As Clearwater High School graduate Nicole Passonno Stott took a spacewalk Tuesday, her friends and family watched intently from Capogna's Dugout Italian Restaurant and Sports Bar. Television sets normally tuned to the Rays or Bucs in the Clearwater establishment were fixed on the NASA channel as Stott removed an ammonia tank from the International Space Station. The flight engineer is one of seven astronauts who blasted off Friday aboard space shuttle Discovery. They hooked up Sunday with the space station, where Stott will spend the next three months. ...more

September 2, 2009

A graduate of Clearwater High School who rocketed into space last week will step outside for a walk today. Flight engineer Nicole Stott, who also attended St. Petersburg College and the University of Central Florida, is scheduled to begin a spacewalk with mission specialist Danny Olivas at 5:49 p.m. today. ...more

September 1, 2009

"They blazed trails across the skies, flying over oceans, opening airport "stations" in far-flung lands and greeting presidents and celebrities onboard Clipper jets," wrote Ina Paiva Cordle on Pan Am, who began flying in 1927 and ceased operations liquidating in the last part of 1991. ...more

December 8, 2008

When the Air Force moved Jake Piascik to MacDill Air Force Base in 2001, he knew he had found home. ...more

December 3, 2008

When it comes to high school coaches, prep athletes can get a wide range of mentors. ...more

June 23, 2008

The 90-year-old mother of a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station died Wednesday when a train struck her vehicle, police said. ...more

December 20, 2007

A Valrico company is offering residents a chance to ride in style to visit the area's best holiday exhibits. ...more

December 13, 2007

In a thunderous blast, a cargo plane slammed into an impoverished residential neighborhood in Congo's capital seconds after takeoff Thursday, leaving at least 25 people dead in a smoky wreckage of concrete blocks and twisted debris. ...more

October 5, 2007