A nationwide crackdown on mortgage fraud that began in March has ensnared 18 Florida residents, whose charges were announced by federal authorities Thursday. ...more

June 20, 2008

TAMPA - A local criminal defense lawyer is scheduled to be arraigned this month on a sex charge after police found him masturbating at an adult theater, authorities say. ...more

June 9, 2008

A huge government seizure of illegally cut Amazon lumber shows improved enforcement, environmentalists said Thursday, but they said it would not yet stop destruction of the rain forest. ...more

February 15, 2008

Serbia's foreign minister on Thursday urged the U.N. Security Council to oppose Kosovo's expected declaration of independence and called on the secretary-general to order that any proclamation be declared null and void. ...more

February 15, 2008

With illegal immigration and undocumented workers being among the hot-button issues of the day, there's no telling when the government might decide it's time for a crackdown. Whether a business owner thinks "illegals" are that big of a problem, no business owner wants it to become their problem. "This is one of the issues they're talking about in Congress," a local business law attorney, Debora Ann Diaz, said. "Maybe we don't have an illegal alien problem, maybe we just need to enforce what we have in existence." ...more

February 2, 2008

Zephyrhills skateboarders who don't like to follow the rules need to be taught a lesson, and a proposed ordinance that targets their wallets just might do it. ...more

January 30, 2008

Kenya's president threatened a tough crackdown Monday as rioters rampaged for a third day to protest what they called his sham re-election, a bloody convulsion threatening what has been East Africa's most stable and prosperous democracy. ...more

January 1, 2008

County might send out "water cops" to catch violators of once-a-week lawn watering ...more

December 5, 2007

Though under house arrest and surrounded by soldiers, Pakistan's deposed chief justice managed to get his hands on a mobile phone. ...more

November 7, 2007

Pakistan's government Sunday executed a nationwide crackdown on the political opposition, the news media and the courts, one day after President Pervez Musharraf imposed emergency rule and suspended the constitution in a bid to save his job. ...more

November 5, 2007