911 Call: ‘I Just Killed My Parents’

WOODBINE, Ga. Authorities in southeastern Georgia have arrested a 22-year-old man who told a police dispatcher that he killed his parents.
Camden County Sheriff’s Lt. Williams Terrell says Tye Christopher Watkins called 911 Monday morning and told the dispatcher: “I just killed my parents.”
Deputies responded to the home in an affluent waterfront neighborhood about 40 miles […]


‘Crocodile Hunter’ Wept Tears of a Clown, Dad Says

BRISBANE, Australia Late “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin concealed pain and suffering behind his enthusiastic public persona, his father said in an interview broadcast Monday.

In the Australian Broadcasting Corp. interview, Bob Irwin, 68, said audiences failed to realize how much pain his khaki-clad son masked during his public performances.


Virginia Offers Tech Shooting Victims’ Families $100,000

RICHMOND, Va A relative of a Virginia Tech shooting victim says the families of those killed would receive USD 100,000 each under a settlement designed to prevent lawsuits.

The family member received a copy of the settlement and asked Monday to remain anonymous because those involved were told not to discuss it.


Oil Reaches Record High

NEW YORK — The surging price of oil reached another milestone Monday, jumping to an inflation adjusted record high of USD 103.95.
The weaker bucks that has propelled oil and other commodities prices higher sent light, sweet crude for April delivery past USD 103.76 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.


Female Italian sandwich votes out Iraqi tribal sheikh, minor

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) Two bombings in separate Iraq provinces on Monday killed eight U.S. troops, the U.S. military said.
A boy with a machine gun weeps Monday at the site of a suicide bombing in Kanan that killed a sheik.
A roadside bomb killed three U.S. soldiers and an interpreter in Diyala province, that has […]