Boris Nemtsov Killing Captured On Video?
The investigation into the killing of Boris Nemtsov, a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin who was gunned down not far from the Kremlin, faced conflicting reports Monday about…
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Man Who Believes He Is A ‘Werewolf’ Who Killed A ‘Vampire’ Found Guilty Of Murder
A California man is guilty of murder in a bizarre case wherein the suspect claimed he was a werewolf who killed a vampire. Atascadero man Mark Andrews, 51, went to…
5 Killings That Show How Dangerous It Is To Be A Kremlin Critic
MOSCOW (AP) — Prominent Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov’s killing follows the slaying over the past decade of several other high-profile critics of President Vladimir Putin and his policies. Here…
‘The Michelangelo Of Buttocks Injections’ Testifies At Her Murder Trial
A Gothic hip-hop artist charged with killing a London break dancer she injected with low-grade silicone said Friday she never heard any complaints from the numerous transgender women who sought…
Why The Chinese Community Shouldn’t Rally Around Indicted Cop Peter Liang
Earlier this month, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office announced it would indict NYPD Officer Peter Liang for the killing of Akai Gurley, with the most serious charge leveled against him…
Pasco Police Fired 17 Shots At Unarmed Mexican Migrant For Throwing Rocks At Them
Police in Washington state fired 17 shots at an unarmed Mexican migrant on Feb. 10, hitting him as many as six times, authorities said Wednesday. Wednesday’s statement from the Tri-Cities…
Man Places Caged Dog On Sidewalk, Burns It Alive: Cops
A California man is in custody after an investigation by police revealed he allegedly set a dog on fire, killing it. – Turner has been charged with felony animal cruelty,…
Jodi Arias Won’t Address Jury As Sentencing Retrial Nears End
Convicted murderer Jodi Arias declined Monday to address a jury considering whether to sentence her to life in prison or death in the killing of her former boyfriend. Arias said…
Sources: Nigerian airstrike kills 37 mourners in Niger
A military plane on Tuesday dropped a bomb on mourners in a Niger village on the border with Nigeria, killing 37 people and wounding 20 others, residents and a regional…
Pasco Police’s Shooting of Rock Thrower Draws Comparisons to Michael Brown Case
Agapita Montes, mother of Antonio Zambrano-Montes, at a memorial where he was fatally shot last week in Pasco, Wash.” PASCO, Wash. — Members of the Zambrano family began arriving here…
Judge Allows Police Video Of Phone Call In Aaron Hernandez Trial
FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — The judge overseeing the murder trial of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez has denied a request by his defense to bar police surveillance…
Jurors In Lacey Spears Trial Shown Graphic Video Of Boy Suffering Before He Died Of Salt Poisoning
Jurors in the trial of a mother accused of killing her son with salt injections saw graphic video Monday that showed the boy retching and suffering just days before he…
Douglasville, Georgia Shooting Leaves Several Dead
DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A gunman has wounded seven people, killing five of them, in a subdivision west of Atlanta. – Investigators have not released the names of the suspect…
Dozens Killed In Bombings Across Baghdad
A series of bombings in the Iraqi capital Saturday killed more than three dozen people hours before the city’s longtime curfew was set to come to an end. The deadliest…
Boko Haram Attacks Town Inside Niger After Cameroon Assault
Islamic extremists from Nigeria attacked a border town inside the neighboring country of Niger, marking the second foreign country attacked by the group known as Boko Haram in several days….
Plane That Crashed in Taiwan Had Trouble in Both Engines, Agency Says
HONG KONG — The plane that crashed Wednesday into a river in Taiwan’s capital, killing at least 35 people, was having problems with both of its engines before the crash,…
Suge Knight out of hospital, back in custody over deadly hit-and-run
“We are not purview to any medical treatment he may be for receiving,” said the Sheriff’s Department spokesman, who did not specify whether Knight was being held in a normal…
Rescuers search for 11 still missing from Taiwan plane that crashed in river
One of the bodies was recovered Thursday from the cabin of the ATR 72 twin-engine turboprop aircraft, which had earlier been hauled out of the Keelung River in Taipei, the…
Jordan’s Foreign Fighter Problem
As Jordan reels from the horrific killing of one of its fighter pilots by Islamic State militants, the death also highlights how inextricably involved the country has become in the…
Boko Haram massacres scores in Cameroon town, residents say
The attackers moved door-to-door slaughtering people in the predawn raid on the town of Fotokol, according to witnesses, and opened fire on at least three mosques, including the central mosque,…
‘Texas 7’ Prison Escapee, Cop Killer Donald Newbury To Be Executed
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas inmate is scheduled to be executed for killing a suburban Dallas police officer after he and six others broke out of prison. – The…
Man Killed 5 Small Alligators For Gator Tail Super Bowl Meal, Police Say
See you later, man accused of killing alligator. – Nixie was released from jail after posting $500 bail. He is charged with possession and taking alligators without a proper tag.
5 things to know for your New Day — Wednesday, February 4
ISIS OUTRAGE In retaliation: Jordan executed two al Qaeda prisoners before dawn today, following through on a promised strong response to ISIS’ killing of pilot Moath al-Kasasbeh. Put to death…
South Korean Who Killed 5 Fellow Soldiers Is Sentenced to Die
SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean Army sergeant was sentenced to death on Tuesday for killing five of his fellow conscripts and wounding seven others in a shooting rampage…
Egypt Sentences 183 to Death Over 2013 Killings of Policemen
CAIRO — An Egyptian court has sentenced 183 people to death over the killing of 15 policemen in violence that engulfed the country after the 2013 ouster of Islamist President…
Drug dealer charged in Fox executive’s killing
He’s accused of killing Gavin Smith, a Fox entertainment executive whose remains were found in a shallow grave last yearmore than two years after he vanished. The Fox executive’s black…
Boko Haram militants conduct more deadly raids in Nigeria
For two weeks, Boko Haram gunmen have sacked dozens of villages in Michika district, close to the border with Cameroon, slaughtering male residents and abducting others. “They move house to…
Egypt Condemns Western Outrage at Fatal Shooting of Protester
Open Source By ROBERT MACKEY Egypt’s Foreign Ministry expressed dismay on Tuesday that the killing of a female activist in Cairo, which occurred as riot police used force to disperse…
Warren Hill Executed Despite Being Labeled Intellectually Disabled
A man convicted in the killing of a fellow inmate has been executed in Georgia despite claims by his lawyers that he was intellectually disabled. Warren Lee Hill was put…
Commercial Passenger Airplane Crashes Fast Facts
On August 12, 1985, the largest number of deaths in a single commercial airplane crash occurred when a Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 crashed into Mt. Ogura in Japan, killing…