The pregnant coach of the Seton Hill University women's lacrosse team was among two people killed Saturday when the bus they were on veered off the highway and crashed into a tree in southern Pennsylvania
Investors in a $7 billion Ponzi scheme orchestrated by former Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford could finally begin getting back some of what they lost in the next few months, after a recovery process that has dragged on for more than four years. Investors, some of whom lost their life savings, will see only a pittance of what they put into the scheme, but "the process got a boost this past week as parties that had been battling each other for control of about $300 million in frozen foreign bank accounts and other assets once owned by Stanford reached an agreement to work together."
A Swiss female tourist was gang raped by reportedly eight people at a forest area in Central India, by the Datia district of Madhya Pradesh, police said on Saturday. The assailants reportedly overpowered her husband, beating him with wooden sticks before tying him up and sexually assaulting his wife in front of him.
While chairing her first subcommittee hearing, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand made it a priority to go after the "problem of rampant rapes, sexual assaults and sexual harassment in the military." The estimated number of cases would be close to 19,000 if all subjects were to step forward, but officially 2,500 cases of sexual violence were reported in 2011.
