There are three reasons Oct. 14 is such a significant date in the military career of World War II veteran Ted Biever. ...more

November 12, 2009

Marine Corps Pvt. Madeline M. Vonderheide graduated from the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in Parris Island, S.C., Dec. 5 after 12 weeks of boot camp. Vonderheide is a 2008 graduate of Wesley Chapel High School. ...more

January 25, 2009

A former military instructor at Sarasota High School was sentenced to 12 years in prison for luring a student into sex acts. ...more

October 16, 2008

SARASOTA COUNTY — A former military instructor at Sarasota High School was sentenced to 12 years in prison for luring a student into sex acts. ...more

October 15, 2008

Alarmed by a record rate of suicide in its ranks, the Army has unveiled a unique prevention tool - an interactive video to be mandatory viewing Armywide - in which soldiers will play the role of an anguished infantryman and make virtual choices that lead the character to get help or, in the worst case, shoot himself in the head. ...more

October 9, 2008

A Florida soldier was found dead in his barracks at Fort Hood, the third soldier to die at the Army post in two weeks. ...more

August 16, 2008

Kyle Willard always wanted a 1995 Honda Civic. For 14 months, while he served as an Army infantryman in Iraq, he told his wife to get him that car. ...more

July 4, 2008

Howard "Budd" Post, founder of one of the state's leading engineering firms and the designer of Miami Lakes, died Tuesday. He was 83. ...more

June 12, 2008

SARASOTA — A military instructor at Sarasota High School molested a teenage student more than 10 times in his office near the school gymnasium, according to police. ...more

May 31, 2008

a wreathmaker in Maine hauling extras to Arlington National Cemetery to lay them on headstones - swelled to its largest placement this weekend as more than 2,000 volunteers honored the graves of 10,000 veterans. ...more

December 17, 2007