Law & Order
Bernard Madoff, who is currently serving a 150-year jail sentence in North Carolina for running a fraudulent investment operation, known as Ponzi scheme, which cost investors billions of dollars, was beaten up by another inmate in December, three ...
Wachovia Bank reached a $160 million settlement with the Justice Department over allegations that a failure in bank controls enabled drug traffickers to launder money by transferring money from Mexican currency-exchange houses to the bank.
A man who is said to have been urinating on women at a bus stop in Journal Square, Jersey City, was arrested on Wednesday.
Washington's Spokane County Sheriff's Office is investigating a Craigslist ad on Feb. 28 that offered a four-year-old boy for sale.
Ohio man arrested for tattooing a 1-year-old
An Ohio man could face a minimum of 5 years in jail for allegedly tattoing a one-year-old girl, FOX8 News reported.
A single-engine plane with oil covering its windshield, while trying to make an emergency landing, hit and killed a man on a South Carolina beach Monday afternoon.
Detroit city is planning to ban its employees from wearing scented products as part of a settlement in a federal lawsuit filed by a city planner in 2008 and settled last month.
A 15-year-old student was stabbed 16 times with a steak knife at the George Washington High School campus in Washington Heights, Manhattan on Friday, authorities said.
Fugees video director accused of raping 5 daughters, fathering 6 with them to save bloodline
Award-winning video director Aswad Ayinde, aka Charles McGill, said to believe that only he and his offspring would survive the end of the world is charged with raping 5 of his daughters and fathering six children them.
A man, who complained about someone sitting near him talking on a cellphone during a movie screening at a Lancaster movie theater, was stabbed in the neck with a meat thermometer.
California lawmakers are pushing a bill that would require the registration of individuals convicted of felony animal abuse. The Golden State would be the first to establish such a record.
A new test explosion shows the bomb that a Nigerian passenger hid in his underpants in order to bring down a U.S. Christmas Day Detroit flight, would have still let the plane land safely, even if it had exploded successfully.
A Florida language school helped foreign nationals illegally obtain student visas without ever attending classes. F1 visa requirements stipulate full-time study, according to the laws enacted after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
A New York City man, suspected of ATM skimming, grabbed a flash drive and swallowed the data storage device during an interrogation by Secret Service agents.
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has suggested to award posthumous pardon for a U.S. Army veteran, who served 13 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit, dying in prison in 1999.
Under a new Utah bill, a woman guilty of criminal homicide of her fetus could be punished by up to life in prison. The legislation was approved by lawmakers and is now awaiting the governor’s signature or veto.
An FBI videotape received by CBS News' "60 Minutes" programme shows a U.S. Defense Department employee selling secrets to a Chinese spy for cash.
A 19-year-old teenager who pleaded no contest blackmailing his classmates for sex through Facebook was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison.
An unnamed woman testified at a Bronx court last year that she had been violently assaulted by a top aide to New York Gov. David A. Paterson, and sought a restraining order against the man.
A killer whale attacked and killed a trainer in front of a horrified spectators at a SeaWorld show Wednesday in Orlando, Florida.