Less than three years before Elon Musk tapped him to help overhaul the US government, Edward Coristine, then 17, was the ...

An elderly Nevada man looking for love was allegedly drugged and pushed across the US border into Mexico in a wheelchair by a ...

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Aurora Phelps, who is in custody in Mexico, faces 21 counts, including wire fraud, bank fraud, identity theft, kidnapping and ...

Aurora Phelps​ was indicted in Nevada over a series of romance scams that allegedly led to at least two deaths and one ...

A Las Vegas woman with dual U.S.-Mexican citizenship ran a “romance scam on steroids” that caused the deaths of three people, ...

The agency described the scheme as one of the most nefarious it has encountered, with nearly a dozen known victims and ...

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Residents were alerted today to a criminal online dating scheme that involves individuals who try to swindle money out of ...