A Princeton grad and his girlfriend tried to kill two women he met on dating apps by using rat poison, cyanide and a homemade concoction derived from ground-up rosary peas, authorities said. Paul VanDuyne Jr., 43, and gal pal Andrea Whitaker, 41, of Wisconsin now face attempted-murder charges as well as raps for aggravated battery,…
A company boss in China set up 252 tables for his daughter’s grand wedding, then refused to pay the 520,000-yuan (US$72,000) bill. A pork vendor, surnamed Wang, in eastern China’s Zhejiang province said the boss of a local company, surnamed Qian, commissioned him to prepare food for his daughter’s wedding banquet in April. Wang said…
KOCO JASON BURGER MET UP WITH HIM. I KIND OF HAVE LIKE THE MIND OF AN ATHLETE, AND I LIKE TO, YOU KNOW, EMPHASIZE THAT IN MY LIKE POST-GAME RANTS THAT I DO RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES. THIS IS CRAZY. 40 POINTS IN THE NBA FINALS CONTROLLED THE PACE OF THE GAME YEARS AGO, ADAM…
A 35-year-old Hong Kong clerk who cut and stabbed his father more than 80 times in the family home following an argument has maintained that he was not at fault for killing him because he was mentally unstable. Lee Man-lok pleaded guilty at the High Court on Thursday to manslaughter on the basis of diminished…
HSBC has taken legal action against the former father-in-law of slain Hong Kong model Abby Choi Tin-fung over outstanding mortgage payments on his subsidised flat, which could see the bank take possession of the home. The court summons for Kwong Kau came to light in the media on Wednesday, the latest development in the controversy…
A couple accused of murdering their seven-week-old son tried to shift blame to their other child when questioned by Hong Kong police over the infant’s rib fractures and bleeding under the skull, a court has heard. Imran Hossain, 32, and wife Farzana Akter, 29, appeared at the High Court on Tuesday over the death of…
A source familiar with the matter has told the Post that the man had posted a protest slogan from the 2019 anti-government protests, as well as the banned protest song “Glory to Hong Kong” in “dozens” of allegedly seditious entries on social media under an alias. “He had also put up pamphlets that would incite…
A Hong Kong father, previously sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his three-year-old daughter by shaking her to death in 2020, has filed an appeal against his conviction. A document made available at the High Court on Tuesday revealed that Lau Kai-ping, 42, had submitted an appeal against his conviction for one count…
Joanna Cherry, a former leading figure in the SNP, has hit out at the ex-first minister of Scotland following the Supreme Court ruling. “I’ve had to put up with my own party leader, Nicola Sturgeon, calling me a bigot and a transphobe for sticking up for the rights of women and lesbians. “I think she…
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ruled that 27 religious groups seeking to block the Trump administration from conducting immigration enforcement in places of worship did not have legal standing to bring the case, meaning it won’t proceed to a full hearing. Newsweek contacted the press office of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)…