That overstuffed wallet of yours can’t be comfortable to sit on. It’s probably even too clunky to lug around in a purse, too. And with every new bank slip that bulges from the seams, your personal information is getting less and less safe. With just your name and Social Security number, identity thieves can open […]
Wisconsin Woman Accused of Selling Fake Facebook Stock
A Wisconsin woman has been charged with theft over accusations she tried to profit from Facebook’s much-anticipated plans to go public by selling fake stock in the social media giant. Facebook announced on Wednesday its plans for the biggest-ever Internet IPO. In a criminal complaint on Thursday, prosecutors said Marianne Oleson told acquaintances she obtained $1 million […]
Feds Seize Flea Market
After they shut it down in June, law enforcement agents seized 153,634 counterfeit items from the now-defunct flea market that operated at 4233 S. Third St. That’s according to an affidavit filed Friday, Sept. 16, in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee by a federal agent who participated in the investigation. It […]
Dead man suspected of hiding mom’s body to collect social security checks
After a postal worker had reported that a Washburn County home’s mail had not been collected, authorities went to investigate. They found 67-year-old Michael Egan’s body on a bedroom floor. He had been dead for more than a week. Not long after Egan’s body was found by deputies, cadaver dogs discovered the body of his […]
Commodities broker from Chicago faked death
Arthur Gerald Jones, who had a seat on the Chicago Board of Trade, was reported missing in 1979. Police were suspicious of his disappearance and they believed his intentions to vanish were from his gambling debts and other trouble he might have been in. In 1986, Jones was declared dead and his family collected his […]
