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British pop star Sting says Brazil's government should listen to the voices of local indigenous groups before building a massive hydroelectric dam in the Amazon rain forest.
An appeals court has ruled Pennsylvania State Police botched a prostitution investigation in which troopers gave an informant money to pay for sex four times at a massage parlor, along with a total of $180 for the man's trouble.
Sting isn't a religious man, but he says President Barack Obama might be a divine answer to the world's problems.
Private unlicensed gun dealers were captured on video selling weapons to undercover investigators who admitted they couldn't pass background checks in a sting operation by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to highlight the "gun show loophole."
State investigators who ramped up their use of sting operations to catch Internet child predators four years ago are frustrated by a judge who has refused to impose a stiffer penalty in a case against a former sports editor.
It usually starts with a snitch and a sting operation, followed by a great deal of publicity and controversy.
An undercover investigation into poaching and illegal sales of New York's native turtles, snakes and salamanders has led to charges against 25 people, state environmental officials said Thursday.
After singing of "Fields of Gold," British rock star Sting is tending fields of grapes as he prepares to market red wine made at his country estate in Tuscany.
Sting thrilled a Romanian audience of 4,000 with his renditions on the lute of Elizabethan music interspersed with classics from his Police days such as "Roxanne."
It might have looked like easy money to O'Hare International Airport worker Riad Skaff: $26,500 to help smuggle night-vision goggles, rifle scopes and cash aboard Paris-bound jets.
NBC Universal has settled a $105 million lawsuit brought by a woman who claimed a televised sex sting by "Dateline NBC: To Catch A Predator" drove her brother to kill himself.
A former children's services lawyer accused in an Internet child-sex sting pleaded guilty Tuesday to two charges.
A former small-town Missouri mayor and pastor can go to trial over allegations he made sexual advances in an Internet chat room to a detective posing as a 13-year-old girl, a judge ruled Monday.
City officials say a federal judge helped their lawsuit against gun dealers by ruling that there was no crime in sending undercover investigators into gun shops to try to buy weapons illegally.
A sting targeting alcohol sales to underage customers produced a startling result, police said: Not a single arrest.
A small-town mayor and pastor charged with enticing a child over the Internet was recorded calling the investigating detective at home Wednesday and asking him to stop the case.
A small-town mayor and church pastor was in jail Monday on charges of soliciting sex over the Internet from a police detective posing as a 13-year-old girl.
Authorities found child pornography among the possessions of a prosecutor who fatally shot himself last year when police arrived at his home as part a sting arranged by "Dateline NBC: To Catch A Predator," according to a state report.
A man was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison Tuesday for plotting to help a supposed al-Qaida operative blow up U.S. oil pipelines and refineries.
A former children's services lawyer was in jail Thursday, a day after authorities allege he went to the Ohio Statehouse to meet someone he thought was a 15-year-old girl he had met online.
A federal prosecutor from Florida accused of flying to Detroit last month to molest a 5-year-old girl committed suicide in his cell Friday in federal prison, authorities said.
An employment tribunal ordered Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler, on Tuesday to pay a former chef $51,000 in compensation after she won a sexual-discrimination claim against them.
An employment tribunal ruled Thursday that Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler, discriminated against their chef by firing her after she became pregnant.
A woman's five children were in protective custody after she was charged with offering to let an undercover investigator have sex with her 7-year-old daughter.
A Portland couple arranged to trade marijuana for the chance to have sex with a 5-year-old girl, the authorities said Tuesday.
Sting claims he once confronted a ghostThe singer, who famously sang Spirits In The Material World in the 1980s, said wife Trudie Styler also witnessed the figure, standing with a child in the corner of their bedroom.
13-year-old boy arrested as 'john' in Mobile police prostitution sting A 13-year-old boy was one of 15 people arrested last week during an undercover prostitution sting in northwest Mobile.
Gang takes flour after drug sting goes wrong A gang made off with 80 kilograms of flour after police set up a drugs sting but went home before their targets arrived.
Sting: Obama best person to handle world's 'mess'"But Sting is serious in his belief that Obama is the best leader to navigate the world's problems.
Another Obama program caught in undercover stingFree money! During a 37.5-hour work week, Willey reported actually working only 14 hours – but she was paid for more than 37 hours of work.
ACORN sting conducted in National City [Corruption comes to my home town, San Diego]A duo posing as a prostitute and a pimp who secretly recorded themselves getting financial advice nationwide from the community organizing group ACORN conducted the sting in National City in July, an ACORN spokesman confirmed Wednesday afternoon.
ACORN, a Nut They Won't Crack On Friday, Sept. 11, the U.S. Census Bureau announces that the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), a major player during the 2008 election, will no longer be handling any part of the 2010 Census. On Monday, Sept. 14, the Democrat-controlled U.S.
34 charged in Craigslist prostitution sting 34 men and women have been arrested in an undercover prostitution sting called "Operation Hot Date."
Two people dress up as cliched characters and request admittance into a program for the poor. From this fictitious encounter comes actual behaviors from the members of this program. These actions are the result of the fiction.
Undercover "journalists" James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles have made headlines recently for three videos which expose ACORN employees as they dole out illegal advice regarding tax evasion and child pornography.
Scene & Heard: CrudeMosaec.com's Scene & Heard Q&A with Joe Berlinger, the director of Crude.
Trial explores drowning fetish To satisfy his sexual perversion, Jeffrey Doland flew to Miami to meet Kathy, a woman he met online who agreed to let him forcibly dunk her two young girls in a pool or bathtub ``until the bubbles stop rising,'' prosecutors say.
Scorpion hiding in Vietnamese fruit basket stings young girl A gift basket from Vietnam contained a venomous surprise for a seven-year-old girl, who was rushed to the hospital in Bonn after being stung by a stowaway scorpion.
Useful Resources - Sting Pain IndexAmong connoisseurs of insect stings, it's the equivalent of Robert Parker's wine ratings. Schmidt has been stung by about 150 different species on six continents and seems to have opinions about all of them.
Wasp kills a woman in a bizarre incident in western CroatiaA woman in Croatia died in a bizarre incident over the weekend in which a wasp entered her open mouth and stung her tongue.
Like a little sex with that haircut?Guys were getting shaved, all right. But not the way you think.
Informant leads FBI sting operation of corruption in New JerseyA major FBI operation in New Jersey has ensnared more than 40 people - including mayors, lawmakers and rabbis - in a massive corruption scandal.
Prostitution sting nets 8 arrests of Johns at motel - St. Petersburg TimesEight men were arrested during a prostitution sting at a Nebraska Avenue motel Tuesday night.
Duke U. Official Caught in Alleged Child Sex StingThe informant said, according to court papers, that Lombard, who is white, said that he lived in the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina and that the child was one of two adopted African-Americans in his custody.
Duke Official Charged With Offering 5-Year-Old Son for Sex A Duke University official has been arrested and charged with offering his adopted 5-year-old son for sex.
Man arrested in sex sting traveled to have sex with a 6 & 9 year oldHernando deputies arrested a man they say traveled to Spring Hill to have sex with two children, and led police on a chase when they tried to arrest him.
Kite -surfer stranded in poisonous jellyfish shoal A British kite-surfer was left fighting for life after he became trapped in a two mile slick of poisonous jellyfish off the coast of Costa Rica.
Major drug probe leads to 34 arrests, grabs cocaine, guns and cashAn 18-month investigation targeting a major West Coast drug trafficking operation has let to nearly three dozen indictments in Washington and Clackamas counties.
Porn king reports police over crime gang sting Swedish porn baron Berth Milton has filed a complaint accusing police of using him in a sting operation targeting one of Sweden's most dangerous criminal gangs without his knowledge.
Swedish police in major paedophile stingA man in Uppland in central Sweden is suspected of raping a minor and exploiting more than 70 young girls who were coerced into exposing themselves on the internet. The police investigation has been described as the largest of its kind in Sweden to date.
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