Brick killer jailed for life
A law degree drop-out has been jailed for life for smashing a stranger's head with a brick while high on a synthetic drug. Tesco worker Malachi Lindo, 27, had taken ethylone before he killed...
View ArticleInside the Wesleyan Molly Bust
A round 7:30 a.m. on Sunday, February 22nd, Zachary Kramer, a sophomore at Wesleyan University, realized his classmate Abhimanyu Janamanchi had stopped breathing. The night before, Janamanchi had been...
View ArticleGlasgow bin lorry crash inquiry: What does the report tell us?
A sheriff has issued his findings following the fatal accident inquiry into the Glasgow bin lorry crash, which killed six people in December 2014. Sheriff Beckett's determination is critical in...
View ArticleQueen's University graduations July 4, 2016 - full list of results
It will be a double celebration today for American Queen’s student Chelsea Goodwin as she graduates on July 4. Chelsea - who graduates today with a joint BA in English and Politics - has had challenges...
View ArticleAddicted to chemsex
An increasing number of gay men are taking part in multi-day, drug-fuelled orgies – despite the health risks. Paul Flynn reports on a powerful new documentary, and what it says about love and...
View ArticleTwo synthetic drugs pose an enormous threat to public health. What are they?
The Associated Press reported this weekend that pills taken from singer Prince's Minneapolis-area home labeled as a combination of hydrocodone and acetaminophen actually were the synthetic drug...
View ArticleNo jail for Coleraine woman who killed motorcyclist
A Coleraine woman who killed a motorcyclist in a low speed car accident has been given a 60 hours Community Service Order for causing the death of Eamon Farrelly by careless driving. At Antrim Crown...
View ArticleMy 50 favourite UK restaurants: critic Marina O'Loughlin's choice
The Guardian’s restaurant critic picks her 50 favourite restaurants in the UK, from a seaside pub in Kent that serves some of the best food on the planet to a Glasgow old-timer that’s a city...
View ArticleSummer Concerts and Party Drug a Dangerous Mix (University of Connecticut...
(Source: University of Connecticut Health Center) Summer is peak concert season, a time when illicit drug use tends to spike. Professor C. Michael White, head of the Department of Pharmacy Practice in...
View ArticleRacine man jailed in fatal crash
By of the Journal Sentinel Madison — After Wisconsin's unsuccessful court fight to block gay marriage, state taxpayers could be on the hook for more than $1 million. The eight same-sex couples and...
View ArticleNew year honours 2015: the full list
The new knights, dames, MBEs and OBEs in the UK and overseas, plus military and police honours...
View Article2016 NFL Draft: Laremy Tunsil headlines the list of top 100 prospects
After tracking thousands of football players from high school through college until their entry into the NFL draft, the big questions are about to be answered -- who will be picked and where when the...
View ArticleDriver jailed for killing pensioner crossing Glasgow road
A man who knocked down and killed a 78-year-old pedestrian has been jailed for three years and nine months. Sergej Rutkovskij ploughed into Robert Taylor on Glasgow's Gallowgate, at its junction with...
View ArticleNew Year's Honours list 2016 in full
Here is the full list of recipients in the New Year's Honours list 2016. ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, CIVIL Share Go To DBE (Dame) Professor Lesley Jean Fallowfield. Director, Sussex Health Outcomes...
View ArticleAlberta man risks life using experimental drugs – then writes online reviews
Many of the 45 vials contain research chemicals, experimental drugs that produce euphoria. Swaths of them are not regulated by federal laws. Some are available for sale only on the dark web. An...
View ArticleNew Year's honours 2016: the full list
The new knights, dames, MBEs and OBEs in the UK and overseas...
View ArticlePresident Trump: Irish writers have their say
While we were sleeping, first we voted into office the ones who watch you drown while very articulately expressing concern; then we tried voting for the ones who kind of like to see you drown. – from...
View ArticleThe most unmissable culture of 2016
Tarantino goes bounty-hunting, Botticelli takes you to hell, Bowie goes dark, and Jericho fills that Downton-shaped hole … in our bumper guide to the best 150 arts events to look forward to this year...
View ArticlePilots remanded in custody 'for being under influence of alcohol' at Glasgow...
Two Canadian pilots arrested on suspicion of being under the influence of alcohol as they prepared to fly a passenger jet have...
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