Illegal fireworks resulted in several major blazes, arrests and injuries in drought-stricken California this Fourth of July weekend.
Florida police rescued Miss Piggy this weekend and took a pair of pitbull perps into custody who were guilty of harassing and harming her.
A bewildering missing-baby case has a dad in jail now and the infant girl’s relatives frantically looking for her, while local police claim to be understaffed due to the national holiday.
The latest Google app gaff in which an image ID product tagged a black couple as “gorillas” has the company’s embarrassed execs scrambling for a benign explanation and profuse apologies.
A drunken Independence Day reveler who used his head as a rocket launcher died instantly, while recklessly endangering everyone else around him.
Experts say there are more people in oceans, not sharks, which has lead to the recent spate of encounters that are costing some swimmers an arm and a leg, and others their lives.
Police are investigating if a Maricopa couple was murdered doing meth with their neighbor who then used a backhoe to skillfully dig a double grave for them.
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
