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Brent Beckley, co-founder of Absolute Poker, a Costa Rica-based online gambling website, pleaded guilty to charges pertaining to conspiracy to commit money laundering and bank fraud and conspiracy to violate U.S. Internet gambling...

Byline: Nico Roesler Arthur Anaya appeared for his arraignment in a red-orange jumpsuit that looked two sizes too big. The man whose mug shot had been circulated for nearly a week in connection...

By IsraelNationalNews.com Twice during this past week, Palestinian Authority official television broadcast warm greetings from the mother of Hakem Awad, who butchered five members of one family, to her son. The mother, as...

2 hours ago NETHERLANDS - Two former directors at PREIM - the erstwhile property manager of the EUR14bn Dutch pension fund for Philips - have been found guilty of fraud....

By IsraelNationalNews.com & Ha'aretz Marwan Barghouti, a Fatah kingpin serving five consecutive life sentences for terror murders, was sent into isolation Wednesday as punishment for granting interviews to Israeli and foreign journalists when...

In his trial, Mubarak has faced a call for the death sentence from the prosecution. But his main lawyer, Farid al-Deeb, on Jan. 19 sought to undermine the prosecution's case by telling the...

Hard-up diamond peddlers fake a robbery complete with gun-toting Hassidic Jews. A pastor plans the execution of a disabled parishioner. A mortician stages an imaginary death of an imaginary man, using cow parts...

A habeas petitioner who was effectively "abandoned" by his lawyers demonstrated sufficient cause to excuse his failure to meet a state deadline for appealing the denial of postconviction relief, the U.S. Supreme Court...

A small business in Stony Brook was the lynchpin in bringing down a major drug ring in the United Kingdom. Irrefutable evidence courtesy of Applied DNA Sciences' SigNature DNA technology helped implicate 11...

A new study has found that jurors often struggle with how to distinguish reckless or knowing conduct on the part of defendants. The study, Sorting Guilty Minds, appeared in a recent issue of...

Three brothers from Seaford were arrested today as part of a seven-member identity theft ring that stole more than 180 people's store credit accounts to obtain more than $1 million in merchandise, gift...

Lack of detail is perhaps the only similarity among two proposals the city is considering for the former Six Flags site in eastern New Orleans. One proposal for an upscale outlet mall lacks...

The financier of a development group that wants to build another amusement park on the former Six Flags site in eastern New Orleans has an insurance fraud conviction on his record. Joseph Mori...

A former federal transportation official has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for accepting bribes to postpone truck companies' safety inspections. James Wood was the supervisor of the Buffalo office of the...

Defendants: James Wayne Meeks and Kathy Deann Schmidt Dates of Birth: 04/18/84 (James) and 04/11/79 (Kathy) Charge: Theft of Livestock (value under $100,000) Property Involved: 1 7 cows and 3 calves Date of...

A Haskell, OkIa., man was sentenced to 18 years with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODC) after he pled guilty to stealing 18 head of cattle from a rancher in Muskogee County, Okla....

The federal government and the owners of the former Massey Energy Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia, where 29 miners died April 2010, have reached a record $210 million settlement. The...

From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Dec. 31, 1911: Mayor Arthur Seligman is unperturbed over the fact that he found a Black Hand warning at his front door this week, but the police...

Concord: Breck Taylor, former part-owner and president of Red River Co. of Claremont, has been sentenced to three years in prison and agreed to pay $443,000 in fines for defrauding the federal government...