Bruce E. Ivins, the government's leading suspect in the 2001 anthrax killings, borrowed freeze-drying equipment from a bioweapons lab that fall that allows scientists to convert wet germ cultures into dry spores, according to sources briefed on the case. ...more

August 5, 2008

After two Wesley Chapel teens were gunned down on a dirt road two years ago in Trilby, one of the first and most publicized names to surface as a person of interest to the sheriff's office was Jeremy Hanson Henry. ...more

July 26, 2008

Joan Rubin of Palm Harbor disagrees with earlier letter to the editor on John McCain and the Second Amendment. ...more

July 26, 2008

After two Wesley Chapel teens were gunned down on a dirt road two years ago in Trilby, one of the first and most publicized names to surface as a person of interest by the sheriff's office was Jeremy Hanson Henry. But two weeks later, Henry, 20, turned up dead and since then the investigation into the deaths of Derek James Pieper and Raymond Alphonse Veluz mostly had been mum. Until now. On Friday Pasco Detective Lisa Schoneman said she has tirelessly worked this case since the slayings, and it's been almost that long since detectives have ruled out Henry as the killer. On Aug. 10, 2006, Henry called Detective Stephen Foshay and told him he didn't have anything to do with the killings of Pieper, 17, and Velez, 18, on July 28, 2006. He then pointed to Tyree Jenkins and Luc Pierre-Charles as the triggermen, Schoneman said. ...more

July 25, 2008

At a time of drought, skyrocketing food prices, crippling inflation and intensifying street fighting, many of the aid workers whom millions of Somalis depend on for survival are fleeing their posts or, in some cases, the country. ...more

July 20, 2008

An 89-year-old former Nazi officer was charged Friday with murder in the killing of 14 civilians in Italy during World War II, German officials said. ...more

July 19, 2008

The man accused of a courthouse shooting rampage that left four people dead pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity Thursday as his trial began amid high security, more than three years after prosecutors say he confessed in the killings. ...more

July 11, 2008

The Supreme Court's landmark ruling on gun ownership last week focused on citizens' ability to defend themselves from intruders in their homes. But research shows that surprisingly often, gun owners use the weapons on themselves. ...more

July 1, 2008

In a gruesome public spectacle Friday, Taliban-linked militants executed two Afghan men accused of spying for the United States, slitting their throats and parading their severed heads before a cheering crowd. ...more

June 28, 2008

The final, chilling posting read, "It's time." In the hours before a 25-year-old man went on a killing rampage in central Tokyo on Sunday, he posted a series of messages on an online bulletin board from his cell phone, the authorities said Monday. ...more

June 10, 2008