FRANKLIN, Tenn. — Country singer Mindy McCready is free after serving jail time for a probation violation. ...more

December 31, 2007

Michael Vick, the Atlanta Falcons star who has traded his No. 7 jersey for a black-and-white-striped jail uniform, stood expressionless in a federal courtroom on Monday and apologized to the court and his family for his involvement in a dogfighting ring. But for the judge about to decide Vick's fate, those words were not enough. ...more

December 11, 2007

Most Americans feel compassionate about anyone facing foreclosure. Witnessing more than a million people staring down foreclosure due to home mortgages leaves all us wanting to save people from this sad situation. But before we spend billions in taxpayer dollars for a bailout, we need to consider how this happened in the first place. When we do that, we'll see that most of the people losing their houses never should have qualified for a home loan in the first place, and that predatory lenders are to blame for most of this mess. The Bush administration reached a deal with mortgage bankers to freeze interest rates on some sub-prime mortgages for five years. Other limitations apply, and only about 225,000 people will benefit from it. In fact, it's fair to say that if these homeowners are already in trouble, freezing interest rates won't help much – if at all. ...more

December 9, 2007

The threat of jail time injected a little motivation into scores of parents who lined up around the courthouse Saturday to get their children vaccinated on the spot or prove they had already had the shots. ...more

November 18, 2007

In 2006, St. Petersburg police thought a newspaper delivery man was fatally shot during a violent home invasion above his apartment. ...more

November 16, 2007

The thought alone makes people lose sleep. I'm sure you've heard the horror stories: Collectors making threats of jail time, or calling employers, neighbors and friends to shame a debtor into paying up. ...more

November 11, 2007

Some people think Shayla Muldrow got a raw deal. She was sentenced to a year in jail for boarding a school bus and urging her 9-year-old daughter to attack another student. ...more

September 26, 2007

It's a fashion that started in prison, and now the saggy pants craze has come full circle - low-slung street strutting in some cities soon may mean run-ins with the law, including a stint in jail. ...more

September 17, 2007

The bell rang. Boy, did it ring. It started out a bright, sunshiny day. The Bucs made a drive or two, a defensive stand or two and led by two field goals, enough to make you think, if for only a second, that they might steal a game and momentum to start this must-win season. ...more

September 10, 2007

Somewhere, Michael Vick must have been shaking his head. Joey Harrington just shrugged off Atlanta's season opener as a stroke of bad luck, but this was a troubling start. ...more

September 10, 2007