Every lawsuit filed or even threatened under a California law aimed at electing more minorities to local offices - and all of the roughly $4.3 million from settlements so far - can be traced to just two people: a pair of attorneys who worked together writing the statute, The Associated Press has found. ...more

November 15, 2009

Former New Hampshire Republican Sen. Bob Smith formally announced his run for Florida's open U.S. Senate seat this week, two months after filing the legal documents. ...more

June 10, 2009

Patient's financial future must be considered with Alzheimer's diagnosis. ...more

February 16, 2009

A federal inmate at the county jail claims staff deprived him of legal services and beat him when he made a formal complaint about it. ...more

November 11, 2008

Ever since John McCain picked Sarah Palin to be his running mate, many have lavished praise on her decision not to have an abortion after she and her husband learned that their youngest child, Trig, would be born with Down syndrome. Do those telling Palin "attagirl" and "way to go" have any idea what challenges and struggles Trig's parents - and all of us who care for children with special needs - live with every day? Though everyone cheered the Palin family in Minnesota last week, will those people be there for that little boy and his family when their support is really needed? ...more

September 9, 2008

Tina Freeman, a mother of four and stepmother of four more, was browsing Craigslist for day care services today when she came across what she called a shocker: "Eight Months Old Baby Boy For Adoption." ...more

August 28, 2008

ORLANDO - 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

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

It's not even in the city limits of Sebring or in the jurisdiction of Sun 'n Lake, but a proposed sewer project could lead to a legal battle between the two entities. ...more

August 15, 2008

Now that it's all over but the commentary, we wonder whether the case against Pamela Reynolds went as far as it did solely because she once swapped ("swapped" being the operative verb) vows of fidelity, affinity and affection with a fellow who once played cornerback for a living. ...more

July 23, 2008