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The mother of a 13-year-old West Texas cheerleader found dead in March said Tuesday that since her daughter went missing more than two years ago she had feared the worst, including that the girl was chained and tortured or had fallen victim to human traffickers.

UPDATED STORY. NEWEST INFO! In a stunning, historic development, Federal agents raided the Indianapolis City-County Building as part of an effort to root out public corruption in Indianapolis.

Two agents with the FBI's elite hostage rescue team apparently fell to their deaths while on a counterterorrism training exercise off Virginia Beach Friday.

A McHenry area man was arrested on Saturday night for allegedly treatening U.S. Embassy officials in Serbia as well as Serbians in Chicago over a visa dispute regarding his Serbian wife.

Two FBI agents who died while training off the Virginia Beach coast fell to their deaths when a helicopter had trouble during a "maritime counterterrorism exercise," an agency spokeswoman said Monday night.

It was a rare moment in relations between the media and the government: In 2008, FBI Director Robert Mueller called the top editors at The New York Times and The Washington Post to apologize because the bureau had improperly obtained reporters' telephone records four years earlier.

Hearing on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, Lindsay Carter took advantage of the advanced warning, gathered her belongings and fled.

"We mourn the loss of two brave and courageous men,'' FBI Director Robert Mueller said in a written statement.

An FBI spokesman says a man has been arrested in Puerto Rico for making a threat on Twitter to a well-known gay rights activist.

An appearance is underway in Federal Court in Little Rock for Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner.

A mother wants nothing to do with her 23-year-old son after the FBI allegedly found child porn on his cellphone and a photo of a dead infant with a bag over her head, rope around her neck and words scrawled across her stomach.

State Treasurer Martha Shoffner will lead the news today, though Sunday provided few new details about the FBI's somewhat unusual arrest of her Saturday afternoon for a weekend in the Pulaski County jail.

The charge listed on the jail docket is "hold for U.S. Marshal" and the arresting agency is listed as the Federal Bureau of Investigation; FBI spokeswoman Kimberly Brunell confirmed that Shoffner was arrested for violating the Hobbs Act, a federal law that is often cited in cases of official corruption.

Two FBI agents from an elite counterterrorism unit based in Northern Virginia were killed Friday during a training exercise in the Virginia Beach area, the FBI said Sunday.

Thousands of job applicants come to FBI offices all across the country every year, eager to work for the top law enforcement agency in the U.S. But many of them have their hopes dashed, and it's not because of their work experience or education or criminal records.

Some say the 10- and 20-year prison sentences for two Minnesota women who sent money to the group were too harsh, especially since two men who traveled to Somalia and joined al-Shabab got three years.

Two FBI special agents were killed Friday during a training exercise off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia, the bureau said in a statement released Sunday.

Two FBI special agents on the agency's elite Hostage Rescue Team have been killed in a training accident in Virginia.

Two FBI agents with the agency's hostage rescue team have died in a training accident off the coast of Virginia, reports said Sunday.

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