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Oakland officials have been warned by federal authorities not to allow large-scale marijuana farms in the city as it violates U.S. laws and could lead to a crackdown on the growers and their backers.

Colleen R. LaRose, a Pennsylvania woman also known as 'Jihad Jane,' has pleaded guilty to conspiring to murder a Swedish cartoonist, providing material support to terrorists, and other criminal charges

Pimps will traffic thousands of under-age prostitutes to Texas for Sunday's Super Bowl, hoping to do business with men arriving for the big game with money to burn, child rights advocates said.

Being the first of the social media websites to be blocked in Egypt amid anti-government protests, Twitter has churned out a blog on the importance of freedom of expression.

Defense contractor Lockheed Martin has agreed to pay the U.S. government $2 million to settle charges that it acted with others in knowingly violating the False Claims Act by rigging a contract at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.

U.S. generic drug maker Mylan Inc has settled two U.S. patent disputes with global pharma giant Pfizer Inc, which will enable the former to sell the generic versions of cholesterol drug Lipitor and combination blood pressure and cholesterol treatment Caduet.

Will MTV's controversial teen-age based drama Skins be taken off air amid advertiser and ratings woes as well as ire from media watchdog group?

Convicted serial killer Rodney Alcala, aged 67, faces new charges of killing two New York women in 1970s.

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, who played a vital role in the 1998 al Qaeda bomb attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people including 12 Americans and wounded thousands of others, has been sentenced to life by a Manhattan federal court.

The Department of Justice was reprimanded today by the U.S. Congress for suggesting the necessity of the Internet Data Retention legislation, which if passed would require Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to preserve records of user activity longer, but failing to provide more details on how it could aid in criminal investigations.

The president and the auditor of a Costa Rican company selling reinsurance bonds to life settlement companies have been arrested and charged for their role in a $670 million fraud scheme.

In what is being billed as the biggest crime bust in history, the FBI have arrested 119 Mafia suspects and have charged nearly 130 people connected to different crimes ranging from murder and drug trafficking to extortion, gambling, loan-sharking and prostitution.

Two owners of a Houston health care company have pleaded guilty to charges that they have swindled Medicare of $5.2 million by filing false claims.

MTV executives have ordered changes in a new hit drama called 'Skins' because of fears that some explicit scenes could violate child pornography laws by featuring the sex- and drug-fueled exploits of misfit teenagers.

A Virginia researcher has confessed to tampering the date on a presidential pardon penned by Abraham Lincoln, making it look as if the pardon was one of the president's final acts - thus changing its historical significance.

The Parents Television Council (PTC) has called on the chairmen of the U.S. Senate and House Judiciary Committees and the Department of Justice to open an investigation regarding child pornography and exploitation on MTV's Skins.

The U.S. Department of Justice has followed the FCC and given the nod to the NBC-Comcast deal.

A federal court has granted a permanent injunction, barring a Pembroke Pines, Florida woman from preparing federal income taxes for others after federal investigators found she falsely claim tax credits and deductions, including the first-time-homebuyer credit, for her customers.

A former leader and two other members of the San Francisco branch of La Mara Salvatrucha or the dreaded MS-13 criminal gang have pleaded guilty in federal court to various federal charges that include racketeering (RICO) conspiracy, conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering, and the use or possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, according to the Department of Justice.

The U.S. Department of Justice has struck a severe blow on the members and associates of the Gambino Organized Crime Family of La Cosa Nostra (the Gambino Family) by securing a guilty pleas from the final two of the 14 defendants, all of whom were charged with crimes that included racketeering, murder, sex trafficking, extortion, and wire fraud in April 2010.

Seven hospitals located throughout the southern part of United States have agreed to pay a total of $6.3 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that they were overcharging for osteoporosis procedures, said Department of Justice (DOJ).

A former and longtime employee at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland has been charged with illegally exporting infrared military technology to South Korea, though he is not accused of taking technology or related materials from the research center, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

The fulfillment of Google's dream to rule the sky which neared reality with its $700 million acquisition of ITA Software may fail as the U.S. Department of Justice gears up to file an antitrust motion to block the deal.

Computer hacker George Samuel Bronk, 23, of Citrus heights California pleaded guilty for seven felony charges which included hacking into e-mail accounts and Facebook accounts of worn in 17 states and in England.

A U.S. judge approved a $7.2 billion settlement on Thursday to pay former customers of the Madoff firm, the largest yet in the worldwide search for money lost in Bernard Madoff's multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme.

Remarks by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to the American Farm Bureau on January 10, 2011.

Twitter's fight to make public the fact that it has been subpoenaed by the U.S. government seeking details about all WikiLeaks-related accounts has now put the light on other internet majors such as Google Inc and Facebook.

Attorney General Eric Holder has named Gary G. Grindler as the new chief of staff to the Attorney General.

Detroit-based non-profit healthcare service provider Detroit Medical Center (DMC) has agreed to pay the federal government $30 million penalty to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Stark Statute by involving in improper financial relationships with referring physicians, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).