Seven years ago, the captured "Beltway Snipers" - John Allen Muhammad, 41, and his 17-year old accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo - were in federal custody, accused of 16 shootings and 10 murders. They had set out to create a reign of terror in the Washington area to match the terrorist attacks of the year before. ...more

November 9, 2009

The Justice Department released nearly 100 documents Tuesday that it used to falsely accuse scientist Steven J. Hatfill of masterminding the 2001 anthrax attacks. ...more

November 25, 2008

Vice presidential power was a term of mirth in governments past. Not anymore. Vice President Dick Cheney may be the nearest thing we have had to a deputy president. ...more

November 2, 2008

Local supporters of a former University of South Florida professor once accused of being a leading Palestinian terrorist hailed his release from a federal lockup in Virginia on Tuesday as long overdue. ...more

September 3, 2008

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A former Florida professor once accused of being a leading Palestinian terrorist has been released for the first time in more than five years. ...more

September 2, 2008

More sorry tales from George Bush's Department of Injustice: Officials there trashed law, department policy and honorable tradition to fill professional positions with partisan loyalists and ideological activists. ...more

August 2, 2008

We still don't know who mailed the anthrax that killed seven people in 2001, but eyebrow-raising developments continue to happen. ...more

July 9, 2008

The Justice Department agreed Friday to pay biological-weapons expert Steven Hatfill a settlement valued at $5.85 million to drop a lawsuit he filed after then-Attorney General John Ashcroft named him a "person of interest" in the investigation of the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks. ...more

June 28, 2008

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether top government officials can be sued for damages by Muslim men who were rounded up and imprisoned under harsh conditions in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. ...more

June 17, 2008

A nine-year ban on city funding for needle-exchange programs in the District of Columbia has been lifted, a move city officials say is key to reducing the soaring rate of AIDS and HIV infections in the nation's capital. ...more

December 28, 2007