1980s 'Subway Vigilante' Shot Four Black Teens Who Asked Him For $5, And He...
For anybody who knows New York City crime history, it's hard not to think of "subway vigilante"Bernhard Goetz when reading about neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman.Goetz shot four, unarmed black...
View ArticleJUROR: The Man Screaming On The 911 Call Was George Zimmerman
CNN's Anderson Cooper has scored the first interview with a juror on the George Zimmerman case, and the anonymous woman said she believes it was the defendant who was screaming for help on a 911...
View ArticleGeorge Zimmerman Juror Who Went On CNN Really Hates The Media
One of George Zimmerman's jurors spoke out on CNN yesterday, and now we know even more about her thanks to new footage of lawyers asking her questions before the trial.The video of her voir dire — the...
View ArticleDon't Blame The George Zimmerman Verdict On 'Stand Your Ground'
The not-guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman case has spurred calls to reform"Stand Your Ground" laws in 22 states that let people shoot intruders even if they have the chance to run away.But...
View ArticleCleveland Hero Charles Ramsey Claims The Report That He's Broke Is 'Full Of...
The man who became famous for helping rescue three kidnapped Cleveland women is disputing a report from the Daily Mail that says he's broke and homeless.The U.K. news outlet got an exclusive interview...
View ArticleDeath Row Prisoners Spend 22 Hours A Day In These Tiny Cells [PHOTOS]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has a disturbing new report out exposing what life is like for America's death row inmates.Most of America's death row inmates live alone in tiny cells for 22...
View ArticleGeorge Zimmermann Inundated With Death Threats After George Zimmerman Verdict
A Florida preacher named George Zimmermann has been getting death threats from people who apparently aren't very good at spelling, KPLCTV reports.The 78-year-old's name closely resembles that of George...
View ArticleHow Going To A Women's College Helped A Yuppie 'Fit In' At A Federal Prison
Like a lot of people, I've been riveted by Netflix's new fish-out-of-water series, "Orange is the New Black," which centers around a yuppie who goes to a women's prison for a 10-year-old drug...
View ArticleThe 20 Safest Cities In America
Violent crime reports rose in America for the first time in 2006, according to FBI statistics.However, the recent 1.2% increase belies a long-term trend: America is becoming a much safer country.To...
View ArticlePot Farmers Allegedly Kept Teen In Metal Box For Sex
Two pot growers in Northern California allegedly kept a missing 15-year-old in a locked metal box for days, had sex with her, and forced her to process marijuana, CBS San Fransisco reports.Ryan...
View ArticleArmed Man Robs $53 Million Worth Of Jewels From Cannes In Broad Daylight
An armed man has stolen about $53 million worth of jewels from the Carlton Intercontinental Hotel in the French Riviera resort of Cannes, BBC reports.The hotel, located on the exclusive Promenade de la...
View ArticleNew York's Only Black Mayoral Candidate Compares An NYPD Policy To George...
In the crowded contest to become mayor of New York, a candidate who's not Anthony Weiner or Christine Quinn managed to grab headlines in The New York Times for attacking the city's controversial...
View Article70-Year-Old Court Employee Fired After Helping A Wrongly Convicted Man Seek...
A Kansas judge fired a 34-year employee of the court — nine months before her retirement — after she showed a wrongly convicted man a publicly available court document on DNA testing, the Associated...
View ArticleWhy Irvine, California Consistently Ranks As The Safest City In America
Irvine, Calif. has the lowest violent crime rate among American cities with more than 100,000 people for the 9th year in a row. The city of 223,000 residents reported 110 violent crimes to the FBIlast...
View ArticleNew Yorker Writer Slams 'Vigilantes' Who Shamed An Entire Town After A...
The hacker group Anonymous has been credited with "helping" a 16-year-old rape victim in Steubenville, Ohio, but The New Yorker has a new story suggesting "vigilantes" may have done more harm than...
View ArticleProsecutor May File A Criminal Complaint Against Facebook Over 14-Year-Old's...
A prosecutor in Italy is considering filing criminal charges against Facebook for allegedly failing to remove content that may have led to a 14-year-old girl's suicide, CNN reports.Carolina Picchio...
View ArticleFormer Marine Admits He's 'An Idiot' For Plotting To Decapitate A Judge And...
On the eve of his sentencing, a former Marine wrote an apology letter to the two federal employees he admitted to plotting to kill, The New York Daily News reported.Dejvid Mirkovic, 38, arranged to pay...
View ArticleSupreme Court Says California Has To Release 10,000 Inmates
The Supreme Court rejected Gov. Jerry Brown's request to delay the release of nearly 10,000 inmates in a 6-3 decision Friday, the Associated Press reports.Conservative Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence...
View ArticleSCALIA: 'Terrible Things' Will Happen When 10,000 Inmates Are Unleashed
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has written a scathing dissent opposing the majority's decision not to delay the release of 10,000 imates in California.A lower court had ordered the state to...
View ArticleArmed 14-Year-Old Killed By Cops In Bronx
A armed 14-year-old boy was shot and killed by a police officer early Sunday morning in the South Bronx, the New York Post reports. Two cops who had just graduated from the police academy were...
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