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The Yale lab technician busted yesterday in the murder of brilliant grad student Annie Le may have had help hiding her body -- and there could be another arrest, it was reported last night. Cops are interrogating another employee who works in the lab where Raymond Clark allegedly killed Le, sources told Hartford TV station WTIC/Fox61. It was not known who that employee might be. Clark's fiancée, sister and brother-in-law all work at the lab. The bombshell report came after Clark, 24, was arrested yesterday, hours after a State Police lab confirmed that DNA samples taken from him matched evidence...

ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - A Russian woman in St Petersburg killed her drunk husband with a folding couch, Russian media reported on Wednesday. St Petersburg's Channel Five said the man's wife, upset with her husband for being drunk and refusing to get up, kicked a handle after an argument, activating a mechanism that folds the couch up against a wall.

AP Hints Pro-Lifers Bigger Terrorists Than Foreign Radicals By Dave Pierre | February 20, 2008 - 00:22 ET Let me get this straight: On September 11, 2001, terrorists brutally exterminated nearly 3,000 Americans, obliterated the landscape of lower Manhattan, and pummeled the headquarters of the United States's national defense. And since that same date nearly six-and-a-half years ago, pro-lifers have committed a grand total of zero murders, attempted murders, and bombings directed at abortion workers and clinics across the United States and Canada. So the Associated Press implies that the bigger threat of terrorism to this country comes from ......

Police and authorities 'afraid to act against honour crimes in case they are called racist', claims reportBy CHARLOTTE GILL - More by this author » Last updated at 01:01am on 4th February 2008 Lured to India and killed: Surjit Kaur Athwal Teachers, police and councils are afraid to take action against so-called honour crimes for fear of being accused of racism, it is claimed. Women are also being betrayed by community figures who believe those who break traditional taboos deserve to be punished, the report found.  Researchers say taxi drivers, police and government workers of Asian origin are returning women...

Survival of early babies 'doubles' By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor  Last Updated: 2:46am GMT 01/02/2008     The abortion debate is reignited today as figures show that survival rates of babies born very prematurely have doubled in the past 20 years. Have your say: Does this change your view on abortion debate? All evidence tells us to reduce abortion limit Q&A: Why limit abortion?    Premature babies are capable of surviving below the current 24-week time limit   A study at one of Britain's top neonatal units found that one third of babies born between 22 and 25 weeks' gestation...

Debt-ridden woman's 'death by anti-freeze plot' goes wrong after husband survivesLast updated at 16:44pm on 7th January 2008 A woman tried to kill her husband by poisoning him with anti-freeze after sinking into financial crisis, a court heard today. Kate Knight, 28, set out to murder her husband Lee to clear mounting debts, a jury was told. She considered a "number of methods", prosecutor Mr William Davis told the court, before settling on anti-freeze, which contains the potentially fatal chemical ethylene glycol. Mr Knight, a former JCB employee, became "gravely ill" after ingesting the poison. Mr Davis explained: "He...

Plans to relax law on early abortion       Greg Hurst, Political Correspondent   The most extensive liberalisation of abortion laws for 40 years is being planned by MPs, The Times has learnt. MPs will propose that women be allowed to seek an abortion on the basis of informed consent – dropping the requirement for two doctors’ signatures – and perform the second stage of a medical termination at home rather than at a hospital or clinic. They also want nurses rather than doctors to be allowed to carry out abortions in the first trimester of pregnancy, up...

Parents allowed to screen IVF embryo for Alzheimer'sBy GWYNETH REES - More by this author » Last updated at 18:11pm on 20th September 2007  A couple have been given the go ahead to have their embryos screened for a rare form of Alzheimer's   A couple who fear their child could inherit a rare form of Alzheimer's are to undergo embryo screening to eliminate the risk. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has approved the tests, which will allow embryos of the parents, who have a history of the disease in their family, to be screened for the genetic...

Headmaster's killer to get new identity By Tom Harper, Sunday Telegraph  Last Updated: 1:42am BST 26/08/2007  The government is preparing to give the killer of headmaster Philip Lawrence a new identity.   Learco Chindamo: Secret identity will cost millions   Under the plans, Learco Chindamo, 26, and his close family will be given new names and moved to an address away from London, where he grew up and where his mother, stepfather and brothers still live. They would then be provided with 24 hour police protection via a panic button.The media may also be barred from reporting details of Chindamo's...

Woman gives birth to healthy son after defying doctors who told her to abort 'disabled' babyLast updated at 16:03pm on 23rd July 2007A couple were advised by medical experts to abort their unborn child amid fears he would be severely disabled - but he was born perfectly healthy. Heather O'Connor and Jamie Bramley went through months of turmoil after being told that scans suggested part of the baby's brain could be missing. But Jake, their first baby, arrived weighing a healthy 7lb 9oz - and with no defects. Consultants at St Mary's Hospital in Manchester had recommended Heather should...

Geraldo Rivera’s breathless tease By Michelle Malkin  •  July 16, 2007 08:09 AM If you want ignorant ranting about immigration and the Zina Linnik case, go watch Geraldo Rivera (thanks to readers for e-mailing me about it over the weekend and AP for clipping the vid). Utterly shameless. Geraldo teased his Saturday night segment on the case by claiming that Zina’s uncle, Anatoly Kalchik, would argue that Zina’s accused murderer should be called a “monster” instead of an “immigrant:” GERALDO: The tragic story was twisted to aggravate the immigration debate… A little girl snatched and brutally murdered. Tonight her family speaks...

Teenage abortions hit all-time high By Caroline Davies  Last Updated: 5:37pm BST 19/06/2007 Q&A: When can women have abortions? NHS launches one-stop-shop websiteMore teenagers are having abortions than ever before, fuelling a significant rise in the number of terminations in England and Wales.   The total number of abortions was 193,700 in 2006   Despite huge Government spending on contraception education, 19-year-olds are now the most likely of any age group to have an abortion, with 35 in every 1,000 undergoing the procedure, according to official Department of Health figures. Previously the highest rate was among women aged 20-24 years.The...

Father found guilty of honour killing By Paul Willis  Last Updated: 5:39pm BST 11/06/2007       Boyfriend left heartbroken by deathA father of a 20-year-old woman who was killed and buried in a suitcase under a patio was today found guilty of her murder. Banaz Mahmod was strangled in a so-called "honour" killing after her family disapproved of her relationship with her boyfriend.   Banaz Mahmod had told police she feared for her life Her father Mahmod Mahmod and his brother Ari Mahmod ordered the murder because they believed she had shamed the family. A number of police officers...

School hands out 345 morning-after pills to students - without telling parentsBy DANIEL MARTIN and ANDY DOLAN -Last updated at 23:34pm on 29th April 2007  Critics of the policy argue it is promoting unsafe sex A school has admitted handing out 345 morning-after pills to teenage girls without telling their parents. The figure for contraceptives distributed at Lutterworth Grammar School and Community College over four years is believed to be the highest in England and Wales. Parents and family groups were outraged at the "disgusting" and "wicked" scheme which they say encourages promiscuity and could put children at risk...

The Iranian Supreme Court has vacated the murder convictions of a group of serial killers because their victims were engaging in un-Islamic activities, the British Broadcasting Corp. reports.The men were convicted for a series of grisly killings in the southeastern city of in 2002. The vigilantes were said to believe that Islam condoned the killing of anyone engaged in illicit activities if they issued two warnings to the victims, the BBC reports.

Group Launches Post-Abortion E-Cards   Nonprofit's E-Cards Aim to Let Friends and Family Show Support After an Abortion   By LISA LEFF  SAN FRANCISCO Mar 13, 2007 (AP)— A nonprofit organization has unveiled a series of electronic greeting cards that concerned friends and relatives can send to a woman after she chooses to have an abortion. Like Exhale's confidential talk line for women who have had abortions, the six e-cards available on the group's Web site were designed to be nonpartisan and encompass the range of someone's potential responses to going through an abortion. "Women having abortions are calling our line because...

Anna Nicole Smith collapsed in her hotel room at the Hard Rock Cafe and Casino in Hollywood, Fla., and was rushed to a hospital on Thursday. A Hollywood, Fla., fire department spokesman told MSNBC TV that the actress was unresponsive when the rescue unit arrived on the scene. Sources confirmed to Access Hollywood that Smith was transported to Memorial Regional Hospital shortly after 2 p.m. EST on Thursday. Access Hollywood also is reporting that Smith was intubated at the scene. Officials told the Miami Herald, "it does not look good."

   EXCLUSIVE    Strangler suspect was a cop      Victims ... vice girls Gemma Adams and Paula Clennell     ››    By ANTHONY FRANCE MIKE SULLIVAN and JOHN TROUP DECEMBER 19, 2006   THE loner being quizzed last night over the Suffolk Strangler killings is a former COP who knew all five victims.  Tom Stephens, 37, was a Special PC for five years.He now works as a humble trolley pusher at Tesco — and bizarrely dubs himself The Bishop after a character from comic book strip The X-Men.And a hooker told last night how Stephens begged her for sex...

Indian politician's son guilty of model's murderMon Dec 18, 2006 10:41 AM GMT   By Samanwaya RautrayNEW DELHI (Reuters) - The son of an influential member of India's ruling Congress party was found guilty on Monday of murdering a model in 1999, in a retrial of a controversial case which has transfixed the country.Jessica Lall, 34, was tending the bar at an exclusive party in New Delhi when she was shot dead by Manu Sharma, the son of a Congress party politician, apparently for refusing to serve him a drink after the bar had closed.Sharma had been acquitted in February,...

Howard K. Stern just announced on Larry King that he's the Dad of Anna Nicole's Baby and that they're in love. That's all.

BREAKING NEWS Axe killer escapes jail By SUN ONLINE REPORTER A WOMAN who killed her husband with an axe walked free from court today.Wadanahalugeder Chandrasekera, 59, of Port Close, Bearsted, Kent, instead received a three-year community order at Woolwich Crown Court.The court heard she killed her husband Sarath Chandrasekera, 57, with 11 blows of an axe to his head on October 23 last year after discovering he had fathered a child with her niece. He had moved out of the family home six years earlier and returned that night to visit his son.The couple’s relationship deteriorated when Mr Chandrasekera moved into...

A minister's wife charged with murdering her husband told police she shot him after they argued over family finances and then told him ''I'm sorry'' as he lay dying in their bedroom, according to testimony at a bond hearing Friday

  Murdered by sex beast ... Naomi befriended her killer   Murdered by human rights By MICHAEL LEA Political Correspondent A MOTHER was murdered by a serial sex beast freed from a “life” sentence to protect HIS human rights, a damning report revealed yesterday.  Watchdogs found that Anthony Rice, 49, was “too dangerous to be released in the first place”.But lawyers won his freedom on human rights grounds — then got release terms relaxed with the same tactic.It left him able to stab and strangle 40-year-old Naomi Bryant in a “truly hideous crime” nine months later.The report also found “substantial...

TORONTO, March 24, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The World Federation of Right to Die Societies is having its 16th biennial conference in Toronto and is featuring George Felos as a keynote speaker. Felos was the “right to die” activist lawyer that propelled Michael Schiavo’s case through the courts to have his disabled wife Terri starved and dehydrated to death. Calling him “a nationally recognized expert in right-to die cases, and lawyer for Terri Schiavo, the Canadian euthanasia and assisted suicide group, Dying with Dignity, has booked Felos to speak at the conference opening in Toronto September 7. Speaker topics will include,...

Doctors at the Austrian clinic that treated Ukraine’s opposition leader confirm there was a plot to kill him MEDICAL experts have confirmed that Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine’s opposition leader, was poisoned in an attempt on his life during election campaigning, the doctor who supervised his treatment at an Austrian clinic said yesterday. Doctors at Vienna’s exclusive Rudolfinerhaus clinic are within days of identifying the substance that left Mr Yushchenko’s face disfigured with cysts and lesions, Nikolai Korpan told The Times in a telephone interview. Specialists in Britain, the United States and France had helped to establish that it was a biological...