The New Orleans Police Department announced Thursday, April 25 that an arrest was made in a fatal Algiers shooting.
Coroners are called up to investigate any deaths reported to them where it is thought that the circumstances were violent or unnatural, the cause is unknown, or the person died while in prison, police custody or another type of state detention. As well as being responsible for investigating the causes of such deaths, they also have a duty to contact the nearest surviving relatives. The team at Wakefield Coroner’s Office is currently appealing for the public to help in tracing any known relatives...
Authorities arrested a man for allegedly stabbing a 60-year-old woman to death in Rock Hill Saturday afternoon.
A glaring racial disparity is evident in the 73 botched procedures involving lethal injections since 1976, report by Reprieve findsBlack incarcerated people have been subjected to prolonged and painful botched executions in the US at more than twice the rate of white death row inmates, a new study has found.While glaring racial disparities have long been visible in US capital punishment, the report from the international human rights group Reprieve finds that the inequities exist even inside the...
A New Jersey woman is alive and improving after undergoing experimental transplant surgery involving a kidney from a genetically modified pig.Earlier this month, Lisa Pisano — a 54-year-old grandmother from Cookstown, New Jersey, about 20 miles southeast of Trenton — was practically on death's doorstep. She was in desperate need of a kidney transplant, but antibodies in her tissues made finding a match nearly impossible. She was also in heart failure, but because she was on dialysis, doctors...
Amir Sarfaraz, also known as Tamba, was accused of brutally murdering Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh , 49, in Kot Lakhpat jail in 2013 before he was assassinated in Lahore.
A Milwaukee man was charged Friday with homicide and mutilating a corpse after a severed leg, believed to be that of a missing 19-year-old woman, was found earlier this month, officials said. Maxwell Anderson, 33, who was a person of interest in the disappearance of Sade Robinson and who was arrested last week, was charged Friday morning, according to authorities. The severed leg was found April 2, Milwaukee County Sheriff Denita Ball said at a news conference, and has preliminarily identified...
The body of Molly Ann Garbutt, 25, was found near Skipton on April 4 after she was reported missing from the Leeds area the day before. Her car had been located near to Dibbles Bridge in Hebden and a large search supported by RAF Mountain Rescue, the Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association and a HM Coastguard helicopter was carried out. An inquest to find the cause of death was opened in Wakefield this morning (Wednesday). Area coroner Oliver Longstaff explained that he had received two...
Laura Orrico was just 30 when her husband was diagnosed with a brain tumor. She was widowed in 2015 after he battled the illness for nearly eight years. The actress spent the last nine months of his life being his full-time carer
Kaydon Prior, 23, screamed, 'I love you' to his ex, Alicia Parrin, while he stabbed Harrison Tomkins, 25, with a 16cm long hunting blade, on August 13 last year.
Larry Webb told investigators he shot and killed Susan Carter and her 10-year old daughter Alex in 2000, then buried their bodies behind his Beckley home. Nearing death, he decided it was time to get it off his chest.
Briana Day, 30, pleaded no contest to a drunk driving charge, leaving sentencing up to Judge Mary Ann O’Malley.