Judging by the number of toys stacked floor to ceiling, you'd never know the country's in a recession. ...more

December 17, 2008 |

Five Blackwater Worldwide security guards indicted in Washington for the 2007 shooting of Iraqi civilians plan to surrender to the FBI in Utah today, a person close to the case said, setting up a fight over the trial site. ...more

December 8, 2008 |

More than a year after the fatal shootings of 17 Iraqi civilians, five decorated military veterans who were Blackwater Worldwide security guards are headed to court in a case that strained diplomatic ties and raised the level of anti-Americanism in Baghdad. ...more

December 6, 2008 |

It has been four years since Don Pearson talked with his friend Kevin Conlan about becoming involved with Toys for Tots. Since then, the owner of Pearson Capital has donned an elf's cap to help Santa, via the Marine Corps Reserve, bring Christmas to children in need. ...more

November 26, 2008 |

The foundation for John Graziano, the former Marine severely injured in 2007 when a car driven by Nick Bollea, son of wrestler Hulk Hogan, slammed into a tree will hold a fundraising event Friday night. ...more

November 13, 2008 |

A former Marine lance corporal who pleaded guilty to stealing the identity of a fellow Marine to buy a plasma television online has been sentenced to five years probation, with a condition that he stay in a halfway house on house arrest for six months, his lawyer said. Prosecutors say Steven Lee Fickey stole the identities of about 18 people, using them to buy things through a Web site maintained by the Army and Air Force Exchange Service. ...more

November 7, 2008 |

Retired Marine Col. John Ripley, who was credited with stopping a column of North Vietnamese tanks by blowing up a pair of bridges during the 1972 Easter Offensive of the Vietnam War, died at home at age 69, friends and relatives said Sunday. ...more

November 2, 2008 |

The son of wrestler Hulk Hogan is out of jail this morning. Nick Bollea walked out of the Pinellas County Jail about 12:30 a.m. He served 166 days of his 8-month sentence given as punishment after he pleaded no contest to a reckless driving charge. ...more

October 21, 2008 |

Nick Bollea will be released from jail sometime after midnight early Tuesday morning. Authorities said that could come any time after midnight and that they would not announce the exact time. ...more

October 20, 2008 |

Roy K. Moore, 94, an FBI agent who oversaw investigations into some of the most notorious civil rights-era killings, including those depicted in the movie "Mississippi Burning," died Sunday in a Madison nursing home of complications from pneumonia. ...more

October 14, 2008 |