Wild, unprovoked gunfire and grenades killed 14 innocent Iraqis and hurt dozens more in a 2007 Baghdad attack, prosecutors said Monday in announcing charges with mandatory 30-year prison terms against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards. ...more

December 9, 2008

Indian commandos fought Thursday to wrest control of two luxury hotels and a Jewish center from suspected Muslim militants, a day after a chain of attacks across Mumbai left at least 119 people dead and the city shell-shocked. ...more

November 28, 2008

A 26-year-old man was killed Saturday morning in an exchange of gunfire with another man in the parking lot of a strip club. ...more

November 2, 2008

The police bomb squad has been called out to defuse at least two grenades that were discovered today at a local park. ...more

November 1, 2008

Gov. Charlie Crist announced this morning that he has tapped George Sheldon to be permanent secretary of the Department of Children and Families. ...more

September 30, 2008

A woman admitted she helped her troubled, bullied 14-year-old son build a weapons cache by buying a rifle and gunpowder, but investigators still don't know whether she was aware her son was planning a deadly school attack. ...more

September 24, 2008

No Concept Of Honor Regarding the latest "Rall Rant" in Hernando Today. As a Vietnam veteran, I only wish it were 1808 instead of 2008. To defend my honor, which he has called into question, I would challenge him to a duel, as Aaron Burr did to Alexander Hamilton. ...more

July 19, 2008

Jack Lucas, who at 14 lied his way into military service during World War II and became the youngest Marine to receive the Medal of Honor, died Thursday in a Hattiesburg, Miss., hospital. He was 80. ...more

June 6, 2008

LAKELAND - Shawn Newberry, the 18-year-old who had an arsenal of weaponry and was arrested on a school weapon charge, was charged with 26 counts of possession of child pornography today, police said. ...more

November 1, 2007