Some inventors came with cotton fiber rolls, others with oil-clumping polymer mixes and one brought a specially designed rake. Their task: clean layers of crude oil and tar from a once-pristine Florida beach and prove they have the right stuff to (...)
Police in Florida say a burglar who made off with a man's valuables returned to the home later while investigators were there and snatched what he couldn't carry on his first trip: a 100-pound (45-kilogram) plasma-screen TV.
The burglar had left (...)
Rapper Tone Loc, who performed the 1980s hits “Wild Thing” and “Funky Cold Medina,” was released from the hospital Friday after collapsing during an outdoor concert in Florida, officials said.
A spokesman for the Escambia County Sheriff's (...)
A US federal judge blocked on Tuesday a bid by banned Olympic 100 meters champion Justin Gatlin to compete in this week's American trials for the Beijing Games.
Judge Lacey Collier lifted a 10-day restraining order that would have allowed the (...)
