Crime, Law and Justice

ICE keeps Augsburg prof from Kenya in limbo
Immigration officials told the professor to come back next month.
'Pharma Bro' cries in court, apologizes for fraud, gets 7 years
Martin Shrkeli, the smirking "Pharma Bro" vilified for jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug, was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison for defrauding investors in two failed hedge funds.
The lawsuit follows action the ACLU took in the case of a Congolese woman and her 7-year-old daughter, who the group said was taken from her mother "screaming and crying" and placed in a Chicago facility.
Put down the phone: Texting-while-driving citations jump in Minnesota
Citations have doubled the past few years even as write-ups for speeding and seat belt use decline, state officials said Friday as they urged people to stay focused on the road.
A former middle school cafeteria worker who argued the sexually explicit photos and texts she sent to a student were constitutionally-protected free speech has now pleaded guilty to felony charges in Dakota County.
Florida governor signs gun restrictions 3 weeks after attack
As a gun-control bill sits on the governor's desk, the Broward County Sheriff's Office released 12 minutes of radio transmissions from its deputies and a neighboring police agency highlighting the chaos during the Feb. 14 attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
A backgrounder on background checks
The shooting in South Florida has ignited the national debate about how to fix, and whether to expand, the gun sales background check system. But what are background checks and how do they work?
Former Starkey executive, associate convicted in fraud scheme
Federal jurors in Minneapolis Thursday convicted a former hearing aid company executive and one of his business associates in a multi-million dollar fraud scheme.
Paul Manafort pleads not guilty to conspiracy, tax and bank fraud charges
The former Trump campaign chairman pleaded not guilty to conspiracy, tax and bank fraud charges. Manafort faces a separate federal trial on other charges also brought by special counsel Robert Mueller's office in a Washington, D.C., case.