Robert Trout was radio broadcasting's first true anchorman. The concept was purely a practical innovation: the networks' foreign correspondents and highly paid analysts were the stars, yet someone had to introduce their reports, kill time...

Robert (Bob) Trout (October 15, 1909 - November 14, 2000) was an American broadcast news reporter, best known for his radio work before and during World War II. He became known to some as the "Iron Man of Radio" for his incredible ability to ad lib...

The $90,000 the FBI says it found in Rep. William Jefferson's freezer wasn't the death knell of his political career.The Louisiana Democrat still cruised to his ninth House term last year, propelled by hugs and kisses on the campaign trail from supporters who distinguished him...

The House ethics committee voted Thursday to expand its investigation of indicted Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., to include any subject in a 16-count corruption indictment handed up earlier in the week.The committee made no mention of possibly expelling Jefferson, even though the House on Tuesday...

A Louisiana congressman accused of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes told a judge Thursday that FBI agents who interviewed him back in 2005 were so overbearing that they even followed him into the bathroom of his own home.Testifying under oath for the...

Louisiana congressman William Jefferson received more than $500,000 in bribes and sought millions more in nearly a dozen separate schemes to enrich himself by using his office to broker business deals in Africa, according to a federal indictment Monday.The charges came almost two years after...