A former lab manager at Northeastern University has been convicted of staging a hoax explosion at the Boston campus and then lying about what happened to a federal agent. Jason Duhaime, 46, from San Antonio, Texas, was convicted on three counts Friday by a federal jury. He faces up to five years in prison and a fine […]
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Ukraine’s strikes on Crimean air defenses could end its role as a Russian military staging ground: experts
Ukraine has intensified strikes on Russia’s air defenses in Crimea, per reports. The attacks could make Crimea untenable as a military staging ground, one US think tank said. But they’re not a silver bullet to end Russia’s occupation of the region, experts said. Ukraine’s sustained attacks against Russia’s air defenses could make occupied Crimea untenable […]
ER practitioner gets 30 years for murdering girlfriend, staging suicide in her downtown St. Paul apartment
Alexandra Pennig loved and trusted Matthew Ecker — but he “ultimately scared her,” Assistant Ramsey County Attorney Ambrosia Mosby-Velasco said Wednesday in a downtown St. Paul courtroom. While Pennig knew to run from Ecker in the early morning hours of Dec. 16, 2022, she “just didn’t know that running into that bathroom would ultimately end […]
Mothers staging hunger strike at UK Parliament for parents who cannot feed children
A group of six mothers will begin a five-day hunger strike outside Parliament on Mother’s Day to draw attention to parents in the UK who are skipping meals to feed their children. The mothers taking part in the peaceful protest, set up by Mother’s Manifesto, plan to strike without food from Sunday to Thursday, with […]
Baptist Minister With a Dark Secret Accused of Murdering His Wife, Staging as a Suicide
The death of a devoted preacher’s wife might not have been solved if not for loved ones challenging a ruling of suicide. On April 7, 2006, Matt Baker called police in Hewitt, Texas — a predominantly Baptist town just south of Waco — telling dispatchers his wife, Kari Baker, “just committed suicide.” Matt reported Kari […]