Category: Crime and Judiciary

 Donna Adelson, the matriarch of a wealthy South Florida family who was convicted in the hired killing of her former son-in-law, was sentenced Monday to life in prison for her role in the 2014 murder-for-hire of Daniel Markel. A prominent Florida State University law professor, Markel was locked in a bitter custody battle with his ex-wife, Adelson’s daughter,...

The Nigerian Army revealed it has commenced a discreet investigation over the death of a serving soldier and his wife. According to Captain Stephen Nwankwo, Acting Assistant Director Army Public Relations 22 Armoured Brigade, Ilorin, in a statement on Monday, said Lance Corporal Femi and his wife were suddenly found dead in their apartment at...

Erika Kirk: “…there is no linear blueprint for grief. One day you’re collapsed on the floor crying out the name Jesus in between labored breaths. The next you’re playing with your children in the living room, surrounded by family photos, and feeling a rush of something you can only attempt to define as divinely planted...

In continuation of the Agency’s clean-up enforcement operation to rid the State of street trading, display of goods on the roads, illegal ticketers, unauthorized blockage of roads, operation of illegal bus stops, and other environmental violations in the State, the Lagos State Environmental Taskforce today embarked on its ongoing clean-up enforcement operation at Iyana-Iba and...

 An Indiana man convicted in the 2001 rape and murder of a teenage girl was set to die by lethal injection early Friday in the state’s third execution since resuming capital punishment last year. Roy Lee Ward, 53, was scheduled to be put to death before sunrise at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. He was convicted in...

 All 10 fugitives who made a brazen escape from a New Orleans jail in May are back in custody after the last inmate who was still on the run was captured hiding in the basement crawl space of an Atlanta home. Derrick Groves, 28, was found Wednesday holed up beneath the home by a police dog sent inside after...

Mr. Dwight Sullivan, a 79-year-old Canadian national, has been found dead in his hotel room in Victoria Island, Lagos State. According to reports the incident one of the hotel attendants revealed the chief security Officer of the hotel (names withheld) reported the incident to the Victoria Island Police Division around 4:30p.m., after efforts to reach...

Federal Capital Territory Police arrested 12 suspected armed robbers linked to a September 29 home invasion at Unique Apartments in Gishiri Village, Katampe District, Abuja, which resulted in the deaths of 29-year-old Arise News anchor Somtochukwu Christella Maduagwu and security guard Barnabas Danlami. Maduagwu died from injuries sustained after jumping from her window to escape,...

 Investigators said Wednesday that the newly elected mayor of a German town who was found at her home with stab wounds apparently was attacked by her teenage daughter, and that her life is no longer in danger. Iris Stalzer, 57, was elected as the mayor of Herdecke in western Germany on Sept. 28 and is due to...