It was another rail-hugging Kentucky Derby for jockey Calvin Borel, but unlike last year, this time he fell just short. ...more

May 4, 2008

SEBRING — Every other night Savanna Weirick packs all her favorite things in a stroller and tells her grandparents she is going to Iraq to visit her parents. "She has a great imagination," said her grandma, Judy Kelly, as she watched her granddaughter play in the living room of her Sebring home. Judy and her husband, Mike Kelly, or Nana and Papa as Savanna calls them, have been taking care of the 2-year-old since September when her parents, Army Spc. Kairee and Sgt. John Weirick, were deployed to Iraq. Pictures of her parents in uniform are displayed throughout the house on top of the television, on the refrigerator and even printed on pillows on the couch. ...more

November 29, 2007

Senior military commanders here now portray the intransigence of Iraq's Shiite-dominated government as the key threat facing the U.S. effort in Iraq, rather than al-Qaida terrorists, Sunni insurgents or Iranian-backed militias. ...more

November 15, 2007

A former U.S. commander at the Iraqi jail that held Saddam Hussein was acquitted Friday of aiding the enemy but received two years imprisonment for convictions on other charges after pleading for leniency from the judge. ...more

October 20, 2007

A prosecutor said Monday that a former U.S. military police commander aided the enemy by letting top detainees make unmonitored cell phone calls at sites including the camp that held Saddam Hussein. But his attorney described the officer as only trying 'to win the hearts and minds of Iraqis.' ...more

October 16, 2007