Canadian funeral director charged with ashes fraud
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia  - A former funeral home owner has been charged with fraud for allegedly giving families cremated ashes that were not the remains of their loved ones, Canadian police said on Wednesday.
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A 34-year-old man has been charged with providing the car used by the Real IRA to plant the bomb in Omagh which killed 29 people in August 1998.
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ROCKY GAP, Va. - A high school science teacher is charged with breaking into a century-old funeral vault, handling the remains of a corpse, and taking photographs of two students holding the bones inside the crypt.
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LaFAYETTE, Ga. -- A former crematory operator pleaded guilty Friday to dumping more than 330 corpses on his property and giving the relatives of the dead cement dust instead of ashes. Under a deal with prosecutors, Ray Brent Marsh could get up to 12 years in prison.
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W.R. Grace and Co. and seven senior employees were charged in an indictment released yesterday with conspiring for decades to hide the dangers posed by asbestos contamination in a Montana vermiculite mine.
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A practitioner of alternative medicine who allegedly discouraged a woman with breast cancer from getting chemotherapy has been charged in her death.
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Disgraced Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu was charged Thursday with defrauding investors of more than $60 million through a massive Ponzi scheme and then using some of his profits to make illegal donations to political campaigns.
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Police in London charged a 40-year-old man in connection with a series of hoax e-mails sent to friends and relatives of people missing since the Asian tsunami a week ago claiming they were dead.
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A former director of the National D-Day Memorial pleaded innocent Thursday to fraud charges over his fund-raising efforts for the monument.
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One of Gov. Jim Doyle's biggest campaign contributors was indicted Thursday on federal charges that he funneled more than $100,000 in donations to Doyle to secure approval for a planned Indian casino.
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ST. PETERSBURG - Raymond James Financial Services Inc. was charged Thursday with fraud and failing to supervise a broker who allegedly promised investors astronomical returns at no risk.
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The head of a now-defunct suburban Pittsburgh nursing home where an Alzheimer's patient died after wandering outside in the cold has been indicted on federal fraud charges.
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ATLANTA A crematory operator accused of faking hundreds of cremations in Noble, Georgia, appears ready to plead guilty. Prosecutors say Ray Brent Marsh dumped 334 bodies on his property and passed off cement dust as ashes.
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A former crematory operator who admitted dumping 334 bodies and passing off cement dust as their ashes pleaded guilty Friday to Tennessee charges and was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
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An 'arrogant' cemetery worker falsified records because he could not admit he buried people in the wrong place, a court hears.
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A 62-year-old Dutchman will be charged for war crimes and as an accomplice to genocide for supplying lethal chemicals to Saddam Hussein&#39;s regime, prosecutors said Tuesday.
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W.R. Grace & Co. GRA.N and seven  current or former executives were charged on Monday with  conspiring to endanger residents in Libby, Montana, and   concealing the health risks from asbestos-contaminated  vermiculite, the U.S. Justice Department said.