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Doris Payne's rap sheet dates back six decades. She walked into an upscale jewelry store last October and walked out with a $22,500 ring. On Monday, she was sentenced to four years in custody.

In March, around 100 immigrants who formerly had been living in the U.S. illegally walked up to the Otay Mesa Port of Entry and asked for political asylum or humanitarian parole. Twenty-four have been deported.

A convicted felon who masterminded a massive Ponzi scheme nearly three decades ago, then became a fraud investigator and pastor after getting out of prison, was sentenced Monday to five years behind bars for defrauding a San Diego church and its congregation out of more than $3 million.

Officers were told to limit when they sit people on the curb for questioning and when they ask them if they're on probation or parole.

Let's Do The Time Warp Again!

Daily Show writer Kevin Bleyer's comic rewrite tracks the flaws in America's founding documents, from the 17 "alcohol, voting and slavery" amendments to one president's belief that the Constitution should expire every 19 years.

Robert Rizzo, who paid himself an $800,000 salary for running the small town of Bell, Calif., took advantage of the fact that there were "no checks and balances" in city government, the judge said.

What motivated the former NSA contractor to divulge carefully guarded NSA secrets? A new Vanity Fair article takes a look back at the "kid from the Maryland suburbs."

Lawmakers have proposed a bill that would make the Bible the state's official book, but critics say it is unconstitutional and would open Louisiana up to legal challenges.

An investigation was under way today into how a parolee fresh out of jail managed to evade security at Lindbergh Field and get onto a Los Angeles-bound plane without a ticket, authorities reported.