Crime

The FBI Internet Complaint Center has issued a national warning about new trends in cyber crime, and new twists in some old cyber scams. The long and short of it is that cyber crooks are always looking for new ways to pick your pocket over the Internet, and they very often update their old scams and re-use them.

Remember Andrea Yates?  She's the Houston woman who was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the drowning deaths of her five children back in June of 2001.  Yates is now a patient at the Kerrville State Hospital, and through her attorney, she's asking to be allowed out of the facility once a week to go to church.

Police in Fort Worth have arrested a suspect in the fire-bombing of the district office of Texas State Senator Wendy Davis.

A Michigan woman who won a $1-million state lottery jackpot has learned there is such a thing as too much good luck. Michigan’s Department of Human Services has cut off the woman's $200 dollars a month in food aid, after it learned she won the state lottery last September.  She kept getting her monthly benefits, which is why DHS has taken away her Michigan Bridge EBT card and turned her case ov

It's an old saying that you can't scam a scammer.   A 23 year old woman in Australia will tell you that's not necessarily so, because she did it, to some Nigerians no less. She also got in trouble because of the way she did it.

It happened in Columbus, Georgia. A former Columbus police officer admitted in court that he robbed a bank last year so he can get health care in a federal prison.

Tyler police have arrested a beautician who is charged with practicing medicine without a license, and you won't believe what she's accused of doing. Tyler police say Carmel Foster included "breast enlargement" on her list of services at her beauty salon. Unfortunately, one of her customers is now in critical condition at a hospital in Longview.

A drug bust on and around Texas Christian University's campus in Fort Worth Wednesday led to the arrest of 18 people, including four football players.