Category: Crime and Judiciary

 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...

 A court in Argentina sentenced a man to 10 years in prison Wednesday after finding him guilty of attempting to kill powerful former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner three years ago. The court in Buenos Aires also sentenced the man’s accomplice to eight years in prison, capping a dramatic case that has convulsed and captivated the country since the assassination attempt on Sept....

Troops of the Nigerian Army have apprehended two suspected vandals in Otukpo, Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue State, for allegedly tampering with equipment and installations at the Benue Burnt Bricks Company. According to reports, the suspects were caught on Saturday night while attempting to vandalize the facility located along the federal highway in Otukpo....

BREAKING: Barely a month after restoration of a direct flights between Nigeria and Brazil—Two Brazil returnees; Ofoma Sunday and Ukachukwu Frank Ikechukwu have excreted 116 wraps of heroin & cocaine after days in observatory custody following their arrest by NDLEA at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Ikeja Lagos. 🤔🤔

A New York City rapper who joined President Donald Trump during a campaign rally last year has been sentenced to five years behind bars after he admitted he used earnings from his music career to fuel gang violence in Brooklyn. Sheff G, whose legal name is Michael Williams, also must serve five years of supervised release once...

 An assailant drove a car at people outside a synagogue in northern England on Thursday and then began stabbing people, killing two and wounding three in an attack on the holiest day of the Jewish year, police said. The suspect was also believed to be dead after being shot by officers, but that couldn’t immediately...