
Yazidi artist Ammar Salim, 31, uses his talent to show the world what the Yazidis suffer under the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/Daesh). His paintings tell the story of the Yazidi massacres. “I want to connect all that happened, to explain about the Yazidi genocide,” he explained to Rudaw.
by Mary Chastain1 Jul 2015, 7:46 AM PST0

The Federal Supreme Court in the United Arab Emirates sentenced a local woman to death for murdering an American teacher in December. She stabbed Romanian-born Ibolya Ryan to death in the bathroom of an Abu Dhabi shopping mall.
by Mary Chastain29 Jun 2015, 8:52 PM PST0

An elderly, blind man’s decapitated body was found just after noon on Thursday in his Inglewood, California home, a woman identifying herself as his cousin said.
by Michelle Moons19 Jun 2015, 3:35 PM PST0

Less than a year into a five-year sentence for culpable homicide in the shooting death of his girlfriend, South African runner and double amputee Oscar Pistorius has been recommended for parole and may be released as soon as August, reports say.
by Warner Todd Huston9 Jun 2015, 12:42 AM PST0

On April 21, Carol Bowne from Berlin Township, NJ, applied for a license to own a handgun, which she wanted to protect herself from a former boyfriend against whom she had a restraining order.
by AWR Hawkins4 Jun 2015, 9:43 PM PST0

In an act that shocked the residents of a city who thought they had seen it all, five adolescents in the border city of Ciudad Juárez – a stone’s throw from El Paso, TX – between the ages of 11 and 15 are being investigated for stoning, stabbing, and burying a six year-old boy on May 16.
by Sylvia Longmire29 May 2015, 6:40 AM PST0

$100,000. That’s the prison’s estimated cost of the sex change operation California inmate Michelle-Lael Norsworthy demanded and was scheduled to receive in July before a Thursday court order delayed the first ever prison-paid procedure of its kind in California. But even if he’s released on parole, the taxpayers could still have the privilege of picking up the tab under Medi-Cal, says one bay area legal director.
by Michelle Moons23 May 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

One of the first weekends with nice weather in months brought violence with it as the toll of wounded in Chicago climbed to over 40 people.
by Warner Todd Huston18 May 2015, 5:33 AM PST0

The national media has been quiet about the multiple murder allegations against this Muslim family, in a week filled with accusations of “hate speech” aimed at Pamela Geller, after two Muslim terrorists tried to gun her down in Garland, Texas.
by Lee Stranahan14 May 2015, 5:54 AM PST0

A woman charged with scalding a baby to death in hot water was apprehended at Kennedy Airport attempting to flee the country after the murder.
by Warner Todd Huston3 May 2015, 6:03 PM PST0

Much changed in the story of a lost kayaker between April 19 and the 30th, when discovery of a diary may have factored into his fiancée going from attempted rescuer to accused murderer, despite a still-missing body. Angelika Graswald, 35,
by Michelle Moons2 May 2015, 11:04 AM PST0

Despite reports to the contrary, Floyd Mayweather Jr. has no plans to bail former rap mogul Suge Knight out of jail if he wins his upcoming fight against Manny Pacquiao, a person close to the boxer told TMZ Sports Thursday.
by Kipp Jones1 May 2015, 11:56 AM PST0

Brittney Mills, 29, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who was eight months pregnant, was shot and killed Friday night with numerous shots to her upper body, but her baby was delivered and may live.
by William Bigelow26 Apr 2015, 5:24 PM PST0

Early this year an atheist was charged with murdering three Muslims over a parking dispute at their North Carolina apartment building. Now the brother of one of the slain Muslims wants the alleged killer charged with “terrorism.”
by Warner Todd Huston20 Apr 2015, 6:25 AM PST0

A Polish man who has admitted to the rape and murder of a nine-year-old French girl was on his way to England at the time of the crime, a French court has heard. Zbigniew Huminski, 38, was on his way
by Donna Rachel Edmunds17 Apr 2015, 4:47 AM PST0

MCALLEN, Texas – A Mexican news outlet unknowingly debunked a story that was circulated in U.S. news claiming that a former Mexican cop turned immigration advocate was killed by cartel gunmen, after his request for asylum was denied, and he
by Ildefonso Ortiz16 Apr 2015, 6:38 AM PST0

The lifeless body of 60-year-old Father Francisco Javier Gutiérrez Díaz was found Tuesday night with a gunshot wound to the head, dumped by the side of a road in a rural district of the central Mexican state of Guanajuato.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.9 Apr 2015, 6:02 AM PST0

Rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight would be more suited to await trial in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where detainees have better living conditions, his attorney claimed Thursday.
by Kipp Jones4 Apr 2015, 11:59 AM PST0

Sometimes you run into a story so full of heartless evil that it’s a struggle to capture the darkness in a headline. Sometimes you read a story that just gets worse with every passing word. The murder of Shirley Souza in Brazil is such a story.
by John Hayward31 Mar 2015, 7:41 PM PST0

A Colorado woman who brutally cut a live baby from the womb of its mother won’t be charged with murder, because a law pushed by pro-abortion lobbyists maintains that a fetus is not a human being.
by Warner Todd Huston27 Mar 2015, 8:40 PM PST0

The shocking story of a baby cut from the womb of a Colorado woman started after the pregnant mother saw a Craigslist ad supposedly selling used baby clothing.
by Warner Todd Huston20 Mar 2015, 6:39 PM PST0

TV producer Jill Blackstone, noted for her work on the television shows Jerry Springer, the Sally Jessy Raphael Show, and the Rosie O’Donnell Show, has been arrested in California in connection with the death of her deaf sister, TMZ reports.
by Kipp Jones18 Mar 2015, 5:54 PM PST0

Police charge that a 20-year-old Ohio mother, who was “speaking of demons,” decapitated her 3-month-old daughter during a mental breakdown early this week.
by Warner Todd Huston17 Mar 2015, 6:46 PM PST0

Henry Solis, 27, a probationary LAPD officer, is being sought for his alleged involvement in the murder of Salome Rodriguez, Jr., 23, which occurred on Friday morning around 3:30 a.m.
by William Bigelow16 Mar 2015, 11:48 AM PST0

Video has now emerged in the Suge Knight murder case, which appears to record the Jan. 29 events in the parking lot of a Compton, CA fast food restaurant that left one man dead.
by Kipp Jones9 Mar 2015, 9:19 AM PST0