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Police in Nevada made a burglary arrest in connection with the death of five people killed in a western Nevada town Monday.Lyon County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday announced that Jeremiah Bean, 25, was arrested on suspicion of burglary after authorities caught him with items from a home where two people were found dead.The bodies of a man and woman were found Monday in a home in Fernley, Nev., afte...
Back for a second day of his hearing in Las Vegas, former football great O.J. Simpson entered the courtroom shackled on Tuesday, hoping to prove to a judge that his former lawyer botched the 2008 case that landed him in prison.The Heisman Trophy winner and one-time Hollywood actor, now graying and stocky at 65 years old, is expected to be in court through Friday for the hearing. Simpson is allegin...
Fake Romeos are getting rich off women ages 50 and older, who are by far the biggest victims of online romance scams, federal authorities reported Tuesday in detailing an 8 percent rise in U.S. Internet crime last year.Romance scams most often are operations in which the victim is sucked in by a fake profile on an online dating site and hands over cash or other gifts.The most notorious recent inci...
In a major crackdown on healthcare fraud across the country, 89 people, including 14 doctors and nurses, were charged for their roles in various Medicare scams that bilked taxpayers of some $223 million through bogus charges, federal officials said Tuesday.Some people allegedly posed as doctors and wrote bogus prescriptions for drugs and psychotherapy therapy and then billed the government $12 ...
