St. Louis Admits Mistaken Crime Data
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City officials Thursday acknowledged 2003 crime figures were way off. What looked like a drop in crime to historic lows turned out to be a 4 percent rise.
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San Francisco Giants slugger  Barry Bonds told a grand jury last year that he unknowingly  used substances at the heart of the BALCO steroid scandal, the  San Francisco Chronicle reported on Friday.
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Sensitive data for virtually all Louisiana college applicants and their parents over the past nine years were in a case lost last month during a move, officials said.
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In an Aug. 19 story about Michael Jackson, The Associated Press reported erroneously that court documents showed a public statement he asked permission to make was about the investigation into his claims he was manhandled during his arrest last year.
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THE REGION A Georgia man was sentenced to three years of probation, fined $5,000, and ordered to perform 150 hours of community service for his involvement in a scheme to steal more than $4 million from Building 19, a discount retail chain based in Hingham. Michael Brown, 63, pleaded guilty to six counts of larceny and three counts of conspiracy ...
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IT workers who've come across evidence of computer crime often find themselves facing a confusing array of options when trying to figure out where they should report their findings.
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Police have arrested a suspect in the bizarre murder of a Missouri woman last week. Lisa Montgomery, 36, of Melvern, Kan., has reportedly admitted strangling Bobbie Jo Stinnett, 23, of Skidmore, Mo.
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An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years, far more than was documented in a Justice Department report in March that ignite...
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In a July 26 story about a federal court hearing on an application by The Associated Press to have prosecutors reveal the names of major league baseball players allegedly implicated in drug use, The Associated Press erroneously reported a portion of a statement by lawyer Ethan Balogh during the hearing.
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HARTFORD, Conn. - More than 1,700 state workers recently learned that some of their personal information, including their names and Social Security numbers, had been inadvertently posted on the Internet.
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To the editor:  Lawyer Dominic Gentile is right: former policeman and Clark County Commissioner Lance Malone's punishment was wrong (Wednesday Review-Journal). But he's right for the wrong reason.  Malone's punishment wasn't too long; it was too short.
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A council admits wrongly taking 9,500 payments from bank accounts following a "computer error".
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Eight times figure previously announced Less than two thirds of people whose profile is stored on the National DNA Database are there for having been cautioned or convicted of a criminal offence, Home Office figures have revealed.â¦
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The woman who accused basketball star Kobe Bryant of rape apologized to police at one stage for providing confusing information, according to court documents released on Friday.
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Mitsubishi Motors Corp. and three former executives pleaded not guilty Wednesday to falsifying data on a vehicle defect that caused a wheel to fly off a truck and kill a pedestrian, the company said.
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An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years, far more than was documented in a Justice Department report in March that ignited...
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RUTLAND, Vt. - A man who helped his friend fake a fall that had actually occurred during a botched burglary in another town could go to prison for it. Louis Stevens, 43, pleaded guilty Wednesday to fraud under a plea deal calling for up to 20 years in prison.