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Two suspects were arrested and found with about $10 million worth of art stolen from the home of a Southern California financier, Santa Monica police said Thursday.

The filmaker behing the controversial anti-Islam film Innocence of Muslims bond in a California prison for violating his probation from a previous arrest for bank fraud. 

The California man behind a crudely produced anti-Islamic video posted to YouTube that has inflamed parts of the Middle East was arrested for violating terms of his probation, authorities said Thursday.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - A federal official says the California man behind an anti-Islamic video that has inflamed the Middle East has been arrested for violating terms of his probation.

The California man behind a crudely produced anti-Islamic video that has inflamed parts of the Middle East was arrested Thursday for violating terms of his probation, authorities said.

A federal official says the California man behind an anti-Islamic video that has inflamed the Middle East has been arrested for violating terms of his probation.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - A Puerto Rico jury on Thursday rejected handing down the death penalty in the case of a drug dealer convicted of killing his girlfriend after he discovered she was an informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Edison Burgos Montes was sentenced to life in prison for the 2005 …

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick said on Thursday he expects criminal charges to be filed in the case of a chemist accused of mishandling drug evidence at a state crime lab, potentially affecting thousands of cases. The chemist, Annie Dookhan, told investigators she "screwed up big …

A chef who told police he boiled his wife's body for four days to hide evidence of her death was convicted Thursday of second-degree murder.

A former Credit Suisse executive facing extradition to the U.S. on fraud charges for his handling of mortgage-based securities during the financial crisis was freed on bail after an appearance Thursday before a British court.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on Japan's second largest yakuza crime syndicate and its leaders, freezing their U.S. assets and blocking their transactions with American entities. The financial penalties against the Sumiyoshi-Kai clan and its two leaders are the second time the Obama …

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San Juan, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - A federal jury is deciding whether to give an island man the death penalty in a potentially landmark case highlighting Puerto Rico's relationship with the United States. The jury entered its third day of deliberations on Thursday. Last month, it convicted Edison Burgos Montes, a Yauco merchant, …

MADIUN, Indonesia - An Indonesian military tribunal has sentenced four soldiers to up to six years in jail for their role in smuggling illegal migrants to Australia on board an overcrowded boat that sank last year, killing about 200 people.

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Police have arrested an Arizona man who filmed his 16-year-old nephew walking city streets dressed in a sheet and carrying a fake grenade launcher in an apparent bid to test police responses after the Denver theater shooting, authorities said on Wednesday. Michael David Turley, 39, was arrested on Monday …

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former senior Credit Suisse Group AG trader was arrested in London on Wednesday and faces extradition to the United States on fraud charges involving subprime mortgage bonds worth $3 billion. The arrest of Kareem Serageldin, former global head of structure credit trading for Credit Suisse, marks an …

PHOENIX - Phoenix police say they've arrested a man after he reportedly dressed a teenage relative in a sheet and sent him into a street to aim a fake rocket-propelled grenade launcher at passing cars.

An Army brigadier general has been charged with forcible sodomy, multiple counts of adultery and having inappropriate relationships with female subordinates while serving in Afghanistan, two U.S. defense officials said Wednesday.

A Phoenix woman who pretended to have cancer in order to raise money for breast implants has been sentenced to a year in jail and three years of probation.

Police Received 'Numerous' 911 Calls About Teen Allegedly Posing as Terrorist

An Egyptian-born U.S. columnist was arrested Tuesday for spray-painting an advertisement equating Muslim radicals with savages at a New York City subway station.

LONDON (Reuters) - Two former editors of Rupert Murdoch-owned newspapers who had close ties to British Prime Minister David Cameron will face trial late next year at the earliest on charges related to alleged phone-hacking, a court heard on Wednesday. Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson were among 13 suspects who appeared in …

The daughter of a jailed rights activist in Bahrain was sentenced Wednesday to two months in prison for damaging property at the police station, including tearing a picture of the Gulf nation's king, officials said.