by Justin Delaney (RSS feed) on Jan 6th 2012 at 8:30AM

What comes to mind when you think of the world's worst place? While it is easy to complain about rural Wal-marts, …

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - An Austin, Texas, high school was put on lockdown for hours on Monday morning after a man being pursued by police barricaded himself in a nearby house, officials said.

No one was allowed to enter or…

The killing of a police officer at Virginia Tech and discovery of a second body, caused a massive manhunt on the campus that has become notorious as the scene of the…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Police fingerprinted and photographed former Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on her hospital bed Saturday over electoral fraud charges her lawyer says were brought with "indecent haste."

But …

NEW YORK (AP) — An "al-Qaida sympathizer" who plotted to bomb police and post offices in New York City as well as U.S. troops returning home has been arrested on numerous terrorism-related charges, city officials said Sunday.

Mayor…

Written by Reuters Wednesday, 09 November 2011

The News of the World, the now-defunct tabloid at the centre of the News Corp phone-hacking scandal, paid a private eye to spy on Prince William and a host of other high-profile people, said the BBC.



The report, based on an interview with the detective, is yet another damaging revelation for News Corp's British operation and comes in the week Rupert Murdoch's son…

Calvin Gibbs, Leader of 'Thrill Kill' Soldiers, Guilty of Murder

Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs was found guilty in a military court Thursday of being…

Valve Corporation has become the latest game company to fall victim to a major hacking intrusion that has left gamers' personal information and potentially even credit card numbers exposed.

In a letter sent to users Thursday, Valve founder Gabe Newell said that, on Sunday, the company discovered that the community forums for its online…

Group says it has 25,000 emails that proved government collusion with the Zetas

BY BERENICE GARCIA 

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

November 5, 2011 |   Borderland Beat Reporter J

An elusive and violent trafficker, considered at one time to be a top Sanchez Arellano lieutentant was arrested in Tijuana yesterday, near Insurgentes Boulevard. Details are scarce, and a press conference in the next few hours will officially announce his arrest. Juan Silllas Rocha has had a long and often troubled history with the CAF, one of…

By Associated Press, Updated: Friday, November 4, 2:32 PM

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Federal agents issued search warrants and expect to file weapons charges against law enforcement officers from several Sacramento-area agencies, authorities said Friday.

The probe focuses on peace officers selling weapons that most civilians cannot legally buy and sell, Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Deputy Jason Ramos said.…

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By Pete Williams Justice correspondent

WASHINGTON — Four Georgia men in their 60s and 70s were arrested Tuesday, accused of being members of a right-wing militia group that plotted to attack federal office buildings and to disperse a…

By AMANDA LEE MYERS - Associated Press | AP

PHOENIX (AP) — …

VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) — An Internet video threatens Mexico'sZetas drug cartel with exposure of its allies in the local police and news media this week unless the gang frees a kidnapped member of the international hacker movement known as "Anonymous."…

By Eric Johnson in Chicago | Reuters

(Reuters) - Law enforcement officials in Arizona seized thousands of pounds of narcotics and arrested at least 70 suspected drug smugglers with apparent ties to a…

By Laura Rozen | The Envoy

It's a rare day when positive news surfaces from the frontlines of Iraq's post-occupation government--or from its troubled economy. However, a U.S. Iraq inspector general report that concluded this week that $6.6 billion in shrink-wrapped cash the U.S. government previously feared had gone…

NORTH OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A body found in a shallow grave belongs to a 16-year-old girl who had been missing more than a month, authorities in Utah said Saturday.

The Utah State Medical Examiner's Office confirmed through…

By GENE JOHNSON - Associated Press | AP – Wed, Oct 19, 2011

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A couple accused in a deadly crime spree through the Northwest pleaded not guilty Wednesday to two counts…

An undercover US agent testified that he posed as a Colombian rebel pleading for weapons to fight American troops, and that Russian Viktor Bout personally drew up a shopping list that would make an army…

An undercover US agent testified that he posed as a Colombian rebel pleading for weapons to fight American troops, and that Russian Viktor Bout personally drew up a shopping list that would make an army…