The hundreds of people who lined the main street of a small Indiana city today fell solemnly silent as a white hearse passed by on its way to the church. Mourners streamed into a Wisconsin gymnasium to remember a soldier who once promised to take down Osama bin Laden. ...more

November 14, 2009

Military members with Plant City area ties who have died in Afghanistan and Iraq since hostilities commenced include, in alphabetical order: ...more

November 11, 2009

Veterans Day is a reminder of the sacrifices of many Plant City families whose sons went to war and never returned. ...more

November 11, 2009

A mix of military, family, friends and patriotic motorcycle riders gathered at Plant City's First Baptist Church on Saturday to honor and mourn the loss of Army Spc. Eric Lembke, who was killed in Afghanistan by a roadside bomb Oct. 23. ...more

November 8, 2009

A funeral service for Army Spc. Eric Lembke, who died Oct. 23 while on duty in Afghanistan, is scheduled for 10 a.m. Nov. 7, at Plant City's First Baptist Church, a church official said. ...more

October 29, 2009

Thank God we have young men like Spc. Coleman who still believe that freedom isn't free. ...more

August 6, 2009

Gabriel Hurles' sixth birthday party wasn't a surprise, but his present sure was. ...more

January 29, 2009

U.S. Army Spc. Cody Grater was never comfortable with the title "hero," Sgt. First Class Grady Parris said as he stood Friday morning on the side lawn of Brooksville's main post office branch on the State Road 50 bypass. ...more

October 18, 2008

Another Hernando County post office will soon bear the name of a serviceman killed in the war on terror. ...more

October 16, 2008

Family and friends of the late Army Spc. Cody Grater are $2,000 closer toward their goal of building a skateboard ramp in the veteran's honor. ...more

August 6, 2008