Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. The Feds are keeping mum, but in a statement yesterday Gibson's chairman and CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, defended his company's manufacturing policies, accusing the Justice Department of bullying the company. "The wood the government seized Wednesday is from a Forest Stewardship Council certified supplier," he said, suggesting the Feds are using the aggressive enforcement of overly broad laws to make the company cry uncle.

It isn't the first time that agents of the Fish and Wildlife Service have come knocking at the storied maker of such iconic instruments as the Les Paul electric guitar, the J-160E acoustic-electric John Lennon played, and essential jazz-boxes such as Charlie Christian's ES-150. In 2009 the Feds seized several guitars and pallets of wood from a Gibson factory

The Maricopa County Sheriff's office raided a Phoenix home and detained 20 people, five of which are believed to be smugglers. The suspected smugglers are accused of violently mistreating the other immigrants.

The site of a new Army infantry museum near Fort Benning became the scene of an immigration raid when federal agents arrested 30 workers earlier this week. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 27 Mexicans and three Guatemalans on charges of immigr

A network is being created to help illegal immigrants avoid that dreaded knock on the door in the wee hours.

Sixteen people who got jobs at Monsanto in Grinnell through the Marshalltown Manpower Employment Agency were arrested Friday for identity theft and forgery, according to the Marshalltown Police Department.

RENO, Nev. -- A group of Hispanic people in Reno have called for a three-day boycott of all businesses in northern Nevada after a federal raid in which 54 suspected illegal workers were arrested. The group of about 60 people also called for a strike by al