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Residents of the Egyptian side of the border town of Rafah, a smuggling haven within tunneling distance of the Gaza strip, say engineers have begun a using heavy earth-moving equipment for a set of mysterious excavation works.
Nobel Laureate Dario Fo presented Italian "Gomorra" author Roberto Saviano with an honorary degree and heaps of praise on Thursday for his courage in daring to expose the mafia.
Iraq's border with Syria runs for hundreds of miles through barren land patrolled by a relative scattering of security forces. But despite claims about exiled Saddam Hussein loyalists sneaking across to disrupt Iraq's upcoming elections, the only evidence around one key outpost is faded slogans of Saddam's banned Baath Party painted on the wall of a decaying grain elevator.
Mr. Ackerman was a federal judge in New Jersey for three decades whose hundreds of cases included trials of crooked politicians, corrupt union officials and reputed organized crime chieftains.
UIC study says understaffed site overmedicated kids One of Illinois' largest psychiatric hospitals dosed foster children with dangerous combinations of mood-altering drugs, sometimes using the medicines as "chemical restraints" to control youth who needed counseling, according to a sharply worded new report by the University of Illinois at Chicago's department of psychiatry.
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Italy’s Chamber of Deputies voted to block the arrest of Nicola Cosentino , an undersecretary of finance, on suspicion of colluding with the Camorra organized crime group.
The estate of a businessman held to be responsible for taxes on a once-prosperous Manhattan strip club does not have to pay more than $4 million in back taxes because the club became so thoroughly infested by organized crime that it was unmanageable, a state administrative law judge has determined.
NEW YORK — The builders needed concrete. The strength test results they got were anything but, prosecutors said Wednesday at a racketeering trial surrounding concrete tests for such landmarks as the new Yankee Stadium and ground zero's tallest skyscraper.
Suspended Broward County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion pleaded guilty Thursday morning to one count of money laundering in West Palm Beach federal court.
A federal judge on Wednesday locked up two members of the Highwaymen Motorcycle Club accused in a racketeering case after listening to testimony that they threatened a witness. U.S. District Judge Nancy G. Edmunds revoked the bond of club president Michael Cicchetti and member Erick Manners.
Former Broward County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion pled guilty Thursday to a money laundering conspiracy charge and for filing a false income tax return. The disgraced former Broward County Commissioner had originally pled not guilty to the charges.
UIC study says understaffed site overmedicated kids UIC study alleges an overuse of drugs on juveniles at understaffed Streamwood psychiatric hospital.
Prosecutors are concerned about the safety of witnesses from the Highwaymen Motorcycle Club.
In the court battle between Internet titans eBay and Craigslist, the tables were turned Wednesday as the lead lawyer for Craigslist attempted to effectively put eBay on trial with a withering cross-examination of an eBay in-house lawyer. And eyebrows were raised when a top eBay executive testified he considered it tantamount to "extortion" when Craigslist's two founders demanded that they be ...
New evidence of serious human rights violations carried out during military operations to combat organized crime and drug cartels in Mexico has been unveiled in an Amnesty International report.
PHOENIX — A retired U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent accused of taking part in a cocaine smuggling operation and leaking law enforcement information to smugglers is scheduled to change his plea Thursday in a Florida courtroom.
