News
Eike Batista: Brazilian ex-billionaire leaves jail
BRAZIL – A Brazilian oil and mining magnate, who was once one of the richest men in the world, has left a notorious prison in Rio de Janeiro for house arrest ahead of a corruption […]
Year: 2017
Lead Story
Turkey blocks Wikipedia
Turkey has blocked all access inside the country to the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, one of the world’s most popular websites. It was not initially clear why the ban had been imposed. The Turkey Blocks group […]
Lead Story
Fan jailed for trying to punch eagle mascot
A Charlton Athletic fan found guilty of trying to punch Crystal Palace’s bald eagle mascot Kayla has been jailed. Last month, Daniel Boylett was found guilty of swinging at the £20,000 eagle as she was […]
News
Ex-Cop, drunk, plows down 5 Middle Schoolers in Florida
John Camfield, a former Mississippi police officer who allegedly plowed down 5 middle school students, killing 1 and leaving another in critical condition in Polk County, Florida Thursday afternoon, is being held on $600,000 bail. […]
News
Full Cleveland Police Report in Gareon Conley Rape Case
By Tom Cleary A 23-year-old woman has accused one of the top prospects in this week’s NFL Draft of raping her at a hotel in Cleveland earlier this month. Gareon Conley, a 22-year-old former Ohio […]
Human Rights
China human rights lawyer Li Heping given suspended jail term
One of China’s best-known human rights lawyers has been given a three-year suspended jail term for subverting state power. Li Heping was sentenced in a closed-doors trial, Chinese state media said. He has defended other […]
News
‘Active plot’ foiled in London anti-terror raid
An “active plot” was foiled when armed officers raided a home in northwest London, police have said. A woman was shot by police during the operation at a property in Harlesden Road, Willesden, shortly before […]
News
Feud over dirty look ends with baby being thrown, man shot 6 six times
By Tribune Media Wire CLEVELAND – New video shows a violent attack last summer in the parking lot of a Cleveland library that apparently started when two men made eye contact with each other. The security video from […]
News
Sarra Gilbert convicted of murder; ‘she was … aware of what she was doing,’ juror says
By Patricia R. Doxsey, Daily Freeman KINGSTON, N.Y. >> Sarra Gilbert was convicted of second-degree murder Thursday in the brutal stabbing death of her mother — a repudiation of the defense claim that she was […]
Canada
Carson Morin trial: Accused murderer’s criminal past revealed in court
The Ottawa man on trial for murder in the fatal stabbing of 20 year-old Michael Wassill was once convicted of a brutal assault on another man with a baseball bat that put the victim in […]