ALABAMA Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged a former north Alabama physician, who was the nation’s highest Medicare prescriber of opioid painkillers at the height of his practice, with illegally prescribing controlled substances…
Feds: Tijuana Man Allegedly Smuggled 6,000 Fentanyl Pills, Alarming Trend
SAN DIEGO A Tijuana man was arraigned Thursday in federal court on charges that he smuggled into the U.S. almost 6,000 pills containing the ultra-deadly drug fentanyl in a case that signals…
Former Airport Employee Sentenced for Using Flights to Smuggle Cocaine, Talked About Bombs
DALLAS A federal judge sentenced a 53-year-old Dallas man who admitted to his role in transporting cocaine on flights from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to 15 years and eight months in…
Men Involved in Filing at Least 12,000 Fraudulent Tax Returns Sentenced
WASHINGTON D.C. Two residents were sentenced Wednesday for their involvement in a far-reaching stolen identity refund fraud scheme in which they worked with others to seek over $700,000 in income tax refunds…
Exxon-Mobil to Pay $12 Million for 2011 Oil Spill into Yellowstone River
MONTANA The Departments of Justice and the Interior joined with the state of Montana to announce a proposed settlement with ExxonMobil Pipeline Company to resolve claims stemming from the July 2011 oil…
St. Louis cop caught on film planting a gun on a man he just killed
BLACK LIVES MATTER Nathan Wellman | September 21, 2016 Newly released footage has shed a troubling new light on a 2011 police shooting in St. Louis, showing an officer gun down…
Cops: Woman meets man on dating app, ‘lures’ him to death in Georgia
Joshua Sharpe The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Questions still abound in the Sept. 1 murder of 23-year-old Norcross resident Jordan Collins, but warrants released Monday suggest his death was the result of a date…
The Closer with Keith Olbermann | GQ: Trump’s Supporters All Deplorables
Published on Sep 15, 2016 After another week of violence and mayhem, it’s clear Hillary Clinton’s controversial assessment of Trump’s fans was, well, generous.
TED Talks: The Power of Optimism
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Optimism can take you anywhere…choose to focus on what is right with the world vs. what is…
Feds: Former Office Manager Who Embezzled $370,000 from Sporting Good Store Prison Bound
SANTA ANA, CALIF. A federal judge sentenced a former office manager for an independent sporting goods distributor to three years in federal prison for embezzling nearly $370,000 from her Los Alamitos-based employer,…
Death in County Jail Ruled Homicide; Inmate Died of Dehydration
MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office says the death of Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office inmate Terrill Thomas has been ruled a homicide. Terrill Thomas Terrill Thomas, charged in connection with…
Virginia Resident Guilty of Illegally Buying American Black Bear Parts
NORTH CAROLINA Vu Johnnie Nguyen of Virginia Beach, Virginia, plead guilty Monday in U.S. District Court in Asheville, North Carolina, to federal charges for unlawfully trafficking in American black bear gall…