Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday ordered new measures to improve oversight of private guards who protect U.S. diplomats in Iraq, including tighter rules of engagement and a board to investigate any killings. ...more

October 24, 2007

JACKSONVILLE - The group charged with cleaning up the state's foster care system after one child went missing and another was found dead released its first recommendations for change Wednesday. Ideas ranged from collecting DNA samples from foster children to allow better tracking to ensuring all adults living in a foster home have background checks to following up on previous requirements from the Department of Children & Families that foster care children be seen on a monthly basis. ...more

October 11, 2007

Many, many bags are delivered to the county solid waste compound, but most contain trash and they're dumped deliberately. ...more

October 5, 2007

State officials agreed Friday to pay $14 million to victims of a woman convicted of beating, starving and threatening foster children in her care. ...more

September 29, 2007

Episcopal bishops on Tuesday rejected demands by leaders of the worldwide Anglican Communion to roll back the church's liberal stance on homosexuality, increasing the possibility of fracture within the communion and the Episcopal Church. ...more

September 26, 2007

The Internal Revenue Service may be losing hundreds of millions of dollars because it won't spend the time and money to match millions of income statements with incorrect or missing identification numbers to existing tax accounts, an IRS watchdog said Tuesday. ...more

September 12, 2007