General Contracting

An intelligence contractor's disclosure of covert National Security Agency surveillance programs reopened a debate Monday over how much the government relies on private companies for spy work and whether those firms must do more to vet employees and...

PHILADELPHIA A city building inspector whose assignments included the demolition site where six people died last week has been found dead from a gunshot wound, an apparent suicide, police say. Police officers found the body of Ronald Wagenhoffer, 52,...

(Adds new Snowden online posts) By Kristina Cooke and John Shiffman SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON, June 12 (Reuters) - Long before he became known worldwide as the National Security Agency contractor who exposed top-secret U.S. government surveillance...

SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Long before he became known worldwide as the National Security Agency contractor who exposed top-secret U.S. government surveillance programs, Edward Snowden worked for a Japanese anime company run by friends and...

A British newspaper has identified a 29-year-old former Marylander as the source of the top secret documents that revealed details of two National Security Agency surveillance programs and revived debate of the agency's reach into the private lives of...

Edward Joseph Snowden, the government contractor who revealed the National Security Agency's massive telephone- and Internet-surveillance program, has left few public clues about his life growing up in Crofton and Ellicott City. Snowden, 29, attended...

The Village of Northbrook warns residents that the entrance to Midway Road at Sunset Ridge Road will be closed from Tuesday, June 18, at 7 a.m. until Wednesday, June 19, at 7 p.m., due to nearby construction of a senior housing facility. According to...

Hockey fans are familiar with the playoff beard, where players and supporters refuse to shave, hopeful their whiskers will propel their team to Stanley Cup glory. Now one Park Ridge resident has put a new twist on the superstition by refusing to mow his...

WASHINGTON — He was a high school dropout, sometime junior college student and failed Army recruit. But Edward Joseph Snowden found his calling in America's spy services, using his computer skills to rise from a lowly security position to life...

By Deborah Charles WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. government may have to reconsider how much it relies on outside defense contractors who are given top security clearances, after an NSA contractor exposed top-secret phone and internet...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The man who gave classified documents to reporters, making public two sweeping U.S. surveillance programs and touching off a national debate on privacy versus security, has revealed his own identity. He risked decades in jail for...

With hurricane season little more than a week old, Florida's property insurance industry is weathering storms on multiple fronts in the form of new legislative scrutiny, a class-action lawsuit settlement and questions about its financial stewardship....