Pakistani police fired tear gas and clubbed lawyers protesting Monday against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's emergency rule. Lawyers climbed on top of one court building and threw stones and branches at police. Judges and independent TV stations also were targeted. Western diplomats and Pakistani analysts say his attempts to hold on to power run the risk of placing his own political future above the nation's. ...more

November 6, 2007

Bush administration officials are considering granting Guantanamo detainees substantially greater rights as part of an effort to close the detention center and possibly move much of its population to the United States, according to officials involved in the discussions. ...more

November 4, 2007

The state Department of Corrections on Tuesday released the names of three high-ranking officials it is reprimanding for the way they helped allow hundreds of inmates to transfer between prisons throughout Florida. ...more

October 10, 2007

TAMPA - The state Department of Corrections today released letters it sent last month to a Tallahassee lawyer and his associate, a former corrections department staff member, saying the men used "overt and covert actions to improperly influence" inmate transfers. The department became suspicious months ago that transfers were influenced by money or favors offered to nine of its employees at corrections headquarters in Tallahassee. ...more

October 9, 2007

A jury indicated Monday that it believes New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomas and Madison Square Garden committed sexual harassment against a former team executive. ...more

October 2, 2007

Charles Nelson, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson's son, is set to be sentenced in an Orlando courtroom this morning for shoving a police officer. He was found guilty in June of battery on a law-enforcement officer and resisting arrest without violence. ...more

September 14, 2007