Ill. city ex-CFO pleads not guilty to taking $53M
Rita Crundwell at the American Quarter Horse Association World Championship Show in Oklahoma City, Okla., Nov. 2011.
/ AP/American Quarter Horse Journal(CBS/AP) ROCKFORD, Ill. - Rita Crundwell, the former financial officer for the Illinois city of Dixon, pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that she stole more than $53 million from the community whose finances she oversaw for decades.
Pictures: Official stole millions to buy horses, say Ill. cops
Continue »Fox movie executive missing since Tuesday
Gavin Smith
/ CBS Los Angeles(CBS) LOS ANGELES - Gavin Smith, a 20th Century Fox movie executive, has been missing since Tuesday, May 1, 2012. Although police say they do not suspect foul play, CBS Los Angeles reports that they are baffled by his disappearance
Ex-NYC cop gets 75 years for sex attack
Michael Pena
/ CBS New York(CBS/AP) NEW YORK - Michael Pena, an ex-NYPD officer who grabbed a schoolteacher off the street and sexually attacked her was sentenced Monday to 75 years-to-life in prison after being convicted in March of high-level sex charges.
Accused Illinois embezzler to be arraigned
Rita Crundwell at the American Quarter Horse Association World Championship Show in Oklahoma City, Okla., Nov. 2011.
/ AP/American Quarter Horse Journal(CBS/AP) ROCKFORD, Ill. - Rita Crundwell, the former financial officer for the northern Illinois city of Dixon, is slated to appear in court to face charges that accuse her of stealing tens of millions of dollars from the community.
Pictures: Official stole millions to buy horses, say Ill. cops
Continue »Steve Powell voyeurism trial begins this week
Steve Powell appears in a Pierce County Superior Court hearing, Monday, April 23, 2012, in Tacoma, Wash.
/ AP Photo/Ted S. Warren(CBS/AP) SEATTLE - Jury selection in the trial of Steve Powell, father-in-law of missing Utah woman Susan Powell, is set to begin Monday in Tacoma, Wash.
Continue »Illinois Ponzi scheme fugitives caught in Arizona
Janet Hallahan, left, and her husband, Nelson Grant Hallahan
/ AP Photo/U.S. Marshal's Service(CBS/AP) TONOPAH, Ariz. - U.S. marshals in Arizona say they have arrested a fugitive Illinois couple known as the "Mini Madoffs" who fled 12 years ago after pleading guilty in connection to a Ponzi scheme that targeted their friends, the elderly and even their family members.
Continue »Death at Kentucky Derby track probed as homicide
CBS/AP, file
(CBS/AP) LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Police suspect homicide in the death of a racetrack worker whose body was discovered just yards from the barn of this year's Kentucky Derby winner. However, investigators said there was no apparent link to the storied annual race.
Continue »Alleged kidnapper of mom, 3 girls was no stranger
Jo Ann Bain (right) and her daughters, Adrienne Bain, 14, Kyliyah Bain, 8, Alexandria Bain, 12
/ CBS/Personal Photo(CBS/AP) WHITEVILLE, Tenn. - Adam Mayes, the 35-year-old man accused of abducting Tennessee mother Jo Ann Bain and her three daughters, has been described as being like an uncle to the girls.
Pictures: Tenn. mom, 3 daughters missing
Continue »23 bodies found south of Laredo, Texas
Mexico flag over Handguns
/ CBS/APAround 9 a.m., according to a statement from the Proscutor's office in Tamaulipas State, the bodies of 14 men were found beheaded in a vehicle in Nuevo Laredo. The heads were later found in abandoned coolers near a government building.
Continue »Drew Peterson to leave jail for hearing
Drew Peterson
/ Scott Olson(CBS/WBBM) CHICAGO - Drew Peterson, a suburban Chicago police officer charged in the death of one of his ex-wives, left jail for the first time in almost two years for a court hearing in his long delayed murder trial.
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