Two administrators at the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg are suspected of having stolen tens of thousands of dollars in state funds by having checks made to companies that didn't provide any products in return, according to court documents. ...more

March 23, 2009

The Dallas school system was rocked by allegations Thursday that staff members at an inner-city high school made students settle their differences by fighting bare-knuckle brawls inside a steel cage. ...more

March 19, 2009

More than 45 years ago, as attorney general of Minnesota, I joined with the attorneys general of 21 states in asking the Supreme Court to ensure that counsel would be appointed for all people facing criminal charges who could not afford it. The court answered our plea. Yet today, its historic decision in Gideon v. Wainwright is at risk. ...more

March 14, 2009

After his former girlfriend taunted him, Phillip Alpert remembered the nude photos she e-mailed to him while they were dating. ...more

March 12, 2009

Hunter, a male Mastiff mix, had been trained by its owner to play tug-of-war with a teddy bear about as large as a toddler, animal investigators said. ...more

March 11, 2009

Three months after Linda Bollea was given $400,000 from the frozen assets of her estranged husband Hulk Hogan to pay attorneys' fees, it appears Hogan wants some of that money, too. ...more

March 11, 2009

Three months after Linda Bollea was given $400,000 from the frozen assets of her estranged husband Hulk Hogan, to pay attorneys' fees involved in her divorce from the famed former wrestler, it now appears Hogan himself wants some of that money, too. ...more

March 10, 2009

The Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles will review its records after discovering a decade-old paperwork error that enabled a man convicted of felony DUI manslaughter to obtain a valid driver's license, officials said today. ...more

March 5, 2009

Hospital officials in Ohio say a Connecticut woman mauled by a chimpanzee two weeks ago lost her hands, nose, lips and eyelids and may be blind and suffering brain damage. ...more

March 5, 2009

A county employee accused of falsifying documents for roughly $9,300 in overtime pay was diverted into a court-supervised program on Friday. ...more

February 25, 2009