PHCC students honored Several Pasco-Hernando Community College students recently received top prizes from the Florida Community College Press Association for their contributions to the school's 2009 art and literary magazine, Mobius. The publication, designed and produced by students, features juried fiction, poetry, art and illustrations. The awards were presented at the 2009 FCCPA Convention in Ocala. ...more

December 5, 2009

"We must not be silent" about condemning anti-Semitism, German chancellor Angela Merkel declared Sunday as Germany and Israel commemorated the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi-incited riots against Jews. ...more

November 9, 2008

Barack Obama's visit to the Western Wall was a public event. The handwritten prayer he left there was meant to be private. ...more

July 26, 2008

Sen. Barack Obama stepped gingerly through the intractable politics of the Middle East on Wednesday, offering resolute support for Israel's security, warning that Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons would be a "game-changing" event for the world, and pledging to make peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians one of his highest priorities if he becomes president. ...more

July 24, 2008

Irena Sendler - credited with saving an estimated 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, some in baskets - died Monday in Warsaw. She was 98. ...more

May 13, 2008

Immersed for two days in the intense world of Mideast peacemaking, President Bush looked relieved Friday to see something of the landscape all the fighting is about. ...more

January 12, 2008

Kevin DuBrow, lead singer for the 1980s heavy metal band Quiet Riot that scored a hit with "Cum on Feel the Noize," was found dead in a Las Vegas home. He was 52. ...more

November 27, 2007