National News

Apr 17, 2007

Lone Star Fugitive Task Force LogoSan Antonio Adrian Green and Darren Darden's flight ended on a busy Beaumont Street on the afternoon of April 10. Two United States Marshals Service led Fugitive Task Forces partnered together to arrest both Green…

Apr 17, 2007

WASHINGTON Four Massachusetts residents were sentenced in federal court for money laundering and trafficking and conspiring to traffic in more than $1 million of counterfeit luxury handbags and wallets, as well as the materials needed to make these counterfeits, Assistant…

Apr 17, 2007

BOSTON - A Canadian man was sentenced on April 4 in federal court for his telemarketing fraud scheme, which preyed on American citizens. United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan and Bruce M. Foucart, special agent in charge of U.S. Immigration…

Apr 3, 2007

EL PASO, TEXAS -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers performing anti-terror inspections at El Paso area border ports of entry made 13 drug seizures on Saturday, March 24 confiscating 1,209 pounds of marijuana in a dozen busts and…

Mar 21, 2007

Prescriptions written in Crayons filled by Pharmacy MAR 22 - NEW YORK, NY (March 22, 2007) John P. Gilbride, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration and Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced the take…

Mar 20, 2007

Company Must Clearly Disclose Fees and Provide Refunds Kmart Corporation has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it engaged in deceptive practices in advertising and selling its Kmart gift card. As part of the settlement, Kmart will implement…

Mar 6, 2007

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has told 20 companies to cease marketing unapproved drug products containing ergotamine tartrate. Ergotamine tartrate products are used to treat vascular headaches, including migraines. As part of the FDAs continued efforts to combat the…

Feb 20, 2007

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it has cleared for marketing in the U.S. the TephaFLEX Absorbable Suturethe first absorbable polymer suture made from material isolated from bacteria modified by recombinant DNA technology. Recombinant DNA technology uses living…