St. Louis County police said a gun battle in Ferguson, Mo. late Sunday climaxed when one of the suspects involved opened fire on plainclothes detectives before being pursued and shot by the officers after a day of peaceful demonstrations in Ferguson marking the anniversary of Michael Brown’s death.
FERGUSON, Mo. — Two officers were shot outside the Ferguson, Missouri police headquarters early Thursday, authorities said, as demonstrators gathered following the resignation of the city’s embattled police chief in the wake of a scathing Justice Department report alleging bias in the police department and court.
Iron pellet producer Ferrexpo Plc FXPO.L said on Thursday its controlling shareholder, Kostyantyn Zhevago, will leave the board with immediate effect, following the billionaire’s detention by French authorities. Earlier in the day, Ferrexpo said Zhevago’s detention was unrelated to matters at the London-listed firm and the board was seeking to clarify the situation. Zhevago holds a 50.3% stake in…
DetailsAn heir to the Fiat automobile fortune was arrested with a male escort in New York this past weekend for allegedly faking his own kidnapping, NYPD officials tell The TOT.
Fidel Castro, who led his bearded rebels to victorious revolution in 1959, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half-century of rule in Cuba, has died at age 90.
Guam Football Association President Richard Lai, 55, pleaded guilty to criminal corruption charges in connection with accepting and paying bribes to soccer officials.
The first Asian soccer official to be convicted in the FIFA corruption scandal, a member of a committee that oversaw ethics compliance, told a U.S. judge he accepted about $1 million in bribes, including $100,000 from the former president of the Asian Football Confederation.
ZURICH—FIFA vice-presidents Juan Angel Napout and Alfredo Hawit were arrested Thursday as part of the U.S. Department of Justice’s widening bribery case that has rocked soccer’s scandal-hit governing body.
“Basically, what we are going to be doing is kidnapping a guy for a couple of hours and beating him up and torturing him and then getting him to give the get,” Rabbi Mendel Epstein told two potential clients.
Over the past weeks, the struggles within the Breslov Hasidic group, between followers of Rabbi Eliezer Berland who was convicted of sexual offences and his opponents, grew worse.
