By Calvin Palmer
Three men died today while cleaning a sewer at a waste transfer station in the Queens district of New York.
Fire crews were called to the Regal Recycling Co in Jamaica this afternoon but the workers were dead by the time they arrived.
Officials say two of the men went into an 18-feet deep manhole [...]
June 29, 2009
Three men die in NYC sewer manhole
June 29, 2009
Autopsy reveals Billy Mays died of heart disease
By Calvin Palmer
Autopsy results show that Billy Mays, the king of TV infomercials, suffered from hypertensive heart disease.
The 50-year-old Mays was found dead at his Tampa home yesterday morning.
Preliminary autopsy results point to an apparent heart attack, said Hillsborough County Medical Examiner Vernard Adams. But toxicology and tissue tests will take several weeks before a final cause [...]
June 29, 2009
Bernie Madoff jailed for 150 years
By Calvin Palmer
Fraudster Bernie Madoff has been sentenced to the maximum 150 years in prison for masterminding the $65 billion Ponzi scheme that threw the U.S. investment world into disrepute.
Judge Denny Chin said the sentence was a symbolic one for a crime that showed “extraordinary evil” and “took a staggering human toll”.
Madoff, addressing the court for about six minutes, [...]
June 29, 2009
Animal activists rescue 300 cats from ending up in restaurant soups
By Calvin Palmer
More than 300 cats in Shanghai have been saved by animal activists from ending up as soup.
A cat lover tipped off the activists who descended on a freight yard and found 22 bamboo cages full of cats waiting to be shipped to Guangdong province.
The activists were able to return most of the animals [...]
June 29, 2009
Case dropped against blogger for rape and murder fantasy about Girls Aloud
By Calvin Palmer
The case against a blogger who wrote a fantasy article about the kidnap, rape and murder of the members of the Girls Aloud pop group was dropped today.
Darryn Walker, 35, of South Shields, Tyneside, was charged under the 1959 Obscene Publications Act but after reviewing evidence from an information technology specialist, the case [...]
