Fla. Man Gets New Trial in Pig Stabbing
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - An appeals court has granted a new trial to a man convicted of stabbing a potbellied pig, then blurting out in drunkenness that he wanted pork chops...
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By Paul Hammel, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Dec. 9--AINSWORTH, Neb. -- Two trials have been set for a man accused of firing a rifle at groups of inner-tube riders floating down Long Pine Creek.
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AUSTIN, Minn. - A man has been ordered to pay nearly $3,000 to the woman who became seriously ill in April after opening a parking ticket envelope in which he had placed dog feces. Joshua Steven Solberg, 22, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct Friday in Mower District Court.
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A man stabbed a 6-foot alligator with a pocketknife after the reptile grabbed his dog by the head, and managed to scare off the reptile...
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PITTSBURGH - A man who botched the castration of a transgendered woman will spend the next three years on probation. "I have no intention of doing this again to animals or humans," Douglas Lenhart, 49, told Allegheny County Judge John Zottola on Monday. "I'm completely out of this.
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By Andy Meinen, The News Herald, Panama City, Fla.  Dec. 8--LYNN HAVEN -- A second suspect was charged Thursday in connection with a Springfield shooting that left a man hospitalized.  Hasan K.
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ALAPAHA, Ga. - With the local legend of Hogzilla spreading worldwide, residents of this tiny Georgia town have decided to feature the prodigious porker in their annual festival...
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Relatives of a man who murdered a family of four testified Friday that his childhood was filled with abuse, but jurors deciding whether he should be executed also heard a witness describe being stabbed in his mouth, face and neck in another merciless attack the defendant confessed to.
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EDGEWATER, Fla. - A firefighter accused of biting the head off a pet parrot at a party was charged with felony animal cruelty Monday and placed on administrative leave.  Lt.
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Tyler, Tex., authorities believe that the man arrested in the death of his 21-year-old girlfriend cooked parts of her body and may have tried to eat them
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CHICAGO - A federal prosecutor launched the trial of a cold storage company accused of unsanitary conditions Wednesday by describing a warehouse stocked with millions of pounds of meat as "an amusement park for rats and a house of horrors for the City of Chicago.""Rodents were allowed to feast on an all-you-can eat buffet," Assistant U.S.
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis. - A man accused of stomping a pet tropical fish to death during a dispute with a girlfriend faces charges of disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property. Anastacio Molina Jr., 40, was charged Wednesday in Sheboygan County Circuit Court.
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis. - Sheboygan County prosecutors hope to add imprisonment to injury. They charged a 31-year-old man Monday with being a felon in possession of a firearm after he shot himself in the foot Friday. Patrick R. Hupf Jr.
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Prosecutors have sought a new capital murder trial after a manâs conviction was overturned by DNA evidence.
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Knoxville's district attorney was found dead in his pasture in 1992, his breastbone and some of his ribs broken, a hoofprint on the chest of his overalls. Investigators concluded he had been knocked down and trampled to death by his cattle.
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A lawyer for a former chief prosecutor accused of helping a convicted rapist get a new trial in exchange for campaign contributions tried to cast him as an ethical man as his trial began Wednesday.
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VANCOUVER, Canada  - A pig farmer accused of being Canada&#39;s most prolific serial killer could be tried for the murder of as many as 31 women, most of them prostitutes, prosecutors said.