It was a good deed, indeed. Some 50 Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts fulfilled their daily mission to do a good deed as they helped launch the annual Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots campaign in west Pasco County on Friday. ...more

November 12, 2009

Some 50 Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts helped launch the annual Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots campaign in West Pasco on Friday. ...more

November 11, 2009

Christmas came in July for organizers of the annual Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots campaign for gifts for needy children. ...more

November 4, 2009

Marine Lance Cpl. John T. Doody was recovering nicely from injuries sustained when a sniper attacked him in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2007. ...more

December 24, 2008

President-elect Barack Obama says he wants to lead an administration in which strong-willed senior officials are ready to debate forcefully for differing points of view. ...more

December 1, 2008

Seeking experience in a time of war, President-elect Barack Obama will keep Defense Secretary Robert Gates in that job - if only temporarily - and he has chosen a retired Marine general to be his national security adviser, officials said Tuesday. ...more

November 26, 2008

Retired Marine Col. John Ripley, who was credited with stopping a column of North Vietnamese tanks by blowing up a pair of bridges during the 1972 Easter Offensive of the Vietnam War, died at home at age 69, friends and relatives said Sunday. ...more

November 2, 2008

Think John McCain will seal the votes of senior citizens simply because they may share the aches and wrinkles of age? Not so fast. ...more

November 2, 2008

David Petraeus knows Iraq and he's learning Afghanistan. But the biggest test facing the four-star general as he takes charge of U.S. Central Command is probably Pakistan - threatened with financial ruin, torn by an Islamic extremist insurgency and armed with nuclear weapons. ...more

November 1, 2008

The contents of an envelope found in an old desk described the valor of a Marine who flew more than 500 missions during the Vietnam War. ...more

August 6, 2008