Cuban-born forecaster leaves emotion outside work

This is where science meets human emotion. This is where a man walks into a room as a scientist, and walks out of it as a son.

Rocket fuel experiment by NASA engineer blows up

A retired NASA engineer looking to develop an inexpensive way for people to travel to space might have to go back to the drawing board after one of his experiments exploded Saturday.

Keys residents weigh evacuation, Gulf Coast next?

With powerful Hurricane Ike still hundreds of miles away and on an uncertain course, residents on these low-lying islands weighed evacuation orders Sunday, perhaps a hint that Gulf Coast residents as...

Once-powerful Pa. senator faces long fraud trial

A longtime power broker in Pennsylvania politics earned nearly $100,000 a year as a state senator, up to $1 million a year as a rainmaking lawyer and millions more from the sale of a family bank.

Season's hurricanes pummel dunes, mangle coasts

The King Air climbed into the sky over the cypress and black gum trees in the Pearl River delta at the Mississippi-Louisiana border, and left behind a swampland thrashed and washed over by Hurricane...