Former FBI Director Louis Freeh's investigation into possible wrongdoing at Penn State University appears to be examining football coach Joe Paterno's apparent preference for handling scandalous issues internally, and what role that may have played in a potential cover-up involving former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, convicted on 45 counts of child sex abuse on June 22.
Two senior police officers are being investigated over their alleged knowledge that the phone belonging to murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler was hacked, the UK's independent police watchdog said Thursday.
More than five million Jeep vehicles are being investigated by the federal government for deadly fuel-tank fires caused by rear-impact collisions.
As the Roger Clemens trial plods along, many are asking, in one form or another: Why did Congress waste millions of our tax dollars to investigate if a baseball player used steroids?
Eleven Secret Service members are relieved of duty amid allegations of misconduct in Colombia involving prostitution.
President Barack Obama called Sunday for a "thorough" and "rigorous" investigation into allegations involving prostitutes and Secret Service agents in Colombia.
A judge on Saturday barred environmental and consumer groups from participating in a criminal court investigation into the wreck of cruise liner Costa Concordia that killed at least 25 people, attorneys said.
It's fairly clear the federal investigation into Penn State University won't be a duplication of the grand jury probe that led to charges of more than 50 counts of child sex abuse against Jerry Sandusky.
Police in London have applied for a court order under the Official Secrets Act to try to force the Guardian newspaper to reveal confidential sources who have provided information on the phone-hacking scandal.
CNN's Dan Simon reports on Apple's efforts to track down a suspected prototype for the iPhone 5.
Police here have opened an investigation into the search of a man's home by Apple employees, an official said Wednesday.
Notorious serial killer Ted Bundy confessed to more than 30 murders before he was sent to Florida's electric chair in 1989, but experts have always believed there were more.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday that federal investigators are looking into requests by lawmakers to investigate News Corp., the multinational media conglomerate run by Rupert Murdoch.
Some Senators are calling for a Justice Department investigation into Rubert Murdoch's companies in the U.S.
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, now under investigation in connection with the deaths of protesters, will be transferred from a hospital here to a military hospital, an Egyptian official told CNN.
Hosni Mubarak is hospitalized two days after Egypt's chief prosecutor summoned him for questioning. Coincidence? Maybe.
CNN's Ivan Watson reports conflict-weary Lebanese have a simple request from their leaders: stability and peace.
Nearly six years after the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, a prosecutor has submitted the long-awaited results of an international investigation to a judge at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, the tribunal said Monday.
Authorities have arrested 11 people in connection with a suspected terror plot targeting Belgium, officials there said Tuesday.
The Defense Department will reopen its investigation into employees who are alleged to have downloaded child pornography, a spokesman said Wednesday.
The Department of Justice served the state of West Virginia two subpoenas this week, the governor's office said late Friday, adding that they had "not been informed that Governor [Joe] Manchin or any other state employee is under investigation."
The crew of a tour boat that sank in a collision in the Delaware River last week made radio calls to a vessel involved in the crash, but those calls went unanswered, federal investigators said Monday.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio calls himself "America's toughest sheriff." He is famous for creating a tent city jail in the Arizona desert; for providing pink underwear for inmates; for bragging that he spends more to feed his dog than a prisoner in his jail.
At my local gym Thursday, one of the television sets showed the live CNN broadcast of Rep. Henry Waxman questioning BP CEO Tony Hayward about how so much could have gone wrong.
A deal to ease the Israeli blockade of Gaza could be in place "pretty quickly," Middle East envoy Tony Blair told CNN Wednesday.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair talks to CNN about resolving the crisis to Gaza.
Israel's cabinet unanimously backed the creation of an "independent public commission" Monday to investigate the deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, the prime minister's office said.
Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday declared the fatal shooting of a Mexican teenager at the border "extremely regrettable," and said the FBI was leading an investigation into the incident involving the U.S. Border Patrol.
Israel's resistance to an independent, international investigation into its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship is "another proof of their guilt," Turkey's foreign minister said Sunday.
The former suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway is now the prime suspect in the murder of a Peruvian woman.
More than 200 emergency medical technicians, firefighters and police officers in Massachusetts and New Hampshire may have to surrender their licenses after an investigation into falsified EMT course completion certificates, state officials say.
Goldman Sachs stock tumbled Friday after a pair of analysts cut their rating on the firm amid reports of a federal criminal investigation into the Wall Street investment bank.
A faulty monitoring system on a gasoline tank at a Puerto Rico storage facility most likely led to a massive fire in October that damaged homes and businesses more than a mile away, federal investigators said Tuesday.
CNN's Brian Todd reports on the latest on the investigation into the man suspected of killing 13 people at Fort Hood.
The suspect in last week's deadly shooting spree at Fort Hood urged in 2007 that Muslims in the U.S. Army be allowed to claim conscientious objector status when it comes to fighting other Muslims in war, a defense official said Tuesday.
The photographs are haunting: a toddler with huge, saucer eyes; a teenager smiling shyly; a middle-aged couple; a freckle-faced Little Leaguer.
Last week's "balloon boy" incident is being investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration, an agency representative said Tuesday.
One of three men charged with lying to federal agents during a terrorism probe warned a co-defendant that their phone call was being monitored, according to court papers.
CNN.com's blogger bunch discusses the difference between a suspect and a person of interest.
It's a familiar scenario: A major crime is committed. Police investigate possible leads while the media asks for information. Soon, authorities say they have a "person of interest."
The intense public interest surrounding the September 8th disappearance of 24-year-old Yale graduate student Annie Le has, since the discovery of her body last Sunday inside a wall of the laboratory building where she had been working, shifted over to a male lab technician who was described by New Haven Police as a "person of interest."
A House ethics panel said it is investigating allegations against three lawmakers, including Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.
Prosecutors will reopen the investigation into the death of New York Rangers draft pick Alexia Cherepanov, who collapsed during a Continental Hockey League game last year in Russia.
New search warrants filed today seek evidence supporting a manslaughter charge and 'prescribing to an addict.'
Search warrants filed Thursday in court in Clark County, Nevada, and carried out at properties of Michael Jackson's doctor imply that investigators looking into his death believe the singer was a drug addict.
It was early one Sunday morning when the killer rang at a front door that was decorated with a wreath for Christmas. When his victim answered, he fired four fatal shots, ran off and disappeared.
Nancy Grace producer Rupa Mikkilineni discusses a possible break in the case of Nicole Ganguzza.
His alleged victim is still unidentified but both his and Rihanna's Grammy appearances were canceled
The FBI has opened an investigation into an undisclosed incident from 2000 involving an Oakland Police Department commander, a department spokesman said Friday.
Family, friends, teammates and thousands of fans paid their last respects Wednesday to Alexei Cherepanov, the 19-year-old rising hockey star who died after suffering heart problems during a game outside Moscow.
Seven employees of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's administration have agreed to give statements in the state Legislature's investigation into her firing of the state's public safety commissioner, the attorney general and lawmakers involved in the probe said Sunday.
The FBI is investigating Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers and AIG - and their executives - as part of a broad look into possible mortgage fraud, sources with knowledge of the investigation told CNN Tuesday.
Log 4: A victim's stolen dreams June-July 2008
Israel's defense minister said Wednesday that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert should step down while he defends himself against corruption allegations.
Authorities continue to investigate Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and a former top aide, and a court said Tuesday it may question a foreign national in connection with the probe.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is hopeful that peace can be reached soon. CNN's Atika Shubert reports.
Amid investigations into fatal shootings of civilians and allegations of tax violations, Blackwater USA's multimillion-dollar contract to protect diplomats in Baghdad has been renewed, the State Department said Friday
The Federal Aviation Administration is putting the public at risk with lax oversight and a too-cozy relationship with the airlines, a top lawmaker and aviation experts said Tuesday.
In March 1985, 30-year-old James Larkins was found shot to death in his car. Miami-Dade detectives knew only that Larkins was involved in selling cocaine and that no one wanted to talk. The case quickly grew cold.
A British man who reappeared five years after he was thought to have drowned in a canoeing accident has been arrested on suspicion of fraud, police confirmed Wednesday.
"Human error factors" probably were involved in a ship crash and oil spill that killed nearly 400 birds in San Francisco Bay and prompted a federal criminal probe, the U.S. Coast Guard said Monday.
Senator grills ex-Bush aide
Madrid train bomb trial ends
Two men who had been relatively minor defendants have been upgraded to prime suspects in the Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people and wounded 1,800 others in 2004.
The U.S. military commander investigating the actions of Marines after a suicide car bomb struck their convoy in Afghanistan last month has referred the case to the Navy's Criminal Investigative Service, Pentagon officials said.
For decades, few things have inspired as much fear and loathing in the executive suites of corporate America as the law firm of Milberg Weiss and the two outsized personalities who ruled the place,...
The Pentagon is investigating the deaths of more than two dozen Iraqi civilians, including women and children, by U.S. troops.
The search for two Milwaukee, Wisconsin, boys reported missing last week has become a criminal investigation, police said Sunday.
The U.S. Army will launch a criminal investigation to determine whether former NFL player Cpl. Pat Tillman's 2004 death from friendly fire in Afghanistan was negligent homicide, CNN learned on Saturday.
Tens of thousands lined the streets of central Beirut Wednesday for the funeral of Gebran Tueni, an anti-Syrian member of parliament and head of a prominent newspaper who was killed Monday in a car bombing.
Syria's reluctance to cooperate with U.N. investigators probing the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri may delay the findings for up to two years, the head of that investigation said Tuesday.
A stormy Lebanese Cabinet session Monday ended with a call for an international investigation into a string of high-profile attacks on critics of Syrian involvement of Lebanon, spurring five pro-Syrian ministers to suspend participation in the government.
Iraq's interior minister has defended a government facility that was found to be holding dozens of prisoners, including some showing signs of torture, saying it held "the most criminal terrorists."
A prominent Sunni party has called for an international investigation into the discovery of an Iraqi Interior Ministry compound allegedly holding more than 160 detainees -- some with clear signs of torture.
Five U.S. Marines were killed in Iraq on Wednesday during a firefight near the Syrian border in Ubaydi, the military said.
Lebanon's opposition has called for the resignation of pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud and a general strike after a car bombing killed a prominent anti-Syrian journalist.
Two government programs designed to prevent terrorists from smuggling weapons of mass destruction into the United States are under-performing, leaving the nation's ports vulnerable, congressional investigators said Wednesday.
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has said he hopes nuclear talks between three European Union countries and Iran this week could make progress, and appealed to Iran to compromise.
The Bush administration on Wednesday called for an international investigation into last week's violence in the eastern Uzbek city of Andijan, and said it was becoming increasingly clear that Uzbek forces deliberately fired on protesters.
Police said Thursday that the search for a Georgia bride-to-be who disappeared while jogging has been classified as a criminal investigation.
Under pressure from the United Nations and opposition politicians, Lebanon's security chief said he was putting his fate in the hands of Prime Minister Najib Mikati.
The U.N. Security Council has unanimously authorized an international investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
A New York-based defense contractor is facing a federal criminal probe over faulty electronic parts built by one of its units, according to the Wall Street Journal.
If you are -- as I am -- a devotee of sports talk radio, then you have been bombarded this week with criticism of Congress' decision to subpoena a number of current and former baseball players to testify about steroid use. Only discussion of the NCAA basketball championships has vied for prominence with the steroid subpoena story.
The sonorous voice is familiar around the world. No matter what the crisis of the day, Kofi Annan's soft baritone always manages to convey a sense of imperturbable gravitas.
The Pentagon's investigation into allegations a Halliburton subsidiary may have overcharged for gasoline delivered to Iraq last year is now a criminal probe, the Pentagon said Monday.
The Pentagon's investigation into allegations a Halliburton subsidiary may have overcharged for gasoline delivered to Iraq last year is now a criminal probe, the Pentagon said Monday.
Sources have revealed new details from the Army's criminal investigation into reports of abuse of Iraqi detainees, including the location of the suspected crimes and evidence that is being sought.
The Pentagon has asked its criminal unit to investigate allegations that Halliburton Co., the oil field services company once run by Vice President Dick Cheney, overcharged the U.S. government for fuel delivered to Iraq, three U.S. lawmakers said Friday.
A Democratic senator called on the White House Tuesday to require all its employees to sign waivers of confidentiality as part of the investigation into who leaked the name of a CIA operative to a journalist last summer.
It's hard to imagine somebody less suited to testifying in front of an ornery congressional committee than Joe Nacchio, a man who stood at the center of the telecom boom, ran a company once worth $...
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