SARASOTA - It is still not over. More than a year after the disputed 13th District Congressional election, government investigators returned to Sarasota County on Monday, looking for clues to why 18,000 voters had no choice recorded in the race between Republican Vern Buchanan and Democrat Christine Jennings. ...more

November 27, 2007

Federal investigators on Monday began preparing for two weeks of testing of Sarasota County voting machines to see whether they were the cause of undervotes in Florida's disputed District 13 congressional election. ...more

November 27, 2007

Gary Milano became director last week of the Tampa area district for the Transportation Security Administration, just before one of aviation's busiest travel periods. ...more

November 20, 2007

Senators on Wednesday urged federal agency officials to come up with a way to collect money from Medicaid providers who owe back taxes, even though legal hurdles have hindered collection efforts. ...more

November 15, 2007

Undercover investigators carried all the bomb components needed to cause "severe damage" to airliners and passengers through U.S. airport screening checkpoints several times this year, despite security measures adopted in August 2006 to stop such explosive devices, according to a new government report. ...more

November 15, 2007

It's time for employers to spin off their 401(k) plans. ...more

November 6, 2007

Some 21,000 people who should not have been allowed to enter the United States came through official border crossing points between Oct. 1, 2005, and Sept. 30, 2006, according to a government report released Monday. ...more

November 6, 2007

The U.S. government has overcharged Americans by more than $100 million a year in its fee for new passports, according to cost figures uncovered by congressional investigators and analyzed by two senators and The Associated Press. ...more

November 3, 2007

Although the volume of prescription drugs and drug ingredients coming into the country from foreign manufacturers in developing nations such as India and China has exploded in recent years, the Food and Drug Administration's budget for foreign inspections has not kept pace. And it will be lower in 2008 than it was in 2002, congressional investigators said. ...more

November 1, 2007

American laboratories handling the world's deadliest germs and toxins have experienced more than 100 accidents and missing shipments since 2003, and the number is increasing as more labs do the work. ...more

October 3, 2007