On Tuesday, Pittsburgh Pirates president Frank Coonellyreleased a prepared statement that was posted on the Major League Baseball club's official homepage. ...more

March 24, 2009

A tip led Pasco County sheriff's deputies to a man they had been chasing for two weeks for failing to pay nearly $165,000 in child support. ...more

January 20, 2009

David Earley is a family man. He lives on an acre-size lot with his wife, two young daughters, a dog and a horse. ...more

January 17, 2009

David Earley is a family man. He lives on an acre-size lot with his wife, two young daughters, a dog and a horse. ...more

January 15, 2009

David Earley is a family man. He lives on an acre-sized lot with his wife, two young daughters, a dog and a horse. But one thing about Earley, 42, sets him apart from other dads in the neighborhood. He's a fugitive hiding in plain sight, wanted by the law since 2007 on felony charges of failure to pay child support. A list of Florida's deadbeat parents, administered by the state Department of Revenue, is the best measure of the growing problem that Earley represents: The list of cases has increased more than 100,000 during the past five years, to 792,000. ...more

January 14, 2009