Indiana man’s bid to recover his Land Rover reaches top U.S. court
U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday appeared inclined to rule in favor of an Indiana man who argues that police violated his constitutional rights by seizing his $42,000 Land Rover vehicle following a heroin-related conviction.
Former Insys executive pleads guilty to opioid bribe scheme
A former executive at Insys Therapeutics Inc pleaded guilty on Wednesday to participating in a scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe the company’s powerful opioid medication and entered into a deal to cooperate with prosecutors.
U.S. pressures Iran with sanctions, indictments for ransomware scheme
The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on two Iranians for exchanging Bitcoin digital currency into rials and indicted two others for hacking as part of a ransomware scheme known as SamSam that it said extorted millions of dollars.
Penny for your corn? Stingy trade-war aid irks U.S. farmers
Iowa corn farmer Bob Hemesath jokes that the government check he expects as compensation for his trade-war losses will soon allow him to splurge on upscale coffee in town instead of his usual burnt gas-station brew.
Exclusive: EPA refinery biofuel waiver program on hold pending review – sources
The Trump Administration has temporarily frozen a program meant to exempt small oil refineries in financial distress from the U.S. biofuels law, as it reviews the scoring system to evaluate applications, according to two sources familiar with the matte…
Former executive at opioid maker Insys to plead guilty
A former executive at Insys Therapeutics Inc is expected to plead guilty on Wednesday to charges that he participated in a scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe the company’s opioid drug.
Illegal immigrants in U.S. at lowest level since 2004: study
The population of unauthorized immigrants in the United States fell to 10.7 million in 2016, its lowest level since 2004, due largely to a decline in the number of people coming from Mexico, a study released on Tuesday said.
California police still stumped on motive for Thousand Oaks massacre
Three weeks after a former U.S. Marine opened fire at a Western-themed bar and dance hall in the Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks, killing 12 people, police said on Tuesday they still had no clue what prompted the massacre.
Faulty alert caused shooter scare at Walter Reed hospital: U.S. Navy
A false report of an active shooter at the Walter Reed military hospital outside Washington led people to take shelter on Tuesday, before an all-clear was given and the U.S. Navy confirmed the incident was related to a drill.
‘Bridgegate’ convictions of ex-aides to NJ governor partially reversed
A federal appeals court on Tuesday partially overturned the convictions of two onetime associates of former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie over the “Bridgegate” lane-closing scandal that helped scuttle his presidential ambitions.
