Today marks the 150th anniversary of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by acclaimed actor and embittered partisan of the defeated South, John Wilkes Booth.
Police say a heroin ring operating out of North Adams, Massachusetts was actually a prosperous mother and child enterprise.
Former NFL pro Aaron Hernandez has been found guilty of first degree murder for the 2013 gangland style shooting of fellow footballer Odin Lloyd.
An insider accused of hacking the lottery and then “winning” $14.3 million in the high tech heist will have to accept the fact now that it doesn’t make him a real winner.
It will, however, give him a one-way ticket to jail.
Europe’s lobbing Google search antitrust violations this week, outright accusing the world’s most dominant search engine of once more rigging results in its own favor, even across the pond.
The Oklahoma man who mistook his gun for a taser earlier this month, inadvertently killing a 44-year-old unarmed suspect, is a senior citizen reserve deputy who donated to the sitting sheriff’s reelection campaign.
Jurors in the murder trial of Aaron Hernandez finished their fifth day of deliberation on Monday, April 13, 2015, without reaching a verdict.
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
