KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A 47-year-old Kansas City man pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $388,000 in a scheme involving scrap metal.

NEW YORK (AP) — Four siblings each received sentences of less than a year in prison Wednesday, down from the nearly four years a judge said they would have faced if they had not cooperated against...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Federal prosecutors for Nebraska say two former business owners have been sentenced to prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A 54-year-old woman who operated massages parlors in Lawrence and Topeka has been sentenced to three years of federal probation.

HONOLULU (AP) — The former police chief of Honolulu and his wife, a former deputy prosecutor, abused their positions in an attempt to silence a relative who could have exposed the financial fraud...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A former Arkansas lawmaker who is Gov. Asa Hutchinson's nephew pleaded guilty Tuesday to accepting bribes and filing a false tax return, part of an agreement with federal...

POWHATAN, Va. (AP) — A Virginia man could face prison time for involvement in a scheme to tamper with the odometers on about 50 vehicles, in one case rolling back more than 100,000 miles from a...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — An MS-13 gang member who once was on the FBI's top 10 list of most wanted fugitives has admitted killing a man on behalf of the gang and agreeing that a conspirator would...

"Big Sky," by Kate Atkinson (Little Brown)

Former soldier and policeman Jackson Brodie, who last appeared nine years ago in "Started Early, Took My Dog," makes his long-anticipated return in...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Six members of the Gangster Disciples street gang have pleaded guilty in Tennessee to conspiring to participate in racketeering activity.

WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut judge overseeing lawsuits by families of Sandy Hook shooting victims against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones says she has been threatened by people posting on...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana couple has pleaded guilty in a $48 million scheme that targeted a medical reimbursement program, federal prosecutors said Friday.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Two Mexican nationals have been sentenced for their roles in a conspiracy that distributed more than 14 kilograms (30.86 pounds) of heroin in the Kansas City metropolitan...

CHICAGO (AP) — Two suburban Chicago men accused of giving cellphones to an undercover FBI agent to be used as detonators for bombs have been convicted of conspiracy to provide material support to...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Mexican man arrested last year in what prosecutors called the biggest international money laundering investigation ever in San Diego has pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The father of a victim of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre has won a defamation lawsuit against the authors of a book that claimed the shooting never happened — the...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Four members of a Texas family pleaded guilty Monday to federal charges in what prosecutors called a scheme that used stolen identities to obtain tickets to the Masters golf...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former Maxim and Playboy Italia model and her boyfriend pleaded not guilty to murder and conspiracy in the killing of a 71-year-old California psychiatrist in Las...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man who owned moving companies has admitted cheating customers by low-balling estimates and then jacking up prices once the goods were on his trucks.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The business partner of Marion "Suge" Knight has pleaded no contest to selling sealed video evidence from his murder trial.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A former health care executive admitted Wednesday to taking part in a conspiracy to bribe a former Arkansas lawmaker who is also the governor's nephew, in a widening...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A 27-year-old Fairbanks man who fired a bullet into the chest of a man he attempted to rob has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey woman has pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme to illegally smuggle aircraft parts to Iran.

Joyce Eliabachus faces up to five years in prison after...

CHANDLER, Ariz. (AP) — An opioid manufacturing company whose founder was convicted of racketeering conspiracy for bribing doctors to prescribe its highly addictive fentanyl spray has filed for...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey woman has admitted her role in an international ring that smuggled more than $2 million worth of aircraft parts from the United States to Iran.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Fifteen people are accused of federal crimes for allegedly bringing cocaine, heroin and fentanyl from Houston and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and distributing it in the St. Louis...

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Two men are charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the shooting death of the owner of a barbeque food truck in downtown Fargo.

WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — A Hawaii police officer has been arrested for drug-related offenses and conspiracy, officials said.

Daniel Imakyure, 39, was arrested and released Friday, The Maui...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles doctor and a patient recruiter have been found guilty of taking part in a $33 million scheme that billed Medicare for medical services and equipment that patients...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A former senior corrections officer who conspired to smuggle prescription painkillers into a New Jersey prison is now headed behind bars.

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A southern Arizona man already sentenced to prison in a Sierra Vista homicide case now has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to a federal drug...

HONOLULU (AP) — The first question a special federal prosecutor asked a witness Wednesday in an ongoing Hawaii corruption trial: Did you take the mailbox at the home of a now-retired police chief...

MONROE, La. (AP) — A former prison guard captain was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison for plotting to abuse inmates at a privately run federal prison in north Louisiana.

BALTIMORE (AP) — A retired Baltimore police sergeant accused of planting a BB gun at the scene of an arrest and telling another officer to lie about the incident to federal investigators has...

BALTIMORE (AP) — A Maryland rap artist has been indicted on federal charges after prosecutors say he used a company credit card to make $4.1 million in unauthorized purchases.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The owner of a contracting company has pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme that defrauded the government by receiving contracts intended for veterans and...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A man convicted in a 2016 fatal shooting in Tucson has been sentenced to life in prison.

Pima County prosecutors say Joel Rodriguez was found guilty of first-degree...

CLARKSDALE, Miss. (AP) — Two former community college employees have been arrested on indictments they stole more than $750,000.

Mississippi's state auditor says Gwendolyn Jefferson and...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California accountant has agreed to plead guilty to involvement in the nationwide college admissions bribery scheme.

The Los Angeles Times says court documents unsealed...

BOSTON (AP) — An accountant who worked for the consultant at the center of the college admissions bribery scheme has agreed to plead guilty in the sweeping case .

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A Washington state man has been sentenced for trafficking Mexican cartel methamphetamine.

The Spokesman-Review reported Wednesday that 33-year-old Rosalio E. Sanchez of...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Federal prosecutors in Kansas City say a Lee's Summit woman is among three Kenyan nationals indicted in a marriage fraud conspiracy.

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A Mexican man accused of running a death squad for convicted drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was due in a Texas courtroom on Wednesday to face a raft of...

WACO, Texas (AP) — A 38-year-old Central Texas man has been sentenced to life in federal prison for leading a drug trafficking ring.

Prosecutors say Daniel Louis Lopez was sentenced Tuesday...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The suburban St. Louis leader of a drug trafficking conspiracy has been sentenced to 27 years in prison for drug crimes and for his role in two deaths.

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — The Latest on the trial of a Wyoming doctor accused in a prescription drug conspiracy (all times local):

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — A politically connected former certified public accountant in Mississippi was sentenced Thursday to five years in federal prison for conspiracy to defraud the United...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — A jury is deliberating the fate of a Wyoming doctor accused in a multi-state prescription drug conspiracy that allegedly led to the overdose death of an Arizona woman in...