The head of the Secret Service asserted Thursday that the security breach at last week's White House state dinner was an aberration and President Barack Obama was never at risk. Mark Sullivan said three uniformed officers have been put on administrative leave. ...more

December 3, 2009

A former Walker Middle School student charged with petty theft while out on bail in a rape case will be freed from jail. ...more

October 28, 2009

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is trying to develop a nationwide investigation with his counterparts in 35 other states to root out what he calls corruption and abuse of public workers' pension funds nationwide, a state official said. ...more

May 2, 2009

While Democrats in Congress look to recoup $165 million in bonus money paid to executives at American International Group Inc., three local bankers chimed in on what they considered a perfect storm of rampant greed on Wall Street and negligence on Capitol Hill. ...more

March 18, 2009

The FBI is investigating former Hillsborough County Elections Supervisor Buddy Johnson. ...more

February 13, 2009

The wife of disgraced money manager Bernard Madoff withdrew more than $15 million from a firm co-owned by her husband — including $10 million on the day before his arrest on charges he ran a $50 billion Ponzi scheme, the top security regulator in Massachusetts said Wednesday. ...more

February 11, 2009

The Alaska Senate on Friday found Gov. Sarah Palin's husband and nine state employees, including some of her top aides, in contempt for ignoring subpoenas to testify in the Legislature's Troopergate investigation. ...more

February 6, 2009

House lawmakers on Wednesday accused the Securities and Exchange Commission of impeding their probe into the agency's failure to uncover the alleged $50 billion Bernard Madoff fraud. ...more

February 4, 2009

Pinellas County Sheriff Jim Coats has announced a number of steps he hopes will make the Sheriff's Office more frugal. ...more

February 4, 2009

Since the subprime mortgage troubles exploded into a full-blown financial crisis last year, the three top credit-rating agencies - Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings - have faced a firestorm of criticism about whether their rosy ratings of mortgage securities generated billions of dollars in losses to investors who relied on them. ...more

December 20, 2008