A jury of six military officers Thursday sentenced Osama bin Laden's former driver to 5½ years in prison after his conviction on charges of providing material support to al Qaeda.
A German man has identified the mysterious "Clark Rockefeller" as a long-lost brother who left home as a teen and severed contact with his family 20 years ago.
Beyond the towering trees that have stood here for thousands of years, an intense drug war is being waged.
Former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey will not have to pay his ex-wife alimony, a judge ruled Friday in granting the couple's divorce.
New state felony charges were filed Friday against Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, even as a judge, ruling in a previous case, said the mayor could leave jail under restrictions that include GPS tracking.
An illegal immigrant from Honduras who claimed his treaty rights were violated when he was arrested for a robbery-murder near Dallas was executed Thursday evening.
Federal officials have opened a civil rights investigation into a police narcotics raid on the home of a Maryland mayor in which police burst in without knocking and shot the mayor's two dogs to death.
A Michigan man has pleaded guilty to child sex abuse after police said he showed up for sex with someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl. He was dressed in a "World's Greatest Dad" T-shirt.
A Chicago police officer has been suspended for 15 months for demanding free coffee and baked goods from six different Starbucks.
The FBI has opened an investigation into how police in Prince Georges County, Maryland, handled a drug raid last month at the home of a small town mayor.
A jury of six military officers Thursday sentenced Osama bin Laden's former driver to 5½ years in prison after his conviction on charges of providing material support to al Qaeda.
A German man has identified the mysterious "Clark Rockefeller" as a long-lost brother who left home as a teen and severed contact with his family 20 years ago.
Beyond the towering trees that have stood here for thousands of years, an intense drug war is being waged.
Former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey will not have to pay his ex-wife alimony, a judge ruled Friday in granting the couple's divorce.
New state felony charges were filed Friday against Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, even as a judge, ruling in a previous case, said the mayor could leave jail under restrictions that include GPS tracking.
An illegal immigrant from Honduras who claimed his treaty rights were violated when he was arrested for a robbery-murder near Dallas was executed Thursday evening.
Federal officials have opened a civil rights investigation into a police narcotics raid on the home of a Maryland mayor in which police burst in without knocking and shot the mayor's two dogs to death.
A Michigan man has pleaded guilty to child sex abuse after police said he showed up for sex with someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl. He was dressed in a "World's Greatest Dad" T-shirt.
A Chicago police officer has been suspended for 15 months for demanding free coffee and baked goods from six different Starbucks.
The FBI has opened an investigation into how police in Prince Georges County, Maryland, handled a drug raid last month at the home of a small town mayor.
What's captivated us are the photos: the toddler's fawnlike eyes and chubby cheeks resting in her hands.
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was jailed Thursday after a judge found he had violated terms of his bond by taking an unauthorized trip to Canada last month.
A bar worker at a popular Times Squares karaoke club was arrested Thursday after confessing to beating a woman to death with a pipe on the club's roof during an argument, police said.
A Maryland mayor is asking the federal government to investigate why SWAT team members burst into his home without knocking and shot his two dogs to death in an investigation into a drug smuggling scheme.
Federal agents hope two computers seized from a Frederick, Maryland, public library yield more clues regarding anthrax suspect Bruce Ivins, according to new case documents.
A top Los Angeles, California, hospital executive and the operator of a homeless facility were arrested Wednesday, accused of using homeless people to commit insurance fraud.
A Connecticut man says he is convinced that the mysterious man accused of kidnapping his daughter in Boston and wanted for questioning in the 1985 disappearance of a California couple was a German student who lived with his family decades ago.
From the time he was 9, Dennis Stewart was haunted by a boy who was eight years older.
An anthrax victim's widow said new evidence about the suspect in the 2001 attacks released to the public supports her $50 million lawsuit blaming the federal government for her husband's death.
Two University of California, Santa Cruz faculty members and their families were targeted in what local authorities are calling attacks by animal liberationists.
A New York man who pleaded guilty to murder in Oregon in exchange for buckets of fried chicken will get calzones and pizza to go with his life sentence.
Lawyers prosecuting a man accused of a gruesome beating spree that left eight people dead face a potentially exhausting task: persuading perhaps three juries in two states to convict the suspect.
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will spend the night in jail after a judge ruled he violated the terms of his bond in his perjury case by making a business trip to Canada and not informing the court.
A man described by investigators as a person of interest was detained and at least two others were being questioned as authorities searched for the killer of a sheriff's deputy, but no charges had been filed by early Thursday.
The United States violated international law by putting a Mexican national to death in Texas, the Mexican government said Wednesday.
An animal rights group has posted a controversial ad on its website. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is comparing the July 30 stabbing and beheading of a man aboard a Greyhound bus near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba in Canada to the way people kill animals for food.
Authorities in South Florida say they've charged a man with killing a federal agent outside a busy post office.
Three people have been charged in connection with pipe-bombings at a federal courthouse and a FedEx distribution center in San Diego this year, authorities said Wednesday.
An East Texas man took part in "pure evil" by helping to run swinger parties that forced children as young as 5 to have sex, prosecutors told jurors as the Mineola Swinger's Club trial began.
Former colleagues of Bruce Ivins, the man blamed for the 2001 anthrax attacks, accused federal agents Wednesday of hounding the government researcher and his family to the point where Ivins took his own life.
A federal prosecutor formally declared Army biological researcher Bruce Ivins the sole person responsible for creating and mailing the bacterial spores that killed five people in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
Fifty-six government employees -- including a police officer, a felony court clerk, two corrections officers and 27 school bus drivers and attendants -- were arrested in a scam that used health insurance information to fraudulently obtain prescriptions for the painkiller OxyContin, authorities said Wednesday.
Actor Wesley Snipes must reimburse the government in prosecution costs for his tax conviction.
A U.S. military jury Wednesday convicted Osama bin Laden's former driver of providing material support to al Qaeda, but cleared him of terrorism conspiracy charges.
A South Carolina sheriff's deputy was shot to death while responding to an early morning home alarm Wednesday, and though authorities were searching for a suspect with dogs and a helicopter, they said they had few leads.
Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Hamdan, was found guilty of providing material support to a terror organization Wednesday. In a split verdict, a U.S. military jury found Hamdan was not guilty of conspiracy to aid a terror group.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department confirms it is sending two homicide detectives to Boston to interview a mysterious father accused of kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter during a visit in Boston.
Friends of an elderly millionaire who was killed by a local pastor sensed something was wrong long before his death.
Eleven people were indicted Tuesday for allegedly stealing more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers, federal authorities said.
Mexican national Jose Ernesto Medellin, whose death penalty conviction in the rape and murder of two teen girls sparked international controversy, was put to death in Texas on Tuesday night, prison officials said.
Texas child welfare officials on Tuesday asked a court to order foster care for eight children at a polygamous compound, saying their mothers have refused to limit the children's contact with men suspected of being involved in underage marriages.
Federal investigators will declare the 2001 anthrax case solved on Wednesday, when they make public their case against government researcher Bruce Ivins, a government source familiar with the case told CNN on Tuesday.
Two lawyers for an MIT-educated Pakistani scientist accused of shooting at U.S. officers while in Afghan custody disputed federal charges against their client on Tuesday.
John "Junior" Gotti, son of the late Gambino family mob boss John Gotti, was arrested in New York on Tuesday and faces a number of federal charges including racketeering, conspiracy to commit murder and drug trafficking, authorities said.
A Chinese immigrant accused of stabbing, beheading and cannibalizing a man on a Greyhound bus in Canada pleaded in court Tuesday for someone to "please kill me," and was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
An attorney for the father accused of snatching his 7-year-old daughter from a Boston street said Tuesday the man did not kidnap his own child, nor does he have any link to a California slaying.
When federal agents raided the offices of the Kaweah Indian Nation, Malcolm Webber told the arresting officer he had not committed fraud and was confused about how he could be arrested on "sovereign soil," court documents show.
John A. "Junior" Gotti has been arrested on a murder conspiracy charge, a law enforcement official said.
A death row inmate scheduled for execution says he's too fat to be put to death, claiming executioners would have trouble finding his veins and that his weight could diminish the effectiveness of one of the lethal injection drugs.
A man accused of conning parents into allowing him to be alone with their children to conduct a "marketing survey" of underwear was indicted Monday on 19 criminal counts involving 11 minors.
The U.S. Olympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee are expected to ask a federal judge Monday to shut down Web sites they allege scam customers trying to buy Olympic tickets, according to court documents.
A Pakistani scientist accused of shooting at U.S. officers while in Afghan custody last month has been extradited to the United States, federal prosecutors said Monday.
Mary Winkler, the woman convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the 2006 shooting death of her minister husband, has taken custody of her three daughters, one of her lawyers said Monday.
A Nevada man who reportedly poisoned himself with ricin in his Las Vegas motel room pleaded guilty Monday to possession of a biological toxin, prosecutors said.
An intended recipient of one of the anthrax-laced letters sent in 2001's anthrax scare said Monday he was "very skeptical" of the government's investigation.
His decades-long obsession with a college sorority may link a former Army biowarfare scientist to four anthrax-laced letters dropped off at a New Jersey mailbox in 2001, authorities said Monday in the latest twist of one of the most bizarre unsolved crimes in FBI history.
Friends say a scientist who killed himself amid an anthrax investigation fit many stereotypes, but biological terrorist was not one of them.
When he learned police were looking for him, Scott Johnson tried to assure his mother that he would take care of the situation.
A police officer at the scene of a grisly beheading on a Canadian bus reported seeing the attacker hacking off pieces of the victim's body and eating them, according to a police tape leaked on the Internet Saturday.
DNA evidence from the deadly 2001 anthrax mailings led authorities to a suspect who officials say killed himself, according to a source familiar with the investigation.
An anthrax researcher who committed suicide Tuesday had threatened his therapist and recently outlined a plan to kill his co-workers, according to audiotape of court testimony.
A man accused of kidnapping his daughter was taken into custody by the FBI on Saturday, and his daughter is with authorities, an FBI agent said.
In the small-town dinner-theater mystery, Bruce Hummel had no trouble admitting he was the killer: "I got my revenge," he told the audience. "Tell that to the sheriff."
Bruce E. Ivins was a juggler, a gardener, a church musician, a Red Cross volunteer -- and a suspected multiple murderer, according to federal authorities.
A dragnet ended Friday with the arrest of a man accused of emerging from woods in camouflage and opening fire with an assault rifle on a group of young swimmers who had gathered at a river. Three were killed and another wounded.
A former Florida teacher, who for a year avoided serving a 43-year sentence for sexually molesting a 13-year-old boy, was handcuffed and ordered back into state custody Friday.
A worker recently fired for absenteeism showed up outside a book warehouse in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Friday, fatally shooting a veteran employee and a temp before being arrested, authorities and the company said.
Prosecutors likely would have sought the death penalty against a researcher who killed himself after learning he was going to be charged in the 2001 anthrax killings, two sources told CNN on Friday.
The mother of an abducted 7-year-old girl is using YouTube to beg her former husband to return the child.
A Louisiana appeals court has removed a Lasalle Parish judge from the remaining "Jena Six" cases, court officials told CNN Friday.
The sponsor of a proposal to rein in aggressive celebrity photographers is meeting resistance from Los Angeles' top cop, who says the law is not needed when celebrities just behave.
A top U.S. biodefense researcher apparently committed suicide just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him in the anthrax mailings that traumatized the nation in the weeks following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to a published report.
A man was arrested Thursday after he allegedly claimed in hoax Internet videos that he had poisoned millions of bottles of baby food, some with cyanide or rat poison, because he wanted to kill black and Hispanic children.
A suburban Kansas City man was found guilty Thursday of murder in the videotaped sexual torture and slaying of a 41-year-old woman. He could be sentenced to death.
A former nurse surrendered Thursday on a murder charge in the death of her first husband, a district attorney who authorities believed was accidentally killed 16 years ago when he was trampled by cattle.
By the time help arrived, Luis Ramirez lay convulsing in the middle of the street, foam running from his mouth.
A Florida man was arrested on suspicion of trying to hire someone to kill an Internal Revenue Service agent who was investigating him, prosecutors said Thursday.
An evangelical preacher killed his wife several years ago and stuffed her body in a freezer after she caught him abusing their daughter, according to police and court documents.
The Alabama Supreme Court postponed executing a man after an inmate claimed in an sworn statement to defense attorneys that he committed the murder that sent the condemned man to death row.
A North Carolina man charged with killing a pregnant Fort Bragg soldier was the father of her unborn child, authorities said Wednesday.
Jurors in the capital-murder case of a man accused of killing two women viewed a DVD recording Wednesday of the women being beaten and sexually tortured.
Lou Pearlman, the former boy band promoter and entrepreneur turned federal inmate, has taken another career turn: police informant.
A North Carolina man has been charged with murdering a pregnant Fort Bragg soldier, police said Tuesday.
Two-year-old Caylee Anthony has not been seen since early June, but her mother, Casey Anthony, did not report her missing until nearly a month later.
Former Newark Mayor Sharpe James was sentenced to more than two years in federal prison on Tuesday for his role in the cut-rate sales of city land to his former mistress.
Eric Dixon was watching his daughter act in a church production of the musical "Annie" on Sunday in Knoxville, Tennessee, when paternal pride turned to horror.
A federal judge Tuesday sentenced disgraced former NBA referee Tim Donaghy to more than a year in prison for wagering on professional basketball games -- conduct that Donaghy claims stemmed from his gambling addiction.
As district attorney of Dallas for an unprecedented 36 years, Henry Wade was the embodiment of Texas justice.
Three people wounded in a fatal shotgun rampage at a Unitarian church were in serious condition Tuesday, a day after a candlelight vigil tried to comfort congregation members and others trying to "make sense of the senseless."
A man once convicted of heading up a ruthless Haitian death squad that is blamed for raping and killing political rivals has been convicted of carrying out a mortgage fraud scheme in the United States.
President Bush has approved the Army's request to execute a soldier convicted of rape and murder, the White House announced Monday evening.
Five members of a polygamous sect who were indicted alongside leader Warren Jeffs last week turned themselves in Monday to face sexual assault charges, Texas authorities said.
The businessman arrived at the Treasury Department carrying a suitcase stuffed with about $5.2 million in petrified, nearly unrecognizable bills. He asked to swap it for a cashier's check.
A man who kidnapped two Idaho children and murdered one of them in 2005 is allowed to represent himself at his death penalty hearing, a federal judge decided Monday.
Mary Babb was in her SUV last year when her estranged husband slammed into her with his pickup truck. The crash overturned Babb's vehicle and left her suspended upside-down by her seat belt.
A Louisiana grand jury will decide whether a fired police officer should face criminal charges in the January death of a man who was Tasered nine times while handcuffed, the parish's district attorney announced Monday.
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