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Eight people were indicted in a nationwide, $2 million fraud scheme Wednesday out of San Diego in which scammers targeted grandparents by feeding them fake stories that their grandkids were in terrible trouble and needed money fast.

Two men who allegedly purchased sex from a 13-year-old trafficking victim have been arrested and charged with child sex trafficking, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox announced.

A federal grand jury charged 28 individuals with laundering more than $10 million in drug proceeds through a local clothing retailer in Dallas, Erin Nealy Cox, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, announced Thursday.

Four people were charged for plotting the murder of a Drug Enforcement Administration task force officer Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas announced.

A Fort Worth man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for setting fire to his neighbor’s house with a Molotov cocktail, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas announced Friday.

Prosecutors are seeking to keep dozens of guns and firearm accessories seized from a man whose home was searched last year following a mass shooting in West Texas that left more than 20 people injured and seven dead.

A former Denton youth pastor, Robert Shiflet, was charged with multiple counts of child sex trafficking, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas said in a press release.

A judge will hold a hearing Tuesday over the FBI’s failure to turn over surveillance footage to an Arizona man until three years after he was convicted of providing guns to two friends who launched a 2015 attack on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Garland.

A rabbi and associate principal at a prominent New York City private school faces child pornography charges for allegedly tricking a teen boy into sending him nude photos, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

Probation officials said there was “no victim” or any “actual or intended loss” in Felicity Huffman’s role in the college admissions scandal, court documents revealed Wednesday. While the U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services System’s report does not explicitly recommend a sentence for Huffman, the report clearly came down on the side of the Oscar-nominated actress and her bid to avoid...

Three people face federal charges in California for allegedly defrauding foreign investors in a jobs program overseen by U.S. immigration officials, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

Law enforcement officers always run toward danger but on Wednesday some personnel in South Texas watched and recorded video of fiery explosives as part of training

Federal prosecutors want to recover $12.6 billion in drug money they say was generated by the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo

Federal prosecutors want to recover $12.6 billion in drug money they say was generated by the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo

Former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway is scheduled to report to federal prison Tuesday morning.

Former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway is scheduled to report to federal prison Tuesday morning.

An 18-year-old accused of fatally shooting 10 people at a Texas high school will now be facing 11 federal charges connected to the attack, his attorney said Monday.

A notorious California con man has been charged with defrauding donors out of more than $250,000 sent to sham political groups and websites for Beto O’Rourke, Bernie Sanders and other prominent Democrats, prosecutors said Tuesday. John Pierre Dupont, 80, is accused of setting up at least three bogus political action committees, or PACs, and several websites that purported to be...

A McKinney man may spend more than two decades behind bars after admitting to exploiting children for sexual purposes, the Department of Justice says.

In the most recent corruption case to rock Dallas City Hall, federal court records suggest the involvement of a major player who is easily recognized in another tax-stealing scandal in local government.