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The United States today celebrates the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., America’s pre-eminent civil rights leader, who was gunned down by an assassin on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. He was 39 years old.

Legendary New York gangster, 93-year-old John Sonny Franzese, the alleged underboss of the Colombo crime family, has been sentenced to eight years in prison – essentially a life term – for extortion.

Vincent McCrudden, a commodities fund manager, was arrested at Newark Airport, on charges he threatened to murder dozens of government officials who brought an enforcement action against him.

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.

A robber, who has been nicknamed the Holiday Bandit by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), has been identified as Marat G. Mikhaylich and is being sought after pulling his third bank robbery in the New York City over the past few weeks, the federal authorities said.

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).

Federal law enforcement arrested a California man today and charged him with making death threats to U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott, D-WA, according to federal authorities.

Shares of gunmaker Sturm, Ruger & Co. (NYSE:RGR) are trading higher today apparently boosted by a surge in sales of handguns in Arizona following the weekend massacre in Tucson by Jared Lee Loughner.

Lawmakers in the House of Representatives are displaying a symbolic show of unity and will hold meetings about security this week, with no votes on legislation expected in the wake of the Arizona shooting over the weekend which killed six people and critically injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-AZ.

Yul Kwon, Deputy Chief of the Federal Communications Commission's Consumer and Governmental Bureau, is leaving government service to head for public television.

The “Congress on Your Corner” event on Saturday morning, Jan. 8 in Tucson, Arizona was at least the second such constituent event hosted by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords that was attended by Jared Lee Loughner, the 22-year-old Tucson resident who is charged by federal authorities with shooting Giffords, and killing U.S. District Judge John Roll and Gabriel Zimmerman, a Giffords’ aide, according to the FBI.

A celebrity gossip website on Friday posted a photo that it claims shows Inland Rep. Mary Bono Mack in a playful, but compromising position.

Three people who were arrested by the federal agents last month in an operation seen as part of a widening probe into insider trading were granted bail on Tuesday.

A California-based former consultant for an expert networking and an investment advisory firm, Primary Global Research LLC, has been arrested by the federal authorities on charges related to her involvement in an insider trading scheme and has been detained for the New Year weekend.

Hal Turner, a right-wing blogger and Internet radio host, has been sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for threatening to assault and murder three judges of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago in response to their 2009 ruling upholding handgun bans in the city.

Two former senior executives of Latin Node Inc. (LatiNode), a Miami-based telecommunications company, have been charged with bribing more than $500,000 to Honduran government officials and laundering money.

Four people, including an executive from an expert networking firm, have been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in an operation seen as part of a widening probe into insider trading.

It's tough times for crooks as well, according to the FBI, which released its Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report today, showing declines in all the major violent crime and property crime categories for the first six months of 2010 compared to the first six months of 2009.

Four men were arrested for taking part in an insider trading scheme in which details of Apple's iPhone and iPad were leaked to hedge fund managers.

A man who used a “child modeling” website to push child pornography has been sentenced to nine years in prison, federal authorities said today.

Former senior U.S. District Judge Jack Camp's judicial decision-making process could have been impaired by drugs or racial bias and aggrieved defendants could request re-sentencing, federal prosecutors have suggested.