MILWAUKEE (AP) — Federal authorities say five people have been indicted for allegedly cutting down trees on the Menominee Indian Reservation in order to sell timber to saw mills outside ...

A federal judge has scheduled a change-of-plea hearing for a former Louisiana prison guard accused of watching as other guards pepper-sprayed handcuffed, kneeling inmates.

Former ...

BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — One of the people charged in a southeast Iowa slaying has pleaded not guilty.

Des Moines County District Court records say 44-year-old Derrick Parker, of ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi woman charged in a fraud case that prosecutors say reaped more than $200 million from a federal military health insurer and others pleaded ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — A man who prosecutors called Baltimore’s “number one trigger puller” has been sentenced to life in prison for a gang conspiracy involving drug trafficking and killings.

The

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A 54-year-old woman has admitted that she operated a prostitution business out of massage parlors in Lawrence and Topeka.

U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said in a news release Tuesday that Weiling Nielsen pleaded guilty to conspiracy.

She owned and operated ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Federal prosecutors say the suburban St. Louis leader of a drug trafficking conspiracy has pleaded guilty to drug crimes and use of firearms resulting in death.

Dionne Lamont Gatling of St. Charles pleaded guilty Tuesday and is expected to face 27 years in prison at ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — A federal jury has found a former accountant guilty of conspiracy to defraud the United States.

U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst says jurors convicted 73-year-old Carl Nicholson, of Hattiesburg, Friday on all 11 tax-related charges he faced. Hurst says “justice prevailed ...

DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — A federal judge in South Texas has sentenced three men to prison and ordered repayment of more than $4.2 million in an investment scam targeting nonprofit groups.

Prosecutors on Friday

SODUS, N.Y. (AP) — A former Texas police officer has pleaded guilty to conspiracy for renting a car used by a fellow lawman charged with killing two people in upstate New York.

Bron Bohlar of Sunray, Texas, pleaded guilty to the felony on Thursday in New York’s Wayne County Court. His ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi alderman has been charged with voter fraud.

Canton Alderman Andrew Grant had been named but not charged in an earlier indictment, which charged six people.

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A third former prison guard in Louisiana has pleaded guilty to conspiracy, saying he led other guards at a privately run facility in spritzing pepper spray into the eyes of kneeling, handcuffed inmates.

Roderick Douglas, who was a captain at the time, pleaded guilty to conspiring to ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia city councilman indicted along with a powerful union boss has pleaded not guilty Thursday to bribery and conspiracy charges.

Bobby Henon is accused of taking a $70,000 salary from the electricians union to push its agenda at City Hall.

Henon’s ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A third man has pleaded guilty for his role in the killing of a confidential informant in Littleton, New Hampshire.

Prosecutors say 21-year-old Quade Kadle entered his plea Wednesday to conspiracy to commit murder and witness tampering.

Kadle has been sentenced ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on a guilty plea by former Oklahoma State assistant basketball coach Lamont Evans (all times local):

5:30 p.m.

Former Oklahoma State assistant basketball coach Lamont Evans has pleaded guilty, admitting to accepting $22,000 in bribes to convince ...

BRAMWELL, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia firefighter has been charged with intentionally setting fire to a home last month.

The West Virginia fire marshal’s office said Tuesday that 26-year-old Aaron B. Burkett was charged with first-degree arson and conspiracy in connection with a Dec. 7 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — After a prosecution that spanned 11 weeks and had its share of bombshells, the defense case at the U.S. trial of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman clocked in on Tuesday at a mere 30 minutes.

Attorney Jeffrey Lichtman called one witness and entered one document ...

BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — A second man has been charged in a fatal shooting in a car outside the home of the victim’s mother in Burlington.

Authorities say 44-year-old Derrick Parker is charged in Des Moines County with first-degree murder and with conspiracy to commit a forcible felony. ...

CLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio man accused of operating an illegal slaughterhouse has been charged with conspiracy to launder money and other counts, federal prosecutors said.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office says Amin Salem, 59, of Westlake, secretly owned several Cleveland-area gas stations and ...

CLEVELAND (AP) — The Latest on Amin Salem and charges (all times local):

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Federal prosecutors say an Ohio man accused of operating an illegal slaughterhouse has been charged with conspiracy to launder money and other counts.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office says 59-year-old ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City police detective has pleaded guilty to using stolen checks and bank account numbers to pay his mortgage and credit card bills.

Michael Bonanno pleaded guilty Friday in Manhattan federal court to one count of bank fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Federal prosecutors will appeal a judge’s dismissal of felony conspiracy and weapons charges against Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee woman has pleaded guilty to selling heroin to a man who died of an overdose.

The U.S. attorney’s office in Memphis said Thursday that 42-year-old Glenda Aldape has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin resulting in the death of Sean Heywood. ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three men have been charged with conspiracy to help a Los Angeles man make phony emergency “swatting” calls around the nation in hopes of sending police to the scene or forcing building evacuations.

Federal indictments unsealed Wednesday in Los Angeles allege they ...

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — Two Duluth men have been convicted in federal court of trafficking a 15-year-old girl for sex.

A jury in Duluth found 44-year-old Amos Kiprop Koech guilty Tuesday of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a minor and sex trafficking of a minor. Koech’s alleged ...

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A former Delaware bank official who cooperated with authorities in an investigation that led to the convictions of four top executives for Wilmington Trust, the only financial institution to be criminally charged in connection with the federal bank bailout program, was ...

NEW CASTLE, Del. (AP) — Eight Pennsylvania teenagers have been charged with firearm, conspiracy and theft-related counts after being arrested in Delaware when police say they tried to steal a car.

Delaware State Police say Saturday’s arrests come as troopers keep investigating a string of ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Federal officials say a veterinarian faces five years in prison for helping a Kentucky company move cattle out of state without proper inspections.

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The owners of a concrete business have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud.

Federal prosecutors say 59-year-old Sherri Atkins entered her plea Monday and 57-year-old Charles Martin entered his on Thursday. They are scheduled to be sentenced on April ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A former correctional officer has been sentenced to a decade in prison after pleading guilty to bribery and conspiracy, marking the end of a two-year investigation into corruption inside Maryland’s prisons.

Phillipe Jordan Jr. was sentenced Friday. Prosecutor Emmet ...

LE MARS, Iowa (AP) — A Sioux City man accused of robbing a Le Mars bank has pleaded not guilty.

Plymouth County District Court records say Phillip White entered written pleas Friday to charges of robbery and theft and conspiracy to commit robbery and conspiracy to commit theft. His trial ...

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a Nebraska man has been charged in Iowa with conspiracy to commit insurance fraud and other counts.

The Iowa Insurance Division says in a news release that 34-year-old Peere Shackelford, of Omaha, was also charged with second-degree arson and ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man and his girlfriend arrested last month in a terrorism investigation have been indicted on additional charges accusing them of obtaining guns and explosives for a domestic terror attack that was never carried out.

The Toledo pair now faces several conspiracy ...

MIAMI (AP) — A former Colombian anti-corruption official has been sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to U.S. money-laundering conspiracy charges in a bribery scheme.

Court records show a Miami federal judge ordered the sentence Wednesday for Luis Gustavo Moreno Rivera, ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A former North Carolina county official has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud taxpayers by accepting bribes in exchange for government contracts.

The Asheville Citizen-Times

PHOENIX (AP) — The chief executive of Backpage.com is scheduled to be sentenced on July 18 in Arizona on a federal conspiracy conviction.

CEO Carl Ferrer pleaded guilty last spring to the federal conspiracy charge and money laundering charges in California.

His guilty pleas were made ...

NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi sheriff says a U.S. District judge has ruled in favor of his county in a lawsuit alleging a former jailer conspired with inmates in an assault on another man in jail who was found dead the same day.

The Natchez Democrat quotes Adams County Sheriff Travis ...

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — A former black spring break promoter has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for plotting to bring cocaine from Texas to Mississippi.

A federal judge in Gulfport, Mississippi, sentenced Keith Lavell Brown, 46, of Moss Point on Wednesday to 19 years and 7 ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A Texas woman has pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy charges over a military health insurance kickback scheme that generated more than $10 million in fraudulent prescriptions.

Cody Hiland, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, said Wednesday ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A former owner of Thai restaurants who fraudulently obtained visas to bring cooks from Thailand and then compelled them to work long hours with minimal pay has been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison.

The Oregonian/OregonLive