It began as a feud only a child could invent - teenage chest-thumping over who had the right to sneak across a golf course after dark and scoop lost balls out of a pond. ...more

December 8, 2007

AT&T Inc. will exit the rapidly shrinking pay phone business by the end of next year, the company said Monday. ...more

December 4, 2007

Over the past seven years, an imposing building on the outskirts of this city has served as a secret holding cell for the CIA. ...more

December 1, 2007

A bus full of 15 Iraqi lawyers carrying a four-page, single-spaced letter to President Bush arrived at the White House Tuesday. The mission was to request less U.S. help for building prisons and more for establishing the rule of law. There was no immediate official response, and experience of the last four years indicates nothing will be done in the future. ...more

November 17, 2007

During the past seven years, more than 1,000 Florida prison inmates and their families paid millions for improper transfers to other facilities, state Department of Corrections Secretary James McDonough said today. ...more

November 14, 2007

A United Nations human rights envoy entered Myanmar for the first time in four years Sunday on a mission to uncover how many people were killed and detained since September's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. ...more

November 12, 2007

Bill Fanning of Hudson says spineless Republicans should be replaced in 2008 with Democrats or Republicans with spines. ...more

October 10, 2007

The state Department of Corrections on Tuesday released the names of three high-ranking officials it is reprimanding for the way they helped allow hundreds of inmates to transfer between prisons throughout Florida. ...more

October 10, 2007

TAMPA - The state Department of Corrections today released the names of three high-ranking officials it is reprimanding for the way they helped allow hundreds of inmates to transfer between prisons throughout Florida. ...more

October 9, 2007

TAMPA - The state Department of Corrections today released letters it sent last month to a Tallahassee lawyer and his associate, a former corrections department staff member, saying the men used "overt and covert actions to improperly influence" inmate transfers. The department became suspicious months ago that transfers were influenced by money or favors offered to nine of its employees at corrections headquarters in Tallahassee. ...more

October 9, 2007