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Hongmei Madole, also known as Hongmei Zhou, the owner of a massage parlor in Olathe, Kansas, pled guilty to inducing persons to travel across state lines and national borders to engage in prostitution and illegal sexual services.

Simon Anthony White, Jr., of Red Lake, Minnesota, was sentenced to 12 years in prison and lifetime supervised release for sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl.

Larry W. Crites, of Taunton, Massachusetts, was sentenced to two years in federal prison for trying to extort money from two men in the Taunton area at the behest of another individual.

Frank P. Magliochetti, of North Andover, Massachusetts, the former CEO of Med Diversified, Inc., a home health care company, was sentenced for money laundering and filing a false tax return.

AP - Maurice Pulley agreed last fall to testify against the thug accused of shooting him in the face in an argument over a parking spot. But before Pulley ever took the stand, two gunmen ran up to him and killed him in his mother’s driveway.

AFP - The third trial of the Florida men charged with plotting to destroy buildings with Al-Qaeda support will begin on January 6, 2009, a US federal judge announced Wednesday.

Texas officials said Wednesday that they’re investigating the possible sexual abuse of some young boys taken from a polygamist sect’s ranch, as well as broken bones among children.

A federal jury in Miami, Florida convicted dermatologist Ana Caos, M.D., on all charged counts, including; conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government, to cause the submission of false claims to Medicare, and to solicit and receive kickbacks; and conspiracy to commit health care fraud.

Chicago police doing a well-being check at a South Side home discovered three people apparently shot to death.

Sennett H. Swift, an unlicensed loan officer from Sacramento, California, was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for bank fraud and money laundering.