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A teenager who has been accused of assisting with a series of murders related to a bogus craigslist ad appeared in juvenile court on Tuesday where prosecutors announced further charges.

The highly contested provision, part of the National Defense Authorization Spending bill Act, was upheld after the Senate rejected an amendment on Tuesday that would have removed the detainee provision.

After beating a federal corruption rap Nov. 10, a New York State lawmaker was charged again for trading his influence for money.

A Nigerian-American man who pleaded guilty to stowing away on a commercial airline flight from New York to Los Angeles was sentenced on Monday to time served and placed on supervised release.

Was originally sued for $300,000

The mother of a 16-year-old teenager, who has been accused of participating in three killings associated with a job ad on Ohio's Craigslist, says her son is innocent and was manipulated by a pastor.

An off-duty New York City police officer came to the rescue after a passenger attacked a flight attendant on JetBlue Flight 832.

Four people have been arrested in the Philippines for allegedly hacking into AT&T's phone system in order to funnel money to a Saudi-based terrorist organization, according to the country's Criminal Investigation and Detection Group.

Q&A with Kevin Mitnick, the author of Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker, about celebrity hacking, common mistakes and online protection tips for the average Joe

Volunteers searched a closed casino for missing baby Lisa Irwin Saturday following visions from a Dallas psychic, Stephanie Almaguer. Police did not join volunteers in Saturday's search of former Sam's Town Casino. Police insist that they have not given up on baby Lisa Irwin; however, a command post set up for police and FBI agents to investigate the disappearance of missing baby Lisa Irwin has been shut down.

Philippine police and the U.S. FBI have arrested four people that Manila said were paid by a militant Saudi Arabia-based group to hack into U.S. telecom AT&T Inc.'s system, but the company said it was neither targeted nor breached.

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh was appointed trustee in the MF Global Holdings Ltd. bankruptcy case on Friday, days after he was hired to lead an independent probe into a sex-abuse scandal at Pennsylvania State University.

Forty years ago Thursday, a man known as D.B. Cooper pulled off one of the most daring crimes in U.S. history: He hijacked Northwest Orient flight 305, leaped from the plane wearing a business suit and a parachute, and made off with $200,000 in ransom money.

Investigators continue their search for baby Lisa Irwin who went missing from her home nearly two months ago. And with each day passing, the characters in the story keep getting weirder.

Louis Freeh on Monday said he would head an independent investigation into the Penn State Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.

Amidst allegations that former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky sexually abused eight young boys, a Senate committee plans to hear whether stronger laws are needed to protect children from abuse and neglect.

The NYPD arrested a homegrown lone wolf terror suspect on Saturday, who is charged with plotting to use pipe bombs that he was allegedly building in his Manhattan apartment to kill U.S. troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Sunday night.

Investigations into the disappearance of 11-month-old Lisa Irwin are entering their 46th day, and there still has not been any useful information about either the child or her location since she went missing from her home in Kansas City, Mo.

Police in Bellevue, Wash. have released new photographs of missing 2-year-old Sky Metalwala and his mother, Julia Biryukova, which they say offer a more accurate description of what the two looked like at the time of the toddler's disappearance.

By Thanksgiving, the number of young people on Long Island charged with cheating on their college board exams is expected to reach 13, with at least five more arrests on tap, Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said.

A federal investigation into last year's cyber attack on Nasdaq OMX Group found surprisingly lax security practices that made the exchange operator an easy target for hackers, people with knowledge of the probe said. The sources did not want to be identified because the matter is classified.