An online retailer has pulled a Halloween costume that made light of the recent jewelry heist involving Kim Kardashian West. Time reports that the listing for the “Parisian Heist” costume on Costumeish featured a bound and gagged Kardashian lookalike dressed in a white robe and sporting a giant ring. The… Read More
Mistrial declared in police shooting
A nearly three-week murder trial that scrutinized the shooting death of a homeless man by Albuquerque police fell short of settling the fates of the two former officers, with jurors saying they were deadlocked on second-degree murder charges against the men. Nine jurors wanted to acquit Keith Sandy and Dominique… Read More
Oops! Boat accident unleashes 80,000 trout
Danish anglers are rushing to a western Denmark fjord to catch some of the up to 80,000 farmed rainbow trout that have been accidentally released into Danish waters, hoping to keep them from upsetting the area’s ecological balance. A cargo ship on Monday accidentally tore apart a fish farm net… Read More
[Consumer Alert] Faulty brakes causes MAJOR car recall
Toyota Motor Corp. recalled 340,000 gas-electric hybrid Prius cars around the world Wednesday, 212,000 of them in Japan and 94,000 in North America, for a defect in their parking brakes. Toyota acknowledged receiving reports of crashes, injuries and deaths. The Japanese automaker refused to provide details, saying it was still… Read More
Flooding continues as NC authorities order evacuations
Authorities made fresh appeals Wednesday for people in eastern North Carolina to leave low-lying areas as rivers swollen with rainwater caused flooding days after Hurricane Matthew passed. Evacuations were ordered for about one-tenth of Greenville’s 90,000 people. The Tar River continued to rise as forecasters expected it to crest above… Read More
Mystery surrounds fatal plane crash in Connecticut
The police chief in East Hartford, Connecticut, has asked the FBI to assist the investigation into a fatal plane crash because it happened so close to Pratt & Whitney corporate headquarters. Chief Scott Sansom called the jet engine maker “critical infrastructure.” The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board… Read More
Autopsy reveals black man shot by cops high on PCP
An unarmed black man shot dead by a white police officer after his car broke down on a city street last month was high on the hallucinogenic drug PCP in when he died, according to toxicology tests released by a medical examiner Tuesday. Terence Crutcher, 40, had “acute phencyclidine intoxication”… Read More
Doctor charged with manslaughter in abortion tragedy
A doctor accused of botching a woman’s abortion has been charged with manslaughter in her death, which came hours after she left his New York City office seeming disoriented, prosecutors said Tuesday. Dr. Robert Rho pleaded not guilty in the 30-year-old woman’s death. His lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman, called the death… Read More
Turkish President: Clinton is a “political novice”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has hinted that Turkey would delay extraditing criminals back to the United States as long as U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, blamed for Turkey’s failed coup in July, is not returned to Turkey. Erdogan on Wednesday also took aim at U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, calling… Read More
Major fail! Syrian refugee accused of terror plot was vetted
Germany’s interior minister says the Syrian man arrested for a suspected Islamic extremist bomb plot underwent a security check last year, but it turned up nothing suspicious. Jaber Albakr, a 22-year-old who had been granted asylum, was arrested Monday in Leipzig after three fellow Syrians tied him up and alerted… Read More