In another twist in the espionage case, the wife of a former Navy nuclear engineer who acted as a lookout for her husband as he passed military secrets to someone he believed to be an agent of another country received a harsher sentence than her husband.  Diana Toebbe, a former …

The Powerball jackpot is in the neighborhood of the world record for lotteries. No winning tickets were sold for Wednesday night’s top prize of $1.2 billion, so the jackpot for Saturday night’s drawing will be at least an estimated $1.5 billion, Powerball officials said. As it stands now, that would …

During opening arguments Monday in the Trump Organization’s criminal fraud trial in New York, prosecutors painted the company’s former chief financial officer as a key player in a company scheme to supplement his income with untaxed luxury benefits. However, attorneys for the company said the former CFO, Allen Weisselberg — …

Six people were injured in a shooting outside of a Pittsburgh church where a funeral was being held for a 20-year-old man who had recently been shot and killed, Pittsburgh Police Commander Richard Ford said. Two people, including one teenager, have been charged with attempted murder in connection with Friday’s …

Sitting on a bench in front of Soldier Field, about to watch his beloved Chicago Bears play in person, money wasn’t exactly a big concern for Corey Metzger. Or any concern, really. “This trip has been a long time in the making, and I’m splurging whatever I got to spend …

Three men accused of supporting a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer were convicted of all charges Wednesday, a triumph for state prosecutors after months of mixed results in the main case in federal court. Joe Morrison, his father-in-law Pete Musico, and Paul Bellar were found guilty of providing …

A man initially considered a person of interest in the shooting deaths of a couple in New Hampshire is now accused of two counts of second-degree murder in the killings, the state attorney general’s office said. An arrest warrant has been signed charging Logan Clegg, 26, most recently of South …

Ben Stevens, a former Alaska Senate president and a son of the late U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, has died while hiking in his home state. He was 63. The Alaska State Troopers said they responded to a report Thursday evening of a hiker having a medical emergency on the Lost …

The Social Security Administration announced Thursday that its 66 million beneficiaries will receive an 8.7% cost-of-living increase for 2023, the largest annual boost since 1981.  The increase means the average benefit check will rise more than $140 to $1,827 a month, compared with the typical monthly payment of $1,681 in …

When investigative reporter Jeff German was murdered in Las Vegas, there was an extraordinary twist. Police made the shocking arrest of a sitting public official who had been accused of wrongdoing in reports written by German. The staff at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where German worked, covered the huge story while …