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Sarah Hedgecock · 03/04/14 05:25PM

[Oscar Pistorius hugs his sister inside court at the end of the second day of his trial at the high court in Pretoria, South Africa, on Tuesday. Pistorius is charged with murder for the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine's Day 2013. Image via Antoine de Ras, Pool/AP.]

College Hacker Gets Jail For Changing His Grades to Straight As

Adam Weinstein · 03/03/14 12:20PM

Roy Sun, 25, was a $70,000-a-year electrical engineer straight out of college. And why not? He'd gone to one of the best engineering schools in the country. He even studied, um, computer security in his free time. Which he had a lot of, since he never went to class.

Ga. Man Who Shot Confused Elderly Alzheimer's Sufferer Walks Free

Adam Weinstein · 02/28/14 02:14PM

Local prosecutors said Friday that they won't pursue any charges against a North Georgia man who shot and killed a disoriented septuagenarian who'd wandered the neighborhood in search of his home one dark morning late last fall.

More Evidence That Texas Wrongfully Executed a Man

Hamilton Nolan · 02/28/14 12:13PM

In 2004, the state of Texas executed Cameron Todd Willingham for the crime of setting fire to his own house, killing his three children. Today, evidence is stronger than ever that his conviction was a miscarriage of justice.

Florida Man Poses as Sick Friend's Brother, Takes Him Off Life Support

Adam Weinstein · 02/27/14 01:14PM

An ill widower outside Orlando died after he was taken off life support at the behest of his stepbrother. Only the "stepbrother" turned out to be a mere acquaintance who cleared out the dead man's house and took $106,000 from his bank account, according to a new investigation.

Blind Florida Man Gets Guns Back After Shooting Friend to Death

Adam Weinstein · 02/24/14 04:28PM

Even though the he said he didn't want to do it, a judge in Seminole County, Florida, was forced to return a Glock pistol and a rifle to a blind man who won immunity for killing another man under the state's "stand your ground" law.

N.Y. Farmer Catches Alleged Cow-Fuckers With Hidden Camera

Adam Weinstein · 02/24/14 02:19PM

Two Upstate New York men were booked on misdemeanor sexual misconduct charges last Friday after a suspicious local farmer claimed to have caught them on video trying to engage in intercourse with his dairy cows.

Woman Walks Up to TV News Crew, Admits to Repeatedly Stabbing Mother

Adam Weinstein · 02/20/14 04:30PM

A Knoxville, Tennessee news crew was covering the near-fatal stabbing of a 61-year-old woman at an apartment complex Tuesday morning when the victim's apparently disturbed daughter approached them and confessed to the crime, with the camera rolling.