Judges halt deportation of Demjanjuk

By Calvin Palmer
A last-minute attempt to halt the deportation of John Demjanjuk succeeded just hours after he was removed from his Ohio home by U.S. immigration officials.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati prevented Demjanjuk from being flown to Munich this evening.
Demjanjuk was released from a federal building in Cleveland and returned home [...]

Banknotes stuffed in bra save woman’s life during shootout

By Calvin Palmer
A wad of banknotes stuffed in her bra saved a woman’s life during a shootout on a bus in Brazil, police revealed today.
Ivonete Pereira de Oliveira, 58, was a passenger on the bus that two gunmen held up on Saturday, said Salvador city police spokesman Vicente de Paula.
An armed off-duty policeman on the bus opened [...]

Suspect in Sandra Cantu case charged with murder and rape

By Calvin Palmer
Melissa Huckaby was formally charged today in connection with the disappearance and death of eight-year-old Sandra Cantu whose body was found in a suitcase dumped in an irrigation pond near her home in Tracy, California.
Hucakby, 28, wearing a red jump suit, was shackled at the waist and ankles as she appeared at San [...]

Unemployed chemist jailed for spraying stores with urine and feces

By Calvin Palmer
An unemployed industrial chemist was jailed for nine years today for spraying a mixture of urine and feces on food, wine and children’s books in several British stores.
Algerian Sahnoun Daifallah, 42, was found guilty last month at Bristol Crown Court of four counts of contaminating goods at Tesco, Morrisons, Waterstones bookstore and a [...]

Demjanjuk removed from his home in wheelchair for deportation

By Calvin Palmer
U.S. immigration officers accompanied by a doctor and nurse took John Demjanjuk from his Ohio home in a wheelchair today to deport him to Germany.
German prosecutors claim 89-year-old Demjanjuk was a camp guard at the Sobibor Nazi death camp in occupied Poland and accessory to some 29,000 deaths.
As he was taken from the [...]

Court imposes restraining order on man accused of stalking Shawn Johnson

By Calvin Palmer
A court commissioner in Los Angeles today issued a three-year restraining order against a Florida man who has been charged with stalking Dancing With the Stars contestant Shawn Johnson.
Robert O’Ryan, 34, from Yulee, near Jacksonville, has been held in custody since last month when he jumped the fence at the Los Angeles studio [...]

Arizona man gets a frond farewell

By Calvin Palmer
A landscape worker in Arizona died when he was apparently suffocated by palm fronds.
Erasmo Rodriguez Corrales, 36, had been trimming a palm tree when the fronds collapsed on top of him, said Phoenix police.
Two co-workers were also trapped in the tree.
Police said it appeared that the weight of the palm fronds suffocated Corrales. He was [...]

At least 20 killed in collision between passenger bus and fuel tanker

By Calvin Palmer
A collision between a passenger bus and a liquid gas tanker in Peru killed at least 20 people and injured 14 others, police said today.
The accident occurred around midnight on the Pan-American highway, 103 miles south of Lima.
A Costeño company bus hit the rear of the tanker causing an explosion and fire that [...]

Body parts murder victim was stabbed in the back

By Calvin Palmer
The man whose dismembered body was scattered across two English counties was stabbed in the back with a large knife, police said today.
The identity of the man is still not known but police have established he was aged between 45 and 65, was 5ft 6ins to 5ft 10ins and weighed up to 240 [...]

Surgeons find fir tree growing inside man’s lung

By Calvin Palmer
Russian surgeons performing a biopsy to confirm a serious tumor in the lung of a 28-year-old patient claim to have found a two-inch fir tree growing inside him.
Artyom Sidorkin complained of pains in his chest and was coughing up blood. Doctors at a hospital in Izhevsk in the Urals feared he had cancer.
“We were 100 per cent sure,” [...]