One or more suspects in the attempted siege of police headquarters in Dallas today are now surrounded in what Texan officials are describing as an armed standoff.
Georgia prosecutors pursuing an abortion pill murder charge against a 23-year-old woman have abandoned their flimsy case, in the face of harsh criticism from advocates on both sides of the fence.
The Amber Alert for a baby abducted in Iowa by his biological dad ended in tragedy this week when police found a burned out vehicle and the charred remains of the two inside it.
Ex IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is no pimp, a French court has finally decided, adding that the former wannabe-president probably didn’t even “know” he was prancing around with prostitutes.
The U.S. believes who better than TSA terrorists to detect other terrorists attempting to board its planes ... or at least that’s how it looks in the latest airport security scandal.
A real life Sweeney Todd barber was sentenced yesterday in San Diego to a minimum of 10 years in prison for slitting the throat of a customer he was shaving and then fleeing the gruesome scene on a bicycle.
The hunt for underweight Baby Penelope has finally ended when her panicked mom, Jessica McCreery, surfaced in Florida with the 8-month-old infant and agreed to cooperate with authorities.
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
