27-year-old Houston-area resident Conrad Alvin Barrett was arrested for allegedly sucker-punching a 79-year-old in a 'knockout' game style attack, The Associated Press reported. Barrett, a white man, while the victim is a black man, made a brief appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Frances Stacy on Thursday who scheduled his hearing slated for Friday afternoon
38-year-old Ben Freeman, from south Louisiana killed three people, including his former in-laws, his wife, and the head of a hospital where he worked before killing himself
Roman Catholic Church's William Lynn, who was the first US Church official to be convicted in a criminal court for covering up sex abuse claims, has had his child endangerment conviction reversed its decision by the Philadelphia Court of Appeals.
A judge in Saudi Arabia recommended that Raif Badawi, an imprisoned blogger, go before a high court to face an apostasy charge, which would carry the death penalty if convicted, CNN reported. Ensaf Haidar, Badawi's wife, "initially told CNN on Wednesday that her husband had been sentenced to death. She later later clarified that a judge... recommended he be tried for denouncing Islam,"
