The fate of Lauren Spierer is once more the focus of attention, now that another IU undergrad -- missing since last Friday -- has finally been found; the victim, police believe, of abduction and homicide.
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!
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.
Colorado police fear they’ve got a serial freeway shooter on their hands now, after at least four traffic incidents involving gunfire occurred in Weld and Larimer counties.
A female bartender battered beyond recognition by Bay area police on Saint Patty’s Day is now suing the officers who brutalized her.
Today’s Armenian genocide tributes mark the 100th year since the WWI atrocity was committed by the now-defunct Ottoman Empire … and 100 years of denial and debate as well.
Freddie Gray protestors in Baltimore have succeeded in getting the slain man’s arresting officers to come forward with an explanation for why his spine was severed at the neck, but they’re a bit skeptical of the lame excuse being offered.
A jury pronounced Shayna Hubers guilty of the shooting death of love-interest Ryan Poston yesterday, requiring only five hours of deliberation to sort through nine long days of gruesome evidence and testimony.
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
