Federal authorities say they’ve arrested former prison guards connected to a gang that sells drugs inside Virginia state prisons to help finance its activities. An indictment unsealed Friday alleges a wide-ranging criminal enterprise by members and associates of the Mad …
A judge sentenced an Indianapolis man to more than two life sentences in prison for his role in a 2012 house explosion that killed two people and destroyed or damaged dozens of homes in a scheme to collect insurance money. …
A jury has convicted an Indianapolis man of murder, arson and insurance fraud for his role in a house explosion that devastated a subdivision nearly three years ago, killing a couple living next door. Mark Leonard, 46, showed no emotion …
A judge has awarded the payout of trucking magnate Bill Hall Jr.’s life insurance policy to Hall’s widow, who’s charged with murdering her husband. Bexar County Probate Judge Tom Rickhoff has ordered that Frances A. Hall receive about $310,000 from …
A 33-year-old St. Louis man has pleaded guilty in the 2007 death of a Missouri insurance agent. Cleo S. Hines pleaded guilty on Aug. 24 in St. Charles County Court to charges of robbery and second-degree murder. Hines and 35-year-old …
A Missouri woman has been sentenced to eight years in prison for helping plan her husband’s murder with the church pastor who was her lover. Her husband, David Stone, was an insurance agent. Forty-year-old Teresa Stone, of Independence, pleaded guilty …
A woman charged with killing four members of her family had $700,000 worth of life insurance policies taken out on the victims, a detective testified in court Monday. After hearing the Pickens County investigator’s testimony, a judge ruled there was …
A former western Missouri pastor has pleaded guilty in the death of a former member of his church. Fifty-two-year-old David Love of Independence pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of 42-year-old Randy Stone, a Farmers insurance agent. Stone …
The top court in the U.S. state of Georgia has allowed the family of a man who stabbed his mother to death in a psychotic rage to file a medical malpractice lawsuit against his psychiatrist, settling a long-running debate over …
Opening statements are expected this week in the trial in Baltimore of two brothers accused of carrying out the killing of a blind and mentally disabled man as part of an insurance scam. Jury selection began on Monday in the …
