A former police officer who had been an FBI agent for less than two years was fatally shot Wednesday as he served a warrant at the home of an alleged cocaine dealer. ...more

November 19, 2008

After he was arrested in connection with attacks on his parents-in-law, Alex Shevgert said he was afraid his father-in-law was going to have him killed, an FBI agent testified this morning. ...more

November 12, 2008

When the "Visitors" first landed on NBC in the 1980s, they were reptilian creatures disguised as humans, sneaking around making quick, gruesome snacks out of mice. ...more

November 2, 2008

The mother of a missing 3-year-old girl was arrested Tuesday and charged with killing her daughter, even though the child's body has not been found during an exhaustive four-month search. ...more

October 14, 2008

Roy K. Moore, 94, an FBI agent who oversaw investigations into some of the most notorious civil rights-era killings, including those depicted in the movie "Mississippi Burning," died Sunday in a Madison nursing home of complications from pneumonia. ...more

October 14, 2008

A local man charged with participating in a conspiracy as part of the Gambino crime family says he was a victim of extortion. ...more

October 10, 2008

Boston mobsters paid then-FBI agent John Connolly roughly $235,000 over the years for protection and information that included fingering gang turncoats, a jailed gangster testified Monday at the agent's murder trial. ...more

September 23, 2008

John J. Connolly was hundreds of miles away in 1982 when gambling executive John Callahan's bullet-riddled body was discovered in the trunk of Callahan's own Cadillac at Miami's airport. ...more

September 8, 2008

Former Marine Cpl. Steven Lee Fickey has agreed to plead guilty to fraud and stealing identities of other Marines, court records show. ...more

August 19, 2008

except for the brain-dead who can't turn away from "Big Brother" - here is a cornucopia of vidbits. Make that a plethora of pithy paragraphs from the world of television, answers to pressing questions from readers, plus a few items from the Walt TV blog. ...more

August 14, 2008