A mobster-turned-informant was recruited by the FBI to help find bodies of slain civil rights workers in Mississippi and got information at gunpoint, the gangster's former girlfriend testified Monday at the murder trial of a former FBI agent. ...more

October 30, 2007

A former Marine corporal who told people he was a captain and walked around his apartment complex carrying a ceremonial sword has been indicted on charges he stole the identities of Marines he once served with, according to documents on file in federal court. ...more

October 11, 2007

The arrests of 39 purported leaders of the Florida's Latin Kings gang last year might never have happened without the help of a gang member encouraged by detectives to put together a new 'tribe' in Tampa, an attorney for one of those arrested said. ...more

October 5, 2007

TAMPA - The arrests of 39 purported leaders of the Florida's Latin Kings gang last year might never have happened without the help of a gang member encouraged by detectives to put together a new "tribe" in Tampa, an attorney for one of those arrested said. ...more

October 4, 2007

Thirty years ago, Jodie Foster earned her first Academy Award nomination, for 'Taxi Driver,' with anti-hero Travis Bickle storming New York in a psychotic rage over the street scum he encountered. ...more

September 13, 2007

When you think of bank safety, you likely think of bulletproof glass, dye packs and hidden buzzers underneath a teller's window. ...more

September 9, 2007