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Crisp and Cole

  • Crisp & Cole agent sentenced to 27 months

    A federal judge Monday sentenced a former sales agent with the now defunct real estate firm of Crisp, Cole & Associates to 27 months in prison for his role in a massive mortgage fraud case.

  • Lender asks to delay civil trial against Crisp, Cole, others

    A lawyer for the former Fremont Investment and Loan has asked for a delay in its civil trial against a group of people who worked for or with Crisp, Cole & Associates, a defunct Bakersfield real estate firm whose principals are under federal indictment in a mortgage fraud case.

  • Judge in Crisp & Cole case chooses October for next court date

    A federal judge in the Crisp & Cole Real Estate mortgage fraud case on Friday scheduled the next status conference for Oct. 7, agreeing with defense lawyers that several months were needed to review extensive computer evidence seized by the government.

  • Crisp & Cole defendant wants his belt back

    There are belts and then there are belts. The black leather one that a Kern County Sheriff's deputy removed from the waist of Bakersfield mortgage fraud defendant Jayson Costa was the kind you don't easily forget.

Osama bin Laden

  • Inside bin Laden's lair with SEAL Team Six

    WASHINGTON -- So much could have gone wrong as SEAL Team Six swept over Pakistan's dark landscape, dropped down ropes into a compound lined by wall after wall, exchanged gunfire and confronted "Geronimo" face to face. The vital things went right.

  • Officials: SEALs thought bin Laden threatening

    WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama ordered grisly photographs of Osama bin Laden in death sealed from public view on Wednesday, declaring, "We don't need to spike the football" in triumph after this week's daring middle-of-the-night raid. The terrorist leader was killed by American commandos who burst into his room and feared he was reaching for a nearby weapon, U.S. officials said.

  • Property records give new insights into bin Laden

    ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan -- The Pakistani who owned the compound that sheltered Osama bin Laden in his final years said he was buying the property for "an uncle," according to the doctor who sold a piece of the land in 2005.

  • Raid poses narrative challenge for White House

    WASHINGTON -- The challenge now is in the telling.