Fort Hood drafts new personal firearm policy

Dec. 19, 2009   2 Comments  

A new policy regarding privately-owned firearms is now in effect at Fort Hood, Texas, U.S. Army reports.

Weird news this week

Nov. 14, 2009   Leave a Comment  

Hey, want to hear three ridiculous stories?

Words lose meaning

Aug. 12, 2009   1 Comment  

Murders, killings, deaths, destruction, bombs, war, hate, greed, corruption – all of it is part of life, our society’s gritty underbelly that isn’t hidden under the belly, thanks to journalism.

Dude friggin’ kills another dude over a beer pong game

May 5, 2009   5 Comments  

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Boston.com, citing an Associated Press story, is reporting that a Bridgeport, Pa. party turned deadly after one man shot and killed another man over an argument about a game of beer pong. Authorities say Joseph Jimenez, 24, killed Scott Riley, 25, after they argued over the beer pong game Friday at a party in a [...]

DA: Milton police shooting justified

April 16, 2009   Leave a Comment  

BOSTON — Norfolk County District Attorney WIlliam R. Keating’s office has ruled that the March 28 fatal police shooting of Kerby Revelus as he murdered two and wounded another of his sisters was justified. “The evidence clearly indicates that the actions of Milton Police that day spared the life of this young girl from the [...]

Cold case goes to trial in Boston

March 22, 2009   Leave a Comment  

The long-cold case of the murder of 18-year-old mother Noemi Roman, whose infant son was left beside her blood-spattered body, may have finally been solved when the suspect goes to trial this week. Kurvin Richardson, 38, of Roxbury, was arrested in June 2005, 15 years after the murder, and he finally goes to trial Monday, [...]

Murder suspects escape from Saskatchewan prison

March 15, 2009   1 Comment  

Six high-risk Canadian prisoners, four of whom were facing murder charges, escaped from a maximum security prison in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan last month. How?

Chelsea man guilty of murder one

Oct. 28, 2008   Leave a Comment  

BOSTON — Norton Cartright, 21, has been found guilty of first degree murder in the brutal slaying of his mother in 2006 It was a quick trial. We reported on the opening remarks just about a week ago, and even the jury didn’t take long to come back with a verdict. Early on in police [...]

“You’re going to hear some gruesome details, ladies and gentlemen”

Oct. 20, 2008   Leave a Comment  

A particularly gripping murder trial is getting underway in Boston, where a teenage son stands accused of beating his mother with a claw hammer, wrapping her in a sleeping bag, and leaving her to die in a closet two years ago. [...]

Daughter speaks out, mother upgraded to serious condition

Aug. 11, 2008   Leave a Comment  

Hugh Bachman, coach of the U.S. men’s Olympic volleyball team and his wife, Elisabeth Bachman McCutcheon, a former Olympic athlete, spoke out in an open letter about the death of Elisabeth’s father and injuries of her mother who were attacked Saturday at a tourist attraction in Beijing. [...]

Second victim in olympic attack in critical condition after surgery

Aug. 9, 2008   Leave a Comment  

Barbara Bachman suffered multiple cuts and stab wounds in the attack the killed her husband, Todd Bachman, the U.S. Olympic Committee announced in a statement.

She underwent eight hours of surgery Saturday afternoon and evening and remains in critical but stable condition at a Beijing hospital [...]

Olympic Committee identifies American slaying victim

Aug. 9, 2008   4 Comments  

An American was killed Saturday in Beijing. Todd Bachman, of Lakeville, Minn., the father-in-law of men’s indoor volleyball head coach Hugh McCutcheon, died after being attacked by an apparently deranged Chinese man who then reportedly took his own life.

Olympics: One day, one tragedy

Aug. 9, 2008   Leave a Comment  

A deranged Chinese man attacked two Americans and their Chinese tour guide, who were visiting the Drum Tower in Beijing, a 13th century tourist attraction, Saturday, killing one and seriously injuring another before taking his own life by jumping from a balcony. The pair are relatives of a coach for the US Olympic men’s volleyball [...]

Lane Bryant creates memorial fund for shooting victims

Feb. 6, 2008   Leave a Comment  

Lane Bryant announced Wednesday the establishment of The Lane Bryant Tinley Park Memorial Fund in honor of the lives of the five women who were shot and killed February 2 in one of their stores in Tinley Park, Ill., a Chicago suburb. The five women, Jennifer L. Bishop of South Bend, Ind., Carrie A. Chiuso [...]

Alleged Internet porn star Zoey Zane murdered

Dec. 5, 2007   5 Comments  

Emily Sander, an 18-year-old freshman at Butler Community College in Kansas, went missing after Thanksgiving weekend. Family and friends searched for the girl, who was last seen leaving a bar in El Dorado, Kan. with resident alien Israel Mireles. Upon searching for Mireles, police only found a bloody motel room and an abandoned rented car. [...]

If he did it

Oct. 1, 2007   Leave a Comment  

Reading O.J. Simpson’s ghostwritten pot-boiler If I Did It is a little like coming home from school to see both of your parents drunk, practicing bondage in your living room. You might be horrified, and you know you’ll never be the same again, but you just can’t look away. The book  is horrifying in a [...]