Williamsburgs William Lowder Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud and Tax Charges GRAND RAPIDS, MIWilliam Edward Lowder, age 57, of Williamsburg, Michigan, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of filing a false federal income tax return.…

FRESNO, CASharanjit Kaur, 36, of Fresno, has plead guilty to conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud. According to the plea agreement, from approximately July 2010 to June 2011, Kaur and co-defendant Baljit Singh owned and operated several companies based…

A federal grand jury returned a 42-count indictment against 13 people who are accused of participating in a large-scale heroin trafficking ring in the Ashtabula areas and resulted in the overdose death of an Ashtabula resident last year. The indicted…

NEWARKA medical assistant at a pair of large medical services companies with offices in New Jersey and New York admitted today to conspiring with the companies chief executive officer to defraud Medicare over a four-year period by performing illegal, unlicensed…

BROWNSVILLE, Texas A Coast Guard crew found an illegal gill net with hundreds of dead sharks Monday, 4 miles off the Texas coast. The crew of a Coast Guard Station South Padre Island response boat spotted the gill net approximately…

When you think about the CIA, does a famous British super spy come to mind? Are images of shootouts and high speed chases running through your head? Do you imagine CIA officers chasing terrorists through the American heartland, as seen…

COOS BAY, Ore. The Coast Guard rescued three hunters and their dog from the waters of Coos Bay Saturday. The hunters, all male, ages 45, 26 and 13-years old, are from Coos Bay, and were duck hunting when their 18-foot…

Philip Hugh Wentzel, age 41, a former sergeant with the Milwaukee County Sheriffs Department, was indicted by a grand jury sitting in the Eastern District of Wisconsin on May 22, 2012. Today, Wenzel pleaded guilty in federal court in Milwaukee…

LYNCHBURG, VAA Crewe, Virginia woman who pleaded guilty in September to charges related to bankruptcy fraud was sentenced this morning in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Lynchburg. Sally Marie Jones, 56, of Crewe,…

By the Hon. Loretta Preska, Chief Judge, Southern District of New York Note: In late October and early November, courts in New York, New Jersey and other Eastern Seaboard states were shut down by Super Storm Sandy. This account, by…

by Samuel King, Jr. Team Eglin Public Affairs EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AFNS) -- Developmental testing for an F-16 operational flight program will be accomplished at the 40th Flight Test Squadron and 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron here for…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska Coast Guard Sector Juneau command center watchstanders and a good Samaritan assisted a fishing vessel reportedly taking on water in Snow Pass, west of Zarembo Island, Wednesday. The good Samaritan crew, aboard the 65-foot motor vessel Arik, was…