ORLANDO — It took six decades, but a wrongly convicted World War II veteran's family is finally getting his back pay with interest. ...more

October 23, 2008

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

Maudie White Hopkins, who grew up during the Depression in the hardscrabble Ozarks and married a Confederate army veteran 67 years her senior, has died. She was 93. ...more

August 20, 2008

The war refugees, frigid, laden with baggage, trudged down a mountain road on a winter's day in 1951, toward the safety of U.S. Army lines. But they were turned back at gunpoint, sent home to a fiery doom. ...more

August 4, 2008

When an ancestor was a Civil War veteran, your search for information can lead to genealogical gold. The Civil War produced substantial records, starting with military service files and applications for pensions, both of benefit to family historians. ...more

August 3, 2008

The military telegram arrived in Peekskill, N.Y., on a springlike day in February 1945. The parents put it down unopened, falling to their knees to pray. Three of their five sons were pilots fighting overseas, and they were afraid to learn which of their boys was dead. ...more

February 3, 2008

Hillsborough County school officials do little if anything to verify claims of hardships submitted by parents wanting to enroll their children in crowded schools. ...more

January 20, 2008

Three female suicide bombers blew themselves up within a few weeks late last year in Iraq, killing or wounding dozens - a tactic that goes against religious taboos on involving women in fighting and could indicate insurgents are growing increasingly desperate. ...more

January 5, 2008

Sen. John Kerry, whose 2004 presidential campaign was torpedoed by critics of his Vietnam War record, said Friday that he has personally accepted a Texas oilman's offer to pay $1 million to anyone who can disprove even a single charge of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. ...more

November 17, 2007