TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Ralph Jacobi was confident his goal of becoming an Eagle Scout would be accomplished. ...more

January 3, 2008

Crayons, construction paper and Christmas trees abounded as Christ the King Catholic School students from kindergarten through junior high created holiday cards for soldiers at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. ...more

December 15, 2007

The game couldn't have been any closer: 0-0 going into the final minute. ...more

December 8, 2007

TAMPA - Two small trailers caught on fire and were extinguished near a building on the airfield with smoke visible from far away, according to the MacDill Air Force Base public affairs office. ...more

November 8, 2007

AVON PARK — Residents throughout Avon Park and Sebring have probably noticed more noise than usual in the sky this week. Troops ended a large-scale training exercise Monday at Avon Park Air Force Range for air-to-ground missions. Although this exercise involved bomb replicas, live bombs will be dropped at the range in less than a year. Jim Brantley, spokesman for U.S. Fleet Forces Command, said a bid for a contractor to construct the infrastructure for dropping live bombs will be awarded in about five weeks. Land clearing and construction on towers and instrumentation will start in January 2008. ...more

October 31, 2007

Three months after a woman was found dead alongside her 15-month-old son, St. Petersburg police announced Tuesday that a former technical sergeant at MacDill Air Force Base is the child's father. ...more

October 24, 2007

TAMPA - The city of Tampa and MacDill Air Force Base on Thursday renewed their agreement to provide mutual aid in the event of a military plane crash or other disaster. ...more

October 18, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG - The teenage daughter of Paula M. O'Conner, who was found strangled in July, has filed a lawsuit against a sergeant at MacDill Air Force Base to determine whether he is the father of O'Conner's infant son, who was found asphyxiated alongside her. The daughter, Victoria Goodin, 18, wants Ralph Wright Jr. to pay retroactive child support for Alijah Jordon O'Conner from July 2005, when the boy was conceived, to July 6, when he was found dead with his mother at their home in St. Petersburg, according to a copy of the suit. ...more

October 2, 2007

CLEARWATER - A Virginia man accused of throwing his brother-in-law off a third-story hotel breezeway faces a charge of second-degree murder. ...more

September 16, 2007

CLEARWATER - A man who was thrown off a third-floor breezeway at a Clearwarter hotel by his brother-in-law Sept. 12 has died. William Donahue, 21, of Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, is now facing second-degree murder charges. ...more

September 16, 2007