By Calvin Palmer
The body of a five-year-old Michigan girl missing since May 24 was found today by two men fishing on the River Raisin in Raisinville Township.
Nevaeh Buchanan was found about seven miles from where she was last seen in the parking lot of her apartment complex in Monroe.
Guy Bickley, 51, was fishing with his [...]
June 4, 2009
Missing girl’s body found at river under block of cement
June 4, 2009
Husband accused of using Craigslist to arrange rape of his wife
By Calvin Palmer
A 25-year-old North Carolina husband was arrested yesterday accused of arranging through Craigslist for his wife to be raped by another man while he watched.
Police in Kannapolis, about 25 miles northeast of Charlotte, were sifting through computer and phone records and pursuing a “strong lead” in the search for the attacker.
The husband, who is not [...]
June 4, 2009
Boy, 8, dies of bubonic plague in New Mexico
By Calvin Palmer
An eight-year-old boy has died from the bubonic plague and his 10-year-old sister is in hospital recovering.
New Mexico Health Department announced the boy’s death today. The two cases are the first human plague cases in the United States so far this year.
Health officials are investigating the family’s residence in Santa Fe County to [...]
June 4, 2009
‘And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee’
By Calvin Palmer
A church leader in Phoenix has been given a suspended 10-day jail sentence because his tolling church bells violated a city noise ordinance.
Bishop Richard Painter appeared in court yesterday after neighbors of the Cathedral of Christ the King, in northwest Phoenix, complained that the bells ring too often and too loud.
The bells normally [...]
June 4, 2009
Stolen Renoir turns up after 25 years
By Calvin Palmer
A Renoir painting stolen 25 years ago from a private collection in Rome has been recovered by police near Venice.
Police said a resident of Treviso, north of Venice, had doubts about the origin of the painting after consulting a list of stolen artworks.
“We carried out all verifications, with the help of Interpol and French [...]
June 4, 2009
Air France jet broke apart after ‘computers malfunctioned’
By Calvin Palmer
Air France chief executive officer Pierre-Henri Gourgeon said yesterday the Airbus 330-200 carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris broke apart either in the air or when it slammed into the ocean.
Gourgeon also told families there were no survivors.
The loss of flight AF 447 is Air France’s worst plane crash and the world’s [...]
June 4, 2009
Actor David Carradine found dead in Bangkok hotel room
By Calvin Palmer
Actor David Carradine has been found dead in his hotel room in Bangkok.
The star of the Kung Fu TV series and movies such as Kill Bill is believed to have committed suicide. He was in the Thai capital to shoot Stretch, his latest film.
Police told the BBC that a hotel maid found the [...]
June 4, 2009
Texas woman accused of smearing feces on daughter’s IV feeding tube
By Calvin Palmer
A Texas woman has been captured on a surveillance video smearing feces from a diaper on her three-year-old daughter’s intravenous feeding line.
Emily Beth McDonald, 23, of Austin, has been charged with felony injury to a child and was released on a $100,000 bond yesterday. She faces up to life in prison if convicted.
Her [...]
