Activist schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai has finally seen justice for the 2012 attack that left her with a bullet in the back of her head and barely clinging to life.
French soldiers charged with the duty of protecting refugee children in the war torn Central African Republic lured young boys with treats and pocket change so they could sodomize them instead.
In a great twist of Texas-style irony, the mass murder at Luby's Cafeteria in 1991, where 23 were shot to death and 20 wounded, led not to calls for gun-control but to the passage of legislation signed by Gov. George W. Bush that eased the way for citizens to obtain concealed-carry licenses.
by Robert Walsh
On October 16, 1991, unemployed merchant seaman George "Jo Jo" Hennard committed what was at the time the largest mass murder in U.S. history at Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, when he shot to death 23 people and wounded 20 others before taking his own life 13 minutes after his rampage began. The Luby's massacre is still America’s third-largest mass shooting ever and the largest non-school mass shooting in American history.
Police say a missing IU student was bludgeoned to death hours before her disappearance was even officially reported.
Today, lawyers for murderers awaiting execution in Oklahoma argued in the United States Supreme Court that the use of the sedative midazolam in executions violates the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment, beca
Twenty-year-old Sierra Pippen, the daughter of NBA great Scottie Pippen, was arrested over the weekend for staggering into the lobby of the Sheraton Inn hotel in Iowa City and peeing on the floor before staggering out again.
The decomposed body of Erica Alonso was stumbled upon late Monday night in a dry creek bed of the Cleveland National Forest preserve by a team of biologists.
Baltimore riots continued into the morning, even despite the presence of National Guardsmen, and some observers think that recent off-the-cuff remarks made by the embattled city’s mayor aren’t helping the situation.
Two Bumble Bee tuna execs were charged yesterday in the death of a worker who was accidentally cooked in a factory oven with 12,000 pounds of fish.
Was James Holmes merely a cunning mass murderer when he shot up the Aurora Colorado movie theater in 2012, or was he in the throes of a psychotic episode that made him violently delusional?
On the night of November 29, 1988, near the impoverished Marlborough neighborhood in south Kansas City, an explosion at a construction site killed six of the city’s firefighters. It was a clear case of arson, and five people from Marlborough were duly convicted of the crime. But for veteran crime writer and crusading editor J. Patrick O’Connor, the facts—or a lack of them—didn’t add up. Justice on Fire is OConnor’s detailed account of the terrible explosion that led to the firefighters’ deaths and the terrible injustice that followed. Also available from Amazon
