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(CNN)Parents across the Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District (CFBISD), located in a Dallas, Texas, suburb, are reeling following a string fentanyl overdoses by nine students who attend schools in the district.The students, who range in age from 13 to 17 and are not identified by name in court documents, overdosed between September 18, 2022 and February 1, 2023.

Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of FTX Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange, testifies during a congressional committee hearing in Washington on Dec. 8, 2021.Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas on Monday after the U.S. filed charges against him following his company's collapse.(Alex Wong/Getty Images) Police in the Bahamas have arrested former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, the country's attorney general said on Monday, adding that the Bahamas has received formal notification from the United States of criminal charges against him.

Federal investigators sought and were granted access to Northwest Side Ald. Jim Gardiner's text messages a little over a year after he took office, as part of an investigation into whether he accepted a $5,000 payment from a developer in exchange for stalling a housing development in the ward, according to a search warrant application unsealed this week.

There are plenty of things going on behind the scenes for Dan Snyder and the Washington Commanders as a potential sale of the team is progressing.The NFL's investigation, led by Mary Jo White, is still going on more than a year after Snyder once again tried to hire someone to investigate himself.The House Oversight Committee's investigation into Snyder and the team ended, but several other lawsuits were started because of allegations made to Congress.

"The House Committee on Ethics has opened an investigation, and Congressman George Santos is fully cooperating.There will be no further comment made at this time," Santos said in a tweet.Santos has faced a litany of ethical questions after revelations he lied about core components of his educational and professional background.

Amazon has been cited a second time for alleged workplace violations at a facility in Waukegan, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Wednesday.The agency said its investigators found Amazon warehouse workers, including in Waukegan, were at high risk for low back injuries and musculoskeletal disorders linked to the frequency with which they are required to lift heavy items, including packages.

A Worcester husband and wife have been arrested in connection with several sex trafficking charges.Kiersten Soto, 29, and Moises Soto, 30, allegedly trafficked a victim for commercial sex in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island from February through May of this year, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

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Frank James, the man allegedly responsible for the N train shooting last April that wounded 10 people, has been indicted on federal terrorism charges, prosecutors announced Friday.The charges are in addition to other counts handed down in a separate indictment back in May on charges of terrorism and gun violence.

The FBI is asking for the public's help in finding additional victims of a Hoffman Estates doctor who was recently indicted on 13 counts of health care fraud after allegedly bilking Medicaid and multiple health care programs out of nearly $800,000, officials said.A website and online questionnaire have been created to identify any more victims of Dr. Mona Ghosh, according to a statement from FBI spokesperson Siobhan Johnson.

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A former East Flatbush United States Postal Service worker has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for postal theft after she stole $4 million in blank money orders, the U.S. Attorney's office announced on Wednesday.

A Los Angeles man received a 12-year federal prison sentence Friday for attempting to transport 5 pounds of methamphetamine through LAX last year, the U.S. attorney's office said.Kiyonte Levell Sowell, 22, pleaded guilty in September to one count of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance in the February 2022 incident.

(CNN)A father and his middle-school-aged daughter have filed a federal lawsuit against a former school security guard in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after he put his knee on the child's neck while trying to break up a cafeteria fight last year.The security guard, Shawn Guetschow, also was a Kenosha police officer but was not on police duty at the time of the incident at Kenosha's Lincoln Middle School on March 4, officials have said.

Local and federal authorities have arrested 15 people in Los Angeles County suspected of cloning Electronic Benefit Transfer cards and using them to drain the funds of Southern California's poorest residents, the Justice Department said Thursday.More than 300 police officers and federal agents made the arrests early Wednesday while monitoring roughly 20 ATMs across the county, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles.

BOSTON (AP) - A Boston man offered to pay a total of $8,000 to someone he thought was a contract killer, but who was actually an undercover federal agent, to have his estranged wife and her new boyfriend killed, prosecutors said Wednesday.Mohammed Chowdhury, 46, was held at an initial hearing on a murder-for-hire charge in federal court on Tuesday pending a detention hearing scheduled for Friday, the U.S. attorney's office in Boston said in a statement.

Two men broke into a dozen Ring home security camera accounts across the U.S., placed bogus emergency calls to police, then livestreamed officers' armed responses on social media, authorities said Monday.Kya C. Nelson, 21, of Racine, Wis., and James McCarty, 20, of Charlotte, N.C., were indicted Friday by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles for the "swatting" incidents in California, Michigan, Montana, Georgia, Virginia, Texas, Illinois, Florida and Alabama.

The captain of the Conception dive boat, which caught fire and sank off the California coast more than three years ago, leaving 34 people dead, will face trial next month, according to authorities.Jerry Nehl Boylan, 68, pleaded not guilty Thursday to a charge of misconduct or neglect of a ship officer, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesperson for the U.S. attorney's office for the Central District of California.

Reputed Wicked Town gang enforcer Torance Benson was all smiles when he livestreamed a video to social media from a West Side street one night in January 2018.But the message to rival gang members was as serious as it gets."I'm tired of killin' mother(expletives)," Benson said jokingly on the Facebook Live video, which was played for federal jurors on Thursday.

A national catalytic converter theft ring that generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue was taken down in an unprecedented federal investigation, the Department of Justice said Wednesday.The operation included arrests, searches and seizures in California, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, North Carolina and Virginia.

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Back in January this year I looked at Michigan's fake electors who signed a false certification of election claiming Trump won in November 2020.All of the signatories were key members of the Michigan GOP.Two in particular were subpoenaed by the House January 6 Committee for documents and testimony: Kathy Berden, who at the time was MIGOP's national committee person to the Republican National Committee, and Mayra Rodriguez, then MIGOP's 14th District chair for Grosse Pointe Farms.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Amazon for allegedly failing to properly record work-related injuries and illnesses at six facilities around the country, including one in Waukegan.Amazon failed to properly record workplace injuries at its MDW8 facility in Waukegan, OSHA said in a news release Friday.

The former CEO of an Evanston subprime auto lender has been indicted on federal fraud charges for allegedly submitting false reports on the status of thousands of loans, which were bundled to back a $100 million bond offering for investors in 2016.James Collins, who co-founded the now-defunct Honor Finance, allegedly engaged in a multiyear accounting scheme by overstating the health of poorly performing and delinquent loans to maintain bank funding and withdraw cash from the securitized portfolio.

Could Wednesday (Nov.2) go down as a symbolic day in Washington Commanders history?It just might after Dan Snyder hired Bank of America Securities to explore potential transactions, including the sale of the team.It's currently unclear whether Snyder is considering a full sale or a minority stake, but the fact Snyder is "exploring all options," per a Commanders spokesperson, suggests he'd give up full control if the right offer presented itself.

The NFL world was set ablaze Wednesday when Forbes reported Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder hired Bank of America Securities to explore a potential sale of the franchise.It's worth noting this could include a minority stake, but the sheer backlash Snyder is facing suggests a full sale is on the table.