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A man who was recently sentenced to federal prison for drug crimes is now accused of trying to forge documents to take back a ...

The FBI says a man's Snapchats with young girls got him busted for two crimes: exploiting children, and scamming companies on the internet.

The FCC has postponed rules that would have lowered the cost of prison and jail phone calls for at least two more years, ...

A U.S. District Court judge has sentenced three Raleigh County residents to federal prison for taking part in a local drug ...

Louisiana has been repeatedly accused of holding inmates past their release date. State officials say the problem has been ...

The U.S. government has announced sanctions against Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and other officials for human rights ...

A man in the U.S. illegally is the focus of a tug of war between Pima County Attorney Laura Conover and Federal authorities.

A San Diego attorney whom prosecutors say ran a pair of "pump-and-dump" stock fraud schemes was sentenced Friday to just over ...

Jeffrey Epstein's case continues years after his death, with new images of Maxwell in prison and a government memo upholds ...

A Ransomville man will serve three years in federal prison and spend another 25 years on supervised release for his conviction on child pornography charges. U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence Vilardo ...