News DeskAugust 10, 2011 02:24

Australia's gangland widow, Judy Moran, jailed for hit

One of the key players in Australia’s gangland wars that inspired the hit TV and book series, Underbelly, Judy Moran, has been jailed for 26 years.

One of the key players in Australia’s gangland wars that inspired the hit TV and book series, Underbelly — Judy Moran — has been jailed for 26 years.

Moran — who had two sons and two partners murdered in Victoria's so-called gangland wars — was sentenced Wednesday for the public slaying of her brother-in-law, Des "Tuppence" Moran.

Spam King charged over Facebook breaches

News DeskAugust 6, 2011 02:44

Klu Klux Klan man dies again

News DeskAugust 3, 2011 21:19

Klu Klux Klansman James Ford Seale, 76, who committed one of the most heinous crimes of the segregationist South has died 43 years after being convicted of murder. In 1964 Searle tied blocks to the feet of two black teenagers and threw them still breathing into the Mississippi river where Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee were left to drown.

News DeskAugust 2, 2011 10:52

Politician in hiding after drug shooting

An Australian politician is in hiding overseas after her house was sprayed with bullets by a man chasing a drug debt of one of her sons

An Australian politician is in hiding overseas after her house was sprayed with bullets by a man chasing a drug debt of one of her sons.

Lorraine Wreford an MP from Victoria, Australia was urgently relocated to a motel in Melbourne's CBD after the shooting.

The shooting, which occurred last month, was before court yesterday in Melbourne.

Police gave evidence that Wreford said since the incident she has since had trouble sleeping, is stressed and ''genuinely frightened'', has ''taken leave of her duties'' and is now overseas.

Sen-Det Stephen Boyle reportedly told the Melbourne Magistrates' Court yesterday that one of six men arrested over the July 5 incident said Wreford's eldest son Adrian was the target of the shooting.

News DeskJuly 28, 2011 01:04

Serial buttock slasher roams shopping malls in Virginia (VIDEO)

Fairfax County police have released images of a suspect in the attacks, which have occurred at area stores over the past six months

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Fairfax County police say there have been buttock slashing attacks in retail stores in the area over the past six months, adding that the victims were all in their late teens or their 20s. (Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images)

Police in Virginia say there is a serial buttock slasher who strikes in shopping malls in Fairfax County, cutting women's backsides through their clothes, with either a razor or a boxcutter, leaving bleeding gashes.

A teenage girl who was attacked on Monday in the Fair Oaks shopping mall was probably the fifth victim in a series of attacks by the slasher since February, according to the Washington Post.

Fairfax County police released new pictures of a man they believe to be a suspect in one of the incidents, according to Virginia's News and Messenger. The suspect, who was caught on tape by surveillance cameras, is described as a heavy-set 5'6'' Latino in his late 20s, police said, according to the Washington Post. He wore white shorts and a short-sleeved shirt in the attack.

The 18-year-old girl who was attacked on Monday said she noticed clothing falling from a rack behind her while she was shopping at the Forever XXI store, located in the Fair Oaks Mall, police said. The she saw a man pick the clothes up, and felt a "sharp pain" in her buttocks, the police said.

At first, she thought a coat hanger had hit poked her bottom, but then she realized that the back of her jean shorts had been sliced, Fairfax County police spokeswoman Lucy Caldwell said.

Later, she realized that she had a wound about an inch and a half long on her butt, and that it was bleeding, police said.

She informed store employees of the incident and they then contacted police.

But the assailant had slipped away.

News DeskJuly 25, 2011 02:31

Illinois man who disappeared in 1979 is found in Las Vegas

A former commodities broker in Chicago who walked out the door of his home in 1979 and was declared legally dead in 1986 was found working in Las Vegas as a bookie

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Arthur Jones, now 72, walked out the door of his Illinois home in 1979 and was never seen again, until he was arrested on July 19 in Las Vegas, where he had been working for a decade as a sports book writer at the Rampart Casino in the Summerlin neighborhood. (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

A former commodities broker in Chicago who walked out of his home in 1979, disappeared and was declared legally dead seven years later, has been found working in Las Vegas as a bookie.

Arthur Jones, then 40 years old, ran out the door around noon on May 10, 1979, telling his wife he would be back after a business meeting, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Maid who accused Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault in NYC goes public in U.S. media

News DeskJuly 24, 2011 22:06

The interviews with Newsweek and ABC were set up by the New York hotel maid's lawyer after prosecutors said that the case against Strauss-Kahn had been hurt by problems with her testimony and her credibility

Florida teen bludgeoned parents to death, then threw a house party, police say (VIDEO)

News DeskJuly 18, 2011 23:57

The reason the 17-year-old killed his parents was unclear, but there were reports that it might have had something to do with the fact that they "wouldn't let him throw the party."

Scotland Yard Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson resigns over News of the World hacking scandal (VIDEO)

News DeskJuly 17, 2011 17:11

On the same day that News International CEO Rebekah Brooks is arrested, Scotland Yard's commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, resigns over the phone hacking scandal, but says his "integrity is completely intact."

News DeskJuly 8, 2011 02:44

Stolen Picasso recovered and NJ man arrested (VIDEO)

A man walked into a gallery in San Francisco, removed the 1965 drawing from the wall and then drove away in a taxi, and less than 48 hours later the drawing is recovered and a suspect is in custody

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A 1965 Picasso pencil drawing, entitled "Tete de femme," was stolen from the Weinstein Gallery. (ABC News/Screengrab)

A Picasso drawing worth about a quarter of a million dollars that was stolen from a gallery in San Francisco on Tuesday has been recovered in Napa, California and a suspect arrested, police officials announced Thursday, according to CNN.

A man walked into the Weinstein Gallery in San Francisco on Tuesday, removed the 1965 pencil drawing by Pablo Picasso, entitled "Tete de femme," from the wall, casually walked out with it under his arm and left the area in a taxi, ABC News reported. Unfortunately for him, he was caught on video with the framed artwork. A New Jersey man, 30-year-old Mark Lugo, was taken into custody when he was tracked down and the drawing was found in his room in Napa.

Bail was set at $5 million and the suspect has been charged with theft and possession of stolen property, according to BBC News.

According to the Associated Press:

"I've had some sleepless nights," said Rowland Weinstein, who owns the Weinstein Gallery. "I feel very, very lucky and very relieved that the Picasso wasn't harmed and will be returned back safely.

The Picasso was recovered and Lugo arrested on Wednesday night, less than 48 hours after the drawing was stolen, in an investigation that was aided by a video surveillance tape from a nearby restaurant and information from the cab driver who drove the suspect away from the gallery. The video, which showed a man matching witnesses' descriptions carrying a framed artwork, came from Lefty O'Douls, a restaurant on the block, according to ABC News:

"I couldn't believe I got that lucky to get a picture of him," said Nick Bovis, the owner of Lefty O'Douls. "You know this guy here walked right in the middle of the day, took a Picasso, walked down the street and jumped in a cab."

Surveillance video from the taxi that drove the man away was also used to identify the suspect.