Wife Mortgaged to Loan shark

We have heard of  excesses of loan recovery agents. But in a shocking incident in India's eastern state of West Bengal a man was forced to keep his newly married wife as mortgage after failing to repay loan. "You could call it Bengal’s heart of darkness. Unable to...

Mobile ban for Singapore toilet Peeping Tom

After a case of mobile misuse a teenage Singaporean have been debarred from using mobile phone for one year. " A Singapore man has been banned from owning a camera phone for a year after he was found guilty of secretly filming a woman in an airport toilet, a newspaper...

Guilty plea in US-China spy case

BBC News Reports"A Chinese woman living as a permanent resident in the US has pleaded guilty to helping to spy for Beijing on US military relations with Taiwan.Yu Xin Kang, 33, confessed to aiding and abetting Chinese spy Tai Shen Kuo, who obtained classified information from...

Notorious gay basher kills himself in jail

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorOne can be sure, Police won't investigate too hard on this one. Karma has a way of evening things out sometimes." Notorious gay basher kills himself in jailQuebec...

Cairo Honeymoon: A Tale of Two Nightmares

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorThe last desperate words Newlywed Jennifer on her Cairo Honeymoon would ever envision to hear from her husband Richard would be "Jump, I promise to catch you", You have...

18-year-old hacker convicted in New Zealand

Amazing that someone so young could commit such an enormously complex crime."A New Zealand teenager accused of involvement in an international cyber-crimering which skimmed millions of dollars from bank accounts has been convictedof illegal computer hacking.Owen Thor Walker,...

'Girls Gone Wild' Founder Enters Plea

"Girls Gone Wild" video empire founder Joe Francis pleaded no contest to child abuse and prostitution charges Wednesday under an agreement allowing him to go free after nearly a year in jail.Francis, 34, returned...

Busta Rhymes Gets Probation on Assault Charges

Busta got busted for busting a fan, and then he plead guilty before his trial began. Perhaps three years probation will give Busta time to chill on his 'rrroaw-rrroaw-like a dungeon dragon' techniques of anger...

Lindsay Lohan to serve time in morgue

If only Six Feet Under got this creative."LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Lindsay Lohan is about to see dead people. The 21-year-old actress will soon be working at a morgue as part of her punishment for misdemeanor drunken...

Ex-pastor: 4-year-old girl provoked me to sexually assault her!

"Man: Girl, 4, provoked me By BRANDON COUTRE - bcoutre@nwherald.com Comments (7 comment(s)) WOODSTOCK – A retired Canadian pastor likely on track to leave a McHenry County courtroom Friday with probation for sexually abusing a 4-year-old girl instead found himself behind...

5 year old girl's mom wishes pedophile husband dead

Judging how her husband is faring in prison, I am certain this Mother will get her Christmas Wish.q url="http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/12/20/4733729-sun.html"]ST. THOMAS -- It would have been easier if...

Vick Gets 23 Month Sentence

maybe Vick is in the Pro Bowl of idiots "RICHMOND, Va. — Michael Vick was sentenced to 23 months in prison Monday for his role in a dogfighting conspiracy that involved gambling and killing pit bulls that did...

O.J. Simpson to be arraigned on felony charges

"Simpson and two co-defendants were to appear before Eighth District Judge Jackie Glass for a felony arraignment on charges stemming from a confrontation in a Las Vegas hotel room on September 13. Simpson's...

Mike Tyson Jailed Over Drug Charge

Former American world heavyweight boxing champion and the youngest man to have won a world heavyweight title. During his prime in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Tyson was one of the most recognizable athletes in...

Two plead guilty in O.J. Simpson case

"LAS VEGAS - Two co-defendants pleaded guilty to reduced charges Tuesday in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery case, agreeing to testify against Simpson and three others in the alleged hotel room theft of sports collectibles from two memorabilia dealers.  "Guilty, sir," said...

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