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FIRST ON KHQ.COM: Federal Drug Raids In Spokane; Read The Official Press Release

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on February 28th

READ THE PRESS RELEASE BELOW THE TWEET UPDATES TWEET FROM DYLAN: In total 53 suspects taken in to custody from Spokane to California after federal drug raid...12 of which detained in Spokane. TWEET FROM DYLAN: Attorneys say 62 defendants are tangled in this case. Some here in Spokane and California

Man tied to Mafia: Hoffa buried in Detroit area

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 14th

DETROIT (AP) - A man convicted of crimes as a reputed Mafia captain is claiming missing Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa was buried in suburban Detroit. Tony Zerilli was in prison when Hoffa disappeared from a Detroit-area restaurant in 1975, but tells New York TV station WNBC he was informed about Hoffa

Beaches, bombs and gangsters _ Corsica's dilemma

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 13th

By LORI HINNANTAssociated Press AJACCIO, Corsica (AP) - The bombs exploded across hundreds of miles of Corsican coastline, gutting two dozen villas nearly simultaneously on some of Europe's most beautiful - and valuable - land. Elsewhere on the same French island off the Mediterranean coast, a

Hackers sentenced for Michael Jackson music theft

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 11th

By RAPHAEL SATTERAssociated Press LONDON (AP) - A British court sentenced two hackers to 100 hours of community service on Friday for stealing a treasure trove of unreleased music - including Michael Jackson tracks - from the U.S. servers of Sony Music Entertainment. Officials said that music

EU police agency opens unit to tackle cybercrime

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 11th

By MIKE CORDERAssociated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - The European Union's police coordination agency opened a new cybercrime unit Friday to combat online offenses from banking fraud to peddling images of child sex abuse. But as the European Cybercrime Centre, or EC3, formally opened its

US sees Iran behind hostage photos of ex-FBI agent

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 9th

By ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZOAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Two years after a hostage video and photographs of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson raised the possibility that the missing American was being held by terrorists, U.S. officials now see the government of Iran behind the images,

US sees Iran behind hostage photos of ex-FBI agent

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 8th

UN to hold arms trade treaty conference in March

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 25th

By EDITH M. LEDERERAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly late Monday to hold a conference in March to try to reach agreement on a U.N. treaty to regulate the multibillion-dollar global arms trade. A resolution approved by a vote of 133-0 with 17

Police say 1 officer fatally shot, 1 hurt in Tenn.

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 14th

By By ADRIAN SAINZAssociated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A Memphis police officer was fatally shot and another wounded during a shootout at a home Friday, authorities said. Officers with the organized crime unit entered a home in east Memphis to serve a drug-related search warrant at 8 a.m.

Owner of Rivera plane denies drug connections

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 14th

By By BRIAN SKOLOFFAssociated Press PHOENIX (AP) - The man who runs the business that owns a luxury jet that crashed and killed Latin music star Jenni Rivera says he has never been involved in drug trafficking and that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has dogged him for more than two