Disgraced Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard, 40, from the band Hedley, says he's faced threats while in custody and is being held in solitary confinement, as his lawyers mount another appeal of his sexual assault conviction. His legal team is once again seeking his release on bail, pending a Supreme Court appeal of his conviction.
A Halifax woman convicted in the murder of Loretta Saunders has been granted a 30-day, unescorted absence from prison to help her prepare for the potential end of her time in custody.Victoria Lea Henneberry, 39, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in April 2015 and was given an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 10 years.With that date fast approaching, the Parole Board of Canada has granted Henneberry a 30-day pass so she can live in a halfway house, attend programs and do
A Toronto police officer has been given a temporary demotion for her role in the arrest of a Black university student who was stopped, Tasered and kneed in the neck in what turned out to be a case of "mistaken identity," according to police disciplinary documents.Sgt. Rachel Saliba will be demoted for eight months from sergeant to police constable first class, after which she can be reinstated at her previous rank, Insp. Suzanne Redman wrote in a decision posted online Monday.Saliba must seek tr
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma has set execution dates nine times for death row inmate Richard Glossip. The state has fed him three “last meals.” Glossip has even been married twice while awaiting execution.
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA — A former Winnipeg high school football coach who groomed and sexually abused nine players was sentenced to 20 years in prison Monday.
Hoyt Webb, 36, of Idaho, said he was filming "the homeless epidemic" when he shot an unarmed homeless man in June, authorities say
A 15-year-old boy was "stabbed 50 times" and burned alive this week in the southern French city of Marseille in an apparent drug-related killing. A Marseille prosecutor told the press on Sunday that victims and perpetrators of such violence were getting increasingly younger. The southern French city of Marseille was this week shaken by two apparently drug-related killings, including the murder of a 15-year-old boy who was "stabbed 50 times" and burned alive, prosecutors said on Sunday.Marseille,
The girl says she wanted to punch and slap a teacher but "never wished anyone to be dead".
An Army contractor got his girlfriend hired for a "no-show job." They then took vacations together using government funds, federal prosecutors say.
A 95-year-old man has been charged after a Guelph woman was struck and killed by a car while crossing a parking lot in Guelph.On the afternoon of Sept. 26, police say a Chevrolet sedan was leaving the parking lot of a retail store on Eramosa Road near Stevenson Street N., when it hit two people who were walking across the parking lot to enter the store.The woman, 72, sustained severe injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene. A man, 74, was taken to Guelph General Hospital with minor injurie
Pamela Bozanich, who prosecuted the Menendez brothers’ first trial in 1993, open up about the sensational case in the Netflix documentary 'The Menendez Brothers,' which streams beginning Oct. 7
For the first time, convicted murderer Lois Reiss will speak out from behind bars in a new HBO documentary titled 'I'm Not a Monster: The Lois Riess Murders,' premiering on Oct. 15
Cpl. Jolene Garland told reporters Monday that the three first-degree murder charges laid in a death in Bay Roberts are not connected to organized crime. (Danny Arsenault/CBC)RCMP in eastern Newfoundland have arrested and charged three people in connection with a homicide in Bay Roberts, in which a body was found in a pickup truck that had been set on fire.RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Jolene Garland said that Matthew Kavanagh, 41, Terry Cole, 34, and Stephanie Noftall, 28, have been each charged with
Friends of Lance Cunningham’s, the Niagara Falls man killed in a random attack by an accused serial killer, are in shock. This as new surveillance video emerges of Sabrina Kauldhar, the suspect, seen running through a Hamilton neighbourhood last Thursday. Catherine McDonald reports.
An ambush in a Saskatoon apartment two years ago went violently and fatally sideways when two men burst out of a bedroom with zip ties and duct tape.They both had guns. But so did Brandon Baxandall, 29, whom they had lured to the apartment on the pretext of paying off a debt.Details of what happened on May 19, 2022, at 710 Melrose Ave. are contained in an agreed statement of facts that had been subject to a court-ordered publication ban recently lifted by Court of King's Bench Justice Mona Dovel
Toronto police are searching for a damaged black pickup truck after a passenger vehicle was rammed and shot at in North York on Monday, leading to a rollover, followed by another shooting.A man and a woman were seriously injured in the incident, according to the police.Duty Insp. Brian Maslowski said officers were called to Yonge Street and Empress Avenue for a report of a shooting at 10:45 a.m.Maslowski said the incident first began about three kilometres away, at Willowdale and Cummer avenues,
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “The Menendez Brothers,” now streaming on Netflix. Weeks after the smash hit Netflix series “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” debuted, the streamer has released a new feature-length documentary on the brothers, crime and trial that shocked the world. “The Menendez Brothers,” directed by Alejandro Hartmann, recounts the …
Two additional arrests have been made in a street attack last week on former New York Gov. David Paterson and his 20-year-old stepson that unfolded on Manhattan's Upper East Side, according to officials. A 40-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman were arrested Monday on charges of felony second-degree gang assault and felony assault injuring a victim 65 years old or older, according to the New York Police Department. The suspects were identified as Trevor Nurse and Diamond Minter, both New York Housing Authority workers, according to the NYPD.
A Calgary drug dealer facing a first-degree murder charge after he shot two robbers — one fatally — pleaded guilty to gun and drug charges after lawyers agreed the killing was in self-defence. On Monday, Samiul Turzo, 21, pleaded guilty to possession of a restricted firearm and possession for the purpose of trafficking.Turzo killed Stallone Clare and injured Chad Merasty in a shooting last year. Turzo shot the two men after they attacked him in an attempted drug robbery, according to the stateme
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court on Monday sentenced a 72-year-old American in a closed trial to nearly seven years in prison for allegedly fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine.
Thomas Kwan is accused of injecting Patrick O’Hara with the fake jab on Jan. 22, according to multiple reports
