By Calvin Palmer
A 12-year-old Katy girl charged with murder in the shooting death of her father was today ordered by a juvenile judge to remain in custody for at least 10 days as prosecutors continue to investigate.
Mark A. Nelson, 38, was shot in the back of his head on Wednesday morning as he lay in bed after [...]
May 1, 2009
Judge orders girl, 12, accused of father’s murder to remain in custody
May 1, 2009
Former Texas sheriff dies awaiting sentence for sexual assault
By Calvin Palmer
The former North Texas sheriff awaiting sentencing for coercing a woman to perform a sex act on him to avoid going to jail has died after collapsing at his home.
Bill Keating, 62, pleaded guilty to sexual assault at a federal court and was due to be sentenced in June. He faced up to [...]
May 1, 2009
Girl, 10, suffers 70 percent burns in coin-operated tanning salon
By Calvin Palmer
A 10-year-old girl suffered burns over 70 percent of her body after a visit to an unmanned tanning salon.
Kelly Thompson only had enough money for a 16-minute session on a coin-operated sunbed in Port Talbot, Wales.
Her mother Sharon Hannaford, 34, said: “She ran out of money. If she had had more, this could [...]
May 1, 2009
TV presenter left “a living corpse” after rape, beating and acid attack
By Calvin Palmer
A TV presenter raped and then later mutilated when acid was thrown in her face told a court today that she feels “like a living corpse”.
The acid attack permanently disfigured the woman, leaving her partially blind on one eye, and also left her having to be fed through a tube in her stomach [...]
May 1, 2009
Forest Service closes caves and mines to combat spread of deadly bat fungus
By Calvin Palmer
Swine flu, Mexican Flu or 2009 H1N1 flu, whatever you want to call it, is nothing compared to what the bat population of the United States is experiencing.
An outbreak of white-nose syndrome has killed more than 500,000 bats in an area stretching from New England to the mid-Atlantic states.
In an attempt to control the bat-killing [...]
May 1, 2009
Vienna radio station owns up to prank using Beyoncé double
By Calvin Palmer
Beyoncé’s apparent snub of one of Austria’s most famous museums had nothing to do with the U.S. singer but was a prank staged by a Vienna radio station.
The Albertina museum was angered after it learned that a Beyoncé look-alike had turned up for a personal tour while the real Beyoncé went shopping.
KroneHit radio [...]
May 1, 2009
Court rejects Demjanjuk’s appeal against deportation
By Calvin Palmer
The Ohio man accused of being a guard at a Nazi death camp suffered a setback today in his fight against being deported to Germany.
A three-judge ruling from the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati today denied a stay of deportation for John Demjanjuk.
An arrest warrant in Munich alleges Demjanjuk, 89, [...]
May 1, 2009
Cell phone signal leads to discovery of Zinkhan’s red Jeep
By Calvin Palmer
The red Jeep belonging to a university professor suspected of killing his wife and two others has been found in a north Georgia ravine not far from his home in Athens.
George Zinkhan, 57, a professor in marketing at the University of Georgia, is accused of killing his wife, 47-year-old attorney Marie Bruce, and [...]
May 1, 2009
Driver in attack on Dutch royals dies in hospital
By Calvin Palmer
The driver who yesterday tried to ram a bus carrying Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands but instead careered into spectators, killing five, has died in hospital.
Karst Tates, 38, rammed through two police barricades and sped towards an open top bus carrying members of the royal party.
Beatrix, 71, and other royals either cowered or [...]
