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NYC fraud trial to begin for 5 ex-Madoff employees
The longtime secretary of imprisoned financier Bernard Madoff and four other back-office subordinates of the Ponzi king go to trial Tuesday as the government for the first time shows a jury what it has collected in its five-year probe of one of history's biggest frauds. The trial in federal court ...
Man pleads guilty in hole-in-one prize case
A businessman accused of failing to pay golfers for their hole-in-one prizes has pleaded guilty in Washington state to three felonies. Kevin Kolenda, 55, of Norwalk, Conn., pleaded guilty Friday two counts of selling insurance without a license and one count of first-degree theft. He will be sentenced in the ...
Shopping spree, old $100 bills leads to SC arrest
There aren't many secrets in a place like Gaffney, so when two heating and air conditioning workers suddenly quit their jobs and began buying stuff like a big screen TV, a used car and a riding lawn mower with $100 bills so old they didn't even have the off-center portrait ...
NBA suspends Nets coach Kidd 2 games for DWI
Brooklyn Nets coach Jason Kidd was suspended Friday for two games after pleading guilty in a drunken driving case. The NBA announced Kidd will miss the first two games of the season. The Nets open at Cleveland on Oct. 30 and host the defending champion Miami Heat on Nov. 1. ...
Grand jury indicts ex-UNC tutor in agents probe
A former UNC tutor who worked with Tar Heels football players has been charged with violating the state's sports agent laws. An unsealed indictment states that a grand jury indicted Jennifer Wiley Thompson with four counts of providing benefits to former UNC football player Greg Little to help Georgia-based agent ...
Judge suspends some BP settlement payments
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the administrator of a multibillion-dollar settlement over BP's 2010 Gulf oil spill to immediately suspend making settlement offers and payments to some businesses that claim the company's 2010 oil spill cost them money. U.S. District Carl Barbier issued his order a day after an ...
Neighbors: Fla. bomb threat suspect seems normal
Neighbors of a man accused of making a fake bomb threat at Florida's Jacksonville International Airport said he lived a quiet life with his wife and children and they were shocked to see him under arrest. Zeljko Causevic remained jailed Thursday on $1 million bail on charges that he falsely ...
Witness describes bomb scare at Fla. airport
As passengers took off their shoes and waited to go through security at the Jacksonville International Airport, a man in a coat, boots and sunglasses tried to bypass the checkpoint, then told an agent he had a bomb in his backpack, authorities and a witness said. In the end, it ...
Man pleads guilty to slapping child aboard flight
A man pleaded guilty to a charge of simple assault Wednesday for slapping a crying toddler on an Atlanta-bound flight. Joe Rickey Hundley entered the guilty plea before Magistrate Judge Alan Baverman after reaching a plea agreement with federal prosecutors. His trial had been set to start Thursday morning. Hundley ...
Defendant threatens Boulis murder witness in court
Defendant Anthony "Little Tony" Ferrari mouthed threats in court Wednesday as a key witness began testifying in the murder trial stemming from the 2001 slaying of a prominent South Florida businessman, leading the judge to admonish Ferrari. Dwayne Nicholson, who formerly handled security for Ferrari, told the judge that Ferrari ...
BP executive: Well could have been sealed sooner
BP could have ended its massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico sooner if it had built a capping stack before the 2010 blowout of its well off the coast of Louisiana, a company executive said under cross-examination Wednesday at a trial over the deadly disaster. James Dupree, who ...
Authorities: Man at Fla. airport said he had bomb
Authorities said a man arrested at Jacksonville International Airport told security screeners he had a bomb in his backpack but they only found a luggage scale with a microchip inside, along with a remote control device he called a "detonator." Zeljko Causevic, 39, was booked into jail early Wednesday and ...
BP executive defends spill response tactics
A BP executive who led the company's efforts to halt its massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico testified Tuesday that his decisions were guided by the principle that they shouldn't do anything that could make the crisis even worse. James Dupree, BP's first witness for the second ...
Florida executes convicted killer of exotic dancer
A former escort service owner convicted of killing two women in the 1980s has been executed in Florida for the death of one of those women, an exotic dancer. Forty-nine-year-old Marshall Lee Gore was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. Tuesday following an injection at Florida State Prison, authorities said. He ...
Ex-NFL player convicted of drug trafficking charge
Federal prosecutors say a former NFL player has pleaded guilty to heroin trafficking and illegally carrying a firearm. Officials say 37-year-old Robert Cedrick Baker III, of Gainesville, Fla., pleaded guilty in federal court in Valdosta, Ga., Tuesday. The wide receiver played for Auburn University and was listed on nfl.com as ...
NC Republicans vow to fight US DOJ over voter laws
North Carolina's Republican governor is vowing to fight a lawsuit by the U.S. Justice Department challenging the state's tough new elections law on the grounds it disproportionately excludes minority voters. Gov. Pat McCrory said Monday he has hired a private lawyer to help defend the new law from what he ...
BP accused of lying to govt during Gulf oil spill
BP lied to the U.S. government and withheld information about the amount of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico after its well blew out in 2010, attorneys told a judge Monday. But lawyers for the London-based oil giant denied those accusations and said there was no way to prepare ...
Prosecutors seek dismissal of case against guard
Prosecutors are seeking dismissal of charges against a former Blackwater Worldwide security contractor accused in a 2007 shooting of Iraqi civilians. In a court filing Monday, the U.S. Attorney's office in Washington, D.C., asked a federal judge to dismiss the indictment against Donald Wayne Ball "with prejudice" — meaning that ...
Ohio trial opens for man accused in Navy vets scam
A onetime fugitive charged in a $100 million multistate fraud under the guise of helping Navy veterans went on trial Monday after losing a bid to subpoena U.S. House Speaker John Boehner and other leading Ohio politicians. A judge in Cleveland rejected the renewed defense request to subpoena the politicians ...
6 arrests in vandalism of ex-NFL player's NY home
Six people were arrested on charges they were among hundreds of young partygoers who trashed a former NFL player's vacation home, and police said more arrests were expected. The arrests on Thursday came after former New England Patriots and Los Angeles Raiders offensive lineman Brian Holloway said he signed papers ...
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