By Calvin Palmer
Texas financier R. Allen Stanford, awaiting trial on fraud charges, has lost the knighthood bestowed on him by Antigua and Barbuda.
The National Honors Committee voted unanimously to revoke Stanford’s title for embarrassing the nation by running an alleged Ponzi scheme out of his Antigua-based offshore bank, chairwoman Jacqui Quinn-Leandro said.
Stanford is in jail [...]
November 2, 2009
Convicted kidnapper charged with ‘Mayberry’ killings
By Calvin Palmer
A convicted kidnapper was arrested by police early today in connection with the fatal shooting yesterday afternoon of four men in a parking lot in Mount Airy, North Carolina.
Marcos Chavez Gonzalez, 29, was charged with four counts of murder and being a fugitive from justice from North Carolina, Mount Airy police said.
He was [...]
November 2, 2009
Four charged over dismembered childcare worker
By Calvin Palmer
A 55-year-old Melbourne man has been charged with the murder of a childcare worker whose left leg washed up on a beach five days after she disappeared.
John Leslie Coombes, of Preston, allegedly chopped up the body of 27-year-old Raechel Betts in a bathroom before throwing the dismembered body off a Phillip Island pier.
A [...]
