Baby born on Fifth Avenue to cheers from passers-by

By Calvin Palmer
A New York woman gave birth on Fifth Avenue today just yards from a hospital where she was due to give birth.
Nurse manager Lucille Nassery heard a woman screaming from outside her window at Mount Sinai Medical Center and recognized instantly that the woman was in labor.
“There’s a certain kind of sound that [...]

High school baseball player dies after being hit by wild pitch

By Calvin Palmer
A Missouri high school baseball player has died after being struck by a wild pitch.
Doctors at St John’s Hospital declared 16-year-old Patrick Clegg brain dead last night. He was taken off a respirator today and his organs were removed for donation, in accordance with his wishes, said a hospital statement.
The Waynesville High School [...]

Woman convicted of removing body parts from corpses

By Calvin Palmer
A woman was convicted today in Rochester, New York, on 103 counts of illegally removing bone and tissue from corpses in 2005.
Kirssy Medos, 31, formerly known as Kirssy Knapp, managed the Brighton office of the now defunct Biomedical Tissue Services.
The New Jersey company harvested bone and tissue from bodies being prepared for cremation. [...]

Three women found shot dead in auto glass shop

By Calvin Palmer
Three women were found shot dead yesterday at an auto glass business in Pennsylvania where they worked.
Police said the bodies of Edith Cora Tietge, 81; her sister Doris Lynn Murphy, 69; and Murphy’s daughter, Kris Lynn Murphy, 43, were found at Ferguson Glass Services in a remote area near Saltsburg, about 35 miles east [...]

Evidence links Craigslist murder suspect to attack in Rhode Island

By Calvin Palmer
Police in Rhode Island say they have evidence linking a Boston University medical student accused of killing a masseuse to a hotel where a third crime occurred.
A police source says fingerprints belonging to Philip Markoff were found on the wall of the Holiday Inn Express, in Warwick, where a Las Vegas stripper says [...]

Body parts murder victim was business partner of suspect

By Calvin Palmer
One of the suspects in the murder of the man whose body parts were found scattered across two English counties was the victim’s former business partner.
Stephen Marshall, 37, and his girlfriend Sarah Bush, 20, were arrested on Tuesday after police identified the dead man as Jeffrey Howe.
Howe, 49, set up a kitchen fitting [...]

Europe’s banks facing second wave of debt stress

By Calvin Palmer
Swiss financial analysts are forecasting a “second wave” of debt stress to hit the United Kingdom and Europe this year.
Risk advisers Independent Credit View said a detailed “stress test” of 17 lenders worldwide found that European banks have much lower reserve cushions than U.S. banks, leaving them acutely vulnerable to the coming phase [...]

Noisy lovemaking woman arrested for breaching court order

By Calvin Palmer
The Northeast woman banned from making excessive noise after loud sex sessions with her husband landed her in court has been arrested after breaking the ban.
A week ago Sunderland magistrates issued Caroline Cartwright with a four-year anti-social behavior order after she was convicted of five breaches of a noise abatement order.
Cartwright, 48, of [...]

Bronx teacher barricades himself in classroom after making bomb threat

By Calvin Palmer
A teacher at a New York City middle school barricaded himself in a classroom this morning after claiming to have planted a bomb in the school.
Police, hostage negotiators and the bomb squad were called to New Millennium Business Academy Middle School or Middle School 328 after the teacher barricaded himself inside a computer [...]