Whirlybird's Eye View Of Firefighting

" April 4, 2007 Virginia - A helicopter can make the 61.4-mile trip from Petersburg to Suffolk in about 34 minutes. It can carry about 95 gallons about 800 pounds of water. And it can help fight fires that fire-fighting vehicles can't easily get to. With a weapon like this in...

Two Top Wikipedians Resign

Chalk it up to growing pains within Web 2.0: when companies invent new ways of doing business they inevitably reach a point where they are making it up as they go along. In this case, two top board members are leaving Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia's  business entity)...

Third hospitalized in construction crane tragedy in north Russia

"third man has been hospitalized following the collapse of a construction crane in St. Petersburg, which left three others dead, emergencies officials said. The 18-year-old young man sustained bruises and a concussion. A construction crane collapsed onto a nearby apartment...

Building for the bad

Alexander Hosch looks at the uneasy marriage between autocrats and star architects The politically correct architect of today is confronted with the following kinds of questions. Can I glaze the towers of the new headquarters of the Russian energy leviathan Gazprom with...

2 Boys Dead In Va. Fire

" January 12, 2007 Virginia - Fire swept through a two-story home early Friday, killing two children and leaving seven relatives hospitalized, most of them in critical condition, officials said. A 6-year-old boy who had also been in the home was missing, Petersburg Fire...

Rem demands boycott

Koolhaas campaigns to overhaul star-studded design competitions after Gazprom HQ controversyRem Koolhaas has called on architecture’s superstars to join him in a campaign to overhaul the competition system, which he has condemned as “hideous” and a drain on...

Today in history - Dec. 29

Today is Friday, Dec. 29, the 363rd day of 2006. There are two days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 29, 1916 (according to the New Style calendar; Dec. 16th by the Old Style), Grigory Rasputin, the so-called "Mad Monk" who had wielded great influence...

Training Programs Spark Diversity - Tampa Fire Rescue

" December 15, 2006 Florida - She's about a half-foot shorter and a few years older than fellow trainees in the fire academy, but Kim Edmonds is determined to shine. "I gotta work extra, extra hard," Edmonds, 32, of St. Petersburg, said Wednesday. A single mother of a...

As 'goblins' knock, evangelicals answer the door (The Christian Science ...

" By G. Jeffrey MacDonald, Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Mon Oct 30, 4:00 AM ET Bruce Watters used to simply hand out candy on Halloween, just like his neighbors in St. Petersburg, Fla., until he decided the holiday's ghoulishness really didn't jibe with his...

Today in history - Oct. 28

"Today is Saturday, Oct. 28, the 301st day of 2006. There are 64 days left in the year. A reminder: Daylight-saving Time ends Sunday at 2 a.m. locally. Clocks move back one hour. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of...