More than $700,000 seized last year in a federal drug case will be used to pay for more investigations into drug-trafficking activities in Western New York.

MIAMI -- Coordinated raids on suspected marijuana grow houses across Florida netted at least 135 arrests and seizure of high-potency pot plants worth an estimated $41 million on the street -- including two in West Volusia County, law enforcement officials

A Fort Worth real estate appraiser was one of two men who pleaded guilty this week of federal charges involving an alleged two-year mortgage fraud scheme that engulfed more than 200 homes in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

HARTFORD — In a normal year, legislators are fighting to adopt a new budget while many factions push to keep their top priorities alive. This isn’t a normal year.

Most house hunters believe this is the best time in years to buy, a bank survey reveals. The ASB Bank housing confidence survey, conducted over May, June and July, found the number of people optimistic about buying a house was sharply up on the previous s