Tampa Crossroads, which helps people turn their lives around, is adding two services. ...more

November 25, 2009

10,000 Number of former Veterans Affairs patients, some who had colonoscopies as long ago as 2003, advised to get follow-up blood tests for HIV and hepatitis ...more

June 15, 2009

Members of both parties Monday voted to keep their cherished home-state projects as the Senate resumed debate on a spending bill covering foreign aid and domestic agency budgets. By a 63-32 vote, lawmakers rejected a bid by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to effectively strip about 8,000 of those earmarks from the $410 billion measure. ...more

March 9, 2009

The Senate has put off until next week a final vote on a $410 billion catchall spending bill. ...more

March 5, 2009

During a recent visit to the veterans hospital in Los Angeles, I ran across a young man fresh out of the Army. He had fought in Afghanistan and was recovering from some of his wounds. He was also homeless and, quite frankly, a little frustrated by what he saw as cumbersome and inefficient layers of bureaucracy between the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. ...more

November 27, 2008

Wounded soldiers and Veterans Affairs officials gathered at Tampa's VA hospital Friday to see the latest addition to its unit for men and women with traumatic injuries from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The building has apartments for injured troops who no longer need to be hospitalized but aren't ready to live on their own. ...more

October 19, 2008

Inhaler drugs used by millions of people with emphysema and bronchitis may slightly raise the risk for heart attacks and even death, a study suggests. ...more

September 24, 2008

Re-Energized By Choice Sen. John McCain's pick of Gov. Sarah Palin for his running mate is a winning, unstoppable ticket. So many people that I know have been re-energized by this impressive woman and her accomplishments and, yes, experience. Those of us who had many doubts about McCain as our only choice this year have a new hope and new solid reasons to pull the lever for the Republican ticket. ...more

September 8, 2008

Jorge Roque endured life in the Kuwaiti desert as his Marine Corps unit waited for the signal that the war in Iraq had begun. He survived as friends died fighting their way into Baghdad. He witnessed the famous toppling of the city's statue of Saddam Hussein. ...more

July 4, 2008

SEBRING — Michael Wright, Highlands County's new administrator, will be the guest speaker at Monday's meeting of the Highlands County Homeowners Association. ...more

June 7, 2008