In the early 1930s, mealtime at the Children's Home was most often a hectic event. The Children's Home was Tampa's orphanage on Florida Avenue. It is where I grew up, from 1926, when I was an infant, to 1943 when I was 18 and joined the U.S. Navy during World War II. ...more

September 7, 2008

President Dmitry Medvedev declared Saturday that "Russia is a nation to be reckoned with" after its conflict with Georgia, again putting the West on notice that Moscow is prepared to use its military and economic might. ...more

September 7, 2008

The flagship of the U.S. Navy's Mediterranean fleet anchored Friday outside this key Georgian port, defiantly delivering humanitarian aid to the war-ravaged U.S. ally in a slap at Moscow. ...more

September 6, 2008

The Tampa Bay WAVES Unit 55 has a new meeting day and venue. The group will meet the first Saturday of each month at Piccadilly Cafeteria, 1025 Brandon Blvd., W. ...more

September 3, 2008

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August 31, 2008

Last weekend, a team of researchers drove a small boat into Tampa Bay and dropped two massive decoy bombs near bridge pilings and port docks. The U.S. Navy, working with the experiment, then sent out two underwater robots to scour the watery floor looking for the bombs. ...more

August 28, 2008

Russia on Tuesday formally recognized the independence of the two Georgian regions that its military now occupies, further inflaming relations with the United States in a standoff that recalls the Cold War. ...more

August 27, 2008

A strong finish in Pasco County helped Carrollwood lawyer Bill Mitchell win the hotly contested U.S. House District 9 Democratic primary race. He will face Gus Bilirakis, R-Palm Harbor, in the general election. ...more

August 27, 2008

President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia said Sunday that he planned to rebuild his country's shattered army, and that even after its decisive defeat in the war for control of one of Georgia's two separatist enclaves he would continue to pursue a policy of uniting both enclaves under the Georgian flag. ...more

August 25, 2008

It was just the sort of party Bette Lou Corcoran would have loved. Glasses tinkling, voices buzzing, the occasional eruption of laughter. Although weather forecasters delivered ominous warnings about a possible hurricane named Fay, the panoramic sunset view of Tampa Bay from the 38th-floor University Club was positively sublime. ...more

August 24, 2008