Tue Jan 31, 2012 3:20 AM EST
Drug cartels have developed a number of money laundering schemes in recent years to turn dirty proceeds into clean cash.
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Mon Jan 30, 2012 4:11 AM EST
If Eugene Temkin had heeded a warning by FBI agents two years ago to not kill a former business partner, he wouldn't have found himself in front of a judge on Monday, being sentenced to six years in prison for hatching a murder-for-hire plot.
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Fri Jan 6, 2012 5:25 PM EST
Wherever Dorothee and Harry Burkhart went, trouble followed the mother-and-son duo.
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Wed Dec 21, 2011 7:19 PM EST
A California woman was indicted on federal charges alleging she sent money to Pakistan to help fund terrorist attacks against U.S. military personnel, authorities said.
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Tue Dec 13, 2011 3:18 PM EST
A Connecticut man affiliated with a hacking group was arrested Tuesday on federal charges for an attack on a website belonging to Kiss bassist Gene Simmons, authorities said.
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Wed Dec 7, 2011 1:00 PM EST
Harry Morgan never planned to be an actor, yet he spent 10 years on one of the top TV series of all time, made 50 films and appeared on Broadway. He became one of the best-known character actors in Hollywood.
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Tue Dec 6, 2011 3:47 PM EST
The attorneys general in California and Nevada said Tuesday they are partnering in investigations into the mortgage meltdown that crippled the two states with the highest rates of foreclosures in the nation.
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Sat Nov 26, 2011 3:10 PM EST
Traditional police work wouldn't have nabbed Dr. Lisa Barden for visiting 43 pharmacies to illegally obtain tens of thousands of pain pills to fuel her own addiction.
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Fri Nov 18, 2011 7:07 PM EST
A Florida man has been indicted on two additional felony counts for allegedly hacking into an email account belonging to an unnamed actress, according to court documents obtained Friday.
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Thu Nov 17, 2011 5:11 PM EST
California's attorney general has subpoenaed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac looking into their lending practices in the state, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Thursday.
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Wed Nov 16, 2011 2:25 PM EST
An attorney for a woman who claims Justin Bieber is the father of her baby boy said Wednesday her lawsuit has been withdrawn as both camps await the singer to take a paternity test.
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Thu Nov 3, 2011 5:56 PM EDT
A woman who claims Justin Bieber fathered her baby in a backstage bathroom could be investigated for having sex with a minor because the singer was 16 at the time.
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Fri Oct 28, 2011 8:18 PM EDT
Police have linked the man charged with 10 murders in the "Grim Sleeper" serial killings to a number of other deaths, a law enforcement official said Friday.
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Fri Oct 28, 2011 6:30 PM EDT
A Florida man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to hacking into the email accounts of celebrities such as Christina Aguilera, Mila Kunis and Scarlett Johansson, whose nude photos eventually landed on the Internet.
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Fri Oct 21, 2011 4:34 AM EDT
A letter from federal prosecutors accomplished what nearly $600,000 in legal fees couldn't do in this Orange County suburb: it shut down medical marijuana shops.
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Thu Oct 6, 2011 10:30 PM EDT
Twelve members of the Vagos motorcycle club were arrested and more than 300 weapons seized in raids across seven Southern California counties, in the latest attempt to dismantle what authorities say is a criminal enterprise.
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Wed Oct 5, 2011 7:12 PM EDT
A Southern California doctor was sentenced to seven years in prison Wednesday for illegally selling tens of thousands of painkiller and sedative prescriptions to patients he never examined.
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Wed Sep 21, 2011 12:25 AM EDT
A new study released Tuesday showed that when hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries were closed last year in Los Angeles crime rates rose in surrounding neighborhoods, challenging claims made by law enforcement agencies that the storefronts are magnets for crime.
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Fri Sep 16, 2011 1:35 PM EDT
Katharine McCall found herself in a tough spot over the Thanksgiving weekend four years ago as she tended to a woman in labor. The student midwife said she was unable to reach a licensed supervisor, so she did what anyone would do in that situation — she delivered the baby.
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Wed Sep 14, 2011 4:21 PM EDT
In the summer of 2009, buried in court documents filed by federal prosecutors was the revelation that Ruben "Doc" Cavazos, the former national president of the notorious Mongols motorcycle gang who they say helped orchestrate murders, extortion and robberies, had pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy, which carried a maximum life sentence.
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Wed Sep 7, 2011 3:12 AM EDT
A mentally ill homeless man who died following a confrontation with Fullerton police officers suffered broken bones in his face, choked on his own blood and was repeatedly shocked with two stun guns, a lawyer for the man's family said Wednesday.
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Thu Sep 1, 2011 4:24 AM EDT
A Southern California man was sentenced Thursday to six years in prison for infiltrating computers belonging to women and teenage girls where he found sexually explicit photos and threatening to put them online unless they provided him with more.
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Fri Aug 19, 2011 3:12 PM EDT
The legal problems facing an embattled Orange County police agency mounted Friday after an attorney filed a lawsuit claiming officers wrongly arrested his client and falsely accused him of attacking an officer in October.
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Fri Jul 15, 2011 4:48 PM EDT
A police investigation into the slaying of Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen has been officially closed without finding any evidence that the gunman who later killed himself at a Hollywood apartment building had any accomplices, authorities said Friday.
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Fri Jul 15, 2011 4:45 PM EDT
Embattled Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt on Friday asked a judge to reduce the amount of spousal support he's paying to his ex-wife in their divorce battle over ownership of the team.
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