Even today, two years after Mark Foley's very public fall from grace, the former congressman can't explain why he sent lurid, sexually explicit computer messages to male teens who had worked as Capitol Hill pages. ...more

November 13, 2008

Even today, two years after Mark Foley's very public fall from grace, the former congressman can't explain why he sent lurid, sexually explicit computer messages to male teens who had worked as Capitol Hill pages. ...more

November 12, 2008

A 21-year-old Asian male elephant is adapting today to a temporary home in Tennessee after federal authorities confiscated him over the weekend from a Balm-based circus. ...more

November 10, 2008

A hillside school where roughly 500 students crowded into several floors collapsed during classes on Friday, killing at least 30 people and injuring many more. Rescuers used bare hands to pull bleeding students from the wreckage. ...more

November 8, 2008

A 12-year veteran of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has resigned after a departmental investigation found he took prescription drugs from a woman during an unrecorded traffic stop. ...more

November 5, 2008

A 12-year veteran of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has resigned after a departmental investigation found he took prescription drugs from a woman during an unrecorded traffic stop. ...more

November 4, 2008

CHICAGO - The investigation of decades-old claims that Chicago police tortured suspects with beatings, electric shocks and games of Russian roulette won't stop with last week's federal indictment of a controversial homicide commander. ...more

October 25, 2008

Federal prosecutors have identified 22 current investigations into civil rights-era crimes that could be affected by a federal appeals court's decision to overturn a conviction in a 1964 kidnapping case. ...more

October 23, 2008

Three men face criminal charges in a scheme to sell stolen gas to motorists, Tampa police said. ...more

October 15, 2008

Three men face criminal charges in a scheme to sell discounted gas to motorists on the sly and pocket the proceeds, Tampa police said today. ...more

October 14, 2008