GOP demands Baldwin reveal terms of payout offer to ex-aide
By Rapidly declining oil prices led to take charges in the fourth quarter that resulted in a wider loss. The Beloit manufacturer of electric motors, electrical motion controls, power transmission and...
View ArticleAaron Johnson's Story as a Lifer in Alabama Prison Is Exhibit A in Why We ...
We have to rethink the cruelty of our incarceration system. Editor's Note: After three hung-jury mistrials, Aaron Lamont Johnson was convicted of murder and sentenced to life without parole for an...
View ArticleLife and Death in the time of Cholera: Beth Macy's 2010 story from Haiti
Editor's note: This story originally appeared in the Dec. 11, 2010 issue of The Roanoke Times. Former Roanoke Times Reporter Beth Macy chronicled the The Angel Missions Haiti trip to Port-au-Prince and...
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Summary Neal Scott may die in prison. A 49-year-old Black man from New Orleans, Neal had cycled in and out of prison for drug possession over a number of years. He said he was never offered treatment...
View ArticleHow did one of the most prolific paedophiles in history get away with his...
For more than 40 years, William James Vahey drugged and abused hundreds of pupils at international schools around the world. A Guardian investigation reveals that, despite numerous opportunites to stop...
View ArticleCan You Die From A Nightmare?
It is the middle of the night, and there is something very wrong in my apartment. I leap up from my bed and rush to the closet and crouch down and throw aside my shoes, which are arranged on a rack on...
View Article‘He ran at me with an axe’: teachers on facing violence in schools
Attacks in classrooms are on the rise, leaving many teachers fearing for their safety. What’s behind it, and what can schools do?...
View ArticleHow did one of the worst paedophiles in history get away with his crimes?
For more than 40 years, William James Vahey drugged and abused hundreds of pupils at international schools around the world. A Guardian investigation reveals that, despite numerous opportunities to...
View ArticleManchester bombing latest news and live updates – more terror raids this...
BRITAIN is on lockdown today as troops and armed police protect key sites in the wake of the Manchester terror attack. Twenty people remain in a critical condition after Monday night’s suicide bombing...
View ArticleAryan Pandit: My death sequence in 'Dahleez' will make everyone cry
Actor Aryan Pandit , who is bidding adieu to " Dahleez ", says his character's death sequence in the TV show will stir emotions and will surely make everyone shed a tear or two. The ongoing track of...
View ArticleFerguson: The other young black lives laid to rest in Michael Brown's cemetery
By Jessica Lussenhop BBC News Magazine 7 August 2015 From the section Magazine There is still no headstone in the place where 18-year-old Michael Brown Jr is buried. Those who wish to pay their...
View ArticleWho is Ian Brady, what were the Moors murders, what happened to Myra Hindley,...
TWISTED Moors Murderer Ian Brady – the longest serving prisoner in England and Wales – was jailed in 1966 after he was found guilty of killing children. He committed his sick crimes with girlfriend...
View Article“Special Measures”
Summary [We] have to become good at using… the rule of law to fight corruption, [and] to strengthen national anti-corruption legislation. –Chinese President Xi Jinping, addressing a major Central...
View ArticleSeacrest Diner rampage
(Credit: Newsday / Erica Marcus) On Memorial Day weekend 1982, five men from Brooklyn started on a two-day rampage that culminated in approximately 80 people being held hostage at the Seacrest Diner...
View ArticleWhen is Ian Brady: 50 Years Behind Bars on Channel 5? Documentary about the...
IAN Brady the infamous Moors Murder has spent the last half a century in jail for his evil crimes. Channel 5 documentary Ian Brady: 50 Years Behind Bars examines his time in prison and the killings he...
View ArticlePresident Trump: Irish writers have their say
While we were sleeping, first we voted into office the ones who watch you drown while very articulately expressing concern; then we tried voting for the ones who kind of like to see you drown. – from...
View ArticleIs America Any Safer?
Fifteen years ago this September 11, 19 terrorists, using four jetliners as guided missiles, killed 2,977 people—and enveloped the country in fear. It was the first sustained attack on American soil...
View ArticleCharges lead to wider fourth quarter loss at Regal Beloit
Daniel Bice U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin apparently is hoping the issue will go away. But it won't. Baldwin , Marquette Baylor, last month in response to the growing controversy at the troubled Tomah VA...
View ArticleKRISTINE
It’s autumn of 2010 and I’m standing in the exact spot where ten-year-old Kristine Mihelich was found dead as fucking winter in 1977, her newly plum-colored face a muted beacon in the freshly fallen...
View ArticleTranslation Tuesday: Breaking Through the Drum by Bohumil Hrabal
In the first of a series featuring translated works, Czech author Bohumil Hrabal explores life as a theatre usher in war-time Prague in this short story from his new collection Mr. Kafka and Other...
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