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“Ladies and gentlemen, we got him!†These were the words spoken by L. Paul Bremer, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, to announce to the world that Saddam Hussein had been captured by U.S. forces. It was Dec.…
WASHINGTON—John Charles McCluskey, 48, will receive a life prison sentence for a host of crimes arising from the carjacking and murder of a couple from Tecumseh, Oklahoma, after a federal jury announced that it could not reach a unanimous decision…
FORT WORTH, Texas—The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is proposing a $325,000 civil penalty against Dallas-based Southwest Airlines for allegedly operating an aircraft that had been improperly modified, violating Federal Aviation Regulations. On Aug. 29, 2011, maintenance…
The FBI; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; and Albuquerque Police Department are asking for the public’s help in finding the person or persons who threw an improvised explosive device in front of the New Mexico Probation-Parole Division Office…
A federal grand jury sitting in Hartford returned a superseding indictment today charging Dominique Mack, also known as “Lil Sweets,†23, and Keronn Miller, also known as “Fresh,†23, both of Hartford, with the 2010 murder of Ian Francis of…
Includes Charge of Terrorist Attack Against Railroad Carrier Jason Woodring, age 37, of Jacksonville, Arkansas, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on eight counts related to his attacks on the power grid in Central Arkansas. Woodring is currently…
DALLAS—Comfort Gates, 48, was sentenced this afternoon by U.S District Judge David C. Godbey to 72 months in federal prison and was ordered to pay $830,000 in restitution following her conviction at trial in April 2013 on charges stemming from…
PROVIDENCE, RI—Ralph M. Mariano, 55, of Warwick, Rhode Island, and South Arlington, Virginia, a former senior systems engineer with the United States Navy’s Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) in Newport, Rhode Island, and Washington, D.C., was sentenced in U.S. District…
The FBI Salt Lake City Division and the Baker, Montana Police Department are asking for the public’s help in locating an adult male wanted in connection with the molestation of a 5-year-old girl in Baker, Montana. Law enforcement is seeking…
CHICAGO—Four defendants were indicted on federal charges for their alleged roles in a scheme to fraudulently obtain more than $10 million in loan proceeds from a suburban bank through the sales of 26 gas stations in Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, and…
CHICAGO—A Belgian businessman is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow on federal charges alleging that he violated U.S. laws by attempting to export aluminum tubes that were controlled for nuclear non-proliferation purposes from a company in Schaumburg, through Belgium, to a…