NEW YORK – The gruesome murder trial of a Portuguese model, accused of killing his elderly lover, continued last Friday with jurors being shown the bloody corkscrew that he used to castrate his victim. The New York Times reported that Renato Seabra, 22, admits to using the bottle opener to gouge off the testicles of…
An all-star celebrity cast, including entertainers and LGBT activists Lance Bass (NSync), Annette O’Toole (Smallville) and Bruce Vilanch (Hollywood Squares), are scheduled to perform in a one-night-only reading of 8. Written by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (Milk, J. Edgar), the play chronicles the historic trial that challenged California’s Prop. 8. The San Diego…
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (CNN) – Former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky will likely spend the rest of his life in prison, after a judge sentenced him Tuesday to at least 30 years in prison for sexually abusing boys entrusted into his care. Judge John Cleland ordered Sandusky, 68, to spend no less than 30 years…
BY NEAL PUTNAM After six-and-a-half hours of deliberations, a jury convicted a North Park man Friday of second-degree murder in the 2011 death of Jason “Cowboy” Huggins, who was fatally injured with a heavy rock at a homeless encampment in a canyon near Hillcrest. The jury also convicted Joshua James Larson, 38, of felony assault…
Revenge was the reason that Jason “Cowboy” Huggins was killed after being struck in the head with a heavy rock by a man whom Huggins had testified against in court, a prosecutor has told a jury. Huggins, 31, often appeared in Hillcrest with his trademark black hat, boots, and a big belt buckle, but many…
SOUTHAMPTON, England – A man selected for jury duty faces prosecution after he claimed he was unable to serve as a juror due to his “… extreme prejudices against homosexuals and black/foreign people.” The Southern Daily Echo reported that the man wrote to the court after he was selected to serve on the jury in…
A Sept. 5 trial date has been set for the so-called incense bandit of Hillcrest, an alleged serial robber who is accused of filching everything from an $8.95 package of incense to $1,000 cash from a parking attendant – all in or around Hillcrest. “You guys are too expensive for me,” the alleged robber is…
Brians’ American Eatery has been a staple in the Hillcrest community for more than 13 years, and Facebook and Twitter have been humming with the news of the closure. “I’m gonna be SO SAD when you guys are gone. Thanks for all the good eats, good times, and good memories,” commented Louiegee Faustino on Brians’…
(CNN) — The former Rutgers University student convicted of spying on and intimidating his gay roommate was released from jail Tuesday after serving his sentence, a jail official said. Dharun Ravi, 20, was found guilty in May of invasion of privacy, witness tampering, hindering apprehension and bias intimidation. He left the Middlesex County Jail in…
Wednesday night, Jan. 24, 2007 at approximately 7:50 p.m., while most residents of the quiet hamlet of Dallas Township in northeast Pennsylvania were settling down for another wintry evening, Bryan Kocis was having his neck slit open in the privacy of his own home. The perpetrator would go on to stab Bryan’s body 28 times…
