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Chicago’s restaurant industry harbors a few colorful characters, and their dealings aren’t always pretty. “When you go get a ...

Sometimes he introduced himself as the son of infamous Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, or claimed to be a made man in the ...

Two journalists got a rare look inside one of the compounds where the online fraud industry makes its billions.

Two men have been sentenced to federal prison terms for their roles in a March 10 robbery of a Montgomery dry cleaning business, said Kevin Davidson, acting United States Attorney. There is no parole ...

More than 13 years after a 16-year-old boy died from a lack of oxygen after three men believed he shoplifted and held him down in a West Allis corner store, a special prosecutor has filed felony ...

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Ted Maher was convicted of setting the 1999 Monaco penthouse fire that killed billionaire Edmond Safra, but his criminal story didn’t end there. From staged heroics and shifting identities to a later ...

IDAHO FALLS – Eastern Idaho is often home to some very outlandish, disturbing and straight-up weird crime stories. Through all of the depressing articles filled with gore and sometimes just genuine ...