A former Pasco County sheriff's deputy has agreed to plead guilty to federal drug and firearms charges. Don Riggans, 34, faces a minimum of five years in prison and a maximum of life for possessing a firearm in connection with drug trafficking. He also has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to possess hydrocodone, a charge that carries up to five years behind bars. ...more

September 11, 2008

Christine Merrick's life turned upside-down and nearly slipped away from her last year. ...more

September 2, 2008

The nation's largest steroids testing program caught only two Texas high school athletes taking unauthorized substances out of more than 10,000 students who were tested, according to results issued by the state Wednesday. ...more

July 24, 2008

Convicted steroid dealer Kirk Radomski looked under his television last weekend and found overnight mail slips from packages he claims were used to send human growth hormone to Roger Clemens' house, according to the lawyer for Brian McNamee. ...more

July 17, 2008

He already had like 600 nicknames. Junior. The Natural. The Kid. ...more

June 12, 2008

Barry Bonds has pleaded not guilty to 15 felony charges of lying to a federal grand jury about his performance-enhancing drug use. ...more

June 6, 2008

In reference to the letter dated Feb. 20 by Charles E. Wilson, all I can say is "How Typically Democratic!" Mr. Wilson begins and ends with a condemnation of the current Congress' spending any time on the steroids scandal when more important issues are at hand. However, so typically Democratic, Mr. Wilson just had to take a shot at condemning Bush for the Iraq War. Mr. Wilson emphatically promotes the false reasoning perpetuated by those Democrats who hate President Bush because he legitimately won the first and second election over weak Democratic candidates. Bush's decision to take out Saddam and ensure that his WMDs wouldn't fall into the hands of terrorists who wanted to destroy us and or our interests was the right thing to do, at the right time. Most of the Democratic leaders agreed and if anyone believes President Bush influenced the thinking of Hillary, etc., they need to stop with the Kool Aid. ...more

February 25, 2008

Alex Rodriguez categorically stated he had never used steroids or human growth hormone. He categorically stated that if he had a daughter (he does) he'd want her to marry Andy Pettitte. He seemed categorically unworried about steroids claims by former Ku Klux Kloser John Rocker, or that Jose Canseco, who covers the waterfront, is apparently going to make Rodriguez allegations in a new Jose book to be published as soon as the crayon dries. ...more

February 21, 2008

"Faster than a candidate's mouth, More powerful than a Kennedy endorsement, Able to leap real facts in a single bound, ...more

February 17, 2008

Few men who have ever gripped a baseball know more about saving games than Mariano Rivera. ...more

February 16, 2008