The good news is that Cecil the lion cub has NOT been slain, as has been reported by numerous mainstream media sources this weekend.
Pennsylvania’s embattled attorney general Kathleen Kane showed up for fingerprinting today, in the first step of the top watchdog’s long journey toward becoming the state’s top thug.
A missing hiker was likely eaten by bears when he accidentally wandered into an area of Yellowstone National Park where a group of grizzlies had been napping.
A superhero service dog dialed 911 on Thursday to summon rescuers to her blind owner’s home in Philadelphia because it had caught on fire.
A woman fatally shot a meddling social worker in Barre Vermont yesterday because she was upset over losing custody of her young daughter.
Sources say a James Holmes holdout spared him his life yesterday when the unnamed juror balked at subjecting the Colorado theater shooter to the death penalty.
Georgia police arrested a 911 addict this week who bogusly called their emergency dispatch system over 150 times in the past three months.
On the night of November 29, 1988, near the impoverished Marlborough neighborhood in south Kansas City, an explosion at a construction site killed six of the city’s firefighters. It was a clear case of arson, and five people from Marlborough were duly convicted of the crime. But for veteran crime writer and crusading editor J. Patrick O’Connor, the facts—or a lack of them—didn’t add up. Justice on Fire is OConnor’s detailed account of the terrible explosion that led to the firefighters’ deaths and the terrible injustice that followed. Also available from Amazon
