Twenty months after Robert Wiles was kidnapped, the FBI said Friday that the Lakeland man is dead and his killer is in custody. ...more

December 19, 2009

Twenty months after Robert Wiles was kidnapped, the FBI said today that the Lakeland man is dead and his killer is in custody. ...more

December 18, 2009

This is the eighth season of "American Idol." Knowing that it was nothing but vacuous eye candy, I resisted watching it for the first three years. Then, during season four, I got caught up in watching country singer Carrie Underwood, who turned out to be my favorite Idol contestant of all time other than Katherine McPhee, who should have won the season five Idol crown instead of the overrated Taylor Hicks. (Obviously, now I'm hooked. Pray for me.) ...more

March 18, 2009

Texas financier R. Allen Stanford has been found in Virginia and served with legal papers in a multibillion-dollar fraud case. ...more

February 20, 2009

The FBI has opened an investigation into the financial dealings of former Hillsborough County Elections Supervisor Buddy Johnson. ...more

February 13, 2009

The FBI is investigating former Hillsborough County Elections Supervisor Buddy Johnson. ...more

February 13, 2009

Arthur Nadel, the hedge fund manager from Sarasota who disappeared recently, turned himself in Tuesday, an FBI spokesman said. ...more

January 28, 2009

Arthur Nadel, the hedge fund manager from Sarasota who disappeared recently, turned himself in today, an FBI spokesman said. Before disappearing, Nadel wrote a letter to his wife giving her instructions — "if you want to survive this mess" — to take money out of credit and other accounts before the authorities blocked access, according to a criminal complaint. ...more

January 27, 2009

The FBI in Tampa is joining the agency's national hiring spree, with four to six jobs posted today, an FBI spokesman said. ...more

January 7, 2009

The FBI wants to hire thousands of new employees, but if you want to apply, the agency's computer servers have other ideas. The federal law enforcement agency has launched what it describes as "one of the largest hiring blitzes in our 100-year history," hoping to hire more than 2,100 professional staff employees and 850 special agents. ...more

January 6, 2009