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A stricken widower is suing the parents of four teenagers who dismembered his 73-year-old wife by viciously dragging her along behind her own SUV during a horrific fatal carjacking. Rickey Frickey launched the lawsuit to hold the parents 'responsible', his attorney said, holding them partly to blame for her March 2022 death in a newly filed suit, seeking at least $50,000 in damages. After the final perpetrator, John Honore, 18, was convicted of murder this week, Linda's grieving husband is suing Honore's parents and those of three others involved. Honore's accomplices, Briniyah Baker, 17, Lenyra Theophile, 16, and Mar'Qel Curtis,...

A New Yorker cover generating a lot of buzz likens former FBI director James Comey to somebody else who suffered a very controversial removal: United Airlines passenger David Dao. The cover for the May 22 edition shows Comey being dragged off a plane by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a police uniform, with President Trump as the pilot looking on, USA Today reports.

President Barack Obama’s job approval among American voters drops to a new low, a negative 38 – 57 percent, as the outlook for Democrats running for Congress and the U.S. Senate fades also, according to a national poll released today. He even gets a negative 41 – 49 percent among voters 18 to 29 years old and a lackluster 50 – 43 percent approval among Hispanic voters. The president’s job approval compares to a negative 39 – 54 percent score in a November 12 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University. Today, Obama gets negative scores of 6 – 92...

Beneath the guard towers and behind the razor wire of a Texas prison, Lawrence Brewer lifts his arm to display his racist tattoos. “Like a cross burning and an intertwined KKK,” he explains, showing off the images cut into his flesh that turned his body into a billboard for hate. His worldview of racial relations came from an earlier stint in prison. “Watching the blacks and the Mexicans and other races literally beat people near death. So I came out after four years of that, with that mentality,” he said. What he did after he came out of prison made...

(Paul Ciniraj) Patna (Bihar, India), SVM News, Sept 23, 2007: Two more suspected thieves lynched at Saketpuri, a lower middle class neighbourhood under the jurisdiction of Sultanganj police station of Patna in Bihar state on September 21. The alleged thieves were attacked by an angry crowd after a resident raised an alarm on Friday night. "One of the victims jumped into a pond to escape, but the mob encircled, stoned, pulled him out and he was beaten to death," Anwar Hussain, City Police Superintendent told to the Salem Voice Ministries (SVM) News Service. Another man's body was recovered on Saturday...

TOWSON, Md. A Maryland woman is being held on two (m) million dollars' bail after police say she rammed her pickup truck into a boy being pushed in a stroller. Police say Lazara Arellano De Hogue dragged the child for three-quarters of a mile, killing him. De Hogue is been charged with hit and run, and police say additional charges are pending. Authorities say De Hogue slammed her Dodge Ram into three-year-old Elijah Cozart and his grandmother on a busy street in Towson Friday afternoon. Police say the stroller became trapped in the undercarriage of the truck, but that De...

Prosecutors filed murder and kidnapping charges Monday against a man accused in the gruesome dragging death of his 49-year-old girlfriend. Jose Luis Rubi-Nava, 36, also faces charges of forging and possessing a government-issued document. He was being held without bail. The battered and disfigured body of Luz Marie Franco Fierros was found Sept. 18 in a normally quiet subdivision about 20 miles south of Denver. Investigators say Franco Fierros had been dragged behind a vehicle for more than a mile, leaving a bloody trail. Preliminary autopsy results said she suffered fatal head injuries and strangled as she was dragged. She...

BISBEE — A Mexican man pleaded no contest Tuesday to charges he stole a pickup truck and dragged a Sheriff’s deputy during a March traffic stop in Huachuca City, breaking the deputy’s ankle in the process. Hugo Rodr’guez Pelagio, 24, of Tangancicuaro, Michoacan state, will serve three years in prison and pay up to $200 in restitution as part of a plea agreement with the state. According to an arrest report from the Sheriff’s Department, Rodr’guez Pelagio was stopped at about 2:38 a.m. on March 21 as he was driving with an unidentified passenger along Highway 90 northbound in a...

A convicted alien smuggler was sentenced April 14 to 12½ years in prison for dragging a man to death over a smuggling fee dispute last summer, following an investigation federal agents and local police in Houston, TX. Rafael Garcia-Flores, 37, a Mexican national, had smuggled three illegal aliens into the United States in early July 2004. While collecting the fees for his smuggling services in the parking lot of a Houston shopping center, Garcia-Flores announced that the fee had increased from $1,500 to $1,800. In an argument that ensued over the $300 discrepancy, Garcia-Flores brandished a pistol and then accelerated...

NAACP: Nonpartisan Branch of the Democratic Party By Andrew L. Jaffee, July 16, 2004 Home   Search   Forum   Terms NAACP Chairman Julian Bond claims his organization is “nonpartisan” while at the same time using vitriolic rhetoric to attack the Bush administration. Why would President Bush wish to speak before the NAACP after the way in which they’ve treated him? Some claim Bush should swallow his pride and speak before the group in the interest of “outreach.” I would argue that Bush has already engaged in more outreach than any other administration in U.S. history: 2001: President George W. Bush appoints: Condoleezza Rice, Assistant...

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police arrested Joy Renee Parada, 31, Wednesday in connection with the robbery of an 89-year-old woman who was dragged alongside a car earlier this month. The victim, a resident of the Merrywood assisted living center, 3600 Park Road, was in the parking lot of her complex at 1 p.m. on July 7 when a woman in a car stopped to ask directions, police said. Police said the suspect then asked the woman for change, grabbed her purse and tried to flee, briefly dragging the woman, who suffered only bruises and scratches, police said. Police -- after issuing a warrant...

NEAR AN NASIRIYAH, Iraq - U.S. troops determined to snub out resistance and protect vulnerable supply lines swarmed around this key Euphrates River crossing Saturday, newly wary of the local populace after Iraqis seized a Marine amid heavy fighting to the north. Reports of looting in An Nasiriyah and of the hurried departure of officials of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, while unconfirmed, gave some hope that Saddam's regime was losing control of the city's 500,000 people. Armed Iraqi militias captured the Marine and destroyed three vehicles Friday night in an ambush of a 200-truck Marine convoy bearing desperately needed supplies...

Woman Turns self in for Cruelty to Animals — (01/09/2003) The Bell County Sheriffs department says a 74-year-old woman turned herself in Thursday (Jan 9) for dragging a dog behind her vehicle. Elizabeth Jane Wood voluntarily came to the Sheriff’s office and provided a written statement explaining her actions. She says on Monday (Jan 6) she put food and water in her vehicle for her dog. She then attempted to load her dog into her vehicle to transport it to the Temple Animal Shelter where she was going to tie it to a fence for the night. Wood says she...

Arrest made in Pickens assault By Robert DeWitt Staff Writer June 13, 2002   CARROLLTON | An incident touted nationally as a possible hate crime has apparently turned out to be an assault resulting from a domestic dispute.Law enforcement officers arrested Kimberly King, 26, of Aliceville at about 6 p.m. Wednesday, Pickens County District Attorney Chris McCool said. King is charged with attempted murder in connection with a knife attack on her boyfriend, Rodney Outlaw, authorities said. Outlaw received severe injuries to his buttocks and arms.Initial news reports Tuesday said Outlaw was dragged behind a vehicle, bringing to mind James...