AMERICANS often love to hate the media. They love to hate the media as much as they love to hate politicians, as Indiana congressman Mike Pence says.

Two women are scheduled to be sentenced Monday for bootlegging on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation as another road blockade is being planned to stop the influx of alcohol to the dry reservation. More Crime News

LITTLE ROCK — A federal appeals panel Thursday upheld a 25-year prison sentence for an inmate who is already on Oklahoma’s death row.

A Federal Way school administrator said he was shocked to learn from a News Tribune court record search Friday that a grade school teacher charged with a sex crime was intimate with a 17-year-old student while an assistant principal elsewhere.

Although Purdue Pharma had been able to shake off civil lawsuits, it couldn’t withstand a federal investigation. The headline on the company news release was boastful, almost cocky: “65-0: OxyContin cases against Purdue Pharma dismissed at a record rate.”

A Mexican doctor helped drug dealers avoid arrest by surgically replacing their fingerprints with skin from the bottom of their feet, a federal prosecutor said on Friday.

Nine people from the Red Lake Indian Reservation in northwest Minnesota were arrested on federal drug charges. More Crime News

(Courtesy photo/SFGov) San Francisco’s historic City Hall. SAN FRANCISCO ( Map , News ) - The Public Safety Committee will hear a report Monday from the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice on public safety conditions and crime levels citywide.

The Public Safety Committee will hear a report Monday from the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice on public safety conditions and crime levels citywide. Statistics on the criminal justice system, data on progress of crime fighting measures and reports on the arrests and prosecutions of violence-based offenses will be provided. There will be an update on crime statistics as they apply to The …

A federal Way teacher accused of molesting a female student appeared in a King County Regional Justice Center courtroom Thursday. The 52-year-old man was…