After a two-year investigation into the killings of up to 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, the Marine Corps has decided that none of the Marines involved in the incident will be charged with murder. Instead, two enlisted Marines and two Marine officers will face trial in coming months for the killings and for failing to investigate them. ...more

January 4, 2008

By October 2005, Ed and Maxine Kolbe were tired of simply watching American men and women fight a war on the other side of the world. ...more

January 2, 2008

A Brookridge couple has mailed 1,000 care packages to troops overseas. They don't plan to stop anytime soon. ...more

December 27, 2007

Just outside the security gate, Mom locks one arm around Dad and dabs a moist eye with a tissue. With poinsettias blazing along the terminal corridors, this Christmas reunion scene at Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport might well be lost to anonymity. ...more

December 24, 2007

The U.S. ambassador to Iraq said Sunday that recent successes such as reducing violence have created a new set of challenges for 2008 - the most important being the return of refugees and the struggle for political reconciliation. ...more

December 24, 2007

A car bomb killed nine people near Baghdad's medical district Sunday. It was the second major bomb in the Iraqi capital in three days after a recent lull in violence. ...more

November 26, 2007

BROOKSVILLE - Another Hernando County post office bears the name of a local fallen serviceman. ...more

November 9, 2007

A bomb in a parked car struck worshippers heading to a Shiite mosque Sunday in Baghdad, killing at least nine people as Iraqis celebrated a Muslim holiday, while the death toll rose to 18 in a coordinated suicide truck bombing and ambush north of the capital. ...more

October 15, 2007

Two of Iraq's most powerful Shiite leaders agreed Saturday to end a bitter rivalry in a bid to end months of armed clashes and assassinations in the oil-rich south that have threatened to spread into a wider conflict. ...more

October 7, 2007

'The Best American Poetry 2007,' edited by Heather McHugh (Scribner, $30) ...more

September 16, 2007