"Stick to what you know" could be the motto for Branson this year as the Ozark resort town focuses on its wholesome country, pop music and family entertainment roots, plus recent upgrades in shopping and hotels, to ride out the nation's economic downturn. ...more

May 4, 2008

Nearly seven years after a hijacked airplane crashed into the Pentagon, the largest charity established to help Washington area victims and their families is closing, becoming the last major Sept. 11-related charity to shut down. ...more

May 4, 2008

In unusually blunt terms, Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday challenged the Air Force, whose leaders are under fire on several fronts, to contribute more to immediate wartime needs and to promote new thinking. ...more

April 22, 2008

With a government eavesdropping law about to expire, Washington is awash in accusations over who's to blame. ...more

February 16, 2008

In a day of political brinkmanship, President Bush pressured the House on Thursday to finish a bill giving the government more leeway to eavesdrop on phone calls and e-mails of suspected terrorists. ...more

February 15, 2008

A top Hezbollah commander, long sought by the United States for his role in terrorist attacks that killed hundreds of Americans in the 1980s, died Tuesday night in Damascus when a bomb detonated under the car he was in, Syrian officials said. ...more

February 14, 2008

If six suspected terrorists are sentenced to death at Guantanamo Bay for the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. Army regulations that were quietly amended two years ago open the possibility of execution by lethal injection at the military base in Cuba, experts said Tuesday. ...more

February 13, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office was willing to give the citizens of Town 'N Country a second opportunity to show their interest in the Volunteer Citizen Patrol program, and Thursday night they were rewarded for it. ...more

February 13, 2008

The Senate Tuesday approved new government eavesdropping rules on phone calls and e-mail, giving the White House much of the latitude it wanted and legal immunity to telecommunications companies that helped in snooping after the Sept. 11 attacks. ...more

February 13, 2008

The Bush administration announced Monday that it intends to bring capital murder charges against half a dozen men allegedly linked to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, based partly on information the men disclosed to FBI and military questioners without the use of coercive interrogation tactics. ...more

February 12, 2008