A former supervisor for the U.S. Agency for International Development was sentenced Friday to four years and three months in prison for sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy while working in Ukraine, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

An American Indian who shot a bald eagle for use in a tribal religious ceremony must stand trial, a federal appeals court has ruled.

A rare international alert seeking a man shown in dozens of raw child porn images quickly led to the arrest of a small-time actor, who painted faces at children's parties and performed as "the best Santa Claus anyone has ever seen."

A former chairman of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe has pleaded guilty to two counts of accepting bribes from a man who operated a check-cashing service in the tribe's casinos.

A federal grand jury has indicted an employee of the U.S. Postal Service on theft charges for allegedly stealing gift cards.

The insurer of a fence company accused of sparking a 2006 wildfire that destroyed five buildings in central Arizona has agreed to pay $500,000.

Two Ohio women are among five people sentenced in North Carolina in what prosecutors called a $70 million Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors in various states.

A Lubbock man has been sentenced to five years in prison for cashing his dead mother's Veteran's Administration checks for nearly two year after she died in 2004, the U.S. Attorney's Office said Tuesday.

The so-called D.C. Madam said in suicide notes that she would not go to prison for what she called “a modern day lynching,” and that she was at peace with her decision to end her life.

Student’s explosive detonates, causing school evacuation