Jimmy Lai was the chief of the now-defunct Hong Kong tabloid Apple Daily. Now 77, he’s facing a life sentence in a national security trial in Hong Kong. He was arrested in August 2020 after the intense anti-China government protests of 2019. Jimmy Lai, once one of Hong Kong’s most outspoken media tycoons, has been…
The mastermind behind a foiled bomb plot during Hong Kong’s 2019 anti-government protests has been sentenced to serve over two decades in prison. Ng Chi-hung, who pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit bombing and possession of arms with intent to endanger life, was sentenced on Thursday to 23 years and 10 months by a Hong…
A man in China was told by his fiancée that he needed to burn the “marriage bed” of her and her ex-husband so that they could get married, but it turned out to be a scam. The man from northern China’s Tianjin municipality, surnamed Wang, met his girlfriend surnamed Li on an online dating platform….
Teresa Bittinger is no longer warden of the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls. Department of Corrections (DOC) employees got an email late Tuesday evening from Director of Prisons Amber Pirraglia announcing the warden’s departure. Within minutes, the email was posted to a Facebook group for the friends and families of inmates. The email…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WBTV) – A bill banning the use of cell phones inside South Carolina prisons will become law on Tuesday afternoon, 14 years after the corrections officer it was named after was nearly killed. Gov. Henry McMaster will hold a ceremonial signing for the bill, which has been called the “Captain Robert Johnson Act.”…
A male teacher at the elite St Mary’s Canossian College in Hong Kong has been arrested after a hidden camera was discovered in a school toilet, the Post has learned. Sources said on Monday night that the teacher had admitted committing the crime and was arrested on the evening of October 7 at the Catholic…
Hong Kong police are investigating a suspected hit-and-run incident that may be linked to the death of a cat in the New Territories. The force said a 43-year-old woman called the police in the early hours of Thursday, alerting them to the injured cat found on Kam Tin Road in the Shek Kong area of…
In Aug. 1989, Lyle and Erik Menendez blasted their parents with shotguns so many times that police initially thought it was a mob hit. After months of extravagantly spending their inheritances, the brothers were arrested, and convicted of the murders in a widely publicized 1996 trial—despite their attempts to argue that the grisly attack was…