They went on night patrols wearing helmets and full field equipment. They learned how to throw a grenade and dig a trench. They were involved in a deadly nighttime firefight and got as close to action in the Vietnam War as they will ever get. And they did it all from the safety of a local classroom. ...more

November 11, 2009

They went on night patrols wearing helmets and full field equipment. They learned how to throw a grenade and dig a trench. They were involved in a deadly nighttime firefight and got as close to action in the Vietnam War as they will ever get. And they did it all from the safety of a local classroom. ...more

November 10, 2009

There's "no way" to explain the mass shooting at Fort Hood Army base in Texas, Eric Shinseki, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, said in Tampa on Friday. ...more

November 7, 2009

We've 'been had' I have a few questions related to the article, "Saving the planet," (Views, Oct. 25). ...more

November 3, 2009

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October 28, 2009

After being told her pilot father died in a plane crash, 12-year-old Kaley Renslow had a dream. In it, she said, she was able to hug and kiss him one more time. ...more

February 21, 2009

As National Transportation Safety Board investigators continue to sift through the evidence of the crash of a commercial airplane near Buffalo, N.Y., families of two local men killed in the crash will address their losses today. ...more

February 20, 2009

A former actor on "The Sopranos" was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for a botched burglary in the Bronx in which an accomplice shot and killed an off-duty police officer. ...more

January 9, 2009

As he convalesced at home Friday - with 33 staples zippered across his scalp, an eye nearly swollen shut, wrist wrapped in a bandage - Frank De Los Reyes delivered a simple message: ...more

December 27, 2008

Trinity Cafe, which has been serving meals to the homeless and hungry at its North Florida Avenue location since 2001, marked this holiday season by serving its 500,000th meal on Dec. 9. ...more

December 17, 2008