Mississippi higher-education officials, alarmed that online diploma mills may be setting up shop in their state, have asked the Legislature to grant them more authority to shut down the phony ...

DALLAS, Texas -- A lawsuit was filed against a Dallas-based group of learning centers for unlawfully marketing and selling fraudulent high school diplomas and transcripts, according to a press release ...

The Department of Education unveiled a Web site on Tuesday that federal officials hope will be a reliable tool for helping students avoid online diploma mills. The site provides a searchable list of ...

CHEYENNE - A draft bill designed to prevent "diploma mills" from setting up shop in Wyoming got the green light Tuesday from a legislative panel. The draft bill approved by the Joint Education Interim ...

Thurston County prosecutors won't file criminal charges against 10 state troopers investigated for questionable online college diplomas they obtained to qualify for higher salaries. In each case, the ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - At least one private college has suspended offering degrees, and two more have closed or left Wyoming in the wake of a new state law aimed at regulating so-called diploma mills.

CHEYENNE - If the Wyoming Department of Education wants to remove the state's image as a haven for diploma mills, it apparently will have to take action on its own. Earlier this month the Joint ...

Last week, Attorney General Greg Abbott announced that the assets of Houston-based Lincoln Academy and its affiliate, Brownstone Academy, would be frozen and a restraining order was issued to prevent ...

SPOKANE (AP) — A former deputy U.S. marshal who used a bogus college degree to get a 16,000-thousand dollar a-year job promotion is the first charged in a federal investigation of a Spokane diploma ...

SPOKANE -- The leader of a diploma mill that sold more than 10,000 fake high school diplomas and college degrees around the world has been sentenced to three years in prison for conspiracy to commit ...