TAMPA - Teams assigned to eliminate the nation's backlog of immigration fugitives have arrested nearly twice as many people this fiscal year as the previous year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Barbara Gonzalez said today. ...more

December 4, 2007

Millions of people who applied for naturalization and other immigration benefits to beat a midsummer fee increase are caught in a paperwork pileup that threatens the chance for some to become U.S. citizens in time to vote in next November's presidential election. ...more

November 23, 2007

Iraq's prime minister lashed out at the country's Sunni Arab vice president in an interview published Tuesday, drawing attention to a bitter rift between two key politicians from rival sects at a time the United States is pressing for Iraqi unity. ...more

November 21, 2007

For years, many mentally ill Floridians without the means to obtain proper treatment have gotten into trouble and ended up in our county jails or state prisons. Until recently, lawmakers have looked the other way. ...more

November 20, 2007

It's not exactly a great white way, but it could be if only it stretched all the way to Eisenhower Middle School. ...more

November 14, 2007

Applied Research Associates, one of the My Safe Florida Home inspection companies whose contract was renewed Monday, was paid by the state last year to develop the program software used by inspectors. ...more

October 31, 2007

A funeral director's license has been suspended after the family of a dead man received two sets of cremated remains from the director's funeral home, state officials said. ...more

October 17, 2007

TALLAHASSEE - The funeral director of a now-defunct St. Petersburg funeral home has had his license suspended after a grieving family of a dead man whose arrangements the home handled received two sets of cremated remains, state officials announced this morning. ...more

October 16, 2007

Deteriorating Smithsonian facilities have damaged historic airplanes, threatened collections and resulted in the leakage of tens of millions of gallons of water at a National Zoo enclosure, while cuts in security staff have exposed artifacts in the 18 museums to vandalism and theft, the Government Accountability Office reported Friday. ...more

September 29, 2007

SEBRING — "Cool beans" is an old '70s phrase that Sherri Cooper uses to express "good news." The "cool beans" now for the coordinator of Keep Highlands County Beautiful is that the county is back to normal in the business of cleaning up illegal dump sites. Through the manpower shortage at Highlands County Recycling of the past three months, the waiting list for dump-site cleanups grew to about 95. That was about five times the normal list of 15 to 20 dump sites. ...more

September 15, 2007