Famed television angler Stu Apte, who was in Tampa last week for the Mercury Marine Celebrity Fishing Tournament, has just released his book of memoirs, "Of Wind and Tides." ...more

November 23, 2008 |

Milo "Mike" Adamson was a draft dodger during World War II. The moniker hardly seems fitting, considering he served with the Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 26th Marines, 5th Marine Division and took part in the 36-day Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. ...more

November 11, 2008 |

A former military instructor at Sarasota High School was sentenced to 12 years in prison for luring a student into sex acts. ...more

October 16, 2008 |

SARASOTA COUNTY — A former military instructor at Sarasota High School was sentenced to 12 years in prison for luring a student into sex acts. ...more

October 15, 2008 |

"It's a humbling experience," Sebring resident Fred Carino says of standing on the bridge of a Naval warship. He was a full commander and as the ship's captain he had responsibility for the 445-foot-long frigate, the USS Robert E. Peary, and the 325 men it took to keep her seaworthy and battle ready. ...more

September 29, 2008 |

In high school he was in a garage band. Then he spent most of his adult life in the Navy and away from music. ...more

September 15, 2008 |

Regarding "Birthday Candles Unlikely for Bollea" (Metro, July 24): I am inspired to write by your report that Nick Bollea won't have any candles for his 18th birthday. Neither did I, but not because I was in jail. It was because, in October 1954, I was at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, S.C., where I began my 27-year-long military career. ...more

July 29, 2008 |

Lt. Col. Charles "Chuck" Dryden, 87, one of the first of the pioneering black World War II pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen, died Tuesday in Atlanta. ...more

June 27, 2008 |

A lease-breaching St. Petersburg Army recruit who is being shipped out today to basic training in South Carolina was still hoping for a resolution to the case Monday, his attorney said. ...more

June 17, 2008 |

Tom Hall's life has taken many turns in the past 40 years. Among other things, the Valrico resident married his wife, Peggy. He raised two sons, one a teacher, the other a sheriff's deputy in Columbia, Mo. And the native Midwesterner and his wife moved to Valrico in 1999, where Hall has been active in the Tampa Bay and national chapters of Vietnam Veterans of America. ...more

May 24, 2008 |