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

•"Goodfellas" (1990) Tampa is featured in one of the best gangster movies. The mobsters played by Ray Liotta and Robert De Niro are sent from New York to get money from a man in Tampa. The short segment begins with the pair beating the man in a car, then taking him to the "Tampa City Zoo" and holding him over the lion cages. "They must really feed each other to the lions down there, because the guy gave the money right up," says Liotta. ...more

August 6, 2008

Fox Mulder wants to believe in the paranormal. And fans certainly want to believe there is still life in "The X-Files," a hit series that ran on Fox from 1993-2002. ...more

July 24, 2008

David Duchovny looks uncomfortable. Having to face 200-plus reporters, bloggers and columnists in a darkened hotel ballroom is not the best way to discuss his sexually charged Showtime comedy series, "Californication." ...more

July 22, 2008