Houston — You have a newspaper!

By Calvin Palmer
The days between Christmas and the New Year are notorious for their lack of news.  Newspapers cut their pagination and look back on the events of the year and the personalities caught up in the news spotlight to fill the pages.
Since setting up this blog site in June, I have turned to newspapers [...]

Paramedics arrested for ‘not worth trying to save’ heart attack man

By Calvin Palmer
It used to be that skilled surgeons held the fate of people’s lives in their hands.  Now it appears that paramedics can determine whether someone lives or dies.
Two paramedics in Brighton, England, have been arrested after they were allegedly heard discussing whether they should bother to resuscitate a disabled man who had collapsed [...]

Pardo planned to kill his mother for siding with ex-wife, say police

By Calvin Palmer
Police believe Christmas Eve killer Bruce Pardo also intended to kill his mother and his ex-wife’s attorney.
Lt. Pat Buchanan of Covina Police Department yesterday said that Pardo fell out with his mother, feeling that she was siding with his ex-wife, Sylvia, in their acrimonious divorce.
Buchanan said: “Pardo had found out that his mother [...]

Storm in a C-cup as Facebook removes breastfeeding photos

By Calvin Palmer
Angry mothers have organized an online petition and picketed the Californian headquarters of Facebook after the social networking Web site removed thousands of pictures showing women breastfeeding their babies.
The online petition has attracted 82,000 supporters and the campaign staged a virtual “nurse-in” at the weekend by posting a profile image of a mother [...]

Texas tops list of most police officers killed on duty in 2008

By Calvin Palmer
Texas leads the rest of the United States when it comes to one grim statistic.  It had the highest number of police officers who died in the line of duty in 2008.
The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund and Concerns of Police Survivors reported yesterday reported that fewer police officers died on duty [...]

Holocaust survivor’s death camp love story turns out to be a fraud

By Calvin Palmer
A book telling how a man met his wife-to-be at a Nazi concentration camp has been withdrawn by its publisher, Berkley Books, a division of Penguin Books, after several Holocaust scholars disputed the book’s veracity.
In Angel at the Fence, author Herman Rosenblat claims he met his wife Roma Radzicki while he was a [...]

Christmas Eve killer planned to flee country but his plan went awry

By Calvin Palmer
A ninth body has been recovered from the scene of the Christmas Eve massacre in the Los Angeles suburb of Covina.
Details have also emerged of the meticulous planning software engineer Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, 45, undertook.
His plan was to flee the country after the shooting and he had booked a flight out of state.  [...]

Boy beaten with baseball bat in park dies from his injuries

By Calvin Palmer
One of two young boys savagely beaten earlier this week when someone followed them into a playground in Phoenix, Arizona, has died.
Sgt. Tommy Thompson of Phoenix police said that seven-year-old Jesse Ramirez died of the injuries he received in Tuesday’s attack.  His cousin, 10-year-old Edwin Pellecier remains in an extremely critical condition.
Within hours [...]

Mother owns up to missing baby hoax

By Calvin Palmer
When a mother reported that her six-month-old child had gone missing, Miami Police swung into action issuing an Amber alert for Riley Archer Buchness.
Meagan McCormic had told police the boy had gone missing on Tuesday afternoon with a nanny named Camille.
But 22-year-old McCormic never had a child and the nanny with a heavy [...]

Gunman dressed as Santa kills eight people in Christmas Eve massacre

By Calvin Palmer
A Christmas Eve party at a home in the Los Angeles suburb of Covina turned to carnage when a gunman dressed as Santa Claus turned up at the front door and burst through the house firing indiscriminately at the 25 guests.
He carried a “present,” which turned out to be a flammable liquid contained [...]