Fri Apr 27, 2012 5:55 PM EDT
An adult film producer was convicted Friday of violating federal obscenity laws by selling movies depicting bestiality and extreme fetishes.
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Wed Apr 25, 2012 2:55 PM EDT
Duane Eleby, a suspected drug courier, was all set to sneak 10 pounds of cocaine through a security checkpoint at Los Angeles International Airport last February with the help of a former Transportation Security Administration employee and a screener.
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Mon Apr 23, 2012 2:37 PM EDT
MetLife Inc. will pay nearly $500 million in a settlement involving more than 30 states that claimed it didn't provide life insurance benefits to some of its policyholders, the company said Monday.
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Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:49 PM EDT
A gunman was shot Wednesday during his arrest by a University of Southern California police officer after a group of students was robbed near the campus, authorities said.
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Wed Mar 28, 2012 6:50 PM EDT
A financial adviser for Indianapolis Colts defensive end Dwight Freeney and the adviser's lover have been arrested on federal wire fraud charges that allege they swindled about $2.2 million from the lineman.
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Thu Mar 22, 2012 7:52 PM EDT
An unemployed Florida man pleaded guilty Monday to hacking into the email accounts of celebrities, including Christina Aguilera, Mila Kunis and Scarlett Johansson, whose nude photos eventually landed on the Internet.
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Thu Mar 15, 2012 4:41 AM EDT
Mitrice Richardson was arrested for walking out on an $86 restaurant tab and vanished after being released from a remote sheriff's station in the middle of the night with no car, no phone and no money. What happened after that remains a mystery.
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Fri Feb 24, 2012 2:49 PM EST
When AT&T started slowing down the data service for his iPhone, Matt Spaccarelli, an unemployed truck driver and student, took the country's largest telecommunications company to small claims court. And won.
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Fri Feb 3, 2012 5:05 PM EST
Lance Armstrong is relieved the federal investigation into doping allegations against him has ended, and says he always stayed confident he would not be charged.
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Tue Jan 31, 2012 3:20 AM EST
Two sisters who ran a Los Angeles toy company were sentenced Tuesday to more than three years in federal prison for their role in helping launder money for Colombian drug traffickers.
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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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