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WFOR reporter David Sutta blogs about being attacked by Africanized bees. The news crew was out in the Everglades covering a story on the opening day of python hunting season.   Full story

Last December 10 was a big news day. U.S. Senate negotiators announced they had agreed to a compromise on health care reform, final preparations were being made for a global conference on climate change, President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, and new details emerged on five young American men who had been arrested in Pakistan on suspicion of plotting terror attacks.  Full story

And they said it wouldn't last. Katie Couric (pictured) brought Brooks Perlin, her 17-years-younger boyfriend, to the Black Door on West 26th Street on Saturday.  Full story

A former television producer admitted yesterday that he tried to shake down David Letterman in a case that bared the late-night icon’s affairs with staffers.   Full story

The top Pentagon spokesman says the Oscar-winning success of The Hurt Locker, which won six Academy Awards Sunday night, is a testament to the positive aspects of embedding.  Full story

The Pulitzer Prize-winning editor of Newsweek, Jon Meacham, is negotiating to add a television job to his schedule. He is in final talks to be the co-host of a new PBS Friday night public affairs series called “Need to Know,” said several executives with knowledge of the production who declined to be named because the contracts had not been signed.  Full story

Might local television stations use tape of a SeaWorld trainer’s death? The issue was a top story on local stations at noon today. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office says video of trainer Dawn Brancheau’s death could be public record under Florida law, WFTV-Channel 9 anchor Vanessa Echols reported at noon today.  Full story

Unfair Park's quick-as-a-whip Robert Wilonsky, yours truly and no doubt many others got the same email Monday from NBC5 anchor Jane McGarry.   Full story

CBS will broadcast the 2010 NCAA Men's Final Four semifinal and national championship basketball games live in 3D after securing a sponsorship deal with set-maker LG Electronics, the network announced March 9.  Full story

Indianapolis TV news executive Jim Tellus died suddenly while on a business trip in Columbus, WTHR-TV announced this afternoon.  Full story

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has ambitions to produce Arab content to serve 335 million people in the region and abroad, helped by its partnership with Saudi-based media group Rotana.  Full story

The Metro lost a television pioneer over the weekend. Bob Wormington died Saturday, from complications of a stroke he suffered the weekend before. He was 83. You might not know his name, but many watch his legacy every day. Wormington started the television station which is today known as KSHB-TV Channel 41.  Full story

KYTX Tyler, Texas, had an ace in the hole when two men were arrested in late February following a string of church fires around DMA No. 109. With the CBS affiliate involved in a news and marketing partnership with the Tyler Morning Telegraph daily newspaper, the station gained a big scoop when Telegraph reporter Kenneth Dean landed an interview with suspect Jason Bourque's mother.   Full story

A television producer admitted Tuesday to trying to shake down David Letterman in a case that bared the late-night icon’s affairs with staffers, avoiding a long prison sentence by pleading guilty in exchange for six months in jail and community service.  Full story

David Delozier of KUSA last week was named the National Press Photographers Association's first Solo Video Journalist of the Year. The 34-year videography veteran, a five-time NPPA Regional Photographer of the Year, epitomizes the idea of career reinvention in the wake of deep cuts throughout the media.  Full story

Video shows reporter Gordon Boyd throwing notepad down after tape fails to roll.  Full story

Well-known sports reporter Alice Cook, a former Olympic figure skater, is the latest casualty at WBZ-TV, joining her former colleague Bob Lobel on the bench as the station downsizes its sports roster.  Full story

Harry Smith will undergo a colonoscopy live tomorrow morning on CBS' "The Early Show."  Full story

Darcy Pohland's friends and family at WCCO-TV remembered her fondly as the news of her death overnight began to sink in.  Full story

Darcy Pohland, a veteran WCCO-TV reporter, died in her sleep Friday morning at the age of 48. Her death sent waves of shock and sadness through the Twin Cities television station she'd been part of since 1983.  Full story