A Florida felon has been sentenced to five years in prison for possessing nearly four tons of explosive fuses. Court records say 57-year-old Marc Jason Levene, of Sarasota, was sentenced Wednesday in Tampa federal court. He pleaded guilty in September to two counts of possession of explosives by a convicted felon. He has had prior felony drug convictions that prohibited […]

Stunned tourists find a seriously-injured pilot floating in the sea after he ejected from his military jet as it crashed off the coast of Hawaii The pilot, whose name has not been released, safely ejected from the plane before it crashed on Wednesday afternoon He was rescued three miles south of Oahu near Sand Island by a private sailboat The […]

Natalie Rivers, 35, faked genuine feelings for her 58-year-old victim after spending the night with him last December. But the next morning she nicked savings worth £3,040 from his home after he went out for an appointment, Norwich Crown Court heard. Rivers was arrested on suspicion of theft and told police that her victim was a Sugar Daddy who had […]

Toronto police say a woman is in custody after a man was stabbed in Etobicoke early Thursday. Police said they responded to a call around 6:05 a.m. in the area of Lake Shore Boulevard and Brookers Lane. Authorities said the victim was transported to hospital with life-threatening injuries. The age and identity of the man and woman have not been […]

Revealed: Police use of Tasers has rocketed by 50 per cent amid a year of crime as shocking figures show 18,000 officers were injured in the line of duty last year Home Office report shows that police used force 313,000 times in the last year Use of Tasers rose from 11,300 to 17,100 – with the weapons fired 2,000 times […]

Driver, 34, who mowed down elderly man with her Range Rover is ordered to pay him the equivalent of one month’s ‘pocket money’ she gets from her wealthy boyfriend Liana Tyson, 34,  hit Brian Viner, 77, with Range Rover while leaving Sainsbury’s   Victim suffered a broken hip and fractures to ribs plus cuts to back of his head  She […]

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has removed two cardinals from his informal cabinet after they were implicated in the Catholic Church’s sex abuse and cover-up scandal, shedding embarrassing advisers ahead of a high-stakes Vatican summit on abuse early next year. The Vatican said Wednesday that Francis in October had written to Chilean Cardinal Javier Errazuriz and Australian Cardinal George Pell […]

Long Island man, 57, who dug up a skeleton in his childhood home on Halloween discovers it’s his murdered FATHER who vanished in 1961 after ghost hunters told him his dad was buried in the basement Long Island man Mike Carroll, 57, dug up his basement hoping to find the remains of his long lost father on Halloween and found […]

Santa’s SHELVES! Royal Mail staff will today tackle two million letters and up to 300,000 parcels in a single sorting office on ‘busiest day of year’ before Christmas Royal Mail staff at the St Rollox mail centre in Glasgow are hard at work on their busiest day of the year They will deal with 150million parcels in the run up […]

In what sounds like a scene from a Willy Wonka movie, a ton of German chocolate flowed down a road and hardened into sweet pavement amid cold temperatures.  It wasn’t exactly a dream come true for the 25 firefighters responsible for cleaning it up — using hot water, shovels and blow torches.  German newspaper Soester Anzeiger reported that a “small technical […]