US Federal Bureau of Investigation News

Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner has been arrested for extortion by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and is being held in Pulaski County Jail, the Associated Press reported Saturday.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday he did not make the controversial decision to secretly seize telephone records of the Associated Press but defended his department's actions in the investigation of what he called a "very, very serious leak." The decision to seek phone records of one of the world's largest news-gathering ... (more)

An FBI bulletin telling Washington-are law enforcement -- including the Secret Service -- to be on the lookout for a disgruntled and armed agent was just a "personnel matter," an official said hours after FoxNews.com located the agent at his home.

U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez is shown in this file photo. The FBI is investigating who's behind discredited prostitution allegations against the New Jersey Democrat, according to the Washington Post.

Stored inside a laptop at FBI headquarters are photos of thousands of paintings, sculptures and artifacts, works by Vincent Van Gogh and Henri Matisse , Pablo Picasso and Paul Cezanne -- international treasures worth millions of dollars each.

Networks unveiled their fall lineups this week in New York at their various upfront events, and although CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox all trumpet their new shows as the best of the best, not every pilot is destined to be a hit, or even worth your time.

A cross-dressing child porn suspect caused a stir in federal court Thursday when he showed up in a tan halter top, stuffed red bra and long red hair.

The inmate, James Ninete Leon Guerrero, had consumed nearly 24 ounces of the approximately 180-proof booze from a plastic Pepsi bottle, according to the latest filings.

FBI Director Robert Mueller told the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the Justice Department the FBI would have no choice but to force unpaid leave, thereby putting the country at risk.

An undercover source working for Canada's spy agency and sensitive intelligence from the United States and Britain helped build the case against three terrorism suspects facing criminal charges, court documents indicate.

Groundbreaking ceremony was held Monday June 25, 2010 on Redstone Arsenal for the FBI's Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center, which will move here from Quantico, Va.

A gag order in the case of former abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell was lifted Wednesday.

New details have emerged from a 911 call that was made in Virginia but was routed to Las Cruces, N.M. The man who allegedly made the emergency call claiming that he shot his wife after she threatened him was charged in connection with her death.

Christopher Seals, 22, was taken into custody by the FBI Thursday morning without a problem from an apartment off Bowser Ave.

An FBI agent investigating a child porn suspect found an image on the Adrian man's cellphone of what appeared to be a dead infant with a bag over her head, rope around her neck and words scrawled across her stomach.

Investigators are still trying to determine how a prominent UPMC doctor ingested an apparently lethal dose of cyanide before collapsing at her home last month.

Members of the FBI thwarted a Fayetteville teenager's plan to rob and kill people who did not share his Islamic beliefs, according to documents.

The Washington Post is reporting that Attorney General Eric Holder disclosed during a press conference today that he has ordered the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation to probe the IRS's targeting of conservative groups .

Joseph H. Hogsett, the United States Attorney, announced today that former FBI agent Donald J. Sachtleben, age 54, of Carmel, has filed a petition to plead guilty to charges of possessing and distributing child pornography.

Singapore police accessed an external hard drive found at the home of American research engineer Shane Todd, the FBI said, rather than an unknown person as asserted by his family to support its claim he was murdered.