Baltimore riots continued into the morning, even despite the presence of National Guardsmen, and some observers think that recent off-the-cuff remarks made by the embattled city’s mayor aren’t helping the situation.
Two Bumble Bee tuna execs were charged yesterday in the death of a worker who was accidentally cooked in a factory oven with 12,000 pounds of fish.
Was James Holmes merely a cunning mass murderer when he shot up the Aurora Colorado movie theater in 2012, or was he in the throes of a psychotic episode that made him violently delusional?
BREAKING: Baltimore in state of emergency tonight as National Guard is activated to take control of the city on orders issued by Maryland's governor, Larry Hogan.
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!
Famed Pakistani activist Sabeen Mahmud was gunned down last week while driving her mother and her driver in downtown Karachi.
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
