LOS ANGELES ( Map , News ) - A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that a lawyer can sue over alleged illegal monitoring of his conversation with a client during a sweeping Los Angeles County wiretap program in the 1990s.

A teacher was arrested at a Federal Way elementary school Wednesday morning after a student in the district accused him of molesting her…

The Morning News LITTLE ROCK — A federal grand jury has returned a two-count indictment against a Maumelle woman who allegedly sent a threatening letter to a black family living near a Maumelle country club, interim U.S. Attorney Tim Griffin announced Thursday.

A 49-year-old man who brandished a screwdriver when he robbed a downtown merchant during a crime spree was sentenced to 30 months in a federal penitentiary on Thursday.

The Morning News LITTLE ROCK — A federal grand jury has returned a two-count indictment against a Maumelle woman who allegedly sent a threatening letter to a black family living near a Maumelle country club, interim U.S. Attorney Tim Griffin announced Thursday.

NEWPORT (AP)-The cockfighting pit at the heart of a six-year federal investigation into organized crime and public corrpution in Cocke County has sold at auction for $68,882.

The Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement will receive a $683,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, it was announced today. The announcement came from U.S. Sen. Mary L. Landrieu, D-New Orleans.

WASHINGTON ( Map , News ) - The House voted Thursday to expand federal hate crime categories to include violent attacks against gays and people targeted because of gender, acting just hours after the White House threatened a veto.

WASHINGTON ( Map , News ) - Just hours after the White House issued a veto threat Thursday, the House voted to add gender and sexual orientation to the categories covered by federal hate crimes law.

WASHINGTON ( Map , News ) - The White House issued a veto threat Thursday against legislation that would expand federal hate crime law to include attacks motivated by the victims’ gender or sexual orientation.