After reading about the shootings at Fort Hood, my concerns about the security of this country cranked up a notch or two. This Hassan character that did the shooting and others like him is what worries me. First of all the story reported that he did his internship at Walter Reed Hospital, where he received poor performance evaluations. Then shortly after he was promoted to major. Promoted, after poor performance evaluation? Something is wrong here. I'd like to have a talk with that brain dead idiot who recommended him for promotion. ...more

November 12, 2009

GAINESVILLE - The cost for Florida to send two extra airplanes to Kentucky for the Gators' 41-7 win last weekend had a minimal impact on its budget - at a cost of $4,055 for the trip to Lexington and back. ...more

October 2, 2009

A Northwest Airlines jet blew five tires as it landed at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, closing a runway for a few hours. ...more

August 2, 2009

In reply to Ms. Walker's dislike of loud airplanes that kept her awake, doesn't she realize that our Air Force pilots and others in the armed services have to be prepared to fight in all kinds of weather and at any time of the day? ...more

May 13, 2009

One day after saying he wouldn't travel in tight quarters because of the swine flu scare, Vice President Joe Biden rode a train Friday from Washington to Delaware. ...more

May 1, 2009

Newspaper and magazine subscriptions and most charter fishing trips would lose their sales tax exemptions if lawmakers pass a bill proposed by a House panel Monday. ...more

April 21, 2009

The church organist sang "On Eagle's Wings" as Paul Lee Lopez's family filed into St. Joseph Catholic Church on Monday to mourn the Zephyrhills pilot who was killed March 9 when his plane crashed in a nearby orange grove. ...more

March 17, 2009

pilot Paul Lee Lopez funeral ...more

March 16, 2009

The church organist sang "On Eagle's Wings" as Paul Lee Lopez's family filed into St. Joseph Catholic Church today to mourn the Zephyrhills pilot who was killed March 9 when his plane crashed in a nearby orange grove. ...more

March 16, 2009

Gloria is huddled against a wall at Kennedy Boulevard and Franklin Street on a postcard-perfect Thursday night, gazing up at a building where city lights cast dazzling images of birds of paradise against a stone wall. ...more

March 14, 2009