The skydiver who crashed Thursday after a parachute malfunction has died, the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Tuesday.<br /><br />Brett Hawton, 54, of Alamo was jumping solo from a plane out of the Lodi Parachute Center in Acampo. Witnesses told Woodbridge Fire District officials that his chute tangled, Chief Steve Butler said last week.
A U.S. Postal Service worker was charged with stealing more than $75,000 in federal workers’ compensation benefits after he posted vacation photos on Facebook showing him zip-lining and rock rappelling despite being out of work for a wrist injury, authorities said
A township police lieutenant is suing his supervisor, the mayor and others, alleging that he was the victim of retaliation after complaining about irregularities in the officer promotions process.<br /><br />Lt. Vincent Lamonica, a 25-year veteran of the department, claims in his federal suit that he complained of "corruption" in the promotional process in 2014.
Reports of dressers tipping over, including one falling on two 3-year-olds, has prompted Target to recall about 178,000 Room Essentials four-drawer dressers.<br />Five dressers or chest of drawers sold by Target have been recalled in 2017 as tip-over hazards.
Federal authorities say a 36-year-old Kearneysville man has pleaded guilty to mail fraud, admitting he filed false insurance claims for more than $354,000 in 2013 in Berkeley County.
A judge Friday denied a bond request from a former police officer accused of, among other things, plotting to burn down the Stafford County Public Safety Building and attempting to burn the residence of her child’s father in Fairfax County.
A co-owner of Blue Smoke BBQ in Alexandria, which was lost in a fire four years ago, has pleaded guilty to one of three felony charges he faced in connection with the fire.
When Insys Therapeutics got approval to sell an ultra-powerful opioid for cancer patients with acute pain in 2012, it soon discovered a problem: finding enough cancer patients to use the drug.
Law enforcement agencies broke up a decade-old theft ring that stretched from California to Frederick, Maryland. The thieves used what’s called booster bags, shopping bags with liners to block anti-theft devices.
Insurance companies have a right to compel claimants to be interviewed under oath, the state’s supreme court ruled today. The ruling reversed a lower court decision last year that said insurers have no such right because examinations under oath (EUOs) are not specifically written into the state’s no-fault law.
Silt police Cpl. Michael Taylor has been charged with insurance fraud and other financial crimes, Colorado Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman said in a news release. Taylor was indicted by the Colorado Statewide Grand Jury on three counts of felony insurance fraud, three counts of felony forgery and three counts of felony theft.
A Travis County grand jury indicted a public insurance adjuster and charged her with negotiating phony insurance claims after the 2012 hail storms in the Rio Grande Valley, the district attorney’s office announced on Thursday.
More charges have been filed against several chiropractors accused of being involved with parallel fraud schemes that allegedly swindled insurance companies out of more than $20 million, the Minnesota Department of Commerce announced Thursday.
At age 31, Nixon Arias cut a profile similar to many unauthorized immigrants in the United States. A native of Honduras, he had been in the country for more than a decade and had worked off and on for a landscaping company for nine years.
A traffic collision, for most people, is a traumatic experience. For some criminals, it’s a money-making enterprise. The ringleader in one of the Sacramento area’s largest auto insurance fraud cases was recently sentenced to 10 years in state prison, and detectives are asking the public’s help in finding three suspects who remain at large.
