As part of The Times's team coverage of Hurricane Matthew, a Category 4 storm, I was assigned to cover the Jacksonville area, the most populated city in the storm's path. Here I spoke with Jacksonville Beach residents who chose not to evacuate prior to the hurricane's arrival.
My story for The Tampa Bay Times on a large fish kill resulting from a red tide event, leaving some of Florida's most beautiful beaches littered with dead marine life.
Here I was the lead reporter for The New York Times on the first hurricane to strike Florida in 11 years, with tremendous support from the paper's Miami bureau chief, Lizette Alvarez.
July 18, 2016
My national story for The New York Times Science Desk following a disasterous toxic algae bloom three weeks before in Florida.
July 01, 2016
My story for The New York Times National Desk, when a toxic algae bloom, the worst ever in Florida, hit the shores and river estuaries in the state's southeast.
July 21, 2016
My story for The Los Angeles Times National Desk on the shooting by police of a black therapist helping a patient at a time of increased tensions around the nation involving the questionable killings of black men by law enforcement.
June 18, 2016
My story for The New York Times National Desk on the back stories of the D.J.s who were playing inside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando when a gunman opened fire on revelers in the the worst public mass shooting by an individual in U.S. history.
June 27, 2016
My story for The Los Angeles National Desk on the murder trial in a Florida court of a Chilean folk hero killed in the first few days of the Pinochet coup.
December 29, 2006
From when I was embedded with the Ethiopian army during their invasion of Somalia to route an extremist regime who had taken over southern swathes of the lawless nation. Reporting for The Associated Press.
April 15, 2006
When I covered a coup attempt in Chad by Sudanese-backed Chadian rebels in the dusty captial, N'Djamena for The Associated Press.
March 14, 2016
My story for The New York Times Media Desk on a particularly uncomfortable day of testimony by a former Gawker.com editor being grilled by Hulk Hogan's lawyers in his lawsuit against Gawker Media.
March 15, 2016
My story for The New York Times Media Desk on Nick Denton's testimony in the Hulk Hogan vs Gawker Media trial.
March 18, 2016
My coverage of the sensational verdict in the Terry Bollea (Hulk Hogan) vs Gawker trial for The Los Angeles Times National Desk in a St. Petersburg, Fla. courtroom.
April 11, 2016
More in the Hulk Hogan vs Gawker saga for The New York Times Media Desk.
May 25, 2016
The closing legal chapter in the Hulk Hogan vs Gawker trial for The New York Times Media Desk.
October 22, 2007
In this story, I was embedded with a unit from the U.S. Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade during Operation Rock Avalanche in Kunar Province's Korengal Valley and was able to make it back to a nearby field hospital to take photos of a baby, child and two women -- all Afghan civilians -- who were among the injured in the offensive, which also resulted in the death of one American soldier and two others wounded on another unit in the same operation.
August 22, 2007
Just one of many stories I wrote from Iraq during the war there, as this random but all too common shooting happened while I was on a patrol with a U.S. Army unit in Baghdad for the Stars and Stripes newspaper as a part of their war-correspondent team devoted to coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
December 13, 2006
My story for The Associated Press on the absentia trial of Lt. Col. Mengistu Haile Mariam, the leader of the Soviet-backed regime in Ethiopia from 1974-1991 that some experts believe killed up to 150,000 dissidents, particularly during a bloody chapter in 1977-1978 known as the Red Terror.
A side feature I wrote for CNN.com during my time working as a freelance assignment editor on the international newsgathering desk.
January 11, 2014
Tennessee Pentacostal snake handlers don't care about the law -- Vice News
My coverage for Vice News of a small Pentacostal church that practiced snake handing in the East Tennessee hills under the leadership of a maniacal, 22-year-old pastor who was running afoul of law enforcement and state wildlife officials, but dismissed them entirely.