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Ray Gosling, an award-winning documentary maker and television presenter for the BBC, has been arrested for murder after confessing on the air that he smothered to death a lover who was dying of AIDS. Gosling, 70, made the startling confession...
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Will a chocolate penis save the live of a death row inmate?
Maybe. The confection in question was sent to Cobb County Superior Court Judge Mary Staley by jurors in the 1993 trial of Marcus Wellons, who was accused of raping and strangling a...
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Friends and family of Jorge Steven López Mercado said goodbye to him in a funeral ceremony yesterday in Toa Alta, Puerto Rico. The murder of the 19-year-old López Mercado, who was found decapitated, dismembered, and burned by the side...
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Today is the Eleventh International Transgender Day of Remembrance, which commemorates the deaths of the people who were killed because they were transgender or perceived as such.
What do you say about a day devoted to remembering the people who...
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It's no longer necessary to call Scott Roeder the "alleged" murderer of Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller. Roeder admitted to the AP this afternoon that he did indeed murder Tiller, and that he intends to use the "necessity...
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On September 10, 2008, an argument over penis size at a South African pub resulted in four men shot to death. Two brothers and now former police officers, Brian and Leon Steven, are standing trial for the murders of Shawn Strydom, Nick Jansen van...
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It's been a little over a week now since the murder of John Terry, a British diplomat living in Jamaica, and no suspects have been apprehended yet. The New Zealand-born consul's body was found by his gardener last Thursday; he had been beaten...
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Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 11:37am By Chris Hall
The anti-abortion group Operation Rescue has been the bane of pro-choice activists since Randall Terry founded it in 1986. But if a recent announcement by the group's president, Troy Newman, is true then that history may soon come to an end. Newman...
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The story is all over the mainstream media. Dr George Tiller, who ran Women's Health Care Services, a clinic that performed late-term abortions, was murdered today while serving as an usher at Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kansas....
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The news is rife with panic over HIV. An HIV-positive man in Canada has been convicted of first-degree murder for infecting two women who have since died of AIDS-related illnesses. A pop singer in Germany was arrested last month for having...
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Angie Zapata's killer, Allen Ray Andrade, was convicted this afternoon on all charges, including first-degree murder. Colorado law demands mandatory life imprisonment without parole for murder in the first degree. He was also convicted of a bias-...
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During the Bush years, Canadian comedian John Rogers called Canada "the designated driver of North America," a description that often seems to fit. Usually, the Canadians are a kind of boring, staid bunch who can be counted on not to do the really...
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The trial of Angie Zapata's alleged killer, Allen Ray Andrade, begins in Greeley, CO today. As the first time that a murder prosecution has used hate crime laws in the death of a transgendered person, a lot of people are watching this trial. But it'...
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Pam's House Blend reminds us that the trial of Angie Zapata's alleged killer, Allen Ray Andrade, begins next week. Zapata, a 20-year-old transgender woman, was beaten to death in her Greeley, Colorado apartment last year after Andrade began to...
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The Canadian Broadcasting Company reports that after a closely watched six-month trial, Johnson Aziga, a 52-year-old native of Uganda and resident of Ontario, has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the deaths of two of his sex partners from...