A woman who gave her abusive husband poisoned cookies and hid his body in the freezer has been jailed for 16 years. Given the name 'Cookie Monster' for her use of spiked biscuits Rebecca Payne, 43, was found guilty of the murder of “bully” Noel Payne and has now been sentenced. She has been told she will serve a minimum […]

Bookmark A British prison dubbed “monster mansion” houses some of the most notorious – and disturbed – criminals, including one bloke in the basement living in a glass box. HMP Wakefield is a Category A men’s prison found at the back of a train station in Yorkshire. Its origins date back to 1594, and it now houses around 800 of […]

A dad has managed to avoid jail despite delivering a brutal punch to another bloke at a pub that left him unconscious in a pool of blood and others terrified that the victim had died. Dale Burnett, a 33-year-old dad from Middlesbrough, was given a 16-month prison sentence suspended for a year-and-a-half by a judge at Teesside Crown Court after […]

By STEVE PEOPLES, WILL WEISSERT, THOMAS BEAUMONT and HANNAH FINGERHUT (Associated Press) SALIX, Iowa (AP) — Ron DeSantis begins his first full day of presidential campaigning on Wednesday with a four-stop Iowa blitz, trying to prioritize personally connecting with voters even as he intensifies his criticisms of former President Donald Trump. The Florida governor was first set to visit the […]

PARIS (AP) — French Sports minister Amelie Oudea-Castera said Wednesday that Novak Djokovic’s political message about Kosovo was “not appropriate” and warned the former top-ranked Serb player that he should not do it again. Speaking on TV station France 2, Oudea-Castera said French Open director Amelie Mauresmo spoke with Djokovic and his entourage to insist on the principle of “neutrality” […]

By STEVE LeBLANC (Associated Press) BOSTON (AP) — When child welfare workers and police knocked on Sarah Perkins’ and Joshua Sabey’s front door well past midnight one weekend last summer, the parents were shocked to learn the state of Massachusetts had come to take their two young sons. It’s the kind of harrowing scene that plays out daily across the […]

The first lucky locals to be able to dine at Casa Bonita in Lakewood will be selected via a lottery and invited to bring up to five family members with them during a soft opening period. The beloved eatertainment venue will then sell tickets for three days as it ramps up in stages to a public opening with regular hours, […]

Pasta was the perpetrator of a 10-year-old Boulder student’s undoing in the first round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Tuesday, but Denver’s 12-year-old speller remained in the running after two rounds. Sofia Tommey Wu, a fifth-grader at Douglass Elementary School, met her match when she misspelled “pappardelle,” the broad, ribbon-like pasta, in the first round Tuesday morning. Aditi […]

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE (AP Technology Writer) Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is scheduled to move to her new home — a federal prison where she has been sentenced to spend the next 11 years for overseeing a blood-testing hoax that became a parable about greed and hubris in Silicon Valley. The federal judge who sentenced Holmes, 39, in November recommended […]