US Federal Bureau of Investigation News

A rich source of potential criminal suspects - a federal database with millions of DNA profiles - is going unexamined as authorities in Lake County, Ill., reopen the investigation into the 1992 rape and slaying an 11-year-old girl.

A fast-paced thriller featuring Patrick Bowers, an FBI investigator whose specialty is spatial analysis.

VictoryLand owner Milton McGregor, right, and his attor ney, Joe Espy, confer as they walk to the federal courthouse in Montgomery on Friday.

Chicago - The battle against gangs and guns is a never ending one for police and the FBI, and they are asking for your help in tracking down fugitive Marcus Jefferson.

He had smoked pot and dropped LSD. He could be a pain to work with. He twisted the truth at times.

San Diego, California Talk Radio Station - 760 KFMB AM - 760kfmbFBI seeks help in ID'ing suspected bank robber at Chase Bank in Mountain View SAN DIEGO - The FBI Saturday sought the public's assistance to identify a man suspected of robbing a bank in San Diego's Mountain View neighborhood near Mount Hope Cemetery.

The loose-knit hacking collective, which last week scored a coup against the FBI, claimed yesterday to have taken down the CIA's Web site , in what appeared to be a Distributed Denial of Service attack .

An internal investigation is questioning as much as $380,000 in markups Wayne County paid for television and radio commercial spots bought by a company close to a fired top aide of County Executive Robert Ficano.

File photo of Mayor Nagin talking on a mobile phone as he waits for rain to subside at the Superdome in New Orleans NEW ORLEANS - Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, the colorful and controversial spokesman for the city after the devastating Hurricane Katrina in 2005, is under investigation by federal authorities, a source with direct knowledge of ... (more)

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, agents arrested a man who they said was involved in the Dec.

AFTER 19 years as a wanted man 'Fast' Eddie Maher was said to be "irate" when a police officer told him US authorities were looking for him, a court was told.

A Jackson man, who is employed as A school bus driver was arrested by federal agents early this morning for using his home computer to distribute child pornography, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

A federal judge sided with prosecutors in the case against three Fairbanks-area militia members Wednesday, ruling that two searches that uncovered many of the weapons central to the case were legal.

Federal prosecutors and securities regulators said insider trading charges were filed against hedge-fund manager Douglas F. Whitman , alleging he was connected to the illegal trading network of imprisoned investor Raj Rajaratnam , founder of the now-defunct Galleon Group.

The forensic laboratory in Meriden has been struggling with a huge case backload and other problems identified in U.S. Justice Department audits, but it won back its professional accreditation earlier this week.

Whitman Capital portfolio manager Doug Whitman surrendered to the FBI today in lower Manhattan and faces securities fraud charges, according to Peter Donald, a spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

When commodities brokerage MF Global imploded, the FBI and federal prosecutors were quick to launch an investigation to pursue what seemed obvious to outspoken regulators and lawmakers: laws were broken and crimes were committed.

An FBI agent assigned to the investigation of the city of Cleveland's Building Department testified this morning in the federal racketeering trial of former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora.

The FBI has released its investigative file on Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Who else did its agents keep tabs on, and why? "A police informant furnished information to the effect that Bud Abbott, the well-known motion picture and television star, is a collector of pornography, and alleged he has 1,500 reels of obscene motion pictures," an agent ... (more)

TRENTON - Gov. Chris Christie appointed long-time FBI official Edward Dickson to serve as the state's Director of Homeland Security and National Preparedness.