South Florida Republicans held a weekly meeting at a gun range, shooting at targets including cut-outs of a Muslim holding a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. ...more

October 9, 2009

An Indian navy frigate on Tuesday battled with and sank a suspected Somali pirate "mother ship" in the Gulf of Aden, one of the world's busiest and most lawless shipping lanes. ...more

November 20, 2008

U.S. Army Spc. Cody Grater was never comfortable with the title "hero," Sgt. First Class Grady Parris said as he stood Friday morning on the side lawn of Brooksville's main post office branch on the State Road 50 bypass. ...more

October 18, 2008

Another Hernando County post office will soon bear the name of a serviceman killed in the war on terror. ...more

October 16, 2008

Nine people were killed and four were injured in an errant U.S. airstrike southeast of Baghdad, the military said Sunday. ...more

February 4, 2008

A dance teacher to generations, a well-known drummer, a television meteorologist and a civil rights activist were among those whose lives helped shape and define the Tampa Bay area. ...more

December 31, 2007

Aug. 8 through 29 reviewed ...more

December 29, 2007

As an Army surgeon in the Middle East, Keith Rose watched a colleague bleed to death when a truck in his convoy was hit with a rocket-propelled grenade. ...more

December 26, 2007

SEBRING — After spending 15 months of his 12-month deployment in Camp Speicher, Iraq, Army Spc. Brice DuBoice was ready to return home. DuBoice worked with the hospitable and dealt with the hostile while anxiously waiting for news on his 9-month-old son, Ian, who underwent open heart surgery three days after birth. Neither he nor his family expected him to make it home to Sebring from Fort Knox, Ky., in time for Thanksgiving, but he got a short leave and flew down Wednesday. That same day, Ian was able to go home with his mother. ...more

November 26, 2007

U.S. and Iraqi forces killed more than 60 insurgent and militia fighters in intense battles over the weekend, with most of the casualties thought to have been al-Qaida fighters, officials said Sunday. ...more

October 1, 2007