Author: Cleve R. Wootson Jr
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A poacher who killed hundreds of deer was sentenced to repeatedly watch ‘Bambi’
Authorities have no idea how many deer the Berry family and their associates illegally killed in the fields and forests of southern Missouri over the past decade, but the details of their poaching operation would make any animal lover’s stomach turn. Over nearly nine years, David Berry and his two sons, David Berry Jr. and…
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Trump responds after hundreds of newspaper editorials criticize his attacks on the press
Hundreds of newspaper editorial boards across the country answered a nationwide call Thursday to express disdain for President Trump’s attacks on the news media, while some explained their decision not to do so. The same morning, the president tweeted that the “fake news media” are the “opposition party.” The editorials came after the Boston Globe’s…
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A crocodile killed an Indonesian man — so his village slaughtered nearly 300 crocodiles
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The villagers buried Sugito on Saturday, but putting his body into the ground was not a calming act of catharsis. Instead, mourners in the Sorong district of West Papua, Indonesia, gathered shovels and hammers, clubs…
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Australia’s ‘poo jogger’ caught on camera
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save On the surface, Andrew Macintosh was a shining pillar of the Brisbane, Australia, community. He served dutifully on the city council’s inclusive board, which made recommendations about how the city should grow. And he was…
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A robot submarine found the ‘Holy Grail of shipwrecks.’ It’s worth billions
Spanish treasure fleets that traversed the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas and back were a 16th-century invention as important as free two-day shipping. Organized 70 years after Columbus’s first voyage, the fleet was made up of several specialized ships with one primary goal: Exploiting the riches of the New World as efficiently as possible. The…
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He told his ex he had a new girlfriend. She poured acid on his face as he lay in bed.
They met on a dating website for people with HIV and spent five not-entirely-blissful years together. Co-workers sometimes saw scratches on Mark van Dongen, courtesy of Berlinah Wallace’s jealous outbursts. Enraged during one fight, Wallace had poured boiling water on him. By August 2015, van Dongen had had enough, the BBC reported. He wanted out of the relationship,…
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MH370 experts think they’ve finally solved the mystery of the doomed Malaysia Airlines flight
All but one of the 239 people on the doomed Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 had probably been unconscious — incapacitated by the sudden depressurization of the Boeing 777 — and had no way of knowing they were on an hours-long, meandering path to their deaths. Along that path, a panel of aviation experts speculated Sunday,…
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‘My dad’s the mayor!’: Leaked video shows Denver official’s son cursing at officer during stop
The video clip lasts just 20 seconds, but it’s long enough to anger anyone who believes public officials and their loved ones secretly suffer from a strong sense of entitlement. Jordan Hancock, the 22-year-old son of Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock, had been clocked going 65 mph in a 40 mph zone in Aurora, a suburb…
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After calling Barbara Bush an ‘amazing racist,’ a professor taunts critics: ‘I will never be fired’
In the hours after Barbara Bush died Tuesday, even those who didn’t share the former first lady’s political views expressed their condolences and recounted warm memories of the Bush family matriarch. Former president Bill Clinton, the man who once campaigned against her husband, called Bush “a remarkable woman” with “grit & grace, brains & beauty.”…
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He helped design a record-breaking waterslide — and was just arrested after it decapitated a boy
Jeff Henry and his longtime friend and business partner, John Schooley, had coupled an ambitious goal with an impossible timeline: Build the world’s tallest waterslide and get it featured on a Travel Channel show about water parks, all in a few short months. What the two men did not have, prosecutors say, were credentials in…