BRADENTON — Civil rights leaders are pressuring the Bradenton Police Department to end the practice of stopping walkers at night in one part of the city for not using sidewalks and for walking on the wrong side of the road. ...more

May 25, 2008

What's been heralded as a "showdown" - the appearance of baseball pitcher Roger Clemens before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today - is more likely to be a show. ...more

February 13, 2008

For the presidential candidates, the assassination of Benazir Bhutto has emerged as a ghoulish sort of test: A chance to project leadership and competence - or not - on a fast-moving and nuanced foreign policy issue. ...more

December 29, 2007

Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday that even if rival Barack Obama's claim that he has more support from her husband's administration was true, the statement was "silly" because voters look at qualifications, not a candidate's brain trust. ...more

December 23, 2007

Roger Clemens denied allegations by his former trainer that he took performance-enhancing drugs. ...more

December 18, 2007

The last time Ottawa G Ray Emery swung his stick at an opponent, it cost him a three-game suspension. Emery could be facing disciplinary action again after taking a swipe Tuesday at Lightning LW Mathieu Darche. ...more

December 5, 2007

ELLENTON - Bobbie McGraw's gut told her something was wrong when an unkempt man came into her antiques shop. She nearly asked him to leave. But the two boys and a girl with him were clean and dressed in polo shirts. So she gave him the benefit of the doubt. ...more

November 30, 2007

The No. 2 commander of U.S. Special Operations troops has stepped into the cross hairs of a North Carolina congressman, who wants an investigation of the general. ...more

October 9, 2007

WASHINGTON - A North Carolina congressman wants the Pentagon inspector general to investigate a senior general at the Tampa-based Special Operations Command. Rep. Walter B. Jones, R-N.C., requested that Defense Secretary Robert Gates order an investigation of Lt. Gen. Frank Kearney, deputy commander of Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base. ...more

October 8, 2007