(CNN) -- Authorities in Kentucky were on the lookout Monday for three escaped convicts from an Indiana prison now thought to have stolen several guns during a home-invasion robbery. Investigators say unconfirmed sightings placed Christopher Marshall, Jerry Sargent and Bobby Cockerell, ...Read More
MILAN/ROME (Reuters) - An Italian judge sentenced 23 Americans to up to eight years in prison on Wednesday for the abduction of a Muslim cleric, in a symbolic condemnation of the CIA "rendition" flights used by the former U.S. government. The ...Read More
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — More than 300 people were arrested Thursday and 200 more charged in a crackdown on a multi-state prescription pill pipeline, a bust that Kentucky officials said was the largest in the state's history. Police officers fanned out ...Read More
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Environmentalists in West Virginia released a report Tuesday blasting mountaintop removal mining and police in eastern Kentucky were preparing to handle large crowds as supporters and opponents of the practice mobilized for federal hearings this week. Both sides ...Read More
The Census Bureau employee found dead earlier this month had the word "fed" written on his chest, according to the coroner that examined him. "He did have the word 'fed' on his chest," said Jim Trosper, the Clark County, Ky. coroner ...Read More
(CNN) -- Asphyxiation was the preliminary cause of death for a census worker in Kentucky whose body was found on September 12, authorities said Tuesday. Kentucky State Police identified the man as William E. Sparkman Jr., 51, of London, Kentucky. His body ...Read More
The Census Bureau employee who was found dead and tied to a tree in Kentucky this month died of asphyxiation, according to a preliminary medical report. State and federal law enforcement officials on Thursday dismissed the suggestion from a news service ...Read More
The Census Bureau employee who was found dead and tied to a tree in Eastern Kentucky earlier this month died of asphyxiation, according to preliminary findings of a medical report. State and federal law enforcement officials on Thursday dismissed the suggestion ...Read More
NEW YORK (AP) - A former Wall Street broker has been convicted of conspiracy and securities fraud after investors lost nearly $1 billion in a subprime mortgage fraud. A federal jury in Brooklyn convicted former Credit Suisse broker Eric Butler on ...Read More
California spent the past two decades making criminals pay ever-higher prices for their misdeeds, with stricter enforcement and stiffer sentences. Now, the high price of housing its inmate population has the cash-strapped state looking to dump thousands of future convicts ...Read More
This year, Nouriel Roubini, the economist known to the general public as Dr. Doom, Prophet of the Financial Apocalypse, spent the early hours of Mardi Gras on the floor of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. It was only 11 a.m., but ...Read More
Arnold Schwarzenegger unleashed Armageddon last week. No, not the sequel to the movie where the giant asteroid threatens Earth, but rather his proposed budget, which seemed to menace California. There were two budgets, actually. One, which assumed voters would pass state ...Read More
* U.N. urges Iraq to reconsider resuming death penalty * U.N. concerned about fairness of trials * Iraq deputy justice minister rejects criticisms (adds deputy justice minister reaction) BAGHDAD, May 6 (Reuters) - The United Nations urged Iraq on Wednesday to reconsider its resumption ...Read More
From our colleagues at Gadgetwise: On Friday, Oprah Winfrey fumbled her way to her first tweet live on TV, assisted by humble, lovable Twitter CEO Evan Williams. For Internet hipsters, it was the end of an era. For Twitter, it was ...Read More
PALATKA, Fla. — Authorities searched Thursday for two "armed and dangerous" fugitives after a Florida jail escape who are wanted on a murder charge and apparently stole a car found abandoned hundreds of miles away in Kentucky, law enforcement officials ...Read More
OMAHA, Neb. — Authorities say three inmates who escaped last week from an Indiana prison have been caught in the Nebraska Panhandle. Nebraska State Patrol spokesman Mike Meyer said Thursday night that the men were taken into custody in Alliance. Law-enforcement agencies ...Read More
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — State and federal authorities are continuing a multistate search for three escaped inmates accused of attacking three men while on the run in Kentucky and stealing a dozen guns, cash and a truck. Kentucky State Police Trooper Kevin ...Read More
(CNN) -- The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have joined the manhunt for three escaped Indiana convicts at the request of state and local officials. Christopher Marshall, Jerry Sargent and Bobby Cockerell broke out of the Branchville Correctional Facility ...Read More
