While the United States, of America, still grapples to come to terms with the worst ever school shooting in its history, a newspaper went and did the unthinkable yesterday.
Isn’t he in a jolly mood, that saucy old cad. The Associated Press report that the Pope has granted his former butler a Christmas pardon, forgiving him in person during a jailhouse meeting for stealing and leaking his private papers in one of the gravest Vatican security breaches in recent times. Fifteen minutes after the meeting, […]
The United States’ latest mass shooting tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, has thrown the issue of gun control into sharp relief once more. Gun control remains one of the most hotly contested topics in the US, often dividing pro-gun Republican and anti-gun Democrat constituencies in local and national elections. The Second Amendment of the United States […]
Michael Douglas’ son, Cameron is a jailed heroin addict. He’s also a snitch, apparently. And his blabbing inside chooky earned him a date with destiny, “destiny” being an empty pillow case filled with batteries. Douglas suffered broken bones after a crime-family lieutenant put out a $100 bounty on his head for being a mouthy bitch. […]
In another display of domestic terror, the US has endured one of their worst mass shootings ever. A 20-year-old gunman killed his mother at home, then cruised down the road to his old school, and started shooting – killing himself in the end.
According to various news sources a plan to kidnap, castrate and murder Justin Bieber has been foiled. Allegedly an Albuquerque hit men and a convicted killer were plotting to strangle and castrate teen pop star Justin Bieber and three other people, including his bodyguard.
This week in cautionary tales, a Florida woman named Dorice Moore befriended a known lottery winner, ingratiated herself in his daily affairs to the point where she controlled his finances, embezzled his money, before murdering him and throwing a concrete slab over his bloody corpse.
A Guatemalan judge has orded that anti-virus software mogul and wonderfully delightful meth head, John McAfee be released form custody. The judge ruled that McAfee had been detained illegally. McAfee was nicked by Guatemalan feds on charges that he had entered the country illegally from neighboring Belize. The announcement was made on McAfee’s blog this morning. In summary, from the Telegraph: Mr […]
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has confirmed that they will investigate whether President Jacob Zuma and his reported donors paid all taxes owed on the donations to him, following DA complaint.
Earlier this year, Debbie Calitz and her former boyfriend, Bruno Pelizzari, made international headlines after they were released from captivity in Somalia. The pair were held captive, and sold between various pirate gangs, over the course of nearly two years before that.
Meet Hannah Strabata, of Stromsburg Nebraska. Hannah is a troubled youth, and not very smart. Hannah committed various crimes, including stealing a Pontiac Grand Am car, robbing a bank of more than $6 000, and filling a pipe with copious amounts of marijuana, and smoking it. Hannah committed all of these crimes on “the best […]
Arguably the most disgraceful estate agent that has ever operated in South Africa, Wendy Machanik, has finally spoken publicly about her actions, and taken full responsibility for her public and humiliating downfall.
The Mexican drug cartels are more than just gangs. They are a combination of organised crime and military – even if a rather undisciplined one. It’s the mafia with radio towers, RPG’s and armored vehicles. They are extremely badass; in the most horrible and corrupt way possible.
The Supreme Court of Appeal has just stated that the South African government acted unlawfully when it delayed a decision on a visa application by the Dalai Lama. Do you remember the saga about the fact that the Dalai Lama couldn’t come to South Africa to celebrate Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu’s 80th birthday in October […]
Never-Before-Seen CCTV footage, showing the moment Anders Behring Breivik’s bomb exploded in Oslo outside the prime minister’s office, has been made public. It also shows the Norwegian mass murderer parking the van and walking away calmly moments earlier.
It’s never cool when a child dies, and it is definitely not something that should be celebrated. But that doesn’t seem to apply here, as a local kid took his Metro Cop mother’s gun to school and gunned down the school bully – leaving a bunch of kids ‘free.’
Most dads enjoy spending time with their kids, by going to the movies or the beach. For Ronald Catt it was slightly different, because he took his son and daughter out to rob banks. The trio was finally caught this week..
John McAfee: tech millionaire, accused of murder, on the run from the cops, and quite possibly mentally ill. Wired’s Joshua Davis – who had written an in depth article on the man’s life – has reported on his personal experiences with the man that have left him believing he is “unhinged”.
On Friday an advertising creative named Geoffrey McGann was arrested at Oakland airport for wearing a watch that looked suspiciously like a bomb. How is that possible, you ask? How can a watch look THAT much like a bomb? Wait ’til you see this..
Wow, this whole sports drugs vibe is getting out of hand. If it wasn’t enough that one of our own top cyclists was busted shortly after Lance Armstrong, we now have a problem in our schools. And apparently it’s the worst in the world.
Moments ago, judgement in a crucial aspect of the Anni Dewani murder case was delivered. Xolile Mngeni, 25, has been found guilty of shooting Anni Dewani dead just over two years ago.
We can think of only one thing worse than getting caught by the police with 220 smuggled diamonds in your stomach. And that is having to sit through the process of removing them from your digestive system with the help of purgatives.
This is an incredible story. Andy and Nayel Ashkar scammed a customer at their convience store out of a five million dollar lotto ticket six years ago, and now when they tried to collect the winnings, they got nailed.
In the Morning Spice Headlines this morning, we carried a story that indicated that South Africa could be the latest hunting ground for thieves looking for valuable paintings. But, what if our own artists where behind this trend?
Spokesman for the Hawks, McIntosh Polela, has been suspended for a joke he made about Vaseline and convicted murderer Jub Jub.
It’s a year since British businessman Neil Heywood was lured to a hotel in Chongqing, south west China, and given cyanide by Gu Kailai, the lawyer wife of Bo Xilai – previously tipped to be a future leader of China.
Brie Lybrand is a former beauty pageant contestant with her own YouTube channel, called The New Orleans Beauty Guru. But her latest upload is very different from her usual upbeat beauty tutorials, and is truly heartbreaking to watch.
A Boksburg Magistrate’s Court has ruled that there is absolutely no evidence linking suspended SAPS Crime Intelligence Boss, Richard Mdluli to the 1999 murder of his baby mama’s husband. And in a spicy twist of events, the court has suggested that the charges were likely the result of a conspiracy against Mdluli. Mdluli served as […]
The drug-cartels in Mexico mean business. Whether this is stringing up dead-bodies to quell opposition, or building a sophisticated radio network, they just do what they want.
A video posted online by extremists shows burkha-clad women being trained to fight by terrorists in the Russian Republic of Chechnya. The film can be seen below, and sees the women being taught how to wield Kalashnikov assault rifles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and sniper rifles with deadly results.