The first time I gave any thought to the term was when I watched some of the great old film noir movies about gangsters. It seemed like almost every gang was victimized by one. I am referring here to ...

The snitch, that much-maligned, usually marginalized staple figure of crime fiction, receives sympathetic centerstage treatment in compelling Hong Kong-set police meller “The Stool Pigeon.” Latest ...

Smarting with as much psychological as physical bruising, "The Stool Pigeon" is an action film with a grave, melancholic strain. By Maggie Lee, The Associated Press HONG KONG — Smarting with as much ...

Many individuals erroneously interpret the above term from the Joe Valachi testimony about the Mafia in the Kefauver congressional hearings in the 1950s. Other famous “snitches,” traitors, informers, ...

Racing pigeons is big business—and doping is common. Now scientists have devised a way to detect doping in the avian athletes. Christopher Intagliata reports. When he worked in a pharmacy in Portugal, ...