On Tuesday, Virginia enacted the toughest legal move yet against spam, imposing stiff felony penalties for sending unsolicited commercial e-mail.

He introduced a bill (LB494) that would impose felony penalties on owners of dangerous dogs that seriously injure other people.

She pledged to police Medicaid fraud, crack down on methamphetamine labs, and push for new felony penalties for various kinds of human trafficking.

In the toughest move to date against unsolicited commercial e-mail, Virginia enacted a law yesterday imposing harsh felony penalties for sending such messages to computer users through deceptive means.

Currently, 46 of the 50 states have enacted felony penalties for certain forms of animal abuse.

He also wanted to increase the number of laws that carry felony penalties for animal cruelty.

Under the new law, employers could face felony penalties the second time that they are convicted of not paying wages.

Their hope was to use other federal criminal laws with felony penalties, like lying to a federal officer, to prosecute McWane executives, a person involved in the investigation said.

And a new felony penalty for selling a single firearm to a person under age 19 would be created, with a maximum sentence of seven years.

The felony penalties against Iroquois are believed to be the costliest in an environmental case since the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.