By Calvin Palmer
A police chief in South Carolina today defended the two officers who shot and killed a 15-year-old girl suspected of robbing a grocery store at gunpoint.
Yvette Williams was killed on Thursday afternoon moments after she allegedly robbed Park Grocery on East Main Street, Rock Hill.
Officers Carlos Culbreath and Claude McCarley fired on Williams [...]
June 5, 2009
Police chief defends officers who shot and killed teenage girl robbery suspect
June 5, 2009
Sub-editor makes a meal of headline
By Calvin Palmer
Newspaper headlines can be clever and witty, usually intentionally so and because sub-editors are clever and witty people.
Every now and again headlines can be downright funny, without always meaning to be.
The latest example comes courtesy of the Melbourne Herald Sun and reads “Kidnapped girl found in Sandwich”.
It is not far removed from the apocryphal headlines “Man trapped [...]
June 5, 2009
He got a ticket and died
By Calvin Palmer
A minivan parked for several weeks beneath an overpass in New York City accumulated parking tickets on an almost daily basis until city marshals tried to tow the vehicle away and discovered a man’s decomposing body on the back seat.
George Morales, 59, died from heart disease, according the medical examiner’s office.
His body went [...]
June 5, 2009
Carradine’s death remains a mystery as manager claims ‘foul play’
By Calvin Palmer
David Carradine’s manager claims the death of the actor, best known for the 1970s TV series Kung Fu, was the result of “foul play”.
The 72-year-old actor’s body was found naked in the closet of his room at Nai Lert Park Hotel in Bangkok with a rope tied to his genitals and another rope [...]
June 5, 2009
EMT accused of taking picture of corpse and posting it on Facebook
By Calvin Palmer
An emergency medical technician working a crime scene in New York City took a cell-phone photograph of a corpse and posted it on Facebook, say prosecutors.
Mark Musarella, 46, worked as an EMT for Richmond University Medical Center and is accused of photographing 26-year-old Caroline Wimmer’s body after he responded to her apartment on [...]
