National News

Dec 3, 2009

Arcade Joseph Comeaux, Jr.WASHINGTON The U.S. Marshals have added to their 15 Most Wanted list of fugitives a man serving three life sentences who escaped custody during his transport from Huntsville, Texas, to Stiles, Texas. During the escape, Arcade Joseph…

Nov 26, 2009

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of seven astronauts ended an 11-day journey of nearly 4.5 million miles with a 9:44 a.m. EST landing Friday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission, designated STS-129,…

Nov 1, 2009

WASHINGTON - John A. Campbell, a resident of Portage, Mich., was sentenced to 60 months in prison for conspiring to defraud the United States, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. In April 2008, Campbell, who is a…

Oct 28, 2009

WASHINGTON A Beverly Hills, Calif.-based financial products and services firm, two of its executives and one former executive were indicted for their participation in bid-rigging and fraud conspiracies related to contracts for the investment of municipal bond proceeds and other…

Oct 25, 2009

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Arzerra (ofatumumab) for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), a slowly progressing cancer of the blood and bone marrow. Arzerra is approved for patients with CLL whose cancer is no longer being…