Shattered Symmetry

"The site has always been unrepentant about its selection process, calling itself "the largest network of attractive people in the world". The move was reportedly prompted by members themselves, who police the membership of the site to maintain a high st… more »

"The girl and her 15-year-old sister wanted to help cook dinner. The older girl tried twice, against their father's advice, to use diesel fuel to light the family's new wood cook stove... "When she started to pour the second time, the stove just spewed f… more »

Investigators recovered the remains of more than 500 animals after executing a search warrant Wednesday at a home in the Feltonville section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, according to the city's chapter of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to An… more »

"According to US government documents obtained by the PHR, as many as 2,000 surrendered Taliban fighters were reportedly suffocated in container trucks by Afghan forces operating jointly with the US in November 2001. The bodies were reportedly buried in… more »

  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 »

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 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 »