With each image of police dragging demonstrators into vans, and each announcement of protest rallies banned, more and more Pakistanis are seeing a replay of the political turmoil that led to the end of a military government last year. ...more

March 16, 2009

Controversy over ex-convict mortgage brokers reignites today when Attorney General Bill McCollum proposes overhauling professional licensing for felons. ...more

October 21, 2008

President Pervez Musharraf fought back Friday against politicians who asserted he would resign rather than face impeachment charges, saying through his chief political supporter that he would challenge the charges when they were brought to the parliament. ...more

August 16, 2008

The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will hold a meeting next week in St. Petersburg, and one of the items on the agenda is review of possible cuts in the gag grouper catch for both commercial and recreational fishermen. ...more

January 20, 2008

Mike Huckabee charmed Iowa with his playful personality, his gift of gab and his success at losing more than 100 pounds. But it was his conservative convictions on abortion and gay marriage that secured the vote of evangelical Christians, about 60 percent of Iowa's Republican turnout. ...more

January 11, 2008

The assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the charismatic opposition leader who had promised to restore democracy in Pakistan, set off a nationwide wave of grief and fury and raised the specter of violent unrest that could threaten the government of U.S.-backed President Pervez Musharraf. ...more

December 28, 2007

The last thoughts of a gunman who pushed through a crowd at a political rally and fatally shot Benazir Bhutto might have been how easy it is to derail democracy and silence forever a powerful voice of reform. ...more

December 28, 2007

President Pervez Musharraf lifted the 6-week old state of emergency and restored the constitution on Saturday, after passing a flurry of constitutional amendments and decrees to ensure his recent actions would not be challenged by any court. ...more

December 16, 2007

Gunmen killed three people in an attack Saturday on a party office of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, police said - the first reported deaths apparently linked to Pakistan's current election campaign. ...more

December 9, 2007

Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto ventured into Pakistan's conservative Pashtun heartland Saturday to launch her election campaign, urging resistance against militancy in a main base of pro-Taliban insurgents. ...more

December 2, 2007