"Machismo got a bad name starting with the feminist movement, where it was used to label male behavior that women found offensive," the novelist Robert B. Parker once told Amanda Smith in a Publisher's Weekly interview. "But if you called it a commitment...

A Long Island couple videotaped and photographed sexual encounters they had with people they met over the Internet, then forced them to pay hush money, police said Wednesday.A preliminary investigation has uncovered two victims, but Nassau County police Detective Lt. Ray Cote said there could...

Men who have nothing to hide don't talk in code. They don't urge jail visitors to conceal their mouths, for fear of surveillance cameras and lip readers. And they don't pay $240,000 in hush money to an admitted hit man.A federal prosecutor made those arguments...

The Marine Corps agreed Thursday to revamp its recruiting practices in Northern California and pay $200,000 to two young women who claimed they were raped during a slumber party at a Ukiah recruiting office.The women were in high school, 17 years old, and interested in...

Kentucky's race for governor between Democrat Steve Beshear and Gov. Ernie Fletcher looked like it would focus on the ethics of the Republican incumbent, who spent much of his first term battling a hiring scandal.In the closing weeks of the campaign, however, Fletcher has seized...