LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has fined Los Angeles-based Kop Coat, Inc. $126,000 for violating hazardous waste requirements of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. During a 2007 inspection of the facility, EPA investigators found that Kop…

FORT WORTH, TXDavid Crabtree, 41, of Stephenville, Texas, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Terry R. Means to five years and one day in prison, for committing the armed robbery of the Members Trust Federal Credit Union of the…

Defendant Served Prison Time for Prior Armed Bank Robbery and Using a Firearm During a Crime of Violence EUGENE, ORLarry James Rich, 43, of Marcola, Oregon, was sentenced to 26 years in federal prison by U.S. District Court Judge Michael…

U.S. Marshals Task Force Tracks Down Alleged Mansfield Sex Offender in Detroit Mansfield, OH The U.S. Marshals Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force has tracked down another fugitive wanted for sex offenses. Fugitive Bobby Smith was wanted by the Mansfield…

DALLASTwo men, Thomas James Frederick Smith, 21, and David Anthony Edwards, 20, have been charged in a federal indictment with conspiring to intentionally cause damage to a protected computer and commit computer fraud, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of…

PHOENIX - Charles A. Soderman, 31, of Marathon, Fla., was found guilty yesterday of Travel with the Intent to Engage in Illicit Sexual Contact with a Minor by a federal jury in Phoenix. The case was tried before U.S. District…

by Tech. Sgt. Lee Osberry Jr. 5th Bomb Wing Public Affairs MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. (AFNS) -- Air Force officials reactivated the 69th Bomb Squadron Sept. 3 at Minot Air Force Base. The new unit is the fourth operational…

Pleads Guilty in Manhattan Federal Court to Defrauding Health Insurance Companies of More Than $900,000 Arthur Kissel, a/k/a "Arthur Froom," a former cosmetic surgery clinic owner, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to a scheme to defraud health insurance companies…

A City of Detroit lead inspector appeared before a United States Magistrate today on a complaint charging him with abusing his official position to commit wire fraud, after having been arrested last evening. Named in the complaint was Donald Patterson,…

Under court supervision for the rest of his life Cincinnati, OH - Lawrence F. Sipple, 38, of Cincinnati was sentenced to 27 months imprisonment for failing to register as a sex offender, as required by the federal Sex Offender Registration…

First bat cupola to be constructed within city limits PHOENIX Its a win-win for the public and Arizonas wildlife. In a cooperative effort led by the Arizona Game and Fish Department and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the…

A retailer of rayon towels will be barred from making false claims that mislead consumers into thinking that its products are "biodegradable," under a proposed settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. The settlement with Dyna-E International and its owner George…