Actor Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa in 1986 – Credit: Donaldson Collection/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images The causes of death of legendary actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa have been revealed, the chief medical examiner announced Friday, nine days after the couple was found dead in their Santa Fe, Mexico home. Both Hackman […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday commuted the death sentence of Robin “Rocky” Myers to life in prison, saying there were enough questions about his guilt that she couldn’t move forward with his execution. Ivey said Myers, 63, will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of […]
Neighbours have told how they heard a woman screaming in the street after a teenager was mauled to death by a suspected XL Bully inside a flat in Bristol. Emergency services were called to reports of the fatally injured 19-year-old female inside a semi-detached property in Cobhorn Drive in the Bishopsworth area of the city […]
An inquest into the death of a 12-year-old girl who said she was raped by an older boy has found none of the authorities who had contact with her could have prevented her death. Semina Halliwell, of Southport, died at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in June 2021, three days after taking an overdose of prescription […]
The family of a man who was crushed to death in a freak accident fear they may never find out what caused the pop-up urinal he was working on to drop suddenly. Maintenance engineer Kevin Holding, 60, was killed when working in Soho on 27 January 2023. His inquest heard it took two hours for […]
Grieving families of war heroes face inheritance tax bills of up to £180,000 under Labour, analysis shows. Death in service payments – lump sums given to the families of deceased Armed Forces members – are currently tax-free. But changes announced in Rachel Reeves’s Budget last year mean payments for off-duty deaths in service will be […]
Photo credit: All Elite Wrestling The great thing about pro wrestling is it’s never too late to reinvent someone or change direction. They can’t all be winners, right? Sometimes you have to know when to pivot when something isn’t working and go in a different direction. That isn’t always easy when you’ve invested so much […]
An armed assailant fatally shot two notorious Iranian judges inside the Islamic Republic’s supreme court on Saturday. Judges Mohammad Moghiseh and Ali Razini were known for ordering harsh sentences, including executions, during their decades-long careers. Such judges are known as “judges of death” and “executioners” in Iran. Iran’s judiciary said a “planned assassination” was carried […]
A heartbreaking 911 call was played in court as Tracey Nix stands trial for aggravated manslaughter in the death of her granddaughter. What’s truly shocking is that the little girl is the second grandchild to die while in the grandmother’s care. Less than a year earlier, her 18-month-old grandson drowned in a pond on her […]
The H5N1 bird flu situation in the US seems more fraught than ever this week as the virus continues to spread swiftly in dairy cattle and birds while sporadically jumping to humans. On Monday, officials in Louisiana announced that the person who had developed the country’s first severe H5N1 infection had died of the infection, […]
