Crime

Three children and a teacher were killed at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, before an armed community member shot and killed the 16-year-old suspected gunman inside the building. Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz confirmed the deaths Thursday after officers responded to the school around 1 p.m. local time. A 7-year-old child and a […]

The Treasury Department has imposed roughly $1.21 billion in penalties on Bank of America for longstanding failures to stop money laundering and for repeated U.S. sanctions violations. Fox Business reported the enforcement action against the nation’s second-largest bank after regulators documented years of weak monitoring, late filings, and ignored warnings. The package combines a $1.2 […]

Damon Foy, a 50-year-old upstate New York man, has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for killing and dismembering his ex-girlfriend Alberta Dale shortly after she broke up with him. Court records and police findings show Dale’s severed head was recovered from a suitcase inside Foy’s apartment, along with a flower. Other remains turned up in […]

The Trump administration has set December 3 for the U.S. Army firing squad execution of Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Malik Hasan, and a leading death-penalty expert says a quick, clean process could make the method a model for other condemned inmates across the country. Hasan, imprisoned at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, […]

Federal authorities arrested a 46-year-old Tucson man after he allegedly emailed a local television station claiming an imminent bomb strike on the White House and other sites in Washington, D.C. Jacob Aaron Hicks now faces a federal charge of making an interstate threat to injure. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona announced […]

A Coeur d’Alene human resources manager was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud for stealing more than $1 million from her former employer, a Spokane Valley steel company forced into bankruptcy. Daily Mail reported that Tahnya Hyung Shafer, 48, diverted company money through inflated paychecks, fictional employees, and […]

A federal jury in Austin convicted Indian national Bhavesh Kumar Thakkar on Monday on two counts tied to wire fraud and money laundering in a call-center operation that stripped more than $150 million in cash and gold from elderly Americans. Breitbart News reported that Thakkar is the fourth defendant convicted in the case, which prosecutors […]

An Iranian anti-regime protester was hanged at dawn on Oct. 5 inside Isfahan Central Prison, just hours after marrying his imprisoned fiancée over a jail phone line. Fox News Digital reported that 25-year-old Alireza Sepahi exchanged vows with 22-year-old Mahshad Keshani on Sunday from inside the prison. By Monday morning he was dead. The couple’s […]

A security guard at the federal courthouse in Nashville shot and killed an armed man Thursday morning after the man tried to push past a checkpoint carrying a pistol and a knife. The confrontation happened at the Fred D. Thompson Federal Building and Courthouse. The man, described as being in his 40s and from out […]

A former senior CIA official has pleaded guilty to wire fraud after building a scheme that cost the federal government about $194 million and left investigators hauling hundreds of gold bars out of his Virginia home. David J. Rush used real authority inside the agency, then layered on fake credentials and invented programs, to steer […]