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• Feds: Bath salt shipping hub operated from Nyack hotel; Strak Babikyan, Haider Rabeh Al-Khafaji arrested

  a Nyack hotel room as a shipping hub to forward so-called "bath salts" from senders in China to addresses in California, federal authorities said in a criminal complaint.Police and the FBI got wind of the operation after a U.S. Postal Service employee reported   Read more »

• Ramapo corruption investigation: FBI questioned Boulders' ballpark developer

  and computer hard drives that FBI agents hauled out of Town Hall during their seven-hour raid Wednesday."This is a federal investigation. This did not emanate out of the Rockland DA's office, no," Zugibe said. "This is something they developed on their own.   Read more »

• NY corruption: A day after FBI raid, business as usual in Ramapo

  raid has not been released."One law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation said some of the records sought by federal agents include documents related to Provident Bank Park and the local development corporation that runs the controversial,   Read more »

• Isaac Jara, of Ossining, faces 20 years if convicted in kid porn case

  analysis of his computer equipment, according to the complaint.Still, Jara continued to trade child pornography while the federal investigation was ongoing, officials said.In December 2012, Jara made two child pornography files available to an undercover New   Read more »

• Banks in Oak Rock case agree to new director

  Monday to allow the current company manager to run operations -- but report to a new independent director -- as a criminal investigation by the FBI and Eastern District federal prosecutors continues.Originally, the consortium of five banks that loaned the   Read more »

Around the web

• Profiling the Tea Party: In defense of the IRS. Sorta. Or not.

  of government employees usurping extralegal powers for themselves, although I recognize that expansionism is as natural to a bureaucracy as sucking eggs is to a weasel. All of which is to say that I am not endorsing or advocating roguery by individuals working 46 m ago from Scholars and Rogues Read more »

• FBI searches apartment in ricin letter case

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• Jackson mayoral candidate: Radical or mainstream?

  city, though its population has dropped significantly in the past two decades as people have moved to the suburbs. The Census Bureau estimates Jackson had 175,561 residents in 2011; 79 percent are black and 18 percent are white. Johnson became the city's first 12:11 AM from Biloxi Sun Herald Read more »

• Officials rule out foul play in Metro-North train derailment; looking into broken rail

  “Being in a train crash is like winning a very bad lottery,” he said. Call Jim Shelton at 203-789-5664. FAIRFIELD — Federal investigators have ruled out foul play in Friday’s Metro-North Railroad crash and say a broken rail on the eastbound track is of “substantial 5/18/13 from Minuteman News Center Read more »

• State Treasurer Martha Shoffner Arrested for Extortion by FBI

  Treasurer Martha Shoffner has been arrested for extortion by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and is being held in Pulaski County Jail, the Associated Press reported Saturday. FBI spokeswoman Kimberly Brunell told the AP that Shoffner was arrested Saturday 5/18/13 from Arkansas Business Read more »