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  • US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama arrive at Robert Gray Army Air Feild at Fort Hood, TX, November 10, 2009. Questions mounted Tuesday over the accused Fort Hood gunman's links to militant Islam as President Barack Obama headed for a memorial service and to console bereaved relatives at the base. Intrigue over troubled military psychiatrist Major Nidal Hasan deepened after the FBI revealed he had contacts with a firebrand Islamic cleric in Yemen and it emerged he had voiced doubts over the role of US Muslim soldiers.

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  • 13 charged in $19M Central Oregon bank fraud

    ...13 people in what prosecutors say is the largest Oregon fraud case to emerge from the national real estate boom and bust.A federal grand jury in Eugene returned five separate indictments on Thursday that charged the principals in Desert Sun Development and... |more

  • La. businessman indicted in alleged Ponzi scheme

    ...people — out of roughly $19.5 million and using some of the money to pay for cars, cruises, sports tickets and a house.A federal grand jury indicted Matthew B. Pizzolato, 26, of Tickfaw, on charges that include securities fraud , money laundering and obstruction... |more

  • New Hampshire AG seeks bankruptcy for mortgage co.

    ... CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire attorney general's office wants to force a mortgage company that closed suddenly into bankruptcy.Financial Resources Management of Meredith closed abruptly Nov. 9 as did two other businesses sharing its address. Sinc... |more

  • Investors sue Fla. lawyer in fraud probe for $100M

    ...(AP) — A high-profile South Florida attorney under federal investigation for allegedly running a huge fraud scheme has been sued for $100 million by a group of investors.The 147-page lawsuit was filed Friday in Broward County against attorney Scott Rothstein... |more

  • Gunman opens fire on Saipan; 5 dead

    ... SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AP) — A gunman went on a rampage on the Pacific resort island of Saipan Friday, killing four people and wounding six others before fatally shooting himself, officials said.The half-hour of violence claimed the lives of tw... |more

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  • FBI, state review Brownstown financial records

    ...to their race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, disability, military status, citizenship or any other legally-protected status in accordance with applicable local, state and federal law. Jobs at WTHR EEO Public File Report... |more

  • The autonomous jihad in America

    ...also held for attempting to set off car bombs which had been provided to them by undercover agents. In October, the Federal Bureau of Investigation held David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Rana. First held on charges of planning an attack on the Danish newspaper... |more

  • US sleuths believe ISI had links with Headley

    ...Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) could be linked to American terror suspect David Headley who is currently in Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) custody for trying to plot attacks in India. The investigators made this assessment on the basis of the arrest... |more

  • Ex-FBI agent who performed JFK autopsy reflects on death

    ...in the investigation. The FBI website notes that "When President Kennedy was assassinated, the crime was a local homicide; no federal law addressed the murder of a president." During the autopsy, Sibert couldn't let the magnitude of the event overwhelm his... |more

  • Major security lapse in issuing visa to Rana couple

    ... An inquiry has revealed that the Indian Consulate in Chicago was guilty of a major security lapse while issuing visas to Tahawwur Rana, a Pakistani- Canadian arrested by the FBI for allegedly plotting terror strikes in India, and his wife. The 48-yea... |more