Hidden GPS devices to track suspects raise legal concerns
By MICHAEL BALSAMO For months, police trying to solve a Long Island robbery spree had little more to go on than grainy surveillance footage of a man in a hoodie…
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Prosecutors: Unlicensed worker did surgeries in fraud scam
By BRIAN MELLEY A physician assistant who wasn’t licensed or trained to perform surgery operated on hundreds of patients while the orthopedic surgeon who billed for the procedures schemed with…
2 Al-Jazeera journalists pardoned by Egypt leader are freed
By MERRIT KENNEDY and MARAM MAZEN Egypt released two journalists for Al-Jazeera English TV from prison after a presidential pardon on Wednesday, a dramatic development in a case that has…
‘Whitey’ Bulger’s lover indicted on criminal contempt charge
By DENISE LAVOIE The longtime girlfriend and fugitive companion of Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger was indicted Tuesday on a charge she refused to testify about whether other people helped…
Phoenix freeway shooting suspect: ‘I’m the wrong guy’
By TERRY TANG and BRIAN SKOLOFF A landscaper arrested in a series of Phoenix freeway shootings told a judge that authorities have “the wrong guy” as investigators stood by their…
Police arrest suspect in string of Phoenix freeway shootings
By WALTER BERRY and BRIAN SKOLOFF Police arrested a man Friday for a string of seemingly random freeway shootings in Phoenix, adding that they had linked the man’s gun to…
More than 2,000 enslaved fishermen rescued in 6 months
By ESTHER HTUSAN and MARGIE MASON More than 2,000 fishermen have been rescued this year from brutal conditions at sea, liberated as a result of an Associated Press investigation into…
New Mexico secretary of state due in court on fraud charges
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN One of New Mexico’s highest-ranking state officials is expected to enter a plea Tuesday to charges that she funneled campaign contributions to her personal bank accounts…