WASHINGTON Four former National Century Financial Enterprises (NCFE) executives have been sentenced for their roles in a scheme to deceive investors about the financial health of NCFE. NCFE, formerly based in Dublin, Ohio, was one of the largest healthcare finance…

Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal jury convicted Israel Ernesto Palacios, also known as Homie, age 31, of Silver Spring, Maryland, of conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise, conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering, murder in aid of…

Consumers Have Until September 15 to Apply for Refunds Airborne Health, Inc., the Bonita Springs, Florida maker of the popular Airborne Effervescent Health Formula, an effervescent tablet marketed as a cold prevention and treatment remedy, has agreed to pay up…

Thoratec HeartMate II Ventricular Assist Device The small size of the HeartMate II and its streamlined support system allows patients to retain a high level of mobility. By Daniel Stolte, Sarver Heart Center Although his pulse is so weak it…

San Diego U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized nearly 1,000 pounds of marijuana in two commercial vehicles/trailers at the Otay Mesa Cargo Facility in Calif., Friday, August 1, in a three-hour time frame. CBP officers became suspicious when a…

Laredo, Texas Border Patrol agents from the Laredo Sector made two significant drug seizures in the past 24 hours. The first case occurred on Tuesday night when agents from the Laredo North station working at the Interstate Highway 35 checkpoint…

The Arctic may get some temporary relief from global warming if the annual North American wildfire season intensifies, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Colorado and NOAA. Smoke transported to the Arctic from northern forest…

Blaine, Wash. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Pacific Highway port of entry arrested a 31-year-old Surrey, British Columbia, man for attempting to smuggle over one million dollars into the United States concealed in the cab of his…

Estimates of Diagnosed Diabetes Now Available for all U.S. Counties Diabetes now affects nearly 24 million people in the United States, an increase of more than 3 million in approximately two years, according to new 2007 prevalence data estimates released…

Soluble Beta-Amyloid Protein Fragments May Damage Brain Cells, Study Finds Scientists have long questioned whether the abundant amounts of amyloid plaques found in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's actually caused the neurological disease or were a by-product of its…

Investor Losses Total More Than $1 Billion An indictment was unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn, NY, charging RALPH CIOFFI, the founder and senior portfolio manager of two Bear Stearns hedge funds, and MATTHEW TANNIN, a portfolio manager of the…

Boston, MA... A Medford man has been charged in federal court with shining a powerful green laser beam into a State Police helicopter escorting an LNG tanker through Boston Harbor, forcing it to abandon its escort mission, and with making…