The Federal Bureau of Investigation can withhold data from a civil liberties group on its use of ethnic and racial information.

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Almost two decades after a corrupt FBI agent helped him avoid capture, reputed crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger is starting a trial that may shed new light on a shameful period for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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A Eureka man was indicted this week for allegedly threatening to bomb the Jefferson County Courthouse in Hillsboro. The indictment alleges that Scott R. Jones called in the threat Nov. 16 from his cellular phone. He called the Division 6 ...

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In the past two years, the St. Louis Division of the FBI topped all other U.S. field offices in arrests of individuals on child pornography and child sex charges. Since John Gillies (left) joined the office as the special agent in charge in October 2007, the office has arrested 107 child predators. There have been more that 114 indictments and 93 convictions.

"Predators may think they can hide in the security of their own homes and think they're safe," Gillies said in a press conference on Wednesday. "But I assure them they're not."

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The American people are ambivalent about intelligence - demanding more of it only when they're frightened. That's the opinion of a former director both the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency William H. Webster spoke to a group of people attending the 2009 Corporate Anti-Terrorism Conference this week at Washington University School of Law. Webster was a judge on the U.S. District Court in St. Louis from 1970 to 1973, when he was named to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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The economic crisis has sparked an increase in criminal fraud, including an “exponential rise” in mortgage scams that is straining the FBI’s resources, a leader of the agency said. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has more than 1,800 open investigations ...

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CORRECTION: In an earlier version of this story, Timothy Frishholz’s name was misspelled. We regret the error. A federal judge ordered a drunken driver to pay more than $695,000 to a woman he injured in a nearly head-on collision in ...

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One of President George W. Bush’s legacies will be spelled “NSL,” as in national security letter. Bush did not dream up NSLs. Congress enacted the legislation creating NSLs in 1986. What the president oversaw was an explosion in their use ...

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