Shattered Symmetry

  Playboy's Model of the Year 2006 repeatedly hit her victim's head against the toilet and then tried to force her head down the bowl. The court heard Miss Hardcastle could not breathe through her nose because of the blood, and had to try to keep her… more »

Lo Wung, 42, taught the monkeys so they could entertain crowds outside a shopping centre in Nshi, in eastern China's Hubei province. But the money-spinning primates turned the tables on their trainer when he slipped during a show, with one quick-thinking… more »

District officials suspended an El Cerrito middle school principal Monday morning while investigating how a student managed to corner and rape a 12-year-old classmate last week during school hours... An upswell of campus violence last spring in El Cerrit… more »

A 98-year-old woman was indicted Friday on a second-degree murder charge that alleges she strangled her 100-year-old nursing home roommate after making the victim's life "a living hell" because she thought the woman was "taking over the room." Laura Lu… more »

A 420-pound man has died after the stretcher being used to load him into an ambulance tipped over, spilling him into the street... Earlier this year it was revealed that medics were considering using a Chinook helicopter to take Britain's heaviest man to… more »

A student collapsed at a party and died after complaining the loud bass music was ‘getting to his heart. There was no trace of alcohol or drugs in his body and his heart was in good condition. A coroner recorded a verdict of natural causes, saying the st… more »

Instead of incinerating their euthanized puppies and kitties, one animal shelter decided to leave them in the hands of Yahweh. I applaud their efforts. See images: more »

A Sacramento County trucker, who spent his murder trial cracking jokes and proudly admitting that he had killed his sister and her husband in their El Cerrito home, celebrated his birthday Tuesday by being sentenced to die by lethal injection... Wycoff,… more »