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POPSGang Finds Suing New York Pays Better Than Crack The gang's leader, Anthony Lawrence, was shot multiple times in his apartment in August. The robbers weren't there to steal his crack profits; they were after the $17,000 settlement he'd received in his latest suit against the city.
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POPSLily Burk's neck was slashed Samuel was arrested at 5:30 p.m. Friday on suspicion of possessing drugs and drug paraphernalia on 3rd Street in downtown Los Angeles -- at least 12 hours before Burk's body was discovered nearby in her black Volvo at 5th and Alameda streets. Law enforcement sources said Samuel has a history of violent crime and drug abuse. "This case strikes close to home for all of us with children," said LAPD Deputy Chief Sergio Diaz. "This is really a parent's worst nightmare."
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POPSDubai Jails British Woman for Having Tea with Male Friend Sharia Alert from modern, moderate Dubai, where we should all invest because it is safer than the stock market: "Marnie Pearce, mother of two, jailed over a cup of tea," from The Daily Telegraph, March 13. She was charged with adultery for having tea with a male friend. The title is correct. That simple. You have no rights. You are guilty and it's virtually impossible to be proven innocent.
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POPSLeftist-turned-neo-Nazi jailed for denying Holocaust Nazism was Leftist. It was in fact typical of the Leftism of its day. It was only to the Right of Stalin's Communism. The very word "Nazi" is a German abbreviation for "National Socialist" (Nationalsozialist) and the full name of Hitler's political party (translated) was "The National Socialist German Workers' Party" (In German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei)