
China investigates top planning official for graft
Chinese authorities have launched an investigation into a powerful economic planning official accused by a prominent journalist of corruption, the ...

Pakistan's lead prosecutor in Bhutto case killed
Gunmen on Friday killed the lead Pakistani prosecutor in two high-profile cases — the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and the ...

Singer Currington charged with threats to Ga. man
Police suspect country singer Billy Currington may have videotaped himself chasing a 70-year-old tour boat captain along a coastal Georgia creek and ...

Former official charged in Texas DA slayings
A former Texas justice of the peace seeking revenge for a theft conviction that ended his judicial career carried out a plot with his wife to kill the ...

Records: Ex-official's wife says husband shot DA
In a surprising twist, the wife of a jailed former justice of the peace was charged Wednesday with capital murder after authorities say she confessed ...

Source: Case being built against ex-Texas official
Texas authorities investigating the killing of a district attorney and his wife are working to build a case against a former justice of the peace ...

Man jailed as slain DA investigation continues
Authorities investigating the deaths of a North Texas district attorney and his wife appear to have narrowed their focus on a former justice of the ...

AP source: FBI eyes possible extortion at Rutgers
The FBI is investigating whether a former Rutgers basketball employee tried to extort the university before he made videos that showed ex-coach Mike ...

Troubled prison time for Colo suspect
Behind bars, he was known as "Ebel Evil." Within a day of arriving at his first permanent prison, Evan Spencer Ebel, the suspect in last week's ...

Man pleads not guilty to extorting A&M professor
James Arnt Aune was regarded as a fine scholar, mentor and friend by students and his fellow professors at Texas A&M University, where he headed the ...
Nevada Assembly considers first ever expulsion
A lawmaker who has been arrested twice in two months, hospitalized for a mental evaluation and accused of threatening to harm a Democratic Party ...
AG: Pa. sheriff said he would chop worker's hands
A county sheriff threatened to cut off the hands of a political campaign worker, pulled a gun on a newspaper reporter and then intimidated underlings ...

Ohio AG: threats against rape victim must stop
A girl who was raped by two high school football players is being victimized by threats against her on Twitter, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said ...

Egypt vigilantes hang 2 thieves by feet in public
Egyptian vigilantes beat two men accused of stealing a motorized rickshaw on Sunday and then hung them by their feet while some in a watching crowd ...

Man sought in 2 deaths captured in Ore. motel
Police stormed a motel room in a seaside town Tuesday evening and captured a Washington state man suspected of killing his grandparents, ending a ...
Azerbaijani editor sentenced to 9 years in jail
The editor of an independent Azerbaijani newspaper has been sentenced to nine years in prison for bribery in a trial dismissed by his supporters and ...

FBI releases its records on Whitney Houston
The FBI has released its files on a trio of investigations the agency conducted on behalf of Whitney Houston. The records released Monday show the ...
Algerian in Jihad Jane plot faces US extradition
An Algerian man wanted by American authorities over the abortive "Jihad Jane" plot to assassinate a Swedish artist was arrested while leaving an Irish ...
Ex jailed for Tamara Ecclestone blackmail plot
A former boyfriend of British socialite Tamara Ecclestone has been sentenced to four years in prison for plotting to blackmail her for 200,000 pounds ...

Attorney likens ex-Peterson lawyer to dictator
A former lead attorney for Drew Peterson managed the one-time police officer's murder trial like a "dictatorship," a current Peterson lawyer said ...

Ex, current Peterson lawyers face off in court
The attorney who led the defense team in Drew Peterson's 2012 murder trial sat in the witness box Tuesday and faced questions from his former ...

Police say NY TV anchor threatened wife with death
A New York City TV anchorman issued a death threat against his wife as he was being arrested on charges of attacking her at their Connecticut home, ...

Fear of assassinations haunt Egypt opposition
Watching the events in Tunisia, where a leading anti-Islamist politician was shot to death this past week, members of Egypt's liberal opposition are ...
UK authorities charge man in US school threat
A British man was charged Saturday after he allegedly posted a threat on Facebook to kill 200 people in the U.S. state of Tennessee, causing many ...
10 more China officials sacked in sex tape scandal
A scandal involving Chinese city officials having sex with women hired by developers who secretly videotaped the trysts to extort construction deals ...