A suspicious package brought operations at CBS's Washington office to a standstill just before lunchtime on Tuesday. The building was evacuated for about an hour while police investigated the scene.
Back in October, protesters arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge and other early Occupy Wall Street marches promised to clog up Manhattan's court system rather than take any kind of deal if their charges weren't fully dismissed, but only 40 percent are sticking to that plan.
Police just released the identity of the man who killed a Virginia Tech Police officer and then shot himself on Thursday as 22-year-old Ross Truett Ashley, a student at nearby Radford University.
Rod Blagojevich, who's managed to avoid jail time since infamously trying to sell then-congressman Obama's Senate seat, was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Wednesday.
After decades of protests, marches and public appeals, prosecutors in Philadelphia announced on Wednesday they are dropping their pursuit of the death penalty for Mumia Abu Jamal, who was sentenced to death for killing a Philadelphia police officer in 1981.
The Long Island serial killer is probably one person from Long Island, police now say, revising their theory that as many as three were responsible for the ten bodies found between December 2010 and April 2011.
Michael Jackson's personal physician Conrad Murray, who administered a fatal dose of sleeping medication to the singer in 2009, has been sentenced to four years in prison -- the maximum sentence for involuntary manslaughter.
As Facebook has worked more with the police over the years, its official officer guidelines have changed.
One of the protesters arrested during Occupy Wall Street's massive New York protest last week was held on $25,000 bail for a weapons charge, and on Monday night the occupiers voted to post it for him.
The FBI declined to take up New York City's investigation of a terrorism suspect because the police department's own informant helped him so much.
The New York Police Department is proud of itself for the arrest of a "lone wolf" terrorism suspect over the weekend, but the timing of the bust and the ambivalence of federal investigators have some suggesting the department had an ulterior PR motive.
The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday announced indictments against seven Europeans it said operated a massive online fraud scheme that made them $14 million by infecting millions of computers worldwide with malware that redirected Internet searches to fake sites.
First somebody called Elizabeth Warren a horrible name, now another guy gets arrested for threatening to do unspeakable things to Rep. Eric Cantor's family.
The Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park has had to deal with its share of undesirable behavior, from uncooperative drummers to a drug-related arrest, but Wednesday saw the most serious criminal allegations yet, as a volunteer in the encampment's kitchen has been arrested for sexual assault and rape.
A Brooklyn man who pleaded guilty on Thursday to selling organs on the black market had a huge profit margin as he bought kidneys from Israelis for $10,000 and sold them to Americans for $120,000 or more.
Perhaps the most infamous white-collar crook of the last decade, Bernie Madoff took his reputation as a pariah so hard he and his wife Ruth tried to commit suicide, Ruth Madoff told 60 Minutes, but now that he's in prison the convicted ponzi-schemer says he finds himself smiling sometimes, and he's "horrified."
Remember the New York Police Department deputy inspector caught on video pepper spraying calm-looking protesters a week into Occupy Wall Street? Of course you do.
A former lobbyist who pleaded guilty to corruption charges in the Jack Abramoff scandal received his sentence today: Five hours in prison for accepting a trip to the 2003 World Series in New York when he was an aide to Sen. Kit Bond.
A truck that was carrying President Obama's telempromter along with $200,0000 worth of sound equipment was stolen from a Virginia hotel parking lot.
NYPD payouts have hit $117.6 mllion annually
The president said the Iranian government should be held accountable, but Iran's state media says it's a joke
The Boston Globe's report about his downfall probably didn't tell him anything new
Stuff that's gone missing: letters from Lincoln, the Wright brothers's original patent
His new book says Sean Combs and Suge Knight were behind the 1996 killings
Today, on October 1, new laws make all of Japan a lot less friendly for organized crime
Anthony Bologna was named in several lawsuits after the 2004 Republican National Convention
Leaking info is classic hactivism, but police don't see it as simple digital mischief
The California senator sued her former treasurer, and her bank for a lack of oversight
Hidemyass.com didn't, gave details on hacker to investigators instead
The allure of basic 'hacktivist' data breaches drew in lots of non-experts who were easily caught
A Twitter meme juxtaposing the two cases expresses outrage at injustice, but it's a stretch
Jamaican drug lord Christopher Coke wrote a letter to his judge asking for leniency
Online gaming is booming abroad, but the Full Tilt Poker prosecution may have derailed it in the U.S.
Prosecutors say Berlusconi associates supplied prostitutes to curry favor with the Italian prime minister
A former Los Angeles dealer allegedly painted over signatures and signed Monet's
A court ordered the quietly dismissed 2008 case against one of the world's richest men to be reopened
The campaign treasurer accused of embezzling millions didn't run into problems with the feds
The agency wants to "make sure we are doing the right thing"
A guy says Apple folks, posing as cops, raided his house
A professor accused of dealing methamphetamine as the head of a biker gang
Frankfurt attacker 'can't understand myself how I could have acted this way'
A Chinatown merchant was arrested for selling Burberry and Luis Vuitton joss
A local crime report cites a Bloomberg non-sequitur
What may be Strauss-Kahn's final criminal hearing gets underway with a blow to Diallo's camp
DSK will escape criminal charges, but the version of events prosecutors confirmed is unsettling
The convicts have long been symbols to those outside the cultural mainstream
Police also took in a man believed to be a News of the World reporter
The unnamed sources say Kenneth Thompson sought a cash settlement for his client
Two different ways for authorities to circumvent lax drug laws are reportedly on the rise
Expatriate smugglers went outside the official channels to sell paintings to South Koreans
The younger husband of Viola Drath may have given himself away to police early on
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