Scott McCabe

Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

Losing weight A Georgia woman is facing charges after police said she dropped weights, plates and beer mugs from an 18th-story balcony at people down below. Witnesses said they heard a woman, later identified as Chloe Chalavoutis, screaming from a balcony above, go back into her apartment...

Scott McCabe

Published: Thu, May 2, 2013

Losers weepers A New Hampshire man accused of pilfering items from a second-hand store says he was confused by the business's name: Finders Keepers. Police said Ruben Pavon was shown on video taking a grill from the porch of the thrift shop. "I thought it was there for the taking," he told...

Scott McCabe

Published: Thu, Apr 25, 2013

Unearthing the undead A 70-year-old woman was sentenced to one and a half years in prison for defrauding insurers by faking deaths and staging sham funerals while she worked at a Los Angeles mortuary. Jean Crump, 70, prepared bogus death certificates, bought a burial plot and in one instance...