Mexican authorities have arrested an alleged drug cartel leader known as Commander Squirrel who they say is linked to the 2010 murder of American jet skier David Hartley on a border lake, as well as to more than 200 other deaths in Mexico. After a gunfight on Saturday evening in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Mexican Marines captured Salvador Alfonso Martinez Escobedo, AKA the Squirrel or Commander Squirrel, who earned his odd nickname for his permanent smile and allegedly helped direct operations for the violent Zetas cartel in Coahuila, Tamalapais and Nuevo Leon states. Read more: Narcoboss 'Commander Squirrel' Linked to American's Mystery Death on Lake
The lawyer representing Joran Van Der Sloot shot down reports that the Dutch playboy and imprisoned murderer had impregnated a Peruvian woman during a conjugal visit to avoid extradition to the U.S., where he is wanted on charges of extortion related to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.Read more: Van Der Sloot Didn't Get Woman Pregnant, Lawyer Says
Reported By Dina Abou Salem: A regular trek in California’s Sequoia National Park took an unexpected turn with the discovery of a 40-year-old note lodged inside a canister. On Sept. 8, Oakland resident Larry Wright, his son Aaron, and grandson Skyler were part of a...Read more: Hike Becomes Quest to Find Writer of Decades-Old Letter
Jerry Sandusky didn't take the stand during his child sex abuse trial last summer, but he will at his sentencing to declare that he is innocent of the 45 verdicts finding him guilty, his lawyer said today.Read more: Jerry Sandusky Will Declare Innocence at Sentencing
Jerry Sandusky didn't take the stand during his child sex abuse trial last summer, but he will at his sentencing to declare that he is innocent of the 45 verdicts finding him guilty, his lawyer said today.Read more: Jerry Sandusky Will Declare Innocence at Sentencing
A letter where Albert Einstein dismisses the idea of "God" is being sold on eBay. The starting price is $3 million dollars. The letter was handwritten in German to Eric B. Gutkind in 1954, a year before Einstein passed away, in response to Gutkind's book "Choose Life: The Biblical Call to Revolt".
Ham and Enos were among the chimpanzees used by NASA to test whether living organisms could reach space and return alive and unharmed.Read more: Photos: Chimps in Space: America's Early Explorers
The fungal meningitis outbreak has now reached 105 cases and includes 8 deaths nationwide.Read more: Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Reaches 105 Cases, 8 Deaths
Prosecutors do not want a “witch doctor” to take the stand in the defense of an African man accused of killing a New York City college student, according to court documents and the defendant’s attorney. The first-degree murder trial of Bakary Camara, 42, a Senagalese...
Kony 2012 founder Jason Russell addressed his naked public meltdown in a new video he hopes will bring interest and action back to Kony 2012, a campaign that calls for the arrest of alleged Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony.Read more: Kony Filmmaker Says Mind 'Betrayed' Him During Nude Meltdown
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Sarah Jones, a former high school English teacher in Kentucky who had sex with a 17-year-old student, will not go to jail or have to register as a sex offender, according to the terms of a plea deal entered today.
Dan Hughes kept on talking after his co-host passed out in his arms
Jennifer Aniston shows off engagement ring from fiance Justin Theroux.