INDIANAPOLIS — Relatives of notorious 1930s gangster John Dillinger who plan to have his remains exhumed say they have "evidence" the body buried in an Indianapolis cemetery beneath a gravestone bearing his name may not be him and FBI agents possibly killed someone else in 1934. The Indiana State Department...
Judge Overturns 2006 Terrorist Conviction of Lodi Man
SACRAMENTO — A federal judge on Tuesday overturned the 2006 conviction of a Lodi man accused of plotting an attack in the United States after attending a terrorist training camp in Pakistan. Federal prosecutors were reviewing the decision and did not immediately say whether they will seek to retry Hamid...
Gilroy Festival Killer's Motive Still a Mystery
GILROY — The 19-year-old gunman who opened fire at a Northern California food festival was "kind of a loner" and much of his life was shrouded in mystery, the FBI said Tuesday as investigators searched for a motive. Police believe Santino William Legan fired randomly Sunday, killing three people, after cutting through...
Capital One Target of Massive Data Breach
SEATTLE — A hacker gained access to personal information from more than 100 million Capital One credit applications, the bank said Monday as federal authorities arrested a suspect in the case. Paige A. Thompson — who also goes by the handle "erratic" — was charged with a single count of computer...
Trump Says He'd 'Want to Hear' Foreign Dirt on His Rivals
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that if a foreign power offered dirt on his 2020 opponent, he'd be open to accepting it and would have no obligation to call in the FBI. "I think I'd want to hear it," Trump said in an interview with ABC News, adding,...
“American Taliban” John Walker Lindh Is Released From Prison
John Walker Lindh, the Californian who took up arms for the Taliban and was captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan in 2001, got out of prison Thursday after more than 17 years, released under tight restrictions that reflected government fears he still harbors radical views. President Donald Trump reacted by...
Identity Theft Sends Clovis Man to Federal Prison
U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd has sent a loud message to a 47-year-old Clovis man that identity theft doesn't pay. Drozd sentenced Johnny Kajitani Jr. to two years and 10 months for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced in a news release Tuesday. The judge also ordered...
FBI Chief: No Evidence of Illegal Spying on Trump Campaign
WASHINGTON — FBI Director Chris Wray said Tuesday that he does not consider court-approved FBI surveillance to be "spying" and said he has no evidence the FBI illegally monitored President Donald Trump's campaign during the 2016 election. His comments at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing broke from Attorney General William Barr,...
Feds Accuse Fresno Group Home CEO of Insurance Fraud
The founder and CEO of a Fresno group home has been indicted for allegedly defrauding insurance companies. A federal grand jury returned an eight-count indictment earlier this month against Orlando Gillam, 45, of Fresno. He faces mail fraud charges, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced Wednesday in a news release....
FBI Aids Probe After Car Plows Into 8 California Pedestrians
SUNNYVALE — The FBI is assisting California officials in the investigation of a motorist who appeared to deliberately plow into a group of people, injuring eight, authorities said Wednesday. Prentice Danner, a spokesman for the FBI's field office in San Francisco, said the Sunnyvale Police Department is the lead agency...