Bingo-Playing Grandma Guilty in Pot Case
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SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. - A grandmother found with a trunkful of marijuana was convicted of drug running in what prosecutors said was an attempt to earn cash for a bingo habit.
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The Associated Press. HINTON, W.Va. -- Record Powerball winner Jack Whittaker said Thursday that illegal drugs killed his 17-year-old granddaughter, and he wants to find the &quot;drug-using friends&quot; who gave them to her and put them in jail.
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Grandma was right! Also in this week's column:â¦
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A Harris County, Texas jury awarded nearly $500,000 to a woman who claimed she contracted genital herpes from Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Jose Lima, according to the Houston Chronicle.
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SHAWANO, Wis. - Deputies got a surprise answer when they asked a man if an item in his bedroom was for smoking marijuana, a criminal complaint says. "That's not a dope pipe, it's my bomb," Eugene Hansen told them, according to the complaint filed in Shawano County Circuit Court.
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GREENSBURG, Pennsylvania - A case of funny money has ended happily for a woman who had been charged with passing a bogus $200 bill with President George W. Bush's picture on it.  Prosecutors in Pennsylania's Westmoreland County dropped all charges Friday against Deborah L.
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A woman is found guilty of murdering her 100-year-old aunt in a fire in a dispute over her inheritance.
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A 68-year-old woman faces jail after being found guilty Wednesday of growing and possessing cannabis which she said was for medicinal purposes.
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Chelsea D. Gerlach was sentenced to prison time for her role in âthe family,â a group of people who have been convicted of arson and other destructive actions.
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If your grandmother played the market, she probably invested in utilities for safety and income, not capital gains. She would need to adjust her strategy today.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A woman received a 20-year prison sentence Thursday for putting rat poison in her boss' soda to cover up the fact that she was stealing his money.  Femesha Foster, 37, was found guilty Jan.
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OXFORD, Miss. -- Sherrie Miller Daly, wife of professional golfer John Daly, pleaded guilty Friday to a federal money laundering charge.
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Some legal experts say the murder of a marijuana advocate could lead to a reconsideration of how medical marijuana is administered.
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JAY, Okla. - Police arrested a woman after finding marijuana in a Christmas card she tried to give her jailed boyfriend. Dawn E. Smith, 44, of Grove, was arrested in connection with the incident at the Delaware County Jail.
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Few in this small Tennessee town can believe the woman they knew as Linda McElroy was capable of murder. Her neighbors and friends learned this week that she was really fugitive Linda Darby Â who was convicted of killing her husband but escaped 35 years ago from a life sentence at an Indiana prison.
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Three grains of pollen might help solve a 27-year-old murder mystery.
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John Daly's wife pleaded guilty Friday to a federal money laundering charge. Sherrie Miller Daly and her parents, Alvis and Billie Miller, were indicted on charges stemming from what authorities said was a drug ring and an illegal gambling operation.