The crock pot killer who lost her lid and beat a friend to death with a slow-cooker during an argument over politics last autumn has been sentenced by a Detroit judge to at least 23 years in prison.
Pennsylvania’s night of the swarming mayflies was held over for a repeat performance, officials say, in a scarily-bizarre freak phenomenon that’s now threatening to become an everyday occurrence.
Researchers say cannibals developed immunities to certain killer diseases in the 20th-century by eating the brains of their victims.
The NAACP Spokane chapter seeks quiet “closure” of the controversy over their outed Caucasian leader, rather than be faced with the embarrassing prospect of appearing to have fired her for the color of her skin -- or lack thereof.
Expect a rocky start in the stripper dismemberment trial of Terry Speaks today in Louisiana.
Lions and tigers and hippopotami have escaped from a zoo in the flood-ravaged city of Tbilisi Georgia, and police are desperately trying to round up the disoriented creatures amid the chaos there.
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
