A man in custody who has implicated himself in the death of 6-year-old Etan Patz has been tied to the case in the past, a law enforcement official said Thursday. The boy's disappearance 33 years ago on his way to school helped launch a missing children's movement that put kids' ...
A federal judge in Eugene declined a pre-trial release for a Cottage Grove caretaker accused of taking a man's Social Security benefits for 16 years after he died. The decision Wednesday means 46-year-old Carel June Cody will be held until her July 24 trial. The U.S. attorney's office says she's ...
A sergeant who supervised jailers at the Hall County jail has pleaded no contest to drunken driving. The Grand Island Independent reports (http://bit.ly/JpNnIm ) that the attorney for Sgt. William "Bill" Young entered the written plea on Tuesday. Young is free on bond. Young was arrested after a crash May ...
A western Pennsylvania man is jailed on charges he beat his ex-girlfriend who uses a wheelchair since her leg was amputated and also suffers from spina bifida. New Castle police say 28-year-old Sean Pritchett attacked the woman Sunday when he went to her house to pick up his belongings. Thirty-two-year-old ...
Demonstrators protesting electricity outages in Myanmar clashed with police Thursday, and several were arrested. The spreading protests are a test of the tolerance of a reformist civilian government after decades of military rule. Parliament member Win Myint said demonstrators in his constituency resisted when they thought police were going to ...
A Johnson City youth boxing program coach has been charged with selling cocaine and ecstasy while at work. The Johnson City Press (http://bit.ly/LtfO77 ) reported the indictment of 35-year-old Brad Austin. He was taken into custody on Wednesday. First Judicial District Drug Task Force director Mike Adams said an undercover ...
FBI agents have arrested a northern New Jersey mayor on charges of hacking into a website tied to a recall group against him. A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office tells The Star-Ledger of Newark (http://bit.ly/LsuNe2 ) West New York Mayor Felix Roque and his son, Joseph, were taken into ...
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald seemed perfectly suited for his job: Relentless in going after corruption and seemingly oblivious to the politics of the public figures, government officials and business leaders his office prosecuted and sent to prison. On Thursday, the man who held the job of U.S. attorney of the ...
New York police said Thursday a person in custody has implicated himself in one of the city's highest profile crimes in history, one that helped launch a missing children's movement across the United States. Commissioner Raymond Kelly said in a statement that further details would be released later Thursday in ...
Band members' statements to investigators that a Florida A & M University drum major willingly got on a bus where he endured a beating with drumsticks, mallets and fists help explain why the nearly dozen defendants charged in his death face felony hazing counts and not more severe charges such ...
Sentencing has been set in July for a former Jefferson County sheriff's deputy who pleaded no contest to a theft charge. Keith Fisher entered the plea on Tuesday in Jefferson County District Court in Fairbury. Fisher also pleaded no contest to a charge of official misconduct. The Nebraska State Patrol ...
A former state trooper has pleaded guilty to assaulting a homeowner after mistakenly breaking into the wrong Utica house after a night of drinking. Local media outlets report that 31-year-old Jesse Miller pleaded guilty Wednesday in Oneida County Court to misdemeanor counts of criminal mischief and assault charges. Authorities say ...
Federal authorities have been asked to help investigate after two fires in the past week at women's clinics in metro Atlanta. The latest fire happened Wednesday at a Marietta obstetrics and gynecology office that advertises itself as an "abortion services" clinic, authorities said. It took more than 20 firefighters to ...
Two Arkansas State Hospital employees have been fired for not monitoring patients after a woman being treated there alleged she was raped by a male patient. The facility said Wednesday that three other employees were disciplined but kept their jobs. The hospital didn't identify the employees but said that the ...
Food stamp recipients are ripping off the government for millions of dollars by illegally selling their benefit cards for cash — sometimes even in the open, on eBay or Craigslist — and then asking the government for replacement cards. The Agriculture Department wants to curb the practice by giving states ...
Federal prosecutors have charged a Hammond man in connection with a gambling investigation. U.S. Attorney Jim Letten said in a news release that 56-year-old Frank G. Donewar is accused in a bill of information of transmission of wagering information and money laundering. If convicted on both charges, Donewar could face ...
A U.S.-born man and top drug cartel lieutenant who was arrested in Mexico is back in the U.S. to face federal racketeering and drug charges. Armando Villareal Heredia is the lead defendant in a vast prosecution against the Fernando Sanchez-Arellano Organization, U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy announced Wednesday. He was extradited ...