Wackenhut Services Inc., one of the nation’s busiest private security providers, is fighting City Hall in Los Angeles and on Capitol Hill to hang onto contracts worth billions of dollars.

George R. Wackenhut, the founder of a global security company that has guarded U.S. embassies, nuclear power plants and the trans-Alaska oil pipeline as well as neighborhood malls and countless ...

DETROIT (CN) - Wackenhut security guards gang raped and strangled to death a motel clerk in 1979 while the guards were protecting Chemtron Corp. property during a labor strike, the woman's family ...

In the past month, seven Wackenhut employees — including two high-level execs — have been arrested on criminal charges that they conspired to steal tens of thousands of dollars by faking guard ...

“We had done an assessment about a year ago … and the situation at Peach Bottom caused us to go back and do an even more intense evaluation of Wackenhut and their management practices ...

A new round of arrest warrants were issued Friday afternoon against current and former Wackenhut executives as part of the ongoing investigation into the company's alleged efforts to deliberately ...

For being in such a staid business, Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.-based Wackenhut , which provides things like security guards, alarms and prison management, has in recent years taken investors on a ...

Add Nevada and Tennessee to the states where Wackenhut Corp. is encountering problems. Concerns about Wackenhut prisons, security facilities and guards have previously resulted in lawsuits ...

When eight current and former employees, supervisors and executives for Wackenhut Security, now called G4S, were arrested recently and charged with racketeering, one man felt justice. "I felt ...

The family lives inside a gated community, agreeing to pay more than $3,500 a year in additional taxes for the added security provided by Wackenhut, now known as G4S. "If somebody wants to do harm ...

The choice to hire Wackenhut Corporation--which also runs three detention facilities in Arizona--is sending a shudder through immigrant-rights circles, where advocates say the company's past of ...

Wackenhut Corp. filed a racketeering lawsuit against the Service Employees International Union over its attempts to organize the security company's 32,000 workers nationwide. The lawsuit ...