TERMINI IMERESE, Italy (Reuters) - Italian prosecutors have opened a manslaughter investigation over the sinking of the superyacht Bayesian, which killed seven people, a senior investigator said on Saturday.
The investigation is not yet targeting any individual person, he added.
(Reporting by Giulio Piovaccari; Editing by Jan Harvey)
AVIGNON, France (AP) — A 71-year-old French man admitted in court Tuesday that for nearly a decade, he repeatedly drugged his unwitting wife and invited dozens of men to rape her while she lay unconscious in their bed.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff fed up with a spate of false school shooting threats is taking a new tactic to try get through to students and their parents: he's posting the mugshot of any offender on social media.
NEW YORK (AP) — Two former New York City Fire Department chiefs were arrested Monday on charges that they solicited tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to guarantee that the department's fire-safety division gave preferential treatment to some individuals and companies.
A body found eight years ago on the shores of Lake Huron has been identified as a man who set out to peddle and paddle thousands of kilometres from Alberta to his hometown in Ontario. Police confirmed the identity of Garnet Michael Nelson using genetic genealogy, including DNA tests, on Monday. Nelson was found on Oct. 15, 2016 washed up near Port Albert, roughly 16 kilometres north of Goderich. Police noted at the time he was wearing a lifejacket.An investigation was launched, and police appeal
The boys' mom, 29-year-old Deveca Rose, denies four counts of manslaughter
Florwer Carlin Lizano, Jr., 38, a convicted felon who is now charged with first-degree murder, remains at large, police tell PEOPLE
The 6-month-old child is "permanently disfigured" from the injuries, according to authorities
The toddler was discovered by a hunter just over three miles from his Wisconsin home, police announced on Friday, Sept. 13
The mayor of Halifax and a Quebec cabinet minister were among those who testified Monday at the fraud trial for former Calgary city councillor Joe Magliocca.Magliocca, 59, is charged with fraud and breach of trust by a public officer stemming from alleged falsified expense claims submitted to the City of Calgary between Oct. 23, 2017 and Dec. 31, 2019. During that time, Magliocca was a city representative at Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) conferences. Monday marked the beginning of
A father and his two adult sons have been named as the victims in a triple homicide in Lloydminster, Sask., last week. Brent Peters, 66, Brennan Peters, 34, and Matthew Peters, 32, were found dead inside a home on the evening of Sept. 11, RCMP say.Their bodies were found after officers were called to conduct a wellness check at a bungalow in the area of 50th Street and 47th Avenue, a few blocks east of the Alberta-Saskatchewan border that runs through the city's core.RCMP identified the victims
Zachary Scheich, 27, was sentenced to 85 to 120 years in prison for impersonating a 17-year-old Nebraska high school student.
Laurie Leigh Shaver, 41, of Fla., was found guilty of second-degree murder with a firearm for killing her husband, Michael Douglas Shaver, 36, in 2015, authorities said
The rapper was arrested on Monday, following recent sex trafficking and sexual assault lawsuits
A man says he was "beaten up by police" after giving a homeless person some change.
A boy is in hospital with serious, life-threatening injuries and a 39-year-old woman from Woolwich Township has been arrested for attempted murder, police say.Officers were called to a home in St. Jacobs Monday at 7:30 p.m. for a wellness check. When they arrived, they found the child with the injuries. He was taken to an out-of-region hospital by paramedics.A 39-year-old woman was arrested for attempted murder. She was also taken to an out-of-region hospital with non-life threatening injuries.T
NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs was headed to jail Tuesday to await trial in his federal sex trafficking case, after a magistrate ordered him to be held without bail in a case that accuses him of presiding over a sordid empire of sexual crimes.
KHARKIV, Ukraine—Stuck in a crowded prison cell in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, 45-year-old Viktor faces a choice. He can stay where he is, serving out his sentence in the knowledge that a Russian bomb could hit the jail any day, or he can swap his cell for the dangers of the front lines, as a volunteer defending his country.“Better to go fight with weapons, than sit here,” he tells the Daily Beast.In a tactic borrowed from Vladimir Putin’s playbook, Ukraine has started releasing prisoners for
South Carolina is scheduled next week to execute its first inmate in 13 years. Here’s a look at the men on SC’s death row.
A man accused of stalking and harassing UConn basketball star Paige Bueckers said on social media that he intended to marry her and had an engagement ring and lingerie in his possession when he was arrested near a Connecticut airport, according to police reports.
Corinna Woodhull “thought she could save him,” her mother said after the sentencing
