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"Desperate Housewives" star Felicity Huffman and a dozen other prominent parents have agreed to plead guilty in the college admissions bribery scam that ensnared wealthy families and athletic coaches at some of the nation's most selective universities, federal authorities said Monday.

Hundreds of ads on Facebook promised U.S. homeowners that they were eligible for huge state tax breaks if they installed new solar-energy panels. There was just one catch: None of it was true.

A man who said he was blinded by sports radio personality Craig Carton's fame was sentenced Thursday to nearly two years in prison for his role in a ticket scam.

The email caught the executive at a small company by surprise one morning in 2016. The company's owner, or so he thought, was requesting a money transfer to pay for supplies from a new vendor.

Authorities say a New York man has been sentenced to five years in prison for his role in scamming more than $2.5 million from a national home improvement retailer.

An upstate New York man has been sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay back more than $100,000 he bilked out of people in a vacation home rental scam.

Three Florida businessmen have pleaded guilty to conspiring to scam Xerox out of $25 million worth of toner for printers sold by the company.

Police say three central New York residents posed as relatives of a 6-year-old cancer patient and a church representative to scam people for money.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is warning New Yorkers about a voting registration scam reported in two upstate counties.

State police are warning the general public about scams targeting older people.