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The group was headed to a Taliban sanctuary in Pakistan’s tribal areas with the intention of training to fight against American troops, Pakistani police authorities said Thursday.

Pakistani police on Wednesday arrested five American men believed to have gone missing from the Washington, DC area last month, officials from both countries said.

Police say a former cast member of the 1980s television show "Family Ties" has been arrested for investigation of assault in Colorado....

Comedian Katt Williams was arrested on burglary and criminal trespass charges in a west Georgia community Sunday night, according to a court official.

Federal authorities have arrested eight more people in connection with the Galleon insider-trading scandal, sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

2 feet of snow can do more than make getting around town: it can help police catch a thief. The Denver Channel reports that Greenwood Village police, responding to a convenience store robbery report, tracked the suspect down by following his footprints in the snow.

A Chinese-Mexican businessman arrested after police found a $205 million stash of cash in his Mexico City mansion has told U.S. prosecutors he sold tons of a chemical used to make methamphetamine on the black market, a top Mexican official told The Associated Press....

Authorities say recent raids have targeted La Familia Michoacana's fast-growing operations in California, Texas and other states.

In a series of recent raids throughout the United States, federal authorities have arrested nearly 1,200 people who they say are connected to one of Mexico's most aggressively expanding and deadly drug trafficking cartels, known as La Familia Michoacana, law enforcement officials told The Times' Washington bureau.

Galleon Group is winding down all its hedge funds, company founder Raj Rajaratnam told employees and investors in a letter. The decision comes after his arrest and charges in a massive insider-trading case.

Swiss officials tipped off the United States and set in motion the arrest of director Roman Polanski last month in his decades-old child sex case, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. On Wednesday, a top Swiss official defended the move....