Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Police stop man sawing off wife’s foot

Police arrived at the apartment to find the woman’s foot had nearly been sawn off. The 31-year-old woman had also been doused in boiling water and cooking oil, stabbed in the head and slashed with knives.

http://www.thelocal.no/page/view/police-stop-man-sawing-off-wifes-foot

Police seek suspect in grisly murder

OTTAWA -- Police have moved their investigation into the grisly murder of Valerie Leblanc to the Mont Bleu area of Gatineau -- not far from where the teen’s body was found beaten and burned.

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/11/29/police-seek-suspect-in-grisly-murder

Mom gets life in prison for killing kids with mobile home blaze

DETROIT — A Detroit-area mother convicted of murder for setting a mobile-home fire that killed two of her children has been sentenced to life in prison.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/mom-life-prison-killing-kids-mobile-home-blaze-article-1.984446

Man Stabs 89-year-old Grandmother to Death

SOUTH LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- Police in South Los Angeles arrested a man after he allegedly stabbed his grandmother to death inside her South Los Angeles home, then barricaded himself inside a shed on the property.

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-south-la-barricade-grandmother-stabbing,0,7663659.story

4th Graders In West Philadelphia Charged With Attempted Rape

Three 10-and-11-year-olds turned themselves into the Philadelphia Police Special Victims Unit Tuesday, and have been each charged with attempted rape and indecent sexual assault, WPVI reports.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/29/10-year-olds-charged-with-attempted-rape_n_1119222.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

Dog Trainer Sentenced For Abusing Own Dog

Surveillance video showed Matthews putting his dog's muzzled head through wallboard, body-slamming her by the neck and punching her in the face.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/29885772/detail.html

Wisconsin man gets 11 years for killing deer with snowmobile

WAUPACA, Wis. - A judge has sentenced a rural Weyauwega man to 11 years in prison for running down and killing deer with a snowmobile.

http://www.twincities.com/ci_19433904

Ex-wife accused in boiling-water attack

Jesusa Ursonal Tatad, 39, waited until her 36-year-old ex-husband went to sleep before assaulting him with a somewhat medieval choice of weapons, a pot of boiling water, prosecutors say.

The ex-husband, in excruciating pain, ran to the bathroom, where Tatad allegedly was waiting with a baseball bat and clubbed him in the head.

http://blog.sfgate.com/crime/2011/11/29/ex-wife-accused-in-boiling-water-attack/

Woman found bound and murdered in Aichi apartment

According to police, she was found naked, lying on the bed face up, and with both of her arms bound by adhesive tape. Police said she was strangled to death.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/woman-found-bound-and-murdered-in-aichi-apartment

Man gets 25 years for killing girlfriend and hiding body

Bradley Boston apologized Tuesday for killing his girlfriend and then stashing her body in a closet of the Oak Lawn apartment she invited him to share with her..

http://www.suntimes.com/news/crime/9140939-418/man-gets-25-years-for-killing-girlfriend-and-hiding-body.html

Shop worker dies in Huyton street stabbing attack

A shop worker has died after being stabbed in the neck on a Merseyside street.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-15957125

Woman killed soldier boyfriend after he came home drunk and held a knife to her son

A woman killed her soldier boyfriend in self-defence as she feared for her and her son's life after he came home drunk, an inquest has heard.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2067654/Woman-killed-soldier-boyfriend-came-home-drunk-held-knife-son.html

Runner, 21, brutally mauled by four pit bulls as he jogged on trail

A San Diego County runner today described the terrifying moment he was savaged by a pack of pit bulls as he jogged on a trail.

Richard Garritson, 21, and his 20-year-old brother, John, were attacked by the dogs about a mile from their home.

The 21-year-old said he was running ahead of his sisters, Meagan Garritson, 18, and Shelby Garritson, 15, and his nine-year-old niece, when at least six dogs attacked. One bit his leg and a second grabbed his other leg, knocking him down.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2067905/Four-pit-bulls-destroyed-mauling-runners-rural-California-road.html

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

4 dead, churches burned in north Nigeria attack

The attacks come after a Nov. 4 attack in the state capital claimed by the radical Muslim sect known as Boko Haram that killed more than 100 people.

http://www.emirates247.com/news/world/4-dead-churches-burned-in-north-nigeria-attack-2011-11-27-1.430344

Sydney man convicted of killing mother's lover

SYDNEY (AP) — A Sydney man accused of killing his mother's lover in a bid to protect his family's honor has been convicted of murder.

http://news.yahoo.com/sydney-man-convicted-killing-mothers-lover-060204545.html

Guilty plea to friend's murder

A jealous student admitted Monday he killed an acquaintance on Valentine’s Day in a booze-fuelled rage after he discovered they were dating the same girl.

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/11/28/guilty-plea-to-friends-murder

Woman sentenced to life in prison for murder

A woman who stabbed another to death in a fight over a man has been sentenced to life in prison for murder.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10769694

Veteran police sergeant and father of two kills wife before shooting himself dead

California cops are baffled as to what may have caused a San Jose police sergeant to kill his wife before shooting himself at the couple's home.

Gilroy police Capt Jim Gillio said officers found the bodies of Christopher Shimek and his wife, 43-year-old Lynn Polinsky-Shimek, late Sunday.

Christopher Shimek died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2067629/California-community-shock-veteran-police-Sergeant-Christopher-Shimek-father-kills-wife-Lynn-Polinsky-Shimek-home.html

Mother shot and killed by police as she stabbed four-year-old disabled daughter to death

A mother was shot and killed by police officers after they found her stabbing her disabled four-year-old daughter to death.

Police say the woman had refused to drop a knife when confronted by officers at her home in northwest Atlanta.

Emergency services were called to the home yesterday afternoon after the woman's eight-year-old son told neighbours that he had been choked by his mother and thrown out of a window.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2067644/Mother-shot-killed-police-stabbed-year-old-disabled-daughter-death.html

Man claims he was fired for refusing to wear 666

DALTON, Ga. — A north Georgia factory worker says he was fired for not wearing a symbol he says represents the devil.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/man-claims-he-was-fired-refusing-wear-666/nFjht/

Monday, November 28, 2011

Humongous (1982) Trailer



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Three pals killed in Alta. crash

In a ditch south of Beaumont littered with broken glass and twisted plastic, Adam Gilbert reached into the snow to pick out an ID badge belonging to his best friend, Brad Arsenault.

The badge was lying in the snow where Arsenault, 18, Koleo Novak, 18, and Thaddeus Lake, 22, were killed in a horrific crash that has shaken the small town south of Edmonton.

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/11/27/three-pals-killed-in-alta-crash

Brooklyn man stabs mom to death in front of her grandkids, cops say

A deranged man stabbed his mother to death Sunday inside her Brooklyn apartment as her two grandchildren watched in horror, police sources said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/brooklyn-man-stabs-mom-death-front-grandkids-cops-article-1.983356

Rita Morelli, Italian waitress and Hunter College student, stabbed to death in Harlem mystery

Slain waitress Rita Morelli came to New York five years ago from a small town on the calf of Italy’s boot, looking for bigger things.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/rita-morelli-italian-waitress-hunter-college-student-stabbed-death-harlem-mystery-article-1.983264

Homeowner kills car thief in south Houston

A suspected thief is dead, another one is wounded and a third is being sought in connection with a car break-in early Sunday in south Houston, police said.

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Homeowner-kills-car-thief-in-south-Houston-2296039.php

Cow shot dead after Darlington rampage

A cow has been shot dead by police after it escaped from a cattle market and took to the streets in Darlington.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-15919216

10 dead, 33 missing in Indonesia bridge collapse

The death toll from a weekend bridge collapse on Borneo island climbed to 10 on Monday with more than 30 people still reported missing, Indonesian rescue officials said.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-28/10-dead2c-33-missing-in-indonesia-bridge-collapse/3699998?section=world

Mother found strangled a week after taking out restraining order against ex-boyfriend

A missing mother who had a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend has been found strangled to death.

Kathy Scharbarth, from Carlsbad, California was reported missing from her home on Thanksgiving – her 35th birthday.

Her body was found on Friday in ‘a remote location in San Diego County’, police said.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2067194/Mother-strangled-taking-restraining-order-ex-boyfriend.html

Boy, three, dies after father 'puts him in washing machine and turns it on as punishment for throwing nursery classmate's drawing down toilet'

A 33-year-old man has been charged with murder after allegedly killing his three-year-old son by locking him in a washing machine and turning it on.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2067195/Boy-dies-father-puts-washing-machine-switches-punishment-prank.html

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Muslim medical students boycotting lectures on evolution... because it 'clashes with the Koran'

Muslim students, including trainee doctors on one of Britain's leading medical courses, are walking out of lectures on evolution claiming it conflicts with creationist ideas established in the Koran.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066795/Muslim-students-walking-lectures-Darwinism-clashes-Koran.html

Six HIV patients die after church tells them to stop taking meds because they were healed by God

At least six HIV-positive people have died after evangelical churches in Britain reportedly told them to stop taking their medication because they had been healed by God.

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/hiv-patients-die-church-tells-stop-meds-healed-god-report-article-1.983069

Colombia Farc rebels kill four hostages as one escapes

Left-wing Farc rebels in Colombia have shot dead four hostages, the authorities say.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-15905488

Toddler beaten to death 'by mother's boyfriend' on his fourth birthday as family prepared for party

A toddler was beaten to death as his family prepared to celebrate his fourth birthday.

Christopher Valdez was found dead in his Chicago home yesterday, shortly before his party, with cake and presents, was supposed to begin.

Police believe the boy, who died form 'multiple blunt trauma' had been dead for several hours before emergency crews found him yesterday.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066717/Toddler-beaten-death-fourth-birthday-family-prepared-party.html

Suspect in break-in that left three dead and two hurt is shot by police after crashing in to fence during car chase

The suspect of a break-in was in hospital on Saturday night after a shootout that left three people dead and two others wounded.

Fayetteville, North Carolina, police sergeant Gary Womble said officers got a call about a break-in at a house in the city on Saturday morning.

When they arrived at the scene they found two people dead, and three injured.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066770/Suspect-Fayetteville-break-left-dead-hurt-shot-police-car-chase.html

Saturday, November 26, 2011

D W Griffith's THE SEALED ROOM (1909)

"The Sealed Room" is an film based on the idea of bricking an adversary into a sealed room as an act of revenge. This is based in part on the literature of Edgar Allan Poe and Honore de Balzac. The film was directed in 1909 by D W Griffith for the American Biograph company. It features Arthur Johnson (as the king), Marion Leonard (as the girl) and Henry Walthal (as the musician). The film also features early appearances by Mary Pickford and Mack Sennett.

Music: Kevin MacLeod

Elevator drop kills one man, injures three

An elevator fell in a Paris apartment block on Thursday afternoon, killing one man and injuring three others, two of them seriously.

http://www.thelocal.fr/1864/20111125/

Pakistani wife kills and cooks husband

Video contains graphic material

Islamabad (CNN) -- A Pakistani woman is being held on suspicion of killing her husband, cutting him up and trying to cook the pieces, Karachi police said Friday.

 

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/wtvr-pakistani-wife-kills-and-cooks-husband-20111125,0,3049096.story

4-Year-Old Dies During Dental Surgery

STOCKTON, Calif. (KCRA) -- A 4-year-old Stockton boy who survived three open-heart surgeries died Friday while having his teeth capped.

http://www.kcra.com/r/29781192/detail.html

Police identify two victims in Thanksgiving slayings

A teenager and a woman described by relatives as the girl’s godmother were killed in a Thanksgiving night incident in which police shot a possible suspect to death outside the south-central Kansas City residence.

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/11/25/3285361/police-fatally-shoot-robbery-suspect.html

Oita woman arrested for allegedly beating 4-year-old son to death

OITA — Police said Saturday they have arrested a 37-year-old woman from Beppu, Oita Prefecture, for allegedly beating to death her 4-year-old son.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/oita-woman-arrested-for-allegedly-beating-4-year-old-son-to-death

Iraq: Bomb blasts in Baghdad kill at least 15

A series of explosions in and around the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Saturday has killed at least 15 people and wounded more than 20, officials say.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15903823

Australian man electrocuted in Bali

The Department of Foreign Affairs say an 18-year-old Australian man has been accidentally electrocuted in Bali.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-26/australian-man-electrocuted-in-bali/3696936

Killed for her handbag: Widow, 79, dies after struggle with muggers who snatched purse containing husband's ashes

-Nellie Geraghty died this morning

-Devastated family appeal for missing ashes to be returned

-Two teenagers, 14 and 17, arrested on suspicion of robbery

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066464/Nellie-Geraghty-79-dies-struggle-muggers-purse-husbands-ashes.html

Friday, November 25, 2011

Nokhur Cemetery

Cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones


http://atlasobscura.com/place/nokhur-cemetery

Shopper 'PEPPER-SPRAYS fellow Wal-Mart bargain hunters in crazy scramble for Xbox 360 Black Friday deals'

-Outrageous scramble for computer games at Wal-Mart store in Los Angeles

-Twenty people were injured by 'competitive shopping' attack, say authorities

-Electronics stands were torn down and DVDs were trampled on by shoppers



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066174/Black-Friday-Shopper-pepper-sprays-fellow-Wal-Mart-bargain-hunters-Xbox-360-scramble.html

Frantic search for gunman on the loose in hospital after he shoots girlfriend dead in car park

-University sends message to students telling them suspect is 'armed and dangerous'

-SWAT teams and negotiators are on the scene

-Police say they are looking for a 47-year-old man

-Hospital resumes normal normal service at 5am despite gunman not being found

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066092/Frantic-search-gunman-hospital-shoots-girlfriend-dead-car-park.html

Victim pleaded with attacker to kill her, trial hears

TORONTO - “Just kill me.”

Sarah John implored her hulking nextdoor neighbour to murder her, instead of raping her, a Superior Court jury heard Thursday.

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/11/24/victim-pleaded-with-attacker-to-kill-her-trial-hears

Kiwi killed girlfriend before killing himself

A New Zealand engineer stabbed and bludgeoned his English girlfriend to death in a jealous rage before hanging himself, a coroner's court has heard.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/crime/news/article.cfm?c_id=30&objectid=10768672

Female manager of gentlemen's 'snack club' stabbed to death

Police found the victim, identified as Reiko Kinoshita, collapsed on the floor with two knives protruding from her body and at least 10 stab and slash wounds around her face, neck and chest. A third knife was found on the floor of the bar.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/female-manager-of-gentlemens-snack-club-stabbed-to-death

Man admits killing childhood friend in Pumpherston

A man who killed his childhood friend in a frenzied knife attack during a row at a party in West Lothian has pleaded guilty to murder.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-15878308

NJ boy hit twice by two cars that drove away

PINE HILL, N.J. - November 24, 2011 (WPVI) -- Police in New Jersey are looking for two drivers who ran over a ten-year-old boy, then kept going.

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=8443883

Earache man sent home from clinic with drops dies of brain infection six days later

-Father-of-two was sweating, vomiting and struggling to stay on his feet

-Infection spread to the brain and he died of septicaemia

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2065805/Earache-man-sent-home-clinic-drops-dies-brain-infection-days-later.html

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Steve Jobs: How to live before you die

Several killed in Nigeria religious clashes

Clashes between Muslim and Christian ethnic groups in central Nigeria Thursday caused "enormous" destruction, with a number of people dead and houses burned, a military officer said.

http://www.rnw.nl/africa/bulletin/several-killed-nigeria-religious-clashes

23 killed in western Mexico, 16 of them burned

CULIACAN, Mexico (AP) — Sixteen men were shot dead and burned in two pickup trucks in the western city of Culiacan, officials said Wednesday, and seven other people were slain in the same state.

http://news.yahoo.com/23-killed-western-mexico-16-them-burned-194728487.html

Incredible video shows the moment an octopus heaved itself from the water and WALKED on dry land

It's a creature that's so shy, scientists know little about its behavior in the wild.
But an Eastern Pacific Red Octopus outside San Francisco, California, was friendly enough that it hoisted itself from the water and walked about on dry land, much to the amazement of spectators who captured the entire thing on video.

'Where are you headed, dude?' the astonished cameraman asks as the slimy mollusc creeps through the seaweed next to a tide pool.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2065499/Where-headed-dude--Incredible-video-shows-octopus-heave-water-WALK-dry-land.html

Afghan woman jailed for being a rape victim offered release if she MARRIES her attacker

-Gulnaz was convicted of adultery because she had sex outside of marriage by being raped

-After falling pregnant by her attacker, she and the baby were jailed for 12 years

-She has been given the choice to marry her rapist and be freed from jail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2065301/Afghan-woman-jailed-raped-cousins-husband-offered-release-marries-attacker.html

Woman pregnant with twins loses both after she agrees to abort one with heart defect… and doctors get wrong foetus

A tragic medical mix-up has left a young mother-to-be without the twin babies she was expecting after the wrong foetus was terminated in her womb.

The woman had been told that one of the twins had a congenital heart defect which would require years of operations - if he survived at all.

The sick baby shared the womb with his healthy twin.

The mother had made the agonising decision to have the sick baby injected to end his life.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2065670/Woman-pregnant-twins-loses-agrees-abort-heart-defect-doctors-wrong-foetus.html

Murder suspect bragged about killing, witness tells court

WINNIPEG - Kelly Clarke bragged about killing Joel and Magdalena Labossiere and said it "felt great to play God," jurors were told Wednesday.

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/11/23/murder-suspect-bragged-about-killing-witness-tells-court

8-Month-Old Baby Found Bruised, Emaciated; Mom Arrested

ADELANTO, Calif. (KTLA) -- The mother of an 8-month-old baby boy has been arrested after the child was found underweight, and with a broken leg and bruises.

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-baby-abuse,0,5165896.story

3 Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide in La Puente

LA PUENTE (KTLA) -- Three people were found shot to death at a home in La Puente on Wednesday in an apparent murder-suicide, authorities said.

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-la-puente-house-swat,0,1811214.story

Lockport man faces trial for fatally beating his father

A Lockport man accused of beating his elderly disabled father to death last year is scheduled to go on trial Monday.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/crime/8982817-418/lockport-man-faces-trial-for-fatally-beating-his-father.html

Teen survivor of triple killing tells of horrific repeated slashings

As she lay bleeding on the floor while a naked knife-wielding killer rampaged through her home, Li Meilin's only thought was: 'God, let me die.'

http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_737062.html

Police: Home intruders shot and killed by resident

WISSINOMING - November 23, 2011 (WPVI) -- A home invasion turned deadly for the intruders in Wissinoming.

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/crime&id=8443772

Bizarre 'Brinicle' forms BENEATH the sea and kills everything in its path

An underwater 'icicle of death' which sinks to the seabed destroying everything it comes into contact with has been caught on camera for the first time.

The sinking brine is so cold that it causes the seawater to freeze around it.
BBC film crews recorded the brinicle for the first time ever as it sunk to the bottom of the sea in Antarctica.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2065401/The-icicle-death-Bizarre-Brinicle-forms-beneath-sea-kills-path.html

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Pair charged over vicious puppy bashing

Two people have been charged with a vicious attack on a puppy in western New South Wales.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-23/pair-charged-over-vicious-puppy-bashing/3689974

Ten-year-old boy among three killed in flash floods in Italy as woman feared dead found neck-deep in mud

Three people have been killed after flash floods triggered a landslide that swept mud and water through an Italian village.

The victims included a ten-year-old boy, a father and his grown-up son, who all died after a wall of mud and debris crashed into their homes and swept them away following 24 hours of torrential rain.

A 24-year-old woman feared dead was found in the wreckage of her destroyed home with mud and debris up to her neck.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2065073/Ten-year-old-boy-killed-flash-floods-Italy.html

Two mental health patients brutally slaughtered three victims after being failed by Trust

A mental health trust has been slammed after two reports found that three brutal murders - including a case where a son killed his elderly parents - could have been avoided.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2065165/Two-mental-health-patients-brutally-slaughtered-victims-failed-Trust.html

Two men arrested for 'hacking to death' 20 endangered orang-utans and monkeys in mass slaughter

-The men, from Borneo, were paid £64 for a dead orang-utan and £14 for a dead proboscis monkey

-Indonesia is home to 90 per cent of the 50,000 orang-utans left in the wild

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2065231/Two-men-arrested-hacking-death-20-endangered-orang-utans-monkeys-mass-slaughter.html

Muslim preacher jailed after being secretly filmed kicking and slapping children at mosque

A religious teacher who was caught on a secret camera kicking and slapping children in a mosque was jailed for 10 weeks today.

Sabir Hussain, 60, admitted four charges of assaulting boys at the Markazi Jamia Mosque, in Keighley, West Yorkshire, as they learned The Koran.

He was arrested after secret filming was screened on a Channel 4 documentary earlier this year.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2065206/Muslim-preacher-60-jailed-assault-children-mosque-secretly-filmed.html

Mother 'killed friend's kitten in microwave in revenge for boyfriend being reported to police'

-Horrified owner vomited in the kitchen sink when she saw what had happened

-Claimed Gina Robins later sent a text which read: 'Remember the saying "What goes around comes around"? It has started already to bite you in the a***. The cat? Karma'

-Pair fell out when Sarah Knutton called police because Robins' boyfriend was shouting abuse outside her house

-Court hears Robins said cats must have been fighting and shut themselves inside

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2065202/Your-kitten-korma-Mother-s-text-message-friend-cooking-kitten-microwave-exploded.html

Don't Deliver Us From Evil (1971) - Satanic Vows



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Mom charged with murdering two infants

CALGARY - The Crown has laid two second-degree murder charges against a Calgary mom accused of attempting to slay her newborn son by tossing him in a dumpster.

The murder charges allege Meredith Katharine Borowiec killed two earlier children, the first between Jan. 1 and April 1, 2008, and the second between July 1 and Aug. 1, 2009.

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/11/22/mom-charged-with-murdering-two-infants

80-year-old died after 'frenzied and vicious' home invasion

The elderly woman was found with 38 rib fractures, a broken bone in her neck, a broken sternum and a swollen face.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/crime/news/article.cfm?c_id=30&objectid=10767938

Woman loses arm trying to hop freight train

SAN DIEGO -- A 27-year-old woman was severely injured early Tuesday when she fell under a freight train while trying to hop aboard as it rolled slowly through Little Italy,, police said.

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/kswb-woman-critically-injured-by-freight-train-in-little-italy-20111122,0,399234.story

Deputy shot, confidential informant killed in NW Harris County

HARRIS COUNTY – A Harris County deputy was shot and a confidential informant was killed in a northwest Harris County gunbattle Monday afternoon.

http://www.khou.com/news/cnn/Undercover-officer-shot-in-northwest-Harris-County-134260588.html

Two teens shot on way home from soccer practice, one dead

Because crime is not an infrequent occurrence in and around the southwest Houston apartment complex where 14-year-old Sylvia Agostadero lives with her family, she said her parents constantly remind the girl and her siblings to get home early in the evening and not to dilly-dally around outside.

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Two-teens-shot-on-way-home-from-soccer-practice-2283438.php

Jamestown Woman's Death Was Part Of Murder-Suicide

BOULDER, Colo. -- A registered sex offender sexually assaulted and killed a Jamestown woman, then shot himself hours later, the Boulder Sheriff's Office said Tuesday.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/29836829/detail.html

Driver in China held after hitting woman 3 times

SHENZHEN, Guangdong (CHINA DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - The truck driver whose vehicle ran over a woman three times before killing her has been put in criminal detention, local police confirmed to China Daily on Monday.

http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/ANN/Story/STIStory_736690.html

Portadown man Christopher Harper denies murdering wife

A court has heard a father-of-three stabbed his wife to death because she was going to leave him.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-15839834

Hairdresser 'murdered on blind date'

A Melbourne court has heard a young hairdresser was violently killed on a blind date.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-23/hairdresser-murdered-on-blind-date/3688752

Monmouth County man accused of killing wife

FREEHOLD, N.J. - November 22, 2011 (WPVI) -- Authorities say a Monmouth County man beat and strangled his wife to death during an argument over money.

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/crime&id=8440949

Berks father charged with molesting daughter, friend

READING, Pa. - November 22, 2011 (WPVI) -- A man from Berks County has been charged with molesting his young daughter and one of his daughter's friends.

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/crime&id=8441273

Suicide note reveals agony of bridegroom who drowned himself just hours after marrying his high school sweetheart

-Father of two left note and wedding ring at hotel for his 26-year-old bride

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2064727/Groom-commits-suicide-throwing-river-morning-marrying-high-school-sweetheart.html

Teen 'attacks love rival, 19, with a samurai sword after finding him in bed with his ex-girlfriend, 15'

A jilted teenager faces up to 41 years in jail for allegedly attacking a love rival with a samurai sword.

Robert Markwardt, 18, used the fearsome weapon after finding his girlfriend in bed with another teenager.

His victim, 19-year-old Jordan Lass, suffered deep gashes to his arm where he had tried to protect himself from being slashed with the ornamental sword.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2064894/Robert-Markwardt-attacks-love-rival-Jordan-Lass-samurai-sword.html

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Woman savaged by three 10-stone 'lion hunter' dogs who tore her pet to pieces in horrific woodland attack

-Originally from Turkey, Anatolian Shepherd dogs have the strength to take down wolves, horses, and lions

-Judge: 'These dogs should not be kept in England'

-One of the dogs had attacked a walker before


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2064658/Kate-Hancock-savaged-Anatolian-Shepherd-lion-hunter-dogs-woodland-attack.html

Woman, 55, dies after setting herself on fire at petrol pumps

A woman died after setting herself on fire at a petrol pump.

The 55-year-old from Bath, Somerset, was seen at the Sainsbury's filling station strolling across the forecourt and dousing herself with fuel and setting herself alight.

Two workers staff tried to put the fire out by spraying her with bottles of water.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2064878/Woman-55-dies-setting-petrol-pumps.html

Two babies die and three more patients ill after E.coli outbreak at hospital

Two babies have died and another three people are ill after an outbreak of E.coli poisoning.

Baby Hope Erin Evans died aged just five days after contracting the infection at the Singleton Hospital in Swansea, South Wales.

The second death happened 'in the community' outside the hospital but health chiefs believe the cases were linked and are investigating how the cross-infection occurred. The second baby is not being named.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2064822/E-coli-kills-babies-leaves-people-ill.html

France in shock over rape and murder of 13-year old girl

France is in shock over the rape and murder of a 13-year old girl whose alleged teenager killer was admitted to a high school despite awaiting trial for another rape case.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8904642/France-in-shock-over-rape-and-murder-of-13-year-old-girl.html

'Adolf Hitler's' newborn brother seized by authorities

A New Jersey white supremacist couple, who have already had three kids seized from them by authorities, lost custody of their newborn son 17 hours after he was born.

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/11/21/adolf-hitlers-newborn-brother-seized-by-authorities

Wife kills husband during knife fight in NE Houston

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Police say a wife killed her husband during a knife fight overnight in northeast Houston.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=8439670

Santa Rosa man held in father's stabbing death

A Santa Rosa man was arrested early Monday for allegedly stabbing his father to death, police said.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/22/BAK71M26HD.DTL

Man charged in baby daughter's death

Norwalk, Conn. (WTNH) - Police arrested a Norwalk father Friday night and and charged him in the death of his 3-month-old baby girl.

An autopsy ruled 3-month-old Hailey Pamela Smith's death a homicide. Results show she died from blunt head trama. She had skull fractures that police say were brought on by her father, 28-year-old Justin Smith.

http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/crime/man-charged-in-baby-daughter%27s-death

Sick NH man accused of killing sister with hammer

CANDIA, N.H.—An architect diagnosed with suspected early onset Alzheimer's disease told police he fatally beat his visiting sister in the head with a baseball bat and a sledgehammer after she overstayed her welcome and started talking about money, a prosecutor said Monday.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/11/21/sick_nh_man_accused_of_killing_sister_with_hammer/

Kimberley Hainey trial: Dead child looked 'horrendous'

A police officer has told the trial of a woman accused of murdering her toddler son that the child's body was found in a "horrendous" state.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-15826713

Man 'choked to death' on heroin package in Irvine

A man choked to death trying to swallow a package of drugs as a policeman fought to save him, a court has heard.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-15826258

10cm leech pulled from boy's throat

Doctors in China have removed a live 10-centimetre leech from a teenage boy's windpipe.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-22/doctors-remove-10cm-leech-from-boy27s-throat/3686254

5 shootings, 2 dead after violent weekend in A.C.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - November 21, 2011 (WPVI) -- Police are investigating five weekend shootings in Atlantic City, that left two people dead.

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=8440517

Wife's chilling 911 call for husband shot by jilted lover, whose rampage left her son and niece dead

-Sheriff says Mary Ann Holder, 36, shot sons Robert, 17, and Zachary, 14, in the head. Robert died

-She also shot ex-lover, who had filed a restraining order

-She also shot her niece, 8, nephew, 17, and son's girlfriend, 15

-Her niece died on Monday

-Deputies found a note where Holder ‘took responsibility’ for her actions, but said she had been ‘wronged’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2064147/North-Carolina-shootings-Woman-kills-2-wounds-4-turns-gun-herself.html

Terror of family who claim their five-year old son is haunted by the 'man with grey skin'

-'He can't sleep because a man with grey skin comes and sits on his bed and keeps him awake talking to him'

-'Ghost' seen shuffling furniture in boy's bedroom

-Visitors say they have also spotted the face of a man on wall of a different room of the three-storey home

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2064375/Dagan-Gerrity-Family-claim-5-year-old-son-haunted-man-grey-skin.html

Monday, November 21, 2011

New Delhi fire kills 15 eunuchs at convention

At least 15 eunuchs were killed and 31 injured in India when a fire engulfed a venue in the capital New Delhi where an annual convention was being held, police said on Monday.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/8903555/New-Delhi-fire-kills-15-eunuchs-at-convention.html

Club-goers slashed, struck by hit-and-run driver during wild brawl outside Queens nightclub Amnesia

Several club-goers embroiled in a wild brawl outside a Queens nightclub were struck by a hit-and-run driver early Sunday, police said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/club-goers-slashed-struck-hit-and-run-driver-wild-brawl-queens-nightclub-amnesia-article-1.980388

Dog shot by police after attacking four people

A pitbull cross has been shot by police after it attacked four people in Mangere this morning.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10767711

Bullied kids should hit back, says US expert

Bully victims should fight back with their fists - and parents should not be so over-protective, says an overseas expert.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10767538

Baby violently shaken twice and dropped

Baby Cezar Taylor lived for only six months, during which time he was violently shaken twice and dropped on his bed, a court has heard.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10767755

Police: Man with AK-47s shot at, injured officers

ST. CLOUD, Fla. - A man armed with two assault rifles opened fire at police officers early Monday morning.

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/2-Officers-injured-in-St-Cloud-shooting/-/1637132/4797528/-/ayg1ld/-/index.html?source=orlpn

Trinidad Resident Kills Intruder; 2 More Sought

TRINIDAD, Colo. -- Authorities are looking for two men suspected of accompanying an intruder who was shot and killed by a Trinidad resident.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/29819732/detail.html

Jealous man drives over, kills his rival

Veterans hospital janitor Tyrone Carter and his alleged killer had two things in common, friends said: their job and a woman.

It was the second connection that cost Carter his life Saturday night, they said.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/crime/8964045-418/police-jealous-man-drives-over-kills-his-rival.html

Second man found hanged in lockup

A 62-year-old man held on aggravated assault charges apparently hanged himself early Sunday at a Far South Side police lockup.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/crime/8964182-418/second-man-found-hanged-in-lockup.html

Granddaughter jailed for Daisy Myring murder

A woman who battered her 92-year-old grandmother to death after stealing her life savings has been jailed for a minimum of 22 years and six months.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-15820003

Man fatally gored by bull

A 73-year-old man has been killed by a bull in central Victoria.

Ambulance Victoria says paramedics were called to a property at Acheron, south of Alexandra, at 12:45pm (AEDT) after reports a man had been gored by a bull.

Paramedics attempted to revive the man but he died at the scene.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-21/man-fatally-gored-by-bull/3684420

Tug-of-love children gassed by their mother in a Turkish hotel room

Two young children were found dead after apparently being gassed by their mother, who also killed herself.

A Europe-wide hunt had been launched to find the two youngsters – who were supposed to be in the custody of their British father – after their German mother, Elke Mellersh, abducted them.

But the search ended in tragedy this weekend when police found the three bodies in a farmhouse in the seaside town of Soke, on Turkey’s Aegean coast.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2064002/Tug-love-children-gassed-mother-Turkish-hotel-room.html

'It's like an octopus groping me': Grandmother, 73, claims she's being plagued by a GHOST

A grandmother claims she is being haunted by a poltergeist who continually gropes her as she tries to sleep.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2064223/Doris-Birch-73-claims-shes-plagued-poltergeist.html

22 dead and thousands more injured as ‘heavy handed’ military regime cracks down on third day of protests in Cairo

-Thousands converge on Tahrir Square after overnight clashes

-Doctors seeing '80 casualties and hour' in makeshift hospital stations

-Soldiers and police burn tents and hit crowd with truncheons

-Social networks again linking protesters to outside world

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2063825/Egypt-protests-3rd-day-violence-Cairos-Tahrir-Square-20-killed.html

Woman kills one and wounds five - including four children - before turning gun on herself

A woman killed one person and wounded five more - including four children - before fatally shooting herself in front of police officers in North Carolina.

One victim was shot and wounded in the car park of Guilford Technical Community College near Greensboro.

The gunwoman shot herself in a car as police approached her and was pronounced dead at a hospital, said Guilford County Sheriff BJ Barnes.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2064147/Woman-kills-wounds--including-children--turning-gun-herself.html

Sunday, November 20, 2011

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Alcoholics eat super-strength hand gel to satisfy craving for a drink

Health chiefs have revealed that alcoholics had been eating super-strength hospital hand gel to satisfy their craving.

Hospital trusts across Kent say patients and visitors have swallowed the gel – which has an alcohol content of 78 per cent – at least 15 times.

The gels are said to kill 99.9 per cent of germs including MRSA within 30 seconds.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2063813/Alcoholics-eat-super-strength-hand-gel-satisfy-craving-drink.html

The moment hero grandfather tackled knife-wielding robber at petrol station

An elderly grandfather has been hailed a hero after fighting off a knife wielding robber at the petrol station where he worked armed only with a bottle of wine.

Pensioner Derek Greenwood, 73, grabbed masked Kieran Devlin, 27, as he threatened the terrified female cashier with a knife and demanded money from the till.

Devlin quickly turned on him brandishing the large kitchen knife, but Mr Greenwood broke away before returning seconds later armed with a bottle of wine and continued to defend his 25-year-old colleague.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2063852/Derek-Greenwood-73-stopped-petrol-station-robbery--armed-bottle-wine.html

Girl guides set to drop oath to God in bow to secularists

Girls who join the Guides or Brownies may stop pledging their devotion to God after complaints that the practice discriminates against non-believers.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/8901378/Girl-guides-set-to-drop-oath-to-God-in-bow-to-secularists.html

Cops say woman stabbed ex-hubby in ‘War of the Roses’ murder

A woman fatally stabbed her ex-husband during a fight in the Long Island home they still shared and then disposed of his body on a bike path, cops said Saturday.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/cops-woman-stabbed-ex-hubby-war-roses-murder-article-1.980172

Mom Charged in Death of 28-Pound Teenager

DAYTON, Ohio -- A 42-year old woman has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of her 14-year-old daughter, who weighed 28 pounds when she died.

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-ohio-mother-unweight-teen,0,4069481.story

Many alleged abusers left off church list

Cardinal O’Malley is credited with going public when many dioceses have not, but critics say he has stopped far short of a full accounting.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/11/20/many_alleged_abusers_left_off_church_list/

'Shoot him again to make sure he dies': Boy, 15, gunned down in front of his classmates after refusing to join march in support of Syria's President Assad

Pressure on the Syrian regime has increased after a 15-year-old schoolboy was murdered by government thugs.

Mohammed Mulla Eissa's only crime was refusing to join a pro-regime march when ordered to do so by militiamen who had come to his school.

The boy was apparently shot in front of his classmates; beaten with truncheons; and then killed after an officer ordered: 'Shoot him again to make sure he dies.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2063874/Murdered-refused-march-Schoolboy-figurehead-Syrian-uprising-brutal-killing.html

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Saturday, November 19, 2011

Louis Daguerre and the pioneers of photography

Louis Daguerre devised the daguerreotype, the first successful form of permanent photography. The French physicist developed the process for transferring photographs onto silver-coated copper plates. His discovery was made by an accident, according to the writer Robert Leggat, who said Daguerre put an exposed plate in a chemical cupboard in 1835 only to later find it have developed a latent image. The daguerreotype process was unveiled at the French Academy of Sciences in Paris in 1839. It became the first commercially successful was of getting permanent images from a camera.


Louis Jacques Daguerre's first surviving daguerreotype image, of a collection of plaster casts on a window ledge, which he produced on a silver plate, in 1837

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/8898962/Louis-Daguerre-and-the-pioneers-of-photography.html

Three dead in 52 vehicle pile-up on German motorway

Three people die and at least 35 are injured in a massive car accident on a fog-covered motorway in western Germany.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/8901214/Three-dead-in-52-vehicle-pile-up-on-German-motorway.html

Girl killed after getting off school bus

WINNIPEG - A six-year-old girl is dead after she was run over by a school bus Thursday afternoon at Oxford House First Nation.

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/11/18/girl-killed-after-getting-off-school-bus

Man sentenced for beating dogs to death

SAN DIEGO -- A man who tortured to death his girlfriend's three dogs in their College-area home last year was sentenced Friday.

Patrick Caleb Land, 25, had pleaded guilty to multiple animal abuse charges. Judge Charles Rogers sentenced Land to 5 years and 4 months in prison.

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/kswb-man-sentenced-for-beating-dogs-to-death-20111118,0,4301119.story

Man arrested for abuse after breaking 6-month-old baby's leg

WAKAYAMA — Police in Wakayama City said Friday they have arrested a 24-year-old man for assault after he allegedly stomped on his 6-month-old baby son, breaking the child’s right leg.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/man-arrested-for-abuse-after-breaking-6-month-old-babys-leg

Dad allegedly catches mom abusing kids

NORWALK, Conn. (WTNH) - When a father got the feeling that his children were being painfully mistreated by their mother, he got the evidence to prove it.

There were hidden microphones and cameras that allegedly caught a mother abusing her own children right in their own home.

http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/fairfield_cty/kids-beaten-by-mother-caught-on-camera

Hembree should die for killing teen, jury says

GASTONIA - Moments after being sentenced to death Friday, convicted killer Danny Hembree read verses from a Johnny Cash song.

"Prison can be a living hell for me," Hembree said, reading an altered version of "San Quentin."

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/11/18/2786069/hembree-should-die-for-killing.html

Police: N.C. man bit off girfriend's lip

Authorities in Graham have arrested an 18-year-old man after they say he bit off the lip of his 14-year-old girlfriend.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/11/18/2785366/police-nc-man-bit-off-girfriends.html

Four police officers stabbed after man snatches knife from butcher's and 'goes berserk'

Four police officers were stabbed as they dealt with a disturbance today in Kingsbury, north London.

The incident is believed to have happened at the Kingsbury Halal Butchers just 100 yards from Kingsbury Tube station and in a busy shopping street.

A Scotland Yard spokesman said: ‘Police were called at approximately 8.40am to a disturbance in Kingsbury Road, Kingsbury.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2063552/Four-police-officers-stabbed-Kingsbury-London-say-Scotland-Yard.html

Mysterious, triangle-shaped ‘alien skull’ found in Peru

Peruvian anthropologist Renato Davila Riquelme has discovered the remains of an unidentified creature with a "triangle shaped" skull nearly as large as its 20-inch-tall body.


http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/mysterious-triangle-shaped-alien-skull-found-peru-161615656.html

'Smart, beautiful, athletic' 16-year-old jumps into traffic to kill herself just minutes after breaking up with her boyfriend

A bright, seemingly happy 16-year-old girl died today in an apparent suicide after she and her boyfriend broke up.

The death of Shayna McEntire has been ruled a suicide by local police officials.

'Subsequent investigation revealed she had jumped in front of a vehicle that was westbound on Elliot in an effort to end her life,' police spokesman Sgt. William Balafas reported.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2063319/Smart-beautiful-athletic-16-year-old-jumps-traffic-kill-herself.html

Nurse Jane Clough warned police her brutal ex-partner was going to kill her - yet he was freed on bail and stabbed her 71 times

-She had met 31-year-old ambulance technician Jonathan Vass in 2007

-Nurse told police Vass raped her when she was seven months pregnant

-He was charged with 9 counts of rape and 4 of assault... but judge granted bail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2063422/The-mother-predicted-murder-Nurse-Jane-Clough-warned-police-brutal-ex-partner-going-kill--freed-bail-stabbed-71-times.html

Friday, November 18, 2011

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Man admits to burning cross to save marriage

In an unusual attempt to avoid a divorce with his white wife, a black man admitted to burning a cross on the driveway of their Panama City, Fla., home in a Ku Klux Klan-inspired plan, News Herald reports.

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/11/17/man-admits-to-burning-cross-to-save-marriage

Two-year-old died a violent death

Police investigating the violent death of a two-year-old boy have been given "inconsistent" accounts by adults who were present during the assault.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10767040

Teacher, Pastors, Former Principal Arrested In Sex Assault Case

EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. -- A teacher, two pastors and a former principal have been arrested in a sexual assault case involving a 15-year-old boy, according to the El Paso County Sheriff's Office.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/29796924/detail.html

Fla. Craigslist jobseeker found dead in Ohio grave

COLUMBUS, Ohio—A jobseeker from Florida who responded to a bogus Craigslist ad for a job on a southeast Ohio cattle farm was found dead, buried in a shallow grave, and another from South Carolina was shot but escaped by running away through the woods, a sheriff said Thursday.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/11/18/fla_craigslist_jobseeker_found_dead_in_ohio_grave/

Father Patrick McCafferty 'had no-one to turn to' over abuse claim

A Catholic priest who claims he was sexually abused by another cleric has said there was no-one he "could turn to" about the alleged abuse.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-15781105

Residents killed as fire rips through nursing home

Three elderly people have been killed and the death toll is expected to rise after a fire ripped through a nursing home in western Sydney this morning.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-18/nursing-home-fire/3678528

Abattoir worker, 23, is crushed to death by carcass of cow

A young abattoir worker has died after being crushed by the carcass of a cow.

The 23-year-old man, who has not been named, was taken to hospital yesterday but died a short time later.

Police and Health and Safety Executive (HSE) officials have launched an investigation at the Sandyford abattoir in Paisley, Renfrewshire, the scene of an accidental shooting last month.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2063161/Abattoir-worker-23-crushed-death-dead-cow.html

Saudi women with attractive eyes may be forced to cover even them up, if resolution is passed

-Islamic state fears effect of 'tempting' eyes on men

-Says it 'has the right' to issue repressive edict

-Women must already cover their hair and wear full-length black cloak

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2063143/Saudi-women-attractive-eyes-forced-cover-resolution-passed.html

Girl, 10, takes last breath in her mother's arms after hanging herself 'to escape the school bullies'

-Second child in a week to kill herself following Facebook reports she was tormented by classmates

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062986/Girl-10-takes-breath-mothers-arms-hanging-escape-bullies.html

Six dead, including toddler and her grandmother, as 25 ferocious tornadoes rip houses from foundations in southern states

Six people have been killed, including a three-year-old girl, and dozens injured after 25 tornadoes tore across the Southeast.

In North Carolina, the toddler was found buried under a pile of shattered furniture along with her 50-year-old grandmother. Their small house in a rural area of Lexington had been ripped clean from its foundations.

The storms left at trail of debris that stretched for at least seven miles, with a dozen people taken to hospital.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062522/Two-dead-dozens-injured-tornadoes-rip-southern-states.html

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Teenager, 18, plunged to his death after climbing scaffolding while high on meow meow

-Aidan McSweeney had not slept for three days before his death, while on the drug, his mother said

-She said her son wanted to fit in with his peers

-Aidan's mother believed he climbed the scaffolding during a drug-fuelled prank

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062909/Teenager-18-plunged-death-climbing-scaffolding-high-meow-meow.html

Father-of-two 'stabbed himself to death in despair' after three months of tinnitus made his life hell

A management consultant took his own life after battling to get treatment for his debilitating tinnitus, an inquest heard today.

Father of two Robert McIndoe, 52, was unable to sleep for three months after going to a rock concert that left him with a permanent ringing in his ear.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062837/Father-stabbed-death-despair-months-tinnitus-life-hell.html

Man accused of killing couple in wreck to be arrested for probation violation

A Seattle man accused of killing a couple in a crash on Lake City Way on Sunday will be booked into the King County Jail once he is released from the hospital.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016783602_lakecitycrash17m.html

Facebook Squabble Escalates to Attempted Murder

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (KTLA) -- What started as an argument between two women on Facebook escalated Tuesday when one of them attacked the other with a baseball bat while her boyfriend shot the female victim's brother in the face, officials said.

San Bernardino County Sheriff's officials said the two victims -- a 22-year-old woman and 26-year-old man, who are siblings and Victorville residents -- had a "long-standing" feud with Catherine Villarreal, 21, of also Victorville. The two women recently carried the dispute to Facebook, where it escalated.

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-victorville-facebook-squabble-escalates-to-attempted-murder,0,7619369.story

KC man accused of killing estranged wife

Anthony K. Perkins told police he wasn’t at his estranged wife’s home when she was beaten and strangled there in June.

But DNA tests showed otherwise, according to court records released Wednesday to support a second-degree murder charge against Perkins, 48.

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/11/16/3269977/kc-man-accused-of-killing-estranged.html

Former employee opens fire at FedEx building, kills himself

A former employee walked into a southwest suburban Bedford Park FedEx facility guns blaring before taking his own life Thursday morning, police said.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/crime/8897713-418/former-employee-opens-fire-at-fedex-building-kills-himself.html

Union County man found guilty of raping girl

A 43-year-old man will likely spend the rest of his life in prison after being found guilty Tuesday by a Union County jury of sexually assaulting a girl repeatedly over a one-year span.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/11/17/2781131/union-county-man-found-guilty.html

Doctors baffled by 7-year-old who weeps stones

(THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - A seven-year-old girl who weeps stones is baffling doctors who are unable to say what is causing the phenomenon.

http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/ANN/Story/STIStory_734501.html

38 sent to hospital after bee attack at Ngee Ann Poly

Ngee Ann Polytechnic students participating in a sports and wellness class this morning were sent fleeing from the field when bees in a hive on a tree attacked them.

http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_734520.html

Accountant stabbed to death outside her home after screaming at attacker

A hardworking accountant was stabbed to death just yards from her home as she got out of her Mercedes convertible.

Larisa Komsky screamed: 'What are you doing here?' as the man emerged from a car he had been hiding behind and knifed her twice in the leg and once in the hand.

Her cries woke up neighbours who saw the 50-year-old stumble on the sidewalk and collapse, leaving a 12ft trail of blood behind her.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062463/What-doing--Accountant-stabbed-death-outside-home-screaming-attacker.html

Mystery of the 'alien corpse' woman stored in her fridge for two years

-Russian woman kept alien before it was 'confiscated' by authorities

-Third 'alien' sighting in Russia in recent months

-Experts claim country is 'hotbed of UFO activity'


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061737/Marta-Yegorovnam-keeps-alien-fridge-Russian-woman-stores-corpse-2-years.html

Killed with a single punch: Woman, 89, dies in care home tragedy after argument with fellow dementia patient

A row between two elderly women at a care home ended in tragedy when one killed the other with a single punch.

Both women suffered from severe dementia.

Helen Noreen Patrick, 89, who was 4ft 9in tall, weighed less than seven stone, and used a walking frame, died from a single blow to the chest.

A coroner ruled she was unlawfully killed, but no charges will be brought against Dorothy Hodgetts, 83, because she did not have the 'capacity to form any criminal intent'.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062601/Killed-single-punch-Patient-89-dies-care-home-tragedy-rowed-83-year-old-woman.html

'Evil' thug who clubbed kitten to death and flung lifeless corpse out of a window is jailed

An 'evil' thug who clubbed his former girlfriend's three month old kitten to death and flung its body out of a window 'like a rag' has been jailed.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062644/Evil-thug-clubbed-kitten-death-threw-corpse-window-jailed.html

Hypochondriac, 56, killed herself because she wrongly believed she had infected husband with Aids virus

-Friend tells inquest: 'She had a relationship a long time ago with a man who had been to Venezuela, and thought she might have caught HIV from him'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062606/Tragedy-hypochondriac-committed-suicide-wrongly-believed-infected-husband-HIV.html

'He wouldn't lay down or sleep': Mother 'murdered baby son in fit of rage when he wouldn't stop crying'

-Body of Tyler Dasher discovered by dog walkers near cemetery

-Mother, 20, admitted beating him to death in fit of rage when he wouldn't stop crying

-Had been drinking until 2.30am

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062133/Tyler-Dasher-missing-Kidnapped-boy-1-dead-St-Louis-woods.html

Child killer who raped and strangled seven-year-old girl begs for forgiveness minutes before lethal injection

-Guadalupe Esparza killed schoolgirl in 1999

-Mother of girl: 'He's getting what he deserves'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062746/Child-killer-raped-strangled-seven-year-old-girl-begs-forgiveness-minutes-lethal-injection.html

Mother murdered ex-boyfriend after he asked for access to their child

-Joanne Griffiths told her new lover she wanted Jason Bissell 'out of the way'

-Lured victim to a lake, promising a visit with daughter

-Couple ordered witches spells from internet before concocting their murderous plan

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062812/Mother-murdered-ex-boyfriend-asked-access-child.html

Father 'scalded son, 2, with frying pan after he asked to have his diaper changed... then tried to soothe burns with toothpaste'

-Marco Santos, 39, allegedly committed crime in Chicago

-Grabbed pan and held it to son's thigh and genital area

-Injuries only revealed three days later in hospital

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062775/Marco-Santos-scalded-son-2-frying-pan-toddler-asked-nappy-changed.html

Jennifer Barnes Adopted a Child -- Then Shoved Feces in His Mouth, Stuck Toothbrush in Anus. CPS Drops Ball Again?

Jennifer Barnes, 39, of Gilbert, adopted a little boy. She then allegedly committed some of the most depraved acts of child abuse we've ever heard of. They involve feces, a toothbrush, and the boy's anus.

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2011/09/jennifer_barnes_adopted_a_chil.php

Schaumburg Christian School Teacher Accused of Masturbating During Class

Schaumburg, Ill. - A northwest suburban math teacher charged with masturbating in his classroom allegedly told police he’d pleasured himself at the school for last 10 years while fantasizing about female students.

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/crime/schaumburg-christian-school-teacher-paul-laduke-accused-masturbating-during-class-20111115

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Manson follower 'Tex' Watson up for parole today

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The self-described right-hand man of cult leader Charles Manson who was convicted of orchestrating a pair of notorious slayings 42 years ago has his latest parole hearing scheduled Wednesday.

http://www.thespec.com/news/world/article/625799--manson-follower-tex-watson-up-for-parole-today

61 whales die in New Zealand mass stranding

More than 60 pilot whales died in a mass stranding at a remote New Zealand beach, conservation officials said Wednesday.


http://ca.news.yahoo.com/61-whales-die-zealand-mass-stranding-234554800.html

Woman dies of gunshot 15 years after shooting

Officials in the Seattle area have declared a homicide after a woman died last week from a 15-year-old gunshot wound.

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/11/15/woman-dies-of-gunshot-15-years-after-shooting

Man dies after struggle with deer

An Indiana man died Monday after tussling with a deer he thought he'd shot and killed.

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/11/16/man-dies-after-struggle-with-deer

California man held captive in trailer dungeon, tortured for three days: cops

Like 'a scene from 'Deliverance'' cop says of case; Blow torch, hammer allegedly used on victim

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/california-man-held-captive-trailer-dungeon-tortured-days-cops-article-1.978181

50-year-old Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, woman stabbed to death by male attacker

A 50-year-old Brooklyn woman was stabbed to death a block away from her home early Tuesday morning, police said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/50-year-old-sheepshead-bay-brooklyn-woman-stabbed-death-male-attacker-article-1.977962

Man Arrested After Killing, Eating A Bobcat While High On Meth

MORGAN HILL, CA (PIX11— Police arrested a California man after he killed and ate a bobcat near his home while high on methamphetamine.

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/wpix-man-kills-eats-bobcat,0,1964134.story

Pit Bulls Kill 42 Goats; 3 Captured, 1 Still Loose

Dogs overcome by 'pack mentality,' cause death of 42 goats, officials say.

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-pit-bulls-kill-goats-in-palmdale,0,7073740.story

South Houston woman attacked by pit bulls dies

Both pit bulls euthanized

HOUSTON - A south Houston woman, 71, who was attacked by a pair of pit bulls last week has died.

http://www.click2houston.com/news/South-Houston-woman-attacked-by-pit-bulls-dies/-/1735978/4765152/-/vxbc3h/-/index.html

Maine suspect blames crimes on dog, Jesus

ANDOVER, Maine (AP) — State Police say a man arrested for allegedly breaking into an Andover home told them his dog and Jesus made him do it.

http://www.fox11online.com/dpps/news/strange/maine-suspect-blames-crimes-on-dog-jesus-ob11-jgr_3989492

Prosecutors: Man killed girlfriend in 1981, was upset she was pregnant

In 1981, Gary Albert was 18, behind the wheel of a beat-up 1971 brown Chevy, and unhappy about becoming a father.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/crime/8847460-418/prosecutors-man-killed-girlfriend-in-1981-was-upset-she-was-pregnant.html

70 years for killing girlfriend, slicing infant in jealous rage

A 20-year-old man was sentenced to 70 years in prison Tuesday for slicing his infant’s throat, then choking and stabbing his girlfriend to death in a jealous rage after she received phone calls from another man.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/crime/8861978-418/70-years-for-killing-girlfriend-slicing-infant-in-jealous-rage.html

Georgina Edmonds 'brutally murdered with rolling pin'

A 77-year-old woman was tortured for her Pin number before being beaten to death with her own marble rolling pin at her Hampshire home, a court heard.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-15756243

Doctors pull 28 nails from girl's body

Doctors in eastern Indonesia have removed the last of 28 nails found embedded in a three-year-old girl's legs and back in a horrific case some residents and officials blamed on witchcraft.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-16/doctors-pull-28-nails-from-girl27s-body/3675784

Teens in court after baby daughter's death

Two teenagers have appeared in court charged with concealing the death of their four-month-old daughter.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-16/baby-death/3675430

'I would do it again 100 times': Muslim father 'murdered his THREE daughters in honour killing for dating wrong boys'

-Mohammad Shafia 'spoke to second wife about "treacherous" daughters'

-Both standing trial in Ontario with son, charged with first degree murder

-Gruesome video footage of submerged car where they were found is shown

-Afghani father felt 'ashamed' that eldest daughter had married Pakistani boy

-Shafia, 58, had seven children in total with wife Tooba Yahya, 41

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061842/Mohammad-Shafia-murdered-daughter-honour-killing-said-hed-again.html

Crystalised Christ... Hiker finds the face of Jesus engrained in ancient stone

A hiker has told how she spotted the face of Jesus Christ encrusted in a crystalised stone.

Sonia Chamberlain was stunned when she noticed the incredible similarities between the rough rock she stumbled across and the profile of the holy figure.

The former civil servant, from Lake Havasu City, Arizona, USA, had planned to make jewellery from the crystal engrained stone.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062217/Crystalised-Christ--Hiker-finds-face-Jesus-engrained-ancient-stone.html

Ohio executes man who fatally shot his 3 sleeping sons after his wife filed for divorce

A man who fatally shot his three sons while they slept in 1982, shortly after his wife filed for divorce, was executed Tuesday with each of his hands clenched in an obscene gesture.

Reginald Brooks of East Cleveland died at 2:04 p.m., ending a nearly six-month break in the use of capital punishment in Ohio, which often trails only Texas in the number of annual inmate executions.

Dressed in the standard white T-shirt and blue pants, Brooks declined to make a final statement and remained silent as he received the lethal injection.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062008/Ohio-executes-Reginald-Brooks-shot-3-sleeping-sons-dead.html

18 nursery children killed as nine-seater bus with 64 passengers on board crashes head-on into truck

-44 others, mostly children, are still in hospital

-Bus was loaded with 64 people - despite having only nine seats

-Authorities blame overloading

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062149/Chinese-school-bus-crash-kills-18-nursery-children-packed-like-sardines-minibus.html

White teenage mother stabbed to death and dumped in canal 'after her married Asian lover rejected her child'

-Laura Wilson, 17, killed three days after she revealed to the families of Ishaq Hussain, 22, and Ashtiaq Asghar, 18, that she had had affairs with both men

-Asghar 'sent text to Hussain day before she died which read: "I'm gonna send that kaffir b**** straight to hell" '

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062095/Laura-Wilson-stabbed-death-married-Asian-lover-rejected-child.html

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Pervert-pleasing high-heeled mice stompers convicted of cruelty

Two women who stepped on mice while wearing high heels to give a man perverse sexual kicks have been convicted of animal cruelty by a court in central Germany.

http://www.thelocal.de/society/20111115-38885.html

Man accidentally kills self in front of children

A 45-year-old man died after he accidentally shot himself while sitting in his minivan with his four children, waiting for his wife to return a DVD to a video store in Harrison Crossing, Va., Sunday night.

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/11/15/man-accidentally-kills-self-in-front-of-children

20 dead in 3-vehicle accident in South Africa

Provincial transport minister Robin Carlisle and safety minister Dan Plato say in a statement another 14 people were injured when two commuter taxis and a truck collided Tuesday on a highway near Prince Albert, a picturesque stop for tourists about 120 miles (200 kilometers) east of Cape Town.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/20-dead-vehicle-accident-south-africa-14953580

6 bricklayers working at school killed in Mexico

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Police have found the bodies of six bricklayers who were working on a new elementary school in the northern state of Chihuahua. Two of them were mutilated.

http://news.yahoo.com/6-bricklayers-working-school-killed-mexico-220353789.html

Woman found dead in SE Fresno trash bin

A woman was found shot to death inside a trash bin Sunday behind a warehouse in southeast Fresno, police said.

http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/11/14/2614611/woman-found-dead-in-se-fresno.html

Prosecutors charge KC man in triple killing

Anthony Carlos Richardson never walked away from someone who needed help, Kansas City Police chief Darryl Forté said.

So it was no surprise to Forté that his good friend intervened, and refused to give up, when his cousin was getting pistol-whipped by her boyfriend Friday night, according to court records.

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/11/14/3265755/prosecutors-charge-kc-man-in-triple.html

Hyogo teen accused of stabbing 18-year-old boy

HYOGO — Police said Monday they have arrested a teenage girl for allegedly stabbing an 18-year-old boy she had been seeing romantically in Inagawa town, Hyogo Prefecture.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/hyogo-teen-accused-of-stabbing-18-year-old-boy

Somerset man finds dead bird in Tesco salad

A shopper has said his family found a dead bird in a prepared salad he bought at a supermarket and served for dinner.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-15742121

'Himalayan viagra': Six men get life for Nepal murders

A court in Nepal has found six men guilty of murdering seven rivals in a fight over a rare caterpillar fungus highly prized as an aphrodisiac.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-15741813

Man 'killed own brother with single punch during drunken argument'

A teenager was killed by a single punch - while scrapping with his brother.

Sam Kirk, 19, died after his foster brother, Kyle Allen, 20, punched him during an argument - and he fell and hit his head on a brick wall.

The brothers - who were best friends - had been scrapping at Allen's home in Derby, when Sam hit his head, and died seven days later.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061741/Kyle-Allen-kills-brother-Sam-Kirk-single-punch-drunken-argument-Derby.html

Two dolphins who died after two-day techno party at marine park 'were fed drugs by ravers'

A pair of dolphins may have died after being fed drugs by ravers after a second animal died.

Police looking into the deaths in Connyland, Lipperswil, Switzerland, initially thought the deafening music from the rave may have killed dolphins Shadow and Chelmers.

But zoo vets are awaiting toxicology test results to see if they were poisoned by narcotics thrown into their enclosure during the rave.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061832/Dolphins-fed-drugs-ravers-died-2-day-techno-party-Connyland-marine-park.html

Monday, November 14, 2011

Christ on a cliff! American tourist spots the almighty on holiday in Ireland

When tourist Sandra Clifford went on holiday to Ireland she was hoping to connect with her Catholic roots.

But the American never dreamed she would capture an apparent apparition of Jesus Christ at the Cliffs of Moher.

The 42-year-old pilot from San Francisco couldn’t believe her eyes when she spotted an imprint of as she visited the famous County Clare tourist attraction.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061455/Christ-cliff-American-tourist-spots-almighty-Ireland.html

Farmer gouged to death by pet hippo Humphrey who was 'like a son to him'

A South African farmer has been killed by the pet hippopotamus he raised from the age of five months, and which he once described as being 'like a son' to him.

Humphrey the Hippo gouged owner Marius Els, 41, to death by repeatedly biting him in a vicious attack on Saturday night.

The farmer's mutilated body was discovered submerged in a river running through his 400-acre farm in rural South Africa.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061286/Farmer-Marius-Els-gouged-death-pet-hippo-Humphrey-like-son.html

Explosion in Chinese restaurant kills at least eight

An apparent gas leak caused the explosion at a fast-food restaurant in northwestern China.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8888133/Explosion-in-Chinese-restaurant-kills-at-least-eight.html

Two women found shot to death in Dorchester

Two women were found shot to death on Harlem Street in Dorchester this morning, Boston police said.

A police spokesman said the women were found at 9.15 a.m. inside 50 Harlem St. They were pronounced dead at the scene.

http://www.boston.com/Boston/metrodesk/2011/11/two-women-found-shot-death-dorchester/Nqxf3SYIkDxXVXpkM6ZFbI/index.html

Woman raped in Banbury by boy who knocked on door

A woman in her 70s was raped at her Oxfordshire home by a boy who had knocked on the door.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-15720715

Gunman shoots girlfriend six times then takes her four-year-old twins hostage

A gunman blasted his girlfriend repeatedly in the back before holding their four-year-old twins hostage in a flat, police said today.

Armed police laid siege to the building in Dallas, Texas, after reports of a man opening fire on his common law wife.

Six shots were heard before the woman, named as 32-year-old Maria Martinez, staggered out and raised the alarm.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061248/Gunman-shoots-girlfriend-times-takes-year-old-twins-hostage.html

Gang sends message with blogger beheading

MEXICO CITY - Gangsters killed and beheaded an Internet blogger Wednesday in Nuevo Laredo, the fourth slaying in the city involving people associated with social media sites since early September.

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Blogger-murdered-and-beheaded-in-Nuevo-Laredo-2260814.php

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Hill of Witches

Lithuania's outdoor sculpture trail of wooden folk art


http://atlasobscura.com/place/witches-hill

Husband Suspected in Death of 81-year-old Palms Woman

PALMS (KTLA) -- A 96-year-old man is in custody Saturday after his wife was found dead in their apartment.

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-palms-elderly-woman-killed,0,7826883.story

2 Denver Women Killed In Neb. Triple Fatal

MAXWELL, Neb. -- Two Denver women and an Albuquerque woman were killed, and five other women and a baby boy were injured Friday in a minivan rollover on Interstate 80 near Maxwell, Neb, authorities said.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/29755128/detail.html

Man accused of killing friend, hiding body in closet

A South Side man accused of fatally stabbing his friend and then hiding the body in a closet was ordered held without bail Saturday.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/crime/8789636-418/man-accused-of-killing-friend-hiding-body-in-closet.html

Quote Unquote: Arthur Schopenhauer

Certain it is that work, worry, labor and trouble, form the lot of almost all men their whole life long. But if all wishes were fulfilled as soon as they arose, how would men occupy their lives? what would they do with their time? If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of nature.

Arthur Schopenhauer: Studies in Pessimism

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Double tragedy: Father, teen son die in separate car crashes hours apart on the same day

A San Diego man distraught over the death of his only son in a car accident Thursday morning died after crashing his own car on the same highway on the same day, reports NBC San Diego.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/double-tragedy-father-teen-son-die-separate-car-crashes-hours-day-article-1.976555