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Christopher Savoie, a businessman from the Nashville area, is sitting in a Japanese jail cell after he reportedly tried to grab his kids back from his ex-wife. Of course, the ex is wanted in America -- she'd gotten court permission...
And that's a major factor in fatal drunken-driving crashes, experts say. What constitutes a "binge drinker"?
The researchers focused on 14,000 "binge drinkers " - people who said that at least once month that they had five or more drinks on a single...
In Long Beach, Calif., a man named Santiago Martinez has been sentenced to death for killing not one, but two girlfriend. He murdered the second one because she refused to help him hide the body of the first girlfriend.
In Cape Town, authorities are trying to stop gangs of baboons that attack cars in an effort to get food. The animals know how to open car doors and will jump through car windows to get snacks, which they now...
As we'd previously mentioned, police now believe that Bill Sparkman, a census worker found bound, naked and dead in a Kentucky forest, actually committed suicide. (Only now, they're saying it on the record.) Sparkman had the word "FED" scrawled...
From Brian Burnes: Grain Valley police are investigating a domestic dispute that sent a woman to a hospital this morning. Early reports that the woman had been abducted proved to be untrue, Police Chief Aaron Ambrose said late this morning....
