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Hackers associated with the AntiSec and LulzSec groups launched a massive hack into the Web sites of as many as 77 law enforcement agencies in the United States, displaying the nerve and resolve to compromise sensitive government data.

The self proclaimed "Spam King" of Facebook, who sneaked his way into half a million Facebook accounts and flooded them with spam, could soon be paying for his actions.

AntiSec, a group of online hackers, said it breached 10 gigabytes of sensitive data after gaining access to more than 70 U.S. law enforcement Web sites. The hackers who claimed to have gotten emails, credit card information among other sensitive information, is said to be retaliating against the arrests of alleged members accused of hacking into the CIA, Britain's Serious Organized Crimes Agency, or SOCA, and Sony.

Five current and former police officers were convicted on Friday on federal civil rights charges stemming from the deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina.

Queens woman arrested and released on $50,000 bail

Confidence in the U.S. Congress is at a historic low, more than half of Americans think that the Republican and Democratic parties are doing such a bad job that a third party is needed, and the word ?dysfunction? has been common currency in the drawn-out debate over the national debt.

Sanford Wallace, known as the "Spam King," has turned himself in to U.S. authorities after he was indicted for masterminding a scheme that sent more than 27 million unsolicited junk messages through Facebook's servers.

Polygamist Church Leader Warren Jeffs was convicted on Thursday of sexually assaulting two of his teenage wives.

Investigators trying to unravel the mystery behind the disappearance and death of Celina Cass, the 11-year-old New Hampshire girl, searched her home again looking for clues that could show how she died.

Digital mischief goes aerial as researchers configure a U.S. military drone plane to act as a hacking platform to breach firewalls erected by corporates and countries alike.

A Texas jury convicted Warren Jeffs, the controversial figure of a fundamentalist Moron church, on child sexual assault late Thursday, ending a case that sprang open when his compound was raided and more than 450 children were taken by the police in 2008.

Authorities issued a lockdown on Thursday at the campus of Virginia Tech, site of a 2007 mass shooting that killed 32 people, after a man suspected of carrying a gun was seen on campus, the school said.

Authorities are planning to search a landfill in Western Indiana for signs of Lauren Spierer, a University of Indiana student who was last seen two months ago walking home in Bloomington.

A woman claiming to be the niece of the mysterious skyjacker dubbed D.B. Cooper, who bailed out of a jetliner with $200,000 in ransom, says she recalls her uncle plotting the sensational caper at a family gathering in 1971.

Police will not confirm or deny a search warrant is in connection with a missing Indiana University Student

Experts are baffled by the declines in violent crimes in the U.S.

Violent crime in the United States has been falling across the board for at least the past five or six years.

Hackers attending this year's DEF CON conference in Las Vegas, an annual gathering of the hacking community, can add a possible activity to attending speeches, browsing new technology and meeting other hackers: being recuited for a government job.

There is newfound media interest in the D.B. Cooper case as the FBI follow a "promising" lead to solve the 40-year mystery of the hijacker's true identity once and for all.

Marla Cooper, the alleged niece of hijacker D.B. Cooper, said when she was 8 years old she heard her two uncles planning something suspicious while at her grandmother's house in Oregon.

New Hampshire's Senior Assistant Attorney General Jane Young on Tuesday said authorities are waiting for toxicology results.