A man, beaten bloody in his home while robbers took his computer and cell phone; a gun held to a small child’s head during another robbery; a woman tied up with T-shirts in her own apartment before being robbed.
The descriptions sound like scenes from a TV crime drama, but they are from police reports documenting [...]
A wind stoked wildfire northeast of Sacramento burned dozens of homes Tuesday and has forced thousands of fire-weary residents to flee, state officials said.
Firefighters were also struggling against a sudden drop in humidity and a 10-degree spike in temperature as a heat wave forecast to linger until the weekend grips much of the state.
Fire crews [...]
Authorities say five people who are apparently related have been found dead inside a Southern California home.
Sheriff’s Lt. Erin Giudice (JOO-duh-say) says the bodies were discovered just before 4 p.m. Sunday at the residence in a gated community in San Clemente. She says a relative made the discovery and called 911.
Giudice says it appears all [...]
Brush fires forced residents to flee more than 500 homes in central Florida on Sunday and closed a major interstate, authorities said.
A fire in Volusia County has burned between 500 and 600 acres and caused road closures and home evacuations, state Division of Forestry spokesman Timber Weller said.
Weller said windy, dry conditions were challenging the [...]
Angola’s Home Affairs minister, Roberto Leal Monteiro “Ngongo”, Saturday in Luanda called on chiefs of the Southern African Police to outline efficient mechanisms of fight against crime, aiming the stability of the region.
The Government official was speaking at the opening session of the third meeting of police officials of the Southern African Regional Police Chiefs [...]
On the streets of Harare, sympathisers with the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party said they understood why Mr Tsvangirai had stayed away since voting in the first round of the election five weeks ago.
But now that he had been officially declared the winner, albeit by too small a margin to avoid a second [...]
IT GETS lonely sometimes for Chen Wen Tsong – the nights are especially hard. A carpenter for an interior outfit solutions company based in Dubai for the last two years, Chen feels a more acute yearning for his wife and children as the day draws to a close and he waits for sleep to Home [...]
The family of an elderly dementia patient who was raped by a carer in her nursing home say they are appalled that her attacker has been sentenced to serve only six months in jail.
Thirty-six-year-old Henry Alexander was found guilty of raping the 85-year-old woman while he was washing her at her Mount Eliza nursing home [...]
From leaner food boxes to longer waiting lists, local social service agencies are feeling the pinch. As the economy continues to tank and the cost of everything from groceries to gas keeps rising, more people are asking social service agencies for help.
But those same agencies are having trouble making ends meet, too.
“The needs are up [...]
Two Upper Hutt men charged Roy Samways, 82, $1246 to clean the windows of his small villa after charging him $24 the first time and $600 in January before the exorbitant amount this week.
A bank teller queried Mr Samways cheque when the two men presented it, and though he told the teller to honour it, [...]