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A former FBI agent and an Internet penny stock adviser were convicted Monday of mining government computers for confidential information they used to manipulate the stock market. Former agent Jeffrey Royer was convicted of racketeering, securities fraud, obstruction of justice and witness tampering for leaking details of FBI investigations and executives' criminal histories to San Diego stock picker Anthony Elgindy. Elgindy was convicted of racketeering, securities fraud and extortion for his role in the scheme. He dropped his face into his hands and sobbed uncontrollably as the jury foreman read the verdict; U.S. marshals led him weeping from the courtroom....

Authorities have identified two suspects who attacked a Chipotle employee in South Carolina after being told that extra chicken would raise the price of their meal. Jamel Bernard Williams, 36, and Kayla Nicole Pyle, 34, both of Charlotte, have been accused of attacking a 20-year-old female Chipotle employee on December 10. Williams has been charged with assault and first-degree battery and Pyle with assault and second-degree battery. According to the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office, Pyle came into the fast food restaurant to place an order and reportedly asked for extra chicken. The unidentified employee told the customer that the extra...

Four members of the same South Carolina family face charges in the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Linwood Alan Robinson Sr., 59, Linwood Alan Robinson Jr. and Brittany Nicole Robinson were arraigned Thursday morning in federal court in Columbia before Magistrate Judge Shiva Hodges. Linwood Alan Robinson Jr., 39, and Brittany Nicole Robinson, 29, are married. A fourth family member, Benjamin Scott Robinson, a son who lives in North Carolina, accompanied the three South Carolina residents in the Capitol. He was arrested Thursday and arraigned in federal court in Charlotte, according to federal records. A fifth...

Riverside, Calif. (AP) -- Citing rampant health and safety violations, a federal judge on Monday appointed two special masters and a temporary receiver to help manage a Coachella Valley trailer park on Indian land that is home to up to 6,000 migrant workers. U.S. District Judge Stephen G. Larson appointed as special masters Pierre-Richard Prosper, a former U.S. ambassador in the Clinton administration and an expert on war crimes, and Jack Shine, president and chief executive of First Financial Group. Attorney Mark S. Adams was named temporary receiver, with the power to order emergency repairs at the park and control...