Bourbon Street reopens after 14 people were killed and more than 30 injured in New Orleans truck attack
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PeopleNewlywed Wife Is Allegedly Stabbed to Death by Husband After Traveling Overseas to Meet up with Him: Authorities
Marvil Facturan-Kocjančič, a native of the Philippines, was killed seven days after arriving in Slovenia
- Malay Mail
IGP: Minister’s son eloped, wedding cert real
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 14 — Police have verified the claimed marriage of a minister’s son in a neighbouring country last year...
- People
Son and Girlfriend Found Dead in Home Had Been Living with His Parents' Slain Bodies for Months
William Vosler and his wife Eileen Vosler were found dead inside a freezer along with notes stating when they'd died
- The Independent
Black cop is accused of trafficking his white wife while flying to their honeymoon destination
Exclusive: Anthony Williams “spent his life fighting crime, and now to be accused of a crime so heinous as trafficking his own wife is unfathomable,” attorney Jasmine Rand told The Independent.
- Malay Mail
Johor cops nab debt collectors who splashed homes with paint for RM450 a pop
JOHOR BARU, Jan 15 — Four individuals, including three men and one woman, have been arrested in Johor for their involvem...
- AFP News
South Korean President Yoon arrested over failed martial law bid
Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was arrested on Wednesday over his failed martial law bid, after hundreds of anti-graft investigators and police raided his residence to end a weeks-long standoff.A first attempt on January 3 failed after a tense hours-long standoff between the guards and anti-graft investigators working with police.
- Malay Mail
GISBH CEO and wife’s habeas corpus application rejected, detention under Sosma upheld
JOHOR BARU, Jan 14 – The High Court today dismissed the habeas corpus application of Global Ikhwan Services and Business...
- Malay Mail
Chinese national fined S$2,000 for urinating on escalator handrail at Outram Park MRT while drunk
SINGAPORE, Jan 15 – A 41-year-old Chinese national has been fined S$2,000 (RM6,860) for urinating on an escalator handra...
- Malay Mail
In Singapore, married man jailed for stalking ex-employee like ‘unwanted surveillance camera’ after she rejected his advances
SINGAPORE, Jan 15 — A Singaporean man has been sentenced to three months in jail after pleading guilty to stalking his f...
- The Guardian
California ex-prison guard found guilty of 64 charges of sexual abuse of women
Gregory Rodriguez, 56, who faced 97 counts, convicted of crimes in one of state’s largest prison abuse scandals
- Sky News
How the case of the missing Huszti sisters in Aberdeen is just as mysterious a week after they disappeared
One week on the outcome looks increasingly grim as the frantic search for two sisters who vanished in to thin air fails to yield any results. Detectives and the entire city of Aberdeen are completely baffled by the disappearance of Eliza and Henrietta Huszti who were captured on grainy CCTV having a 2am walk in the heart of the city on Tuesday 7 January. Detectives told Sky News there are "no suspects" as this is firmly a missing persons probe rather than a criminal inquiry.
- The Independent
Cops say they now know who murdered a 39-year-old mother of seven in 2003 – but they can’t charge the suspect
Authorities believe Carl D. Schlobom, 69, killed Tamara ‘Tammy’ Mattson, 39, whose body was found in 2003
- The Telegraph
Death of former postmistress, 86, who was stabbed four times ‘was treated as non-suspicious’
The violent death of an elderly housebound widow who was stabbed four times was initially considered by police as “not suspicious”, a court heard.
- Sky News
'Psycho' sword attacker killed neighbour two months after hospital release, court told
A man, who described himself as a "psycho", killed his neighbour with a sword two months after being discharged from a psychiatric hospital, the Old Bailey has heard. Khan appeared via video-link from Broadmoor secure hospital, while his father Khalil Khan appeared in court and denies assisting an offender. Abdul Khan left his own home a minute later, followed Mr Vandzhura along the road carrying a holdall and pulled a large sword from the bag, striking him from behind, the court was told.
- AFP News
Impeachment trial of South Korean President Yoon begins
South Korea's Constitutional Court opened the impeachment trial of President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday over his failed martial law bid, but quickly adjourned the first hearing after the suspended leader didn't show up.The National Assembly's legal team told reporters in front of the court before the trial began Tuesday that there were "overwhelming reasons for the immediate dismissal" of Yoon.
- People
Mom Who Sexually Assaulted 2 Teens After Complaining to Them About Marital Problems in Hot Tub Learns Fate
"If the genders were reversed, there are few who would believe that leniency is appropriate," prosecutors reportedly told the court
- CNN
Special counsel who investigated Hunter Biden criticizes President Biden in final report
The Justice Department special counsel whose six-year case into Hunter Biden was short-circuited last month by the unconditional pardon President Joe Biden granted to his son, criticized the outgoing president in his final report Monday.
- Associated Press
South Korean authorities take impeached President Yoon to detention center after questioning
South Korea's impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, was sent to a detention center near Seoul on Wednesday night, after being questioned by anti-corruption officials who took him into custody over his imposition of martial law last month. Yoon was detained in a major law enforcement operation at the presidential compound earlier in the day. Yoon defiantly insisted that the country’s anti-corruption agency, which led the raid with police, didn’t have the authority to investigate his actions, but said he complied to prevent violence.
- People
Who Killed the Black Dahlia? Revisiting Elizabeth Short’s Unsolved Murder 78 Years Ago Today — and Why a Retired Detective Believes His Father Committed the Crime
On Jan. 15, 1947, Elizabeth Short’s body was found cut in half and left in an abandoned lot in Los Angeles
- Evening Standard
Descendants of Jack the Ripper’s victims seek new inquest after DNA breakthrough
The mystery has endured for nearly 140 years and the victims’ families still hope to find the truth about the unsolved crime