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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lee extortion Laura Goldman, the woman who threatened to kill Boston financier Thomas H. Lee, was sentenced to five years probation under a plea deal for attempted extortion....
PHOENIX (AP) — 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.
A defense lawyer tore into the testimony of a jailhouse informant Wednesday as attorneys made their closing arguments in a trial stemming from an alleged gang attack on an Oxnard teen.Ramon Dominguez, 20, of Oxnard, is accused of shooting the 16-year-old boy twice in the head last year. The boy survived the attack.During closing arguments in Dominguez’s trial for attempted murder, attorney ...
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a workers’ compensation case from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit in which the appeals court found that the plaintiffs could sue ...
You get the feeling that a bunch of real-life Tony Sopranos and Don Corleones could sit courtside at an NBA game, hand out $100 bills to the refs as they run by, and the league executives would still insist that the NBA is clean as a whistle.
A former Department of Transportation engineer was sentenced Tuesday in federal court to three years in prison on extortion charges in connection with bridge work done in Pitt and Beaufort counties, a spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney George E.B. Holding said.
-- From Times staff reporter Mike Carter:
