At the far end of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands lies Kuaihelani – also known as Midway Atoll – a small set of islands home to the world’s largest albatross colony. Over a million albatrosses return to Kuaihelani each year to breed. These seemingly pristine islands appear safe, but there’s a predator lurking among the seabirds. […]
A Manhattan man accused of fatally bashing in his neighbor’s head with a cricket bat says the weapon actually belonged to the man he killed and he was defending himself from an attack. Victor Springer, 35, faces murder charges for the Saturday killing of 40-year-old Guillermo Edgardo Ortiz Palacios in Harlem, but his lawyer contends […]
Ringleader identified in ‘gruesome’ Seminole County kidnapping, murder Two more men have been arrested and indicted in connection to the carjacking, kidnapping and murder of a South Florida woman in April, bringing the total number of suspects who now face a possible death sentence to four. Prosecutors said Giovany Crespo Hernandez organized and kickstarted the […]
SOUTH FULTON, Ga. – Family and friends of Briana Winston gathered at a South Fulton park on Sunday for a candlelight vigil and balloon release in her honor. Friends close to her and family members of Briana Winston are still trying to wrap their heads around the gruesome details of her killing. “It was shocking. […]
The family and friends of a murdered young mother gathered Sunday to remember the 23-year-old victim whose charred remains were discovered earlier this month dumped behind a cemetery of a church in Tennessee. Dozens of people came out to Trammell Crow Park in South Fulton, where they honored the life of 23-year-old Brianna Winston with […]
Reality Check is a Telegraph series digging deeper into key issues and focusing on accountability. Have a suggestion for a future story? Email mynews@macon.com. Garrett Thomson wanted to make a difference for his beloved city of Macon, and trying to clean up trash strewn across the city seemed like a good way to do it. […]
Joseph David Heard used one hand to hold the 2-year-old’s hands over his head. He used the other to repeatedly punch the little boy in the gut and the head, according to the child’s mother. When little Hayden Lee Bataille cried out in pain, Heard, 41, got angrier, and the beating only escalated, Hayden’s mother […]
Amalia Coc Choc de Pec, 36, and Estrella Anastasia Pec Coc, 4, were stabbed to death Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Department Angel Gabriel Cuz-Choc Florida authorities have accused a man of murdering his girlfriend and her 4-year-old daughter. Angel Gabriel Cuz-Choc, 31, is facing two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of Amalia […]
Scientists have discovered the gruesome secret behind the apparent youth of some of stars at the heart of the Milky Way — stars participating in a sort of cosmic demolition derby around our galaxy’s supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A*. Like a cosmic version of 17th-century serial killer Elizabeth Bathory, who supposedly sought […]
A graphic video depicting the final moments of teenager Isaac Schuman’s life was aired in St. Croix County Circuit Court Monday on the opening day of the trial of Nicolae Miu, 54, the Prior Lake man charged with stabbing Schuman and four others in a 2022 fight on the Apple River. Shot from just a […]
The family of a young Aiken County teacher killed by a falling utility pole in August 2023 recently filed a lawsuit against Dominion Energy and Comporium, stating the utility companies were “intentionally reckless” in the maintenance of their infrastructure. Jeunelle Robinson, 31, a social studies teacher at Wagener-Salley High School, was on her lunch break […]
A Minnesota man has been arrested for the alleged murder of an aspiring model whose body was found inside the refrigerator of her downtown Los Angeles apartment last year, the L.A. Police Department announced on Wednesday. Maleesa Mooney, 31, was found dead on Sept. 12, having suffered blunt force trauma to her head, torso and […]