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HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. -- Federal agents have joined the search for a thief who stole a large volume of ammonium nitrate from a nursery in Huntington Beach, according to NBC4. Ammonium nitrate is used to make fertilizer but can also be used to make very powerful explosives -- as in the case of the Oklahoma City bombing. Authorities told NBC4 that fertilizer stolen this week is not a kind that can be used to make explosives, but officials are taking a cautious approach. The FBI released a statement Thursday morning. "This fertilizer cannont be used in the manufacture of explosives....

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) - A federal judge threw out evidence against four men charged with laundering more than $60 million through their chain of U.S. Virgin Islands grocery stores, ruling that FBI agents acted in "reckless disregard for the truth." The ruling, released Monday, found that the FBI's search warrant was obtained improperly. It said agents, who had claimed to have seen suspicious tax records from the men, admitted they had only seen a computer printout of the records and did not thoroughly verify the evidence with the U.S. Caribbean territory's Internal Revenue Bureau. U.S. Attorney spokesman...

NEW YORK, Dec. 23, 2004 — A California woman reveals to ABC News that she unknowingly married a Muslim extremist who helped set up what authorities say was one of the first al Qaeda sleeper cells out of their Orange County apartment complex. Saraah Olson says she watched as her then-husband, Hisham Diab, and his group transformed local teen Adam Gadahn into an America-hating fanatic who she says is the masked man who promised in an al Qaeda video message released in Pakistan late October that the "streets of America will run red with blood." Olson said she repeatedly tried...

A state appeals court upheld the 90-day sentence and DUI conviction of a former FBI agent involved in a wrong-way crash that left two brothers dead. David Farrall, then still an agent, was driving drunk on Interstate 95 in November 1999 when he smashed head-on into Lauderhill brothers Maurice Williams, 23, and Craig Chambers, 19. Florence Thompson, the victims' mother, said Wednesday's ruling from the 4th District Court of Appeal came as welcome news but also as a painful reminder of loss and what she sees as injustice. "They found him guilty of drunk driving. ... He's guilty of manslaughter,"...