Theft
This photo provided by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department in California shows three Olympic Games medals stolen during the course of a home burglary in Laguna Hills, Calif. On Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022, authorities said they were seeking the public's help and are looking for the medals belonging to a member of the U.S. women's volleyball team. (Courtesy of Orange County Sheriff’s Department via AP)
3 Olympic volleyball medals stolen from California home

Nov. 10, 2022 11:17 PM EST

FILE - United States' Jordyn Poulter blocks the ball during the women's volleyball preliminary round at the 2020 Summer Olympics, July 27, 2021, in Tokyo. A stolen Olympic gold medal belonging to Poulter has been found in Southern California, authorities said Wednesday, June 29. Poulter reported the medal stolen May 25 after the Olympian discovered her car broken into at a parking garage in Anaheim, Calif., police said. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein,File)
Stolen Olympic gold medal found in Southern California

Jun. 29, 2022 06:53 PM EDT

Alan Hostetter speaks during a pro-Trump election integrity rally he organized at the Orange County Registrar of Voters offices in Santa Ana, Calif., Monday, Nov. 9, 2020. A former California police chief and five other men have been indicted on conspiracy charges in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to court documents made public Thursday, June 10, 2021. (Paul Bersebach/The Orange County Register via AP)
Capitol rioter used charity to promote violence, feds say

By Michael Kunzelman Jun. 16, 2021 01:50 PM EDT

In this undated photo provided by the Washington State Employment Security Dept., Cami Feek, the agency's new commissioner, is shown. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced Feek's appointment Wednesday, June 9, 2021 in Olympia, Wash. Feek had been working as acting commissioner for the ESD since February, 2021. (Washington Employment Security Dept./via AP)
Gov. names Feek as Employment Security Department head

Jun. 09, 2021 06:35 PM EDT

Man accused of stealing vaccine cards from inoculation site

Jun. 09, 2021 05:07 PM EDT
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Nevada man was charged Wednesday with stealing more than 500 blank vaccine cards from a COVID-19 vaccination center near Los Angeles,...

Hate crime charges added in Asian American store attacks

Jun. 07, 2021 06:11 PM EDT
BALTIMORE (AP) — A man accused in a rampage at three Baltimore liquor stores owned by Asian American families last month is now facing hate crime charges,...

Florida moves against foreign theft of intellectual property

By Bobby Caina Calvan Jun. 07, 2021 01:33 PM EDT
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law Monday a pair of bills focused on “nefarious foreign influence and corporate espionage” —...

Judge upholds sentence for criminal kicked by officer

By Randall Chase Jun. 04, 2021 04:27 PM EDT
DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge refused on Friday to reduce the prison sentence of a habitual criminal who made headlines after being kicked in the face by...

Feds: Unemployment fraud suspect tried to bilk IRS of $1.6M

May. 28, 2021 09:20 PM EDT
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A suspended Nigerian government official accused of stealing $350,000 from Washington state as part of a massive pandemic-related fraud...

DOJ: Arrests for murder, manslaughter up nearly 15% in 2020

May. 19, 2021 11:15 AM EDT
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The number of arrests for murder and nonnegligent manslaughter increased by nearly 15% in Wisconsin last year, according to data from the...

Fidel Martinez stands for a portrait at one of his former worksites in Minneapolis on Sunday, April 18, 2021. Martinez worked for a demolition contractor in the fall of 2020, demolishing several Walgreens stores and other structures. Martinez said the contractor owed him and his co-workers more than $20,000. His boss kept telling him the money was coming, but he would get his paychecks weeks late, and many of them he didn't get at all. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
How companies rip off poor employees — and get away with it

By Alexia Fernández Campbell And Joe Yerardi May. 04, 2021 12:12 AM EDT

Fidel Martinez stands for a portrait at one of his former worksites in Minneapolis on Sunday, April 18, 2021. Martinez worked for a demolition contractor in the fall of 2020, demolishing several Walgreens stores and other structures. Martinez said the contractor owed him and his co-workers more than $20,000. His boss kept telling him the money was coming, but he would get his paychecks weeks late, and many of them he didn't get at all. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
How companies rip off poor employees — and get away with it

By Alexia Fernández Campbell And Joe Yerardi May. 04, 2021 12:12 AM EDT

California woman admits pandemic fraud using senator's name

Apr. 19, 2021 09:18 PM EDT
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California woman who acknowledged using U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s name and Social Security number to receive $21,000 in...

FILE — In this Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018 file photo, Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia speaks to the media after leaving federal court in Boston. Correia heads to trial in federal court in April 2021 on charges that he stole more than $230,000 from investors in a smartphone app he created to pay for things like a Mercedes, casino trips and adult entertainment. As mayor, he's accused of convincing his chief of staff to give him half of her salary in order to keep her city job and extorting hundreds of thousands of dollars from marijuana businesses seeking to operate there. (Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via AP)
Wunderkind ex-mayor to face jurors in fraud, bribery case

By Alanna Durkin Richer Apr. 18, 2021 07:58 AM EDT

Woman who coughed on Bay Area Uber driver pleads not guilty

Apr. 15, 2021 12:00 AM EDT
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A woman who was caught on video coughing on and grabbing an Uber driver in San Francisco who ended the ride because she wasn't wearing a...

Kern County Assistant District Attorney Joseph Kinzel answer questions after the arraignment of Liliana Carillo in Superior Court Wednesday April, 14, 2021 in Bakersfield, Calif. The Kern County District Attorney's Office said in a news release that Liliana Carillo, 30, allegedly attempted a carjacking and theft of two vehicles in Kern County on Saturday. Carillo was apprehended in Tulare County on Saturday after being identified as the sole suspect in the deaths of her three infant children, whose bodies were discovered in Reseda earlier in the day. She is being held with a $2 million bail. The Los Angeles Police Department is leading the investigation into the deaths of the children. (Alex Horvath/Bakersfield Californian via AP)
Mom suspected in children's deaths pleads in carjacking case

Apr. 14, 2021 10:05 PM EDT

California inmate pleads guilty to $100,000 COVID fund fraud

Apr. 12, 2021 06:37 PM EDT
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California prison inmate pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to steal more than $100,000 in unemployment benefits designed to help...

Eugene police arrest 30th person in May 29 protest

Apr. 09, 2021 06:04 PM EDT
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Eugene police have now made 30 arrests of people suspected of rioting, breaking into businesses and setting fires on May 29 during a...

FILE - In this May 20, 2019, file photo, Wilber Ernesto Martinez-Guzman, from El Salvador, appears in Washoe District Court in Reno, Nev. A death penalty dispute goes before Nevada's Supreme Court Wednesday, April 7, 2021, when justices hear arguments about how long Martinez-Guzma's lawyers should have to prove he's intellectually disabled and therefore can't be executed if convicted of four murders. (Andy Barron/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP, Pool, File)
Nevada Supreme Court hears venue fight in quadruple killing

By Scott Sonner Apr. 07, 2021 07:10 AM EDT

This video provided by Mark Sung shows a man with a pole trashing an Asian-owned convenience store on Tuesday, March 30, 2021 in Charlotte, N.C. Surveillance footage shows the man pulling a merchandise rack to the floor and swinging a street sign post into the glass on the refrigerators. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police said a company that’s responsible for security at the transit center arrested Xavier Rashee Woody-Silas. He was arrested on charges that include robbery with a dangerous weapon and communicating threats. (Mark Sung/Grace Lee Sung via AP)
Police: Man with pole trashes Asian-owned convenience store

By Ben Finley Apr. 03, 2021 09:05 PM EDT