Tarek and Evibeth Bathiche are a young military couple in a heap of debt. Both are 24-year-old Army sergeants stationed at Fort Meade, Md., and together they owe $27,600 on six credit cards. They need a drill sergeant to force them to shape up their financial lives, and I'm going to be as tough as I can be. ...more

February 24, 2008

The news this week that 2007 became the deadliest year for U.S. troops in Iraq was brought home Wednesday with a solemn ceremony for two local U.S. Army sergeants who died half of a world away two months ago. Hillsborough County Commissioners honored Sgt. Cory Clark of Plant City who was killed on Aug. 28 in Afghanistan and Sgt. 1st Class David A. Heringes of Tampa who died a day later in Iraq. ...more

November 7, 2007