HENNEPIN, Ill. (AP) A northern Illinois man has been found guilty of killing his sister-in-law and burying her body in a shallow grave. A Putnam County jury on Friday found Cliff Andersen guilty of first-degree murder and concealing a homicide in the death of 63-year-old Deborah Dewey. The 68-year-old Anderson faces from 20 years to…
HENNEPIN, Ill. — A northern Illinois man has been found guilty of killing his sister-in-law and burying her body in a shallow grave. A Putnam County jury on Friday found Cliff Andersen guilty of first-degree murder and concealing a homicide in the death of 63-year-old Deborah Dewey. The 68-year-old Anderson faces from 20 years to…
TOKYO — Japanese lawmakers on Friday night enacted controversial legislation legalizing gambling resorts, a move nearly two decades in the making. The bill was expected to be passed earlier in the day, but the opposition camp threw up one last procedural roadblock: It introduced a no-confidence motion against the cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe…
The Nevada Supreme Court has ordered a new trial for an Italian businessman sued by The Wynn over a $1 million gambling debt. Mario LaBarbera visited Las Vegas in 2008 and, while staying at The Wynn, lost $1 million of his own money and $1 million in marker credit extended to him by the resort.…
Another football game hadnt gone Joe Schillers way, and the thousands of dollars of debt he had accumulated from betting was about to bury him. With his life spinning out of control, he hopped in his car with his then-pregnant wifes paycheck in his pocket and went into hiding for two months. Haunted by suicidal…
Ethan Genter @EthanGenterCCT ORLEANS A New Bedford man was ordered to pay restitution to Wellfleet Shellfish Co. after pleading guilty Wednesday in Orleans District Court to larceny over $250 by a single scheme. Vasco Camara, 49, must pay the shellfish company, his former employer, $54,150.75. The owner of the Eastham-based company told police in…
A MASTERS student from India who fell into debt from gambling tried to defraud a local business as part of a “sophisticated crime syndicate, Proserpine Magistrates Court heard. Sramik Venigalla pleaded guilty on Monday to attempted fraud, obtaining another entity’s identity to commit an indictable offence and falsely representing himself. On July 10 about 11am,…
by Tao Jun, Bui Long HANOI, July 17 (Xinhua) — On Monday, hours after France beat Croatia 4-2 to win the 2018 FIFA World Cup champion’s trophy, Lang Road in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi, which houses numerous pawnshops, seemed busier than usual. A young man dillydallied about either going to the pawnshop at 476…
A warehouse custodian has been detained for allegedly replacing high-end watches with counterfeit imitations, police said yesterday. Specifically, police claim that the suspect, surnamed Wang, sold 20 authentic Tissot watches for 46,000 yuan (US$6,880) between May and June this year. Police in Songjiang District started an investigation earlier this month when the trading company Wang…
When she she looks back on her childhood, Noriko Tanaka isnt surprised she grew up to be a problem gambler. Her grandfather spent every spare moment playing pachinko a pinball-like game with payouts while her father bet regularly on bicycle races. At home, they taught Tanaka how to stake money on card games before she…
