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NEW YORK (AP) - The Boston Marathon bombers were headed for New York's Times Square to blow up the rest of their explosives, authorities said Thursday, in what they portrayed as a chilling, spur-of-the-moment scheme that fell apart when the brothers realized the car they had hijacked was low on gas."New York City was next on their list of targets," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
...illegal commercialization of walleye and waste of game fish will not be tolerated in Minnesota." Last week, the U.S. attorney's office in Minneapolis announced four federal indictments filed against 10 tribal individuals in the same case. These...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Three members of a violent American Indian gang known for terrorizing people from the Twin Cities to reservations in greater Minnesota, Wisconsin and beyond will go on trial Tuesday in what authorities call one of the largest gang cases to come out of Indian Country.
...man, Craig Joseph Thompson - the man at the center of the methamphetamine ring - was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. Attorney's Office in the District of North Dakota on a charge of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute...
...institutions and retail businesses in at least 14 states, including stores in the Brainerd lakes area, the U.S. Attorney's office in St. Paul reported.The defendants were among 28 people, none of them from the lakes area, charged in...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Federal authorities on the lookout for election fraud say they've received calls about restaurants and coffee shops offering freebies to people wearing "I voted" stickers. U.S. Attorney's Office spokeswoman Jeanne Cooney says it's against state and federal law to offer expenditures of any kind to anyone for voting or not voting. She says her office has been working with the state and the FBI to educate the restaurants. She says authorities told the businesses they could offer free treats to everyone in celebration of Election Day if they wanted.
...ring suspected of illegally netting and selling walleye on two Indian reservations in northern Minnesota.The U.S. attorney's office says the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service led the weekend crackdown on the Leech Lake and Red Lake reservations...
...This case was the result of an investigation by the Morrison County Sheriff's Department, the Morrison County Department of Social Services and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's office.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department replaced three officials Tuesday who played critical roles in a flawed law enforcement operation aimed at major gun-trafficking networks on the Southwest border.The department announced that the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the U.S. attorney in Arizona had resigned and an administration official said a prosecutor who worked on the operation was reassigned to civil cases.