A motorist who sent and received more than 20 text messages before she crashed into another car killing its driver has been jailed for 21 months.

*yay* picked by Bornbad 10 months ago

A British man has been jailed for three years for urinating on a disabled woman as she lay dying, in an attack filmed by a friend on his mobile phone. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A Chinese woman who stole a baby in a desperate attempt to convince her boyfriend that she had borne a child has been jailed for 18 months. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A South Florida woman was thrown in jail overnight and charged with an “eavesdropping” felony after she videotaped police officers with their knowledge in a movie theater parking lot Saturday night. ... Adding insult to injury, she believes one of the arresting officers sent her an email bordering on sexual harassment, if not surpassing it, insinuating that she had lesbian sex with ... read full post picked by tgkprog 9 months ago

A Decatur woman clung to a wooden cross set atop a backyard fence for hours in the summer heat to protest what she called the mistreatment of her son, who is being held in the city jail.

A poster placed on the fence in Maria Thornton's yard during Wednesday's protest declared she wouldn't eat, drink or come down from the cross until her son received help. picked by bingo 1 year ago

Boise Police are searching for a man they say raped and beat an elderly woman in her home early Saturday morning. picked by muppet 2 years ago

A white-haired 81-year-old great-grandmother who was rolled into a Newport Beach courtroom with her wrists handcuffed to a wheelchair Thursday became possibly the oldest person in Orange County history to plead guilty to first-degree murder. picked by tlovesd 3 years ago

A NEW South Wales woman who claims a frog in her neighbour's pond caused her husband's death fears she may be next. picked by bornbad 6 months ago

A 35-year-old woman was arrested on Monday for stabbing her husband to death at their home. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A Florida woman has been charged with fraud and theft after she kept her dead mother's body in a bedroom for six years while collecting more than $200,000 in pension benefits. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

A teenage schoolgirl and her boyfriend have both been jailed for plotting to kill the girl's parents so they could continue seeing each other. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A West Side woman who allegedly stabbed her elderly boyfriend to death because he was drinking her beer was ordered held Thursday in lieu of $500,000 bail. picked by maxriter 1 year ago

An elderly woman who had been missing for seven years was found dead in her own home!

The remains, nothing more than a skeleton at this point, appear to have lain undisturbed in her apartment since the day she had been reported missing. picked by funkfrost 8 months ago

Three members of a Winnipeg family were jailed after they admitted to confining and torturing a mentally disabled woman for several months while she was living in their home.
Provincial court had harsh words for the trio, calling their actions "animalistic." He said they used the victim as their personal "ashtray" and a "human punching bag. picked by Bingo 4 months ago

A teenager who posted a death threat on Facebook, yesterday became the first person in Britain to be jailed for bullying on a social networking site.

Keeley Houghton, 18, said she would kill Emily Moore, whom she had bullied for four years since they were at school together.

Not the first time either. picked by Bingo 3 months ago

An American businesswoman was carted off to jail by religious police in Saudi Arabia for sitting with a male colleague at a Starbucks in Riyadh, the Times of London reported. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

A woman leaped to her death from the third floor of the Queens Center Mall around 3 p.m. on Wednesday, landing on and injuring a high school student on the lower level of the shopping center in NYC four stories below. Shoppers screamed and ran.

Eyewitness accounts in comments

*I used to shop there*
And another earlier close call near me
*stops shopping in malls picked by suebe 8 months ago

A stingray leaped out of the water, jumped into a boat, striking a woman in the face, and killed her. It is unknown what killed her, the blow to the head, the land on the boat deck, or the sting ray barbs.

Crazy! picked by muppetmaker 2 years ago

A woman has been found guilty of murdering her grandmother by battering her over the head with a spade.

Joanne Hussey, 33, had admitted killing 76-year-old Annie Garbutt but denied murder, claiming voices in her head told her to do it. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A woman who boarded the wrong bus on an attempted shopping trip from Thailand to Malaysia has returned home after 25 years. There were some language barriers and mistaken identity issues but hey... she should have been back home in 12 years tops! picked by BrownTrout 3 years ago