BOYLE HEIGHTS, Calif. (KTLA) — A high-speed pursuit ended with a fiery crash in Boyle Heights, and officers had to rescue the suspect from the burning car.
A photo taken on Feb. 6 shows a young mother accused of sorcery who was stripped naked, reportedly tortured with a branding iron, tied up, splashed with fuel and set alight on a pile of rubbish topped with car tyres, in Mount Hagen city in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea. According to the Post-Courier newspaper she was torched by villagers who claimed she killed a 6-year-old boy through sorcery, with police outnumbered by onlookers and unable to intervene.
The woman, a mother aged 20 named as Kepari Leniata, was stripped, tied up and doused in petrol by the boy's relatives in Mount Hagen in the Western Highlands, said the National newspaper.
A nine-year-old girl from the impoverished town of Ixtlahuacan de los Membrillos in western Mexico has given birth by Caesarean section to a healthy 5.7lb baby girl.
WASHINGTON — Saturday mail may soon go the way of the Pony Express and penny postcards. The Postal Service said Wednesday that it plans to cut back to five-day-a-week deliveries for everything except packages to stem its financial losses in a world radically re-ordered by the Internet.
Surveillance footage showing city workers in Tel Aviv painting a handicapped spot around a woman's legally parked car and towing her car away has shocked many around the world after it was uploaded to the victim's Facebook page.
If you insist on ruining whatever liquor you're drinking by mixing it with something other than ice, then you might as well make it some sort of diet soda. Why? Because it will get you almost 20% drunker, according to arecently released study.
Wrightsville Police Chief Paul Sterling said he plans to upgrade charges from simple battery to aggravated assault in the case of a Dollar General store clerk accused of spanking a customer's child with a belt.