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 2 years ago

A Mount Airy man will spend 23 years in prison for fatally shaking his girlfriend’s 8-month-old son to death in February 2006 while trying to stop the infant from crying. picked by punthe 7 months ago

Former NHL player Rob Ramage was sentenced to four years in prison for a 2003 crash that killed ex-Chicago Blackhawks player Keith Magnuson. picked by punthe 7 months ago

A Chinese woman's 64-year-old headache has ended after doctors removed a bullet that relatives said lodged in her skull when Japanese soldiers shot her during World War Two. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A Marion County judge sentenced a man to at least 38 years in prison for the murder of a woman whose body was found burning under a Salem bridge in 2006. picked by muppet 9 months ago

A 29-year-old Illinois man who admitted to driving from his home near Chicago to Sterling Heights for a planned sexual encounter with a 5-year-old girl was sentenced to 10 years in prison in federal court today.
10 years ? I can think of a much better sentence.... picked by mutil8or 5 months ago

A woman documented her image year after year and stored the pics in a makeup bag. Then someone bought the bag at a flea market and voila! a post for moi. picked by gnikgnok 12 months ago

Doctors say that cannot explain how or why this happens to her based on what they know of persistent vegetative states. picked by BrownTrout 1 year ago

A woman who was trafficked across the border from Pakistan with her son, 3, was handed to an Afghan who raped her, then beat the toddler to death as she watched.

He was jailed for 20 years for murder - but the woman, Rukhma, was jailed, too. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

Pretty amazing story... woman in South Korea uses internet phone service to call 911 as she is being strangled. Because she failed to tell the phone company (Vonage) that she left the country, her 911 call gets routed to Illinois... and the 911 operator STILL manages to get help to her! -- Link includes news article and video report. picked by BrownTrout 1 year ago

A woman who was drunk when the golf cart she was driving with six children aboard tipped over, injuring five of the children, was sentenced Friday to six months in jail -- to be served on weekend work release -- and three years probation. picked by mutil8or 5 months ago

A woman was jailed 70 years ago then 'lost' in paperwork for stealing 12.5p picked by davbob 10 months ago

He went to an asylum for the criminally insane and spent 50 years there. There was just one problem. His father, whom he was thought to have killed, was still alive. picked by Moe 4 months ago

An Ohio woman faces a decision: Serve two years in prison for stealing DVDs from her local library or serve six months and pay back nearly $17,000. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

I'd rather be called "The Shoe Bomber". picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

Director John McTiernan today was sentenced to four months in federal prison for lying to the FBI about hiring indicted private investigator Anthony Pellicano to wiretap a veteran film producer seven years ago. picked by punthe 11 months ago

Austrian authorities have now confirmed that 73-year-old Joseph Fritzl, who fathered seven children by the daughter he kept in a dungeon and repeatedly raped for 24 years, will get maximum of 15 years picked by deepcleanfun 3 months ago

A mummified woman was found in her apartment in Croatia, 35 years after she had last been seen. picked by princess2408 3 months ago

A US soldier has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to murdering three detainees during a raid on a suspected al-Qaeda compound in Iraq last year. picked by teaya21 2 years ago

- A college student who branded a former lover's body with a scalding piece of metal as payback for never calling her after they had sex was sentenced to five years in prison Friday. picked by mutil8or 2 months ago