PUNTA GORDA - Relatives and volunteers continue to search for a missing former Marine and Iraq war veteran from Punta Gorda who hasn't been seen in more than a week. ...more

February 11, 2008

The package arrived unceremoniously on a Monday in mid-December, dropped at the front door by an anonymous delivery person. ...more

January 20, 2008

The Pentagon is preparing to send at least 3,000 Marines to Afghanistan in April to bolster efforts to hold off another expected Taliban spring offensive,military officials said Wednesday. ...more

January 10, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Toiling atop the padded mats inside the Wesley Chapel wrestling room has tapered off for Wildcats coach Brian Simmons. ...more

January 4, 2008

SEBRING — A woman came to Fred Blake's shop three months ago, looking for a humidor for her son, who is deployed in Iraq. ...more

December 26, 2007

Third-grade students from Cox Elementary School in Dade City recently learned about how veterinarians care for animals during a Toys For Tots party and educational tour at Pasco Veterinary Medical Center in Wesley Chapel. ...more

December 25, 2007

A recent letter to the editor describing some inexcusable acts of disrespect to the flag at the Highlands County Art Festival motivated me to reread a recent book titled "Flags of our Fathers," which was written about the raising of our flag during the battle for Iwo Jima, by five Marines and a sailor –– an event which is memorialized by the Marine Corps Memorial in Washington D.C. Iwo Jima is a small island in the Pacific, whose war time importance was its small airstrip, which the military desired to assist in our air attacks against Japan. The military desired it, the Marines took it, took it with a loss of 6,825 Marines killed. ...more

December 10, 2007

Shanna Rodriguez was so eager to see her husband after his four-month deployment in Qatar she showed up an hour before his flight arrived Friday at Tampa International Airport. ...more

December 8, 2007

TAMPA - Shanna Rodriguez was so eager to see her husband after four months' deployment in Qatar she showed up an hour before his flight arrived Friday at Tampa International Airport. ...more

December 7, 2007

My brother Dan in Miramar received the following e-mail from one of his co-workers who had just returned from a business trip. ...more

December 6, 2007