Air Force Capt. Timothy O'Sullivan tried to gather himself. He had just regained consciousness. There was blood. A soldier was asking whether he was all right. He remembered little, sitting in a decimated British Warrior tank near Basra in southern Iraq. ...more

July 12, 2008

An officer -- coping with traumatic brain injury suffered in a blast in Iraq -- accepts a Bronze Star and Purple heart during a ceremony at MacDill Air Force Base. ...more

July 11, 2008

TAMPA - A former Tampa Bay Buccaneer and a decorated veteran of the war in Iraq are among the new Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office deputies to be sworn in at 2 p.m. today. ...more

July 11, 2008

Perhaps, had not other events intervened, Ahmed Mohamed might well have emerged as a cunning, mysterious, evildoing international terrorist. ...more

June 17, 2008

A leading Sunni political party's headquarters in western Iraq was blown up early Thursday morning, and in southern Iraq, where Shiite factions have been fighting one another, a powerful bomb was discovered on the road to an important Shiite shrine. ...more

June 13, 2008

TAMPA - A former University of South Florida student charged with transporting explosives is expected to be released today under a judge's order. ...more

May 5, 2008

The ugly, daily fight for ground in the poor Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City unfolded Saturday at a small mosque next door to a hospital, damaging the hospital and all its ambulances, and near a group of children who were injured as they gathered tin cans to sell for salvage. ...more

May 4, 2008

The explosives trial of a former University of South Florida student likely will be put on hold after prosecutors appealed a judge's evidence ruling Friday. ...more

May 3, 2008

TAMPA – The explosives trial of a former University of South Florida student will likely be put on hold after prosecutors appealed a judge's evidence ruling this afternoon. A judge ruled today that prosecutors may not use certain evidence in the trial, which had been scheduled to start Monday, of a former University of South Florida student accused of transporting explosives. ...more

May 2, 2008

Missing Iraq war veteran Eric Hall phoned a longtime friend in Indiana on Wednesday, his family announced. ...more

February 23, 2008