The Obama administration vowed today to keep up military surveillance in waters off China and protested to China about what it called harassment of an American ship doing that work last week. The Pentagon charged that a Chinese intelligence gathering vessel and four others "shadowed and maneuvered dangerously close" to the USNS Impeccable surveillance ship in the South China Sea on Sunday, then threw obstacles in the water as it tried to leave. ...more

March 9, 2009

AREA DEATHS ...more

March 5, 2009

John Oswald chose enlightening young minds over weighting his bank account. ...more

March 5, 2009

A soldier from Plant City stationed out of Fort Eustis, Va., is missing and presumed dead after he reportedly fell overboard Sunday during an Army exercise off the North Carolina coast. A 40-hour search by the Coast Guard was suspended. ...more

February 24, 2009

The U.S. Navy is investigating the arrests of four men accused of wantonly shooting and killing 21 protected birds. ...more

February 22, 2009

AREA DEATH ...more

February 21, 2009

The placid golf community of Sun City Center is where Gary Geers calls home, but it's just a shadow in the limelight of a broadcast career that spanned four decades. ...more

February 11, 2009

Since it opened eight years ago, the Military Sea Services Museum has attracted donations of artifacts from the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard veterans and their families from around the state and the country. ...more

February 10, 2009

Regarding "Mistakes Do Happen," Letters, Feb. 4: You're joking, right? "Didn't occur to me that I was now self-employed"? "Complicated life"? Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner "may not be good at multitasking"? ...more

February 8, 2009

Hernando Beach resident Joe Good has endured a lengthy list of medical maladies, including a heart transplant and two bouts with cancer, but he yearns to get back on the lanes. ...more

February 4, 2009