When boxing champ Floyd Mayweather Jr. isn’t pounding an opponent senseless in the ring, the burly dude’s got an interesting workout program -- he beats on women!
Famed Pakistani activist Sabeen Mahmud was gunned down last week while driving her mother and her driver in downtown Karachi.
A shipwrecked boat from Libya carrying migrants to Italy fatally crashed into a larger Portuguese ship that was responding to a similar distress call.
A NJ judge says a Pink concert is perfectly OK for young kids to attend and “so what” to an estranged father who petitioned the court to punish the rad mother of his rocking child for abuse of parental discretion.
Police say missing student Connor Sullivan was not actually missing at all, and they’re looking into whether or not he and his family can be charged for the costly search and rescue effort they launched.
Action hero ambassador Angelina Jolie, who’s probably never starred in a movie without being armed to the teeth, is begging the world to stop all the violence, at least long enough to save some Syrian refugees.
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
