The police chief in Cancún has been relieved of his duties and placed under house arrest while he is investigated in the killing of a retired Mexican general who had been the area´s anti-drug chief for less than 24 hours, Mexican media are reporting.
The victims of Marc Dreier, the New York lawyer charged in a $400 million fraud, included Amaranth Group Inc., Perella Weinberg Partners and Blackstone Group LP’s GSO Capital Partners, U.S. prosecutors said.
The FBI raided the offices of a defense lobbying firm with close ties to Democratic Rep. John Murtha (Penn.), sources tell ABC News.
Raw peanuts were stored next to the finished peanut butter. The roaster was not calibrated to kill deadly germs. Dispirited workers on minimum wage, supplied by temp agencies, donned their uniforms at home, potentially dragging contaminants into the plant, which also had rodents.
The only Grammy Awards anxiety Chris Brown was supposed to feel was over whether he´d win one. Instead, the R&B singer remains mired in suspicion over an allegation of domestic violence.
General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC may have to be forced into by the U.S. government to assure repayment of $17.4 billion in federal bailout loans, a course of action the automakers claim would destroy them.
"Luca kicked down the door and went white, and Marco yelled ´sangue, sangue -- blood!´" said a key witness today in the trial of American student Amanda Knox, who is accused in the murder of her former housemate, British exchange student Meredith Kercher.
Facing criticism from political foes and human rights advocates, the British government on Thursday defended a court’s decision not to release information about a British terrorism suspect who says he was tortured in American custody. The court said it reached its decision because of what it called a threat from the United States to reconsider sharing intelligence with the country.
Olympic hero Michael Phelps was suspended from competitive swimming for three months on Thursday - just hours after one of his sponsors announced it would not renew his contract after a photo surfaced of him smoking from a bong.
A law firm with bankruptcy expertise, three capital-markets lawyers and an investment bank are advising the U.S. government on how to restructure General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC, two people involved in the work said.
Britain’s Prince Charles, among other royalty and wealthy Europeans, were targeted through Bernard Madoff’s use of high-profile recruiters, said whistleblower Harry Markopolos in documents given U.S. lawmakers.
The pregnant tourist who was brutally murdered in Puerto Rico Wednesday was looking forward to her upcoming wedding and the birth of her first child in May, her family told ABCNews.com.
The family of a 10-year-old boy who died after being hanged on a bathroom hook at his school Tuesday is unsatisfied with the medical examiner´s suicide ruling and believes the boy may have been the victim of bullies.
France Telecom SA, Europe´s third- largest phone company, lost a court bid to preserve its exclusive contract for French sales of Apple Inc.’s iPhone handsets.
The California trial of Rambus Inc.´s patent lawsuit against memory-chip makers will be delayed because of a Delaware ruling against the designer and licensor of chips, a federal judge ruled.
A South Carolina sheriff´s office is investigating whether Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps smoked marijuana on the University of South Carolina campus.
The man who tried unsuccessfully for almost a decade to spur federal securities regulators to investigate Bernard L. Madoff did not initially disclose his own identity to regulators because he feared for his life, according to testimony he has apparently prepared for a Congressional hearing Wednesday morning.
Drivers better buckle up or pay the price: More cash-strapped states want to give law enforcement officers the authority to pull over motorists just for not wearing their seat belts.
"It´s good to be home," Eric Holder said to cheers and applause from a crowd of more than 150 Justice Department employees, as he arrived at his swearing-in ceremony this morning.
UBS AG, the Swiss bank that received $59.2 billion in an unprecedented national bailout, is facing growing pressure from government officials on both sides of the Atlantic to resolve a U.S. tax evasion investigation and restructure its loss-making investment bank.
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