Flying high above a treacherous stretch of the Himalayan Mountains during World War II, Ken Prescher remembers cockpit temperatures dipping to minus 30 degrees - or worse. ...more

November 11, 2009

It was sometime between 8 p.m. and midnight when Robert Knickerbocker heard a plane flying overhead while in his living quarters on a U.S. Merchant Marine ship. That was followed by a tremble that rattled steel compartments carrying supplies for armed forces. Then the sound of a blasting alarm set off by an officer faded out into the Mediterranean Sea. ...more

November 11, 2009

When he was growing up, Kenneth Tucker dreamed of flying airplanes. Years later, his daughter, Wanda Tucker Goodwin, had dreams of becoming a writer. ...more

November 9, 2009

Our recession is tough, but imagine an America where the jobless rate was 25 percent instead of 10 percent, where the blue-plate special was 25 cents and many people still couldn't afford it, where there were no unemployment checks or food stamps, where farmers couldn't afford to feed their cattle. ...more

November 8, 2009

The rising sun over the Koolau Mountains cast a glow upon the ballistic missiles planted on the lawn of a submarine museum at the edge of Pearl Harbor, throwing long shadows across the water. They pointed at the bone-white memorial to the USS Arizona and, just beyond it, at the still-floating battleship Missouri, about to leave her pier. ...more

November 8, 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

Preparations are underway Thursday for the sixth annual Veterans Day parade in downtown Sebring scheduled for 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11, and sponsored by the Heartland Workforce. ...more

November 6, 2009

The current health care bill presented by Nancy Pelosi is quite a beast in itself, almost 2,000 pages. ...more

November 5, 2009

If the Plant Panthers defeat Chamberlain tonight to claim their fifth consecutive district championship, it clearly will be a time for celebration. For starting offensive lineman Mark Brannan, though, tonight's game marks a time for reflection. ...more

November 5, 2009

A dead fish, a horse's head in some guy's bed and an assertion that "the White House has declared war on Fox News" was how Charles Krauthammer started his commentary Oct. 25 ("More than a Fox hunt." ...more

November 5, 2009