Texas man stung by 200 bees

By Calvin Palmer
A 74-year-old Texas man is in hospital after being stung by more than 200 bees while mowing his yard.
Harold Braun, of Waco, was riding a lawn mower in the front yard of his home yesterday afternoon when he ran over an area covered by a rubber mat and disturbed the swarm of bees.
His [...]

Untreated diabetes girl’s mother ‘did not believe in doctors or medicine’

By Calvin Palmer
A Wisconsin court today heard that a mother accused of second-degree reckless homicide in her daughter’s death from untreated diabetes believed people got sick because they sinned.
Leilani Neumann, 41, is standing trial for the death of her 11-year-old daughter Madeline Kara Neumann, on March 23, 2008, at the family’s rural Weston home.
Former friend [...]

Judge orders arrest of mother who took son off chemotherapy

By Calvin Palmer
A Minnesota judge today issued an arrest warrant for the mother who took her 13-year-old son off chemotherapy after the pair failed to show at a court hearing.
Brown County District Judge John Rodenberg also ordered that the boy, Daniel Hauser, be placed in protective custody so he can get proper medical treatment for [...]

Shugborough Hall yew tree enters record books

By Calvin Palmer
Shugborough Hall, once the seat of the Earls of Lichfield, has entered the record books.
A yew tree in the gardens of the Staffordshire stately home, now owned by the National Trust, has been recorded in the Tree Register of the British Isles as the largest spreading crown of any tree in Britain and [...]

Boy, 4, tells police ‘daddy ate my eyes’

By Calvin Palmer
A California boy may be left permanently blinded after his father bit out one of his eyes and mutilated the other.
Angel Vidal Mendoza, 34, of Bakersfield is due in court tomorrow to face charges of mayhem, torture and child cruelty following the attack on April 28.
Bakersfield police say Mendoza appeared to be under [...]

Black vomit and ants came out of “starved” girl’s mouth

By Calvin Palmer
A jury heard today that a mother accused of the starvation murder of her seven-year-old daughter was unable to resuscitate the child on the morning of her death because black vomit and ants were coming out her mouth.
Crown Prosecutor Peter Barnett took more than hour to outline the case against the 37-year-old mother [...]

Georgia man held over murder of rising rap artist Dolla

By Calvin Palmer
A Georgia man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of Atlanta rapper Dolla who was gunned down yesterday at the Beverly Center mall in Los Angeles.
Aubrey Louis Berry, 23, of Snellville, was arrested as he attempted to board a plane yesterday at Los Angeles International Airport, said  Los Angeles Police Department.
He [...]

Speaker Michael Martin resigns over MPs’ expenses scandal

By Calvin Palmer
Britain’s besieged Speaker of the House of Commons announced his resignation today to become the biggest casualty of the scandal over the expenses claimed by Members of Parliament.
Michael Martin made a brief announcement, telling MPs that he was standing aside in order to preserve the unity of the House.
“I have decided that I will [...]

High Court allows UK media to report Alfie Patten, 13, is not baby’s father

By Calvin Palmer
The reporting ban on the DNA tests of Alfie Patten, the 13-year-old who claimed he was the father of a child, has been lifted by the High Court.
Regular readers of this site already know that he was not the father of a baby girl. The story was carried briefly on The Mirror Web [...]