A lawyer for the U.S. Marshals Service improperly used government cars and deputies to escort him and Fox Sports broadcasters to and from high-profile sporting events, including the January 2008 National Football League playoff game in Tampa, investigators say. ...more

January 13, 2009

Mississippi now has the nation's highest teen birth rate, displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title, a new federal report says. ...more

January 7, 2009

Statistics show that cases of reported child abuse were up for the first eight months of 2008 compared to the same time period last year, according to Sheriff's Lt. John Chess, with the sheriff's Special Victims Unit. ...more

September 26, 2008

The first federal survey of both men and women on adoption issues challenges some stereotypes and offers some surprising findings: ...more

August 8, 2008