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The U.S. attorney for Nevada says a Las Vegas street gang member has pleaded guilty to two counts in connection with a 2004 shooting at a North Las Vegas apartment complex.

An overhauled federal program allowing local and state law enforcement officials to arrest and deport immigrants will focus on the most serious criminals and limit officers' police powers, the Homeland Security Department said Friday.

Family members use maps to search for the graves of relatives at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Ill., Friday, July 10, 2009.

Lancelot Investment Management and its owner have been accused by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of aiding a multibillion dollar Ponzi scheme.

What Congress members divulge in Capitol Hill ethics probes about their own behavior can't be used against them in federal criminal investigations, an appeals court ruled in a case arising from the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal.

A Pennsylvania prosecutor says charges are warranted in the criminal neglect of foreign exchange students in the past school year.

A judge is expected to hear arguments on whether to release property that was seized while police investigated the killings of more than a dozen cats in two south Miami-Dade County neighborhoods.

DISGRACED: Bernard Madoff, a former Nasdaq stock market chairman, has been sentenced to 150 years in prison for his fraudulent dealings.

A man suspected of stealing aluminum auto wheels from a rural business wasn't guilty of a criminal break-in because the property wasn't fenced on all sides, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

Sen. John Ensign said Thursday his parents gave his mistress and her family nearly $100,000 "out of concern for the well being of longtime family friends during a difficult time," providing his first public acknowledgment that the woman received payments tied to the affair.

The recipients of billions of dollars in IOUs being issued by California soon may have a regulated market where they could sell them.

A New Berlin student accused of blackmailing boys for sex in a scam that started on Facebook is due back in court today.

An advertising executive who handcuffed his ex-wife and held her hostage inside their home was on a ``suicide mission,'' printing out piles of papers on how to kill himself before setting the house on fire when the woman escaped and refusing to leave, police said.

Twenty-five people, including lawyers, bankers, mortgage brokers and appraisers, and a mortgage company have been charged with committing mortgage frauds involving at least $US102 million, New York City prosecutors said on Wednesday.

MIAMI a ' In an odd intersection of showbiz and securities fraud, proving a claim that Paris Hilton was a lousy pitchwoman would benefit investors jilted by a Ponzi scheme she had no part in.

Massachusetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, sued the U.S. government Wednesday over a federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Consumers know less about the water they pay dearly for in bottles than what they can drink almost for free from the tap because the two are regulated differently, congressional investigators and nonprofit researchers say in new reports.Both the Government Accountability Office and the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit research and advocacy ...

State government is starting to crack along the seams as Ohio moves into the second week of temporary budgeting with costs reaching about $14 million a week, Gov.

The nation's lawyers and law enforcement leaders gave Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor ringing endorsements Tuesday, even as Republicans tried to rally opposition.

The government is letting the painkillers Darvocet, Darvon and their generic cousins stay on the market but ordered stronger warnings against deadly overdoses on Tuesday.