Diane Sweet

Multimillion dollar government contracts don't just happen. Ask the companies with the big government contracts to supply Body-scanning machines to U.S. airports how much more they had to spend on lobbying on the Hill. Not only have they increased their lobbying efforts over the last 5 years, they're doing it with some very familiar names.

Prosecutor says man's Escondido home was a 'bomb factory.'

Former Justice Department lawyer and 'torture memo' author John Yoo compared George W. Bush's decision to waterboard suspected terrorists to a driver's decision to go the full speed limit.

Update: Victim suffered a concussion and sprains

Chilling with his colleagues at a nearby bar a few years back, the future CEO for the Tribune Company allegedly confused his waitress with a stripper, The New York Times reports.