Kimberly Matlock was about to lose her Illinois home to foreclosure when a shiny flyer from Clearwater arrived in her mailbox. ...more

January 25, 2009

Blanche E. Palfrey, the mother of the woman known as the "D.C. Madam," has filed a lawsuit to stop the release of photographs of her daughter that were taken by police after she hanged herself May 1 in a shed at her mom's home. ...more

August 7, 2008

As if earthquake worries, polluted air and an algae-filled sea weren't enough, the Beijing Olympic organizers may have a Biblical-level challenge on their hands - a plague of locusts buzzing down from Inner Mongolia, where they already have chewed up about 5,000 square miles. ...more

July 10, 2008

A civil liberties group filed a lawsuit Friday seeking an injunction against the District of Columbia police department's vehicle checkpoint program, calling the "military-style" initiative unconstitutional and ineffective. ...more

June 21, 2008