AREA DEATHS ...more

March 5, 2009

John Oswald chose enlightening young minds over weighting his bank account. ...more

March 5, 2009

A soldier from Plant City stationed out of Fort Eustis, Va., is missing and presumed dead after he reportedly fell overboard Sunday during an Army exercise off the North Carolina coast. A 40-hour search by the Coast Guard was suspended. ...more

February 24, 2009

The U.S. Navy is investigating the arrests of four men accused of wantonly shooting and killing 21 protected birds. ...more

February 22, 2009

AREA DEATH ...more

February 21, 2009

The placid golf community of Sun City Center is where Gary Geers calls home, but it's just a shadow in the limelight of a broadcast career that spanned four decades. ...more

February 11, 2009

Since it opened eight years ago, the Military Sea Services Museum has attracted donations of artifacts from the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard veterans and their families from around the state and the country. ...more

February 10, 2009

Regarding "Mistakes Do Happen," Letters, Feb. 4: You're joking, right? "Didn't occur to me that I was now self-employed"? "Complicated life"? Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner "may not be good at multitasking"? ...more

February 8, 2009

Hernando Beach resident Joe Good has endured a lengthy list of medical maladies, including a heart transplant and two bouts with cancer, but he yearns to get back on the lanes. ...more

February 4, 2009

Like a good neighbor, is State Farm still there? Not for Ed Cunningham and 8,173 other Highlands County clients. ...more

February 1, 2009