SACRAMENTO, Calif. A grand jury has returned indictments in two separate investigations involving fraud against the State of California with respect to payment of the excise tax on tobacco products. One indictment charges Jawid Wahidi, 32, of Los Angeles, with…

Commercial aircraft were used to ship drugs to East Coast; 23 nabbed in ËœOperation Heavy Cargo San Juan, PR Twenty-three individuals, including eight employees of American Airlines were arrested today in Puerto Rico and Miami as part of DEAs ËœOperation…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reminding the public that stolen vials of the long-acting insulin Levemir made by Novo Nordisk Inc. still may be on the market. Evidence gathered to date suggests that the stolen insulin was not…

The well, located in Keathley Canyon block 102, approximately 250 miles (400 kilometres) south east of Houston, is in 4,132 feet (1,259 metres) of water. The Tiber well was drilled to a total depth of approximately 35,055 feet (10,685 metres)…

WASHINGTONAmerican pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. and its subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn Company Inc. (hereinafter together Pfizer) have agreed to pay $2.3 billion, the largest health care fraud settlement in the history of the Department of Justice, to resolve criminal and…

Beauty in the Night Billows of smoke and steam rise above Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida alongside space shuttle Discovery as it races toward space on the STS-128 mission. The STS-128 mission is the 30th…

Data Related to More Than 130 Million Credit and Debit Cards Allegedly Stolen WASHINGTON Albert Gonzalez, 28, of Miami, Fla., was indicted today for conspiring to hack into computer networks supporting major American retail and financial organizations, and stealing data…

WASHINGTON Exxon-Mobil Corporation, the worlds largest publicly traded oil and gas company, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Denver to violating the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) in five states during the past five years. The company has…

WASHINGTON A federal jury in San Juan, Puerto Rico, found four San Juan Municipal Police Officers guilty today of felony federal civil rights charges related to the fatal beating of Jose Antonio Rivera Robles, announced Loretta King, Acting Assistant Attorney…

Ehsanul Islam Sadequee Faces Up to 60 Years in Federal Prison ATLANTA, GAA federal jury has found Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, 23, of Roswell, Ga., guilty on all four counts of an indictment charging him with supporting terrorists and a foreign…

A federal jury convicted a prominent Beverly Hills real estate agent and a licensed real estate appraiser on federal charges for their roles in a massive mortgage fraud scheme that caused more than $40 million in losses to federally insured…

Consumers Got Fewer Calling Minutes Than Advertised, Were Charged Hidden Fees The Federal Trade Commission extended its crackdown in the billion-dollar prepaid calling card industry, asking a U.S. district court to permanently halt the illegal practices of a major calling…