Dying model told emergency operator boyfriend had stabbed her to death

By Calvin Palmer
Teenage model and actress Amy Leigh Barnes told an emergency services operator that her boyfriend had just stabbed her “to death”, Manchester Crown Court heard today.
Barnes, 19, managed to make the call moments after Ricardo Morrison, 21, had allegedly attacked her with a kitchen knife and left her for dead.
Stuart Driver, QC, prosecuting, [...]

Man drives over edge of Grand Canyon

By Calvin Palmer
A man drove over the South Rim of the Grand Canyon this morning, plunging 600 feet to his death.
Park rangers received several calls around 6:00 a.m. saying that a car had gone over the edge near the El Tovar Hotel, Arizona.
Grand Canyon National Park spokeswoman Shannan Marcak said tire tracks were found leading [...]

Motives of two held in connection with killing of wealthy couple still unclear

By Calvin Palmer
Investigators are still trying to find a motive for the killing of a wealthy Florida couple after three men were held yesterday, two of them on murder charges.
There may be multiple motives as to why Byrd and Melanie Billings were shot dead at their sprawling home near Pensacola, Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan [...]

Cook loses both hands trying out recipe with liquid nitrogen

By Calvin Palmer
A German cook’s experiment to concoct a “molecular gastronomy” dish with liquid nitrogen ended in an explosion last night that cost him both his hands.
The 24-year-old man, from Stahnsdorf, near Berlin, was attempting to try out a new recipe from the school of molecular cooking, which aims to apply scientific processes to gastronomy.
The [...]

School caretaker killed lover after spiking omelet with sleeping pills

By Calvin Palmer
A school caretaker received a life sentence at the Old Bailey, London, today for killing his lover after spiking her omelet with sleeping pills.
Stephen Singer punched Dina Sharpe three times in the face and head, causing the brain damage from which she died, and then trapped her in a burning bedroom.
Judge Stephen Kramer [...]