Tampa-based CAE USA, which manufactures aviation simulators and creates modeling technologies, has won $40 million in U.S. Army, Navy, Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. contracts. ...more

January 23, 2009

Brittney J. Kelly has been promoted to the rank of airman first class in the U.S. Air Force. ...more

January 17, 2009

The Brandon Service League's 16th annual Holiday Home Tour was a big success, said Candy Jackson, first vice president of the league and former tour chairwoman. Hundreds of men, women and children visited the ornamented houses, owned by Valrico residents Scott and Chris Etherington and Dave and Monica Cox and Lithia residents John and Ellen Matheson. ...more

January 7, 2009

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December 30, 2008

I should have felt triumphant when I returned from Iraq in August 2006. Instead, I was worried and exhausted. ...more

December 6, 2008

At the annual flag-raising and Veterans' Recognition Ceremony on Nov. 10 at Brandon High School, cadets in the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps honored their relatives and Brandon dignitaries who have served the country in war. ...more

December 3, 2008

President George W. Bush has granted pardons to 14 individuals - including a Jacksonville woman convicted of bank embezzlement - and commuted the prison sentences of two others convicted of misdeeds including drug offenses, tax evasion, wildlife violations and bank embezzlement. ...more

November 25, 2008

Although residents and staff at Avon Park Youth Academy forgo many daily pleasures, Thanksgiving celebrations still go on from behind razor-sharp fencing. ...more

November 20, 2008

A St. Petersburg publishing company has released a book in time for Veterans Day that creates a fresh reminder of the insulation of most of America from the realities of war -- then and now. ...more

November 11, 2008

"You Are Not Forgotten," by Evelyn Grubb and Carol Jose (Vandamere Press, $27.95) ...more

November 9, 2008