A 73-year-old retired surgeon marching in silence with a tombstone picturing a soldier killed in Iraq. A philosophy professor calling for a new investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks. A long-haul trucker from Texas protesting oil prices. ...more

August 4, 2008

A gunman opened fire at a church youth performance Sunday and killed two people, including a man who witnesses called a hero for shielding others from a shotgun blast. ...more

July 28, 2008

ATLANTA - A federal appeals court on Wednesday invalidated part of a Florida law requiring public school students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, but the panel declined to rule on whether the rest of the statute is constitutional. ...more

July 24, 2008

A federal appeals court on Wednesday invalidated part of a Florida law requiring public school students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, but the panel declined to rule on whether the rest of the statute is constitutional. ...more

July 24, 2008

ILLINOIS - Be careful if you have saggy pants in the south Chicago suburb of Lynwood. Village leaders have passed an ordinance that would levy $25 fines against anyone showing three inches or more of their underwear in public. ...more

July 20, 2008

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- and possibly the American Civil Liberties Union -- is expected to attend the next meeting of the commission designed to independently review Hillsborough County's jail system, according to the commission's chairman. ...more

July 17, 2008

A little-noticed provision co-authored by Sen. Mel Martinez and contained in a massive Senate housing bill would create a national licensing registry for mortgage loan workers, requiring them to undergo fingerprinting and background checks. ...more

July 12, 2008

President Bush signed a bill Thursday that overhauls rules about government eavesdropping and grants immunity to telecommunications companies that helped the United States spy on Americans in suspected terrorism cases. ...more

July 11, 2008

Someone forgot to tell the U.S. Supreme Court that we're at war. ...more

June 24, 2008

Before we get into our weekly love fest with the many happy, satisfied consumers of this space, permit a personal indulgence since, well, I could use the money. ...more

June 15, 2008