Colorado voters may decide if 1st-degree murder defendants get bail

Colorado voters may decide if 1st-degree murder defendants get bail

Colorado lawmakers want to change the state constitution so that first-degree murder defendants can once again be held in jail without bail. The push comes just eight months after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that all criminal defendants — including those charged with first-degree murder — must be given the chance to pay bail and … Read more

5 charred bodies found in remote Mexico town after reported clash between criminals

5 charred bodies found in remote Mexico town after reported clash between criminals

Funding Cartels: The Fentanyl Fight | CBS Reports Funding Cartels: Why America Is Losing the Fentanyl Fight | CBS Reports 22:30 Acapulco, Mexico — Five charred bodies were found Tuesday in a remote village in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero after reports of a confrontation between suspected criminals, local authorities said. The state prosecutor’s … Read more

Russia spy chief calls military pilot who defected to Ukraine a “moral corpse” after reported murder in Spain

Russia spy chief calls military pilot who defected to Ukraine a “moral corpse” after reported murder in Spain

Moscow — Russia’s spy chief on Tuesday said a pilot who defected to Ukraine with a military helicopter and was reportedly shot dead in Spain last week was a “moral corpse.” Maxim Kuzminov flew his Mi-8 helicopter into Ukraine in August in a brazen operation, saying he opposed Russia’s military offensive. Reports in Spanish media … Read more

Nigerian police declare inspector wanted for murder

Nigerian police declare inspector wanted for murder

The police in Anambra State, South-east Nigeria, have declared a police inspector wanted over alleged murder in the state. The police spokesperson in the state, Tochukwu Ikenga, in a short statement forwarded to PREMIUM TIMES on Tuesday identified the inspector as Audu Omadefu. “The (Anambra Police) Command urges any member of the public who sees … Read more

China Executes Couple Who Threw Two Toddlers from Apartment Window

China Executes Couple Who Threw Two Toddlers from Apartment Window

China has executed a couple guilty of throwing two toddlers out of a high-rise apartment window, according to local media reports. Zhang Bo, the father of the toddlers, and Ye Chengchen, his girlfriend, were sentenced to death by the Supreme Court for the premeditated murder of Zhang’s 2-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son. The two children … Read more

Myanmar national found dead in Bentong durian orchard, two countrymen nabbed

Myanmar national found dead in Bentong durian orchard, two countrymen nabbed

KUANTAN: A Myanmar national was found dead with multiple wounds to his body in a durian orchard on Jalan Air Terjun Chamang in Bentong on Saturday (Jan 20). Bentong district police chief Supt Zaiham Mohd Kahar said the body of the 29-year-old victim, who worked at the orchard, was discovered at 5am. Following that, the … Read more

Why did someone want Texas couple Ted and Corey Shaughnessy dead?

Why did someone want Texas couple Ted and Corey Shaughnessy dead?

When wealthy Austin jewelers Corey and Ted Shaughnessy are attacked by intruders in their own home, investigators initially wondered if it was a robbery gone wrong. The answer was more sinister than anyone could have expected.     March 2, 2018: A shootout in the dead of night Travis County Sheriff’s Office In a sprawling suburban … Read more

FBI offers $30K reward for 3rd shooter in 1991’s Boston ‘Chinatown Massacre’

FBI offers K reward for 3rd shooter in 1991’s Boston ‘Chinatown Massacre’

More than three decades have passed since Boston’s infamous Chinatown Massacre and the FBI is willing to pay good money to catch the third and final killer. In the pre-dawn hours of Jan. 12, 1991, five men were shot in the head — “execution-style,” the FBI would later call it — around a card table … Read more

Explosive audio claiming Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs orchestrated Tupac Shakur hit for $1M given as evidence in Keefe D trial

Explosive audio claiming Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs orchestrated Tupac Shakur hit for M given as evidence in Keefe D trial

BOMBSHELL audio recordings alleging P Diddy was a central figure in the assassination of Tupac Shakur have been submitted to court as evidence as part of the rapper’s murder case. Tupac murder suspect Duane “Keefe D” Davis boasts about Diddy allegedly offering him $1 million for the rapper’s assassination in a chilling 2 hour 25 … Read more

With Echo, Marvel bets on Indigenous superheroes and standalone projects as its cinematic universe struggles

With Echo, Marvel bets on Indigenous superheroes and standalone projects as its cinematic universe struggles

An Indigenous superhero gets her own Marvel spinoff next week — the first of the company’s bets on projects that don’t require prior knowledge of its popular cinematic universe. The Disney+ series Echo stars Alaqua Cox as Maya Lopez, a.k.a. Echo, the Indigenous-Latin American leader of the Tracksuit Mafia, a criminal gang run by the villainous Wilson Fisk, … Read more