At least you have to admit this will make it easier to find Tampa if you are motoring along I-75 - once you reach the giant Confederate flag at Yahoo Junction head west until you arrive at Gooberville, where the strange life gets weirder every day. ...more

June 7, 2008

One of the first things you notice when you log on to the Web site of the paranoid lunatic fringe Freedom Force International is its association with the pinup sweetheart of the black helicopter crowd, delusional presidential candidate Ron Paul. ...more

May 10, 2008

VENUS — Along an isolated road near the Highlands-Glades county line, a single-engine plane with Iraqi Air Force insignia was grounded Wednesday afternoon. ...more

February 22, 2008

An airplane labeled Iraqi Air Force made an emergency landing on a rural Central Florida highway - near a town called Venus, no less. ...more

February 22, 2008

VENUS — Along an isolated road near the Highlands-Glades county line, a single-engine plane with Iraqi Air Force insignia was grounded Wednesday afternoon. Doug Oliver, a spokesman for Cessna Aircraft Company in Wichita, Kan., confirmed that the plane, a Cessna 172 Skyhawk, is a basic training aircraft intended for sale to the Iraqi Air Force. There were no injuries or damages reported in the emergency landing. ...more

February 21, 2008

VENUS — Highlands County Sheriff's Office deputies are continuing to guard a single-engine airplane with Iraqi air force markings that made an emergency landing here on Wednesday afternoon. ...more

February 21, 2008

We're guessing that next December, when we are choosing the most interesting stories of 2008, the Iraqi Air Force plane that landed near Venus will be right up there. On Wednesday afternoon, a Cessna with Iraq Air Force painted on its side, made an emergency landing on C.R. 731. For those of us responding to the tips, we envisioned a fighter jet sitting in the road, not a Cessna. As Thursday progressed, and facts revealed that the Cessnas are built for training planes for Iraq, it became a lot clearer. They are shipped from Florida, but the Venus landing caused a flap. ...more

February 21, 2008

Seven U.S. troops were killed in two separate attacks, the military announced Friday, while Iraq's president said he would vote against carrying out the death sentence of a former defense minister, Gen. Sultan Hashim Ahmed. ...more

September 8, 2007