distorted evidence to prove it.

Fourth-grade teacher uses online avatars to help students...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:33:37 -0400

NAPLES, Fla. - The world that today's fourth-graders will be launched into, when they begin their adult lives, will be different in ways we can't hope to guess now. Along with math, science and English, today's students are learning another entire subject -- technology. They've absorbed it from birth, their brains are wired to handle it and they are able to swim naturally in the digital ocean in a way their elders never will.