Karate teacher admits sexually abusing boys

By Calvin Palmer
A Long Island karate instructor has admitted molesting boys and today pleaded guilty to 60 counts including sex abuse, possession of child pornography and endangering the welfare of children.
James Bonfiglio, the former owner of Excel Karate Academy in Ronkonkoma, molested the boys from 2003 until his arrest in October 2007.
Suffolk County Court Judge [...]

Stratford man wades into marsh to keep elderly driver alive

By Calvin Palmer
A passing motorist braved the cold murky water of a Connecticut marsh last night to come to the aid of an injured elderly driver.
Peter Procyk was driving along what is known by locals as “The Burma Road” in Stratford, when he saw an overturned sport utility vehicle.
He waded out to the vehicle and [...]

Austrian incest father expects to spend rest of his life in jail

By Calvin Palmer
Josef Fritzl, a 73-year-old Austrian who locked his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathered seven children with her, expects to spend the rest of his life in jail, his lawyer said today.
Fritzl goes on trial on March 16 for the murder of a child who died shortly after being born [...]

Six people shot in domestic dispute

By Calvin Palmer
Police in Cleveland are hunting a 33-year-old newlywed after a domestic dispute last night turned violent and ended up with six people being shot.
Authorities said they were searching for Davon Crawford, suspected of killing his wife, sister-in-law, three children and wounding another child.
Crawford left the scene on foot and was believed to have [...]

Police discover cast on man’s broken leg made of cocaine

By Calvin Palmer
Spanish police said today they arrested a 66-year-old Chilean at Barcelona airport after discovering the cast on his broken leg was made of cocaine.
The man also had cocaine hidden in six beer cans that had been emptied, packed with drugs and resealed, and inside the legs of two small folding stools. Altogether, he [...]

Earthquake shakes Melbourne

By Calvin Palmer
An earthquake has struck the state of Victoria in Australia, shaking buildings in Melbourne and sending shockwaves across a 125-mile area.
Police were flooded with calls from hundreds of worried residents from north of Melbourne to Sale in Gippsland after the earth shook for a few seconds just after 9:00 p.m. local time.
The epicentre [...]

Craigslist “largest source of prostitution in America,” says sheriff

By Calvin Palmer
An Illinois county sheriff has filed a federal lawsuit that seeks to force Web site Craigslist to remove its erotic services section, which he calls a public nuisance that knowingly facilitates prostitution.
At a news conference in Chicago yesterday, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said his office has made hundreds of prostitution arrests, many [...]

Buffalo Bills running back Lynch pleads guilty to gun charge

By Calvin Palmer
Buffalo Bills running back Marshawn Lynch was put on probation for three years and ordered to do 80 hours of community service after pleading guilty yesterday to a misdemeanor gun charge.
Lynch, 22, was arrested Februrary 11 after Culver City police smelled marijuana coming from a parked car and found a loaded gun and [...]