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Federal authorities arrested a fugitive alleged drug kingpin Saturday after a decade-long chase through the Caribbean marked by his narrow escapes and public taunting that he paid off police to remain free.

Federal authorities said Friday they conducted the largest Medicare fraud bust ever and arrested dozens of suspects accused in scams totaling ...

Anti-mafia prosecutors claimed a major victory over the powerful and growing 'ndrangheta crime syndicate, infiltrating intimate weddings, baptisms and other events to gather information that led to the arrests Tuesday of 305 people, including top bosses, and the seizure of more than euro60 million ($76 million) in cash and property.

A teenage fugitive known as the "barefoot bandit" was arrested today in the Bahamas, police say.

A distraught Lindsay Lohan was sentenced to 90 days in jail on Tuesday after a judge ruled that she had violated her probation by missing a string of alcohol education classes imposed for a 2007 drunk driving arrest.

The Chattanooga, Tennessee, police department has placed an officer on paid administrative leave for arresting a man who sped and ran three red lights as he tried to rush his wife to a hospital, police said.

Two New Jersey men were arrested at JFK International Airport in an alleged terrorism plot involving an Islamic group in Somalia, NBC News confirmed.

The former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida was arrested Wednesday, officials said, though they did not release the charges and there was no immediate word on whether they were linked to a probe of his finances ...

Police say 41 people have been arrested in the mayhem after the Montreal Canadiens' Game 7 victory over Pittsburgh....

Police said they had made an arrest in the case of a racial comment being made over the public-address system at a Wal-Mart store in southern New Jersey.