The heavily criticized Snatch Land Rover is to be replaced with 200 new patrol vehicles in Afghanistan to protect troops from booby-traps, it was revealed as Gordon Brown paid a surprise visit to the war-torn country.
News of a £118 million investment in new vehicles and equipment for came after former commanders accused the Prime Minister [...]
Those watching the mounting US-Turkey tensions over a congressional committee’s resolution recognizing the Armenian ‘genocide’ could be forgiven for feeling a sense of déjà vu.
A committee passed a similar resolution in 2007, leading Turkey to recall its ambassador to Washington – something it did again after the resolution passed yesterday – and warn of a [...]
Gordon Brown insisted today that the decision to go to war in Iraq had been the right one and taken “for the right reasons” but said that he regretted some failures in planning for the aftermath of the invasion.
Beginning a day’s testimony to the Chilcot inquiry, the Prime Minister said that as Chancellor he had [...]
Life looks back to normal for Jaycee Dugard as she speaks on TV for the first time since being released from 18 years in captivity.
“Hi. I’m Jaycee,” the 29-year-old Dugard says to the camera. “I want to thank you for your support and I’m doing well … It’s been a long haul, but I’m getting [...]
Job losses were mild in February despite extreme snowstorms in much of the country, according to a government report released Friday, suggesting that while the labor market remains weak it is no longer getting worse.
Employers cut 36,000 net jobs, the Labor Department said, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.7 percent. Economists had expected [...]
(CNN) — Six people were killed when a passenger bus crashed on an Arizona interstate Friday, the Arizona Department of Public Safety said.
The wreck occurred at 5:27 a.m. on Interstate 10 south of Phoenix when the commercial bus rear-ended a car, according to Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman Bart Graves.
The bus veered off the [...]
John Patrick Bedell, whom authorities identified as the gunman in the Pentagon shooting on Thursday, appears to have been a right-wing extremist with virulent antigovernment feelings.
If so, that would make the Pentagon shooting the second violent extremist attack on a federal building within the past month. On Feb. 18, Joseph Stack flew a small aircraft [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Key players on whaling huddled behind closed doors in Florida in an uncertain bid to find common ground on an issue that has bitterly divided Australia and Japan.
Negotiators opened talks at a resort hotel in St. Pete Beach, near St. Petersburg, participants said. Media were not allowed into [...]
Citrus County resident a real ‘sweetheart’
Elementary school student awarded scholarship
Student raises money for injured dog
Volunteers ‘carry the day’ at special gathering 
Five seated on housing advisory committee
Fire Rescue now offers ‘enhanced services’ to county
Senior Care recognized at commision meeting