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UK judge: IRA fugitive letters flawed, not illegal 07/17/2014 02:38pm • LONDON (AP) -- A U.K. government policy of issuing letters assuring Irish Republican Army fugitives they weren't wanted by police was flawed, but didn't give criminals a "get out of jail free card," a British judge said Thursday.Justice Heather Hallett said the contentious "comfort letters," a littl Judge: We've all been 19 07/17/2014 02:10pm • DETROIT (AP) -- A judge in Detroit says, "We've all been 19." He's defending his decision to sentence Latrez Cummings to just six months in jail for an assault on a motorist. Prosecutors said the sentence was too lenient.The 19-year-old is among five people who've pleaded guilty to assaulting Steve Watchdog report faults FBI laboratory probe 07/17/2014 04:32am • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI and Justice Department didn't move quickly enough to identify the cases handled by 13 FBI crime lab examiners whose work was found to be flawed, meaning defendants sometimes were never notified that their convictions may have been based on bad Justice Dept. investigating missing IRS emails 07/17/2014 03:16am • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department is investigating the circumstances behind the disappearance of emails from a former senior Internal Revenue Service official, part of a broader criminal inquiry into whether the agency had targeted conservative groups seeking tax Court: Dutch liable for 300 Srebrenica deaths 07/16/2014 06:42pm • MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- A court on Wednesday ordered the Netherlands to compensate the families of more than 300 Bosnian Muslims killed after Dutch troops handed them over to Bosnian Serb forces in 1995, in a ruling that could make countries more leery to contribu Man charged in ND with masquerading as FBI agent 07/16/2014 04:56pm • JOSH WOOD Associated Press WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) -- A convicted con man who swindled Nashville, Tennessee, businesses out of five-star hotel rooms, stretch limousine rides, helicopter rentals and expensive gifts didn't fare quite as well during a month in the North Dakota oil patch, investigators con Muslim American group condemns Westminster graffiti 07/16/2014 01:44pm • WASHINGTON - A group that represents American Muslims is condemning the anti- immigrant graffiti found at a former Army Reserve base in Maryland. The message "No illeagles (sic) here. No undocumented Democrats" was spray painted onto the side of a building at the Westminster base that was suggest Reputed Detroit mob boss Jack W. Tocco dies at 87 07/16/2014 11:45am • GROSSE POINTE PARK, Mich. (AP) -- Reputed Detroit mob boss Jack W. Tocco, who was convicted of racketeering in 1998 in a federal crackdown on organized crime, has died. He was 87.Tocco, who said he fought his entire life to clear his name, died Monday at home in the Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe P 2 Utah ex-attorneys general charged with bribery 07/16/2014 10:04am • MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- As candidates for attorney general, Mark Shurtleff and John Swallow vowed to root out fraud and uphold the laws of Utah with the highest integrity. They served a combined 13 years as attorney general while holding significant political sway a UK lawmakers debate emergency data-retention law 07/15/2014 10:40pm • LONDON (AP) -- British lawmakers debated the balance between privacy and security Tuesday during an unusual one-day session designed to rush an online surveillance bill through Parliament.A series of government and opposition legislators spoke in the House of Commons to condemn the Data Retention an 2 ex-Utah attorneys general charged with bribery 07/15/2014 08:00pm • MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Two former Utah attorneys general were arrested on an array of bribery charges Tuesday stemming from cozy relationships with several businessmen, a stunning fall for a pair of politicians who built immense political clout in their years at th FBI cyber expert is ex-discount furniture salesman 07/15/2014 07:20pm • JOE MANDAK Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) -- J. Keith Mularski's world has expanded greatly since he stopped selling discount furniture to join the FBI in 1998. Especially since he transferred from Washington, D.C., in 2005 to fill a vacancy in the Pittsburgh field office's cyber squad -- which he Missouri man gets 14 years in sex trafficking case 07/15/2014 05:20pm • JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A Missouri man was sentenced Tuesday to 14 years in prison for taking a developmentally delayed teenage girl from Massachusetts to a motel in Rhode Island, where he sold her to a man for $40 and two packs of cigarettes to use for sex.Thirt Kenya postelection violence victims seek justice 07/15/2014 12:09pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- An international human rights group says victims of the violence in Kenya that killed more than 1,000 people and displaced more than 600,000 from their homes six years ago are still seeking justice and reparation.Amnesty International said Tuesday that Kenya's government and p US jails struggle with role as makeshift asylums 07/15/2014 05:26am • ADAM GELLER AP National Writer CHICAGO (AP) -- Peering through the chain link of a holding pen at the Cook County Jail, a man wrapped in a navy varsity jacket leans toward clinical social worker Elli Petacque Montgomery, his bulging eyes a clue that something's not right."They say I got bipolar, tha