By Jeff Amy | Associated Press ATLANTA — A spate of false reports of shootings at the homes of public officials in recent days could be setting the stage for stricter penalties against so-called swatting in more states. U.S. Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, Georgia U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and … Read more
SINGAPORE: A woman who claimed trial to a charge of creating conditions favourable to mosquito breeding in her toilet bowl was convicted and fined S$1,400 (US$1,060) by a district court. When National Environment Agency (NEA) officers found the breeding habitat in her flat, Koh Ee Sian would not boil water to destroy it, citing her religious beliefs. … Read more
A STUDENT who shot dead 14 people confessed in his suicide note to the earlier killings of a two-month-old baby and her father, police revealed. The woodland murders came six days before David Kozak, 24, went on the rampage at a Prague university on December 21 — the Czech Republic’s worst ever mass shooting. 1 … Read more
By Marshall Cohen, Zachary Cohen, Jeremey Herb and Katelyn Polantz | CNN Two days before the January 6 insurrection, the Trump campaign’s plan to use fake electors to block President-elect Joe Biden from taking office faced a potentially crippling hiccup: The fake elector certificates from two critical battleground states were stuck in the mail. So, … Read more
A TOURIST has told how she was raped on Thailand’s so-called Death Island after having her drink spiked. Marijke, 30, said she sipped her drink before “everything went blank” and she woke up in the middle of nowhere in Koh Tao, without her clothes or other belongings. 9 Marijke is certain her drink was spiked … Read more
SINGAPORE: A man agreed to help a friend he met in prison devise a plan to get a former director embroiled in a high-profile fraud case out of Singapore for S$5 million (US$3.8 million). To get the plan underway, Shawn Liew Cheng Long asked for a 10 per cent deposit. However, the plan did not come to … Read more
SINGAPORE: A member of a card-counting syndicate that engaged in “advantage play” at the Marina Bay Sands (MBS) casino’s baccarat tables, with the illegal help of devices to predict game outcomes, has been jailed. Hung Jung-Hao, a 28-year-old man from Taiwan, was sentenced to 22 months’ jail on Thursday (Dec 28). His mother had put in … Read more
Arion Kurtaj’s joyride as a Grand Theft Auto (GTA) criminal appears to have crashed and burned. The 18-year-old hacker from Oxfordshire, UK, played a crucial role in the Lapsus$ group — an international cybercrime syndicate that inflicted nearly $10 million in damages to several high-profile tech companies, including Uber, Nvidia, and Rockstar Games (the company … Read more
ACTOR Pierce Brosnan has been charged with trespassing after allegedly hiking into off-limits parts of Yellowstone National Park. The James Bond and Mamma Mia! star was cited by U.S. District court for entering into a “thermal area” and “closure violation” at Mammoth Terraces according to court documents viewed by The U.S. Sun. 4 Actor Pierce … Read more
A FAMILY have been left homeless after a car smashed into their home and destroyed it on Christmas morning. Ana Diaconu, 30, and Florin Maracinenu, 34, were lying in bed at around 9.50am when a black BMW ploughed into their spare room. 6 Ana Diaconu, 30, and Florin Maracinenu, 34, had their house destroyed on … Read more
