Erin Rivera is trying to stay upbeat about the holidays, even after a burglar took all the family's presents barely a week before Christmas. ...more

December 18, 2009

A Cape Coral soldier has died in Iraq, and a Jacksonville Marine has died in Afghanistan. ...more

December 3, 2009

Golden Corral will thank active-duty and retired military men and women with a free buffet dinner from 5 to 9 p.m. today. ...more

November 16, 2009

Ballast Point Elementary School observed Veterans Day on Tuesday with an assembly and program to salute the service and efforts of members of the nation's armed forces. ...more

November 11, 2009

I sat at a traffic light at State Road 60 and 22nd Street in Tampa on Thursday as law enforcement agencies escorted a hearse bearing the body of a soldier who had died in service to our country. He was home for burial. I arrived home a short time later and turned on the news to see that numerous brave souls awaiting deployment overseas were killed in Texas. ...more

November 7, 2009

Mashelle Lembke stood on a runway at MacDill Air Force Base with family, friends and service members Thursday afternoon, waiting to accompany her husband's body to the city in which he was raised. Plant City soldier Eric Lembke was killed Oct. 23 in Afghanistan. ...more

November 6, 2009

A soldier from Plant City died last week while serving in Afghanistan. U.S. Army Spec. Eric Lembke's body was returned to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Sunday. ...more

October 26, 2009

U.S. Army Spec. Eric Lembke, 25, who was raised in Plant City and graduated from Plant City High School, was killed in Afghanistan last week. His body was returned Sunday to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. ...more

October 25, 2009

The Army says a soldier from Florida has died after being diagnosed with pneumonia during basic training. ...more

September 12, 2009

A page A1 article in Wednesday's Hernando Today was unclear about when services will be held for Hernando Beach soldier Justin Dean Coleman. ...more

July 30, 2009