The Story of 700 Cats

A Florida couple has been charged with 47 counts of animal cruelty after law enforcement agents seized approximately 700 cats from their Haven Acres Cat Sanctuary in June.The “sanctuary” was busted after the county had warned Steven and Pennie Lefkowitz that they were only allowed to house 100 cats. The Humane Society referred to ...
Tags: hoarding , cats , animal cruelty

Man’s Best Friend or Worst Nightmare?

Darla Napora was a passionate member of the Bay Area Dog Lovers Responsible about Pit Bulls Organization—a group committed to educating people as to the loving nature of Pit Bulls. In an ironic and disturbing twist of fate, the subject of Napora’s efforts ended her life and the life of her unborn child.The catastrophe occurred earlier ...
Tags: Pit Bulls , Murder

Heinous Act: Woman Shot Dead in Front of Family

Boonton , N.J.—Police officials remain on the scene--in northern New Jersey--where they say a wife was gunned-down and her husband severely wounded as the couple walked with their two children.The victim, 27-year-old Nasish Noorani of Brooklyn, New York, was walking the few short blocks from her sister’s home to her father’s on Cedar ...
Tags: Murder , Shooting , Homicide

Sick and Twisted: Father Decapitates Special-Needs Son

A 7-year-old boy suffering from cerebral palsy and other disabilities—including not being able to speak—was decapitated by his biological father over the weekend. The child’s head was found on Sunday afternoon, lying on the side of the street, said Louisiana detective Ricky Ross. “We received the call at approximately 12 ...
Tags: Murder , Special Needs , 1st degree murder , Prison

A Real Life Horror Story

In his 34 years with the New York City Fire Department, Captain James Melvin has experienced his fair share of malfunctioning elevators. But Melvin never witnessed the horror of what happened on Sunday morning on Staten Island. Melvin described the situation with a hint of fear and amazement in his voice: Two construction workers were ...
Tags: construction workers , trapped , elevator , New York City

NFL Player’s Wild Night

During the Denver Bronco’s first preseason game of the year, promising kicker, Matt Prater, scored a team high eleven points. This on-field performance; however, was nothing compared to the scoring Prater racked up the previous week. With a blood alcohol content over .14, Prater was involved in a hit-and-run crash in which he accompanied ...
Tags: strip club , Denver Broncos , DWI

Sleepwalking Leads to Death?

On Wednesday morning, Catherine Kelly, a woman from Conshohocken, Pennsylvania was found dead in the Schuylkill River. The case, which is currently being investigated, is enshrouded in mystery—Kelly’s body did not possess any physical signs of damage or struggle. Local authorities in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania are currently ...
Tags: Narcolepsy , accidental death , death

Utter Chaos at 30,000 feet

A ridiculous scene took place on JetBlue’s red-eye flight from Portland, Oregon to John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York, when a severely intoxicated male passenger allegedly urinated on a sleeping 11-year-old girl.The young girl was travelling with her sister and father, and had been left alone for a few minutes while ...
Tags: indecent exposure , airplane , public intoxication

A Selfless Suicide

West Bengal, India—A 12-year-old girl in West Bengal committed suicide last week so that her ailing father and brother could use her organs to combat their grave illnesses. Mumpy Sarkar, the selfless young girl from Jhorpara village, ended her life to save her inflicted family members. Unfortunately, in a sick twist of events, ...
Tags: suicide , organ donation , medical costs

Professor Ends Class…and Life

Philadelphia—Bewildered students, faculty members and even the man’s wife watched in utter horror last Wednesday as an adjunct teacher at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania committed suicide during his math class.Rudolf Alexandrov, age 71, walked out of the classroom inside St. Joseph’s Hall, to the second-floor railing ...
Tags: suicide , college , professor , depression

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