Federal authorities in Detroit say they fatally hot the leader of a radical fundamentalist Sunni Islam group after he failed to surrender on several criminal charges. The U.S. attorney’s office says Luqman Ameen Abdullah was killed while exchanging gunfire with federal agents Wednesday at a warehouse in Dearborn.

Police in New York City say they acted pre-emptively in raids Monday on a group of Afghan men. At least one of them is allegedly connected to Al Qaeda, and was believed to be involved in a bomb-making plot. But, authorities have not placed anyone under arrest, and no bomb-making material was found. ABC News’ Linsey Davis has more.

Law enforcement agents have raided residences in New York City as part of a terrorism investigation, and are preparing to brief Congress about the investigation.

Five people face drug charges in Aiken County after a raid at a home in Burnettown, SC. John Callie Redd, Jimmy Lee Mikell, Donald Preston Brantley, and Felton Duran Williams are all facing several drug charges. A fifth person, Melinda Lee Proctor, was also arrested.

An attorney for five South Carolina men appealing gambling convictions says a state gambling law is ill-defined.

The manager of a South Carolina poultry plant where hundreds of suspected illegal immigrants were rounded up last year has pleaded not guilty to federal charges.

Federal authorities say a South Carolina poultry processing plant knew its managers were hiring dozens of illegal immigrants at a facility raided in October.

The manager of a Greenville poultry plant has been indicted on a charge he knowingly hired illegal immigrants. Prosecutors say Barry Cronic began hiring illegal immigrants at Columbia Farms in Greenville in 2000, and kept hiring them until a raid last October. The raid found more than 300 people working at the plant who were in the country illegally.

A “Trap House” is discovered by officers in abandoned home on Luckey Street, in downtown Augusta.  It has been connected to a gang with ties to a recent murder.

U.S. military helicopters have launched an extremely rare attack on Syrian territory close to the border with Iraq Sunday, killing eight people.

Federal authorities say more than 58 people suspected of being illegal immigrants were busted in a massive raid on a Greenville chicken processing plant that has been under investigation for months. In all, some 300 people are being detained following the Tuesday raid at the House of Raeford plant. Authorities are checking fingerprints and releasing people in the country legally. They said those checks will take place all day.