Casey Anthony tried to give her missing 3-year-old daughter up for adoption before she was born, but her mother wouldn't let her, according to legal documents that paint the 22-year-old Florida woman as a perplexed, scheming and unbalanced person who repeatedly defended obvious lies in police reports. ...more

August 27, 2008

Court documents show the mother of a missing toddler wanted to give her unborn child up for adoption. ...more

August 26, 2008

A spokesman for the mother of a missing Orlando girl says Casey Anthony is trying to help find the toddler after getting out of jail. ...more

August 24, 2008

The mother of a missing central Florida toddler was released from jail on $500,000 bail Thursday and ordered to return to her parents' home, where authorities will monitor her with an electronic ankle device. ...more

August 21, 2008

The grandmother of a missing Florida girl says she won't explain what she meant when she said that "pieces of the puzzle" are coming together regarding Caylee Anthony's disappearance. ...more

August 1, 2008

ORLANDO - An appeals court has denied a bond reduction request for the mother of a 2-year-old missing girl. ...more

July 30, 2008

Three businessmen and a Sarasota lawyer have been charged with participating in an $82.8 million mortgage loan fraud, a scheme which defrauded seven banks, the U.S. Attorney's Office said this morning. ...more

July 28, 2008

Hope remains that a missing 2-year-old Orlando girl is still alive, although prosecutors say the case is beginning to look like a homicide. The girls mother, Casey Anthony, 22, is charged only with child neglect and lying to investigators. Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland set her bond at $500,000 Tuesday, saying the law did not allow him to hold her without bail. ...more

July 24, 2008

Dear President Bush, They say you can't always believe what you read in the papers. So, when I read that Marion Jones has applied to you for a pardon or commutation of her federal conviction for making false statements to investigators, I couldn't believe it. She lied to federal agents. She took steroids. She made false statements in a bank fraud investigation - not necessarily in that order. She admitted it. And now she apparently wants to be let off. ...more

July 24, 2008

Over the years, many statements have been falsely attributed to me, but this is the first year in which a whole column has been made up and circulated in a chain letter on the Internet, claiming that I wrote it. ...more

July 11, 2008