Lawyers for accused killer Aaron Hernandez rested their case yesterday after offering only three witnesses for the defense, suggesting that today’s closing arguments could be similarly brief.
New designer drug Flakka might make its users feel super and superhuman at the same time, but the unearthly high it provides is not only short lived, it’s potentially lethal as well.
The massive Silk Road drug bust some 18 months ago has finally seen two of America’s top cops arrested for their illicit roles in aiding and abetting the online criminal enterprise.
An anorexic models ban is now in effect in the fashion capitol of the world, under a new French law that makes it a crime for anyone in the rag business to employ females who appear to be “dangerously thin.”
A woman charged with feticide for miscarrying her fetus has been sentenced this week by an Indiana jury to a minimum of 20 years in prison.
In the glow of a Blood Moon someone dumped a duffle bag filled with human body parts in front of a Massachusetts biotechnologies building, then vamoosed.
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
