Paul Gordon pleaded guilty to organized fraud and was ordered by Judge Chet Tharpe to pay his victims nearly $40,000 in restitution. An 8 On Your Side investigation that began in late 2006 discovered a pattern in which Gordon falsely represented himself to customers on both sides of the bay as a licensed and insured contractor. ...more

December 19, 2009

Candice Clark, a small-time thief who snatched her toddler from Florida custody in 2006 and was arrested later in Wisconsin with a dead woman in her backyard and a severely abused boy in her closet, has been sentenced to 55 years in prison. ...more

November 12, 2008

Candice Clark, a small-time thief who snatched her toddler from Florida custody in 2006 and was arrested later in Wisconsin with a dead woman in her back yard and a severely abused boy in her closet, has been sentenced to 55 years in prison. ...more

November 11, 2008

Gory and bucolic all at once, cockfights have drawn crowds to small-time pits and full-blown arenas in towns across Louisiana for generations. By the end of the week, they'll be against the law. Everywhere. ...more

August 11, 2008

When was the last time the U.S. Congress and any president passed major laws that truly helped the American people? It wasn't tax cuts for wealthy people, nor was it the prescription drug law that was a boon to pharmaceutical companies who bought, paid for and even wrote the legislation. No, not much has happened since the Civil Rights movement that was fundamentally right for the people. ...more

December 6, 2007

PORTAGE, WIS. - Candice Clark rages like an angry child as she leans into a video monitor in the Columbia County Jail. "I'm not a murderer," the inmate in orange snarls into the telephone. ...more

December 1, 2007

On Nov. 1, with little fanfare, Congress accepted a long-needed correction to prison sentencing guidelines for people caught selling crack cocaine. ...more

November 19, 2007

A whale's bleeding carcass bobbed in the surf, a steel harpoon jutting from its side. Butchers in this Japanese fishing village then went to work, turning a motorized winch to haul the beast ashore. ...more

November 18, 2007

Carter Jenkins says he's not much of a singer or dancer, but he's going to give it his best shot when his musical number comes up on 'Viva Laughlin.' ...more

October 18, 2007

Carter Jenkins says he's not much or a singer or dancer, but he's going to give it his best shot when his musical number comes up on "Viva Laughlin." ...more

October 17, 2007