Feb 2nd, 2006 · The bodies of 16 men are discovered in Baghdad Thursday, while an average of 50 bodies riddled with bullets show up at Baghdad's main morgue every day. Staggering statistics mark the Iraq conflict: the growing numbers of kidnappings, murders and bombings that mark day-to-day life in the country.
Jan 24th, 2006 · Steven Soderbergh's Bubble is the source of much hand-wringing in Hollywood. But what has entertainment executives agitated isn't the film's story -- about a murderous love triangle at a doll factory -- but the way it's being released. Columnist Jonathan Bing writes for Variety magazine.
Jan 13th, 2006 · Some California lawmakers are calling for a moratorium on capital punishment, claiming the state could be on the verge of executing innocent people. Next week, the state plans to execute one of the oldest condemned inmates in America, a 75-year-old convicted murderer who's blind and in a wheelchair.
Dec 27th, 2005 · California's oldest death-row inmate is 75-year-old Clarence Ray Allen, convicted of arranging four murders. Allen is legally blind, in a wheelchair and suffered a heart attack last September. Set to die by lethal injection on Jan. 17, Allen is seeking clemency.
Dec 25th, 2005 · A gunman murders a pro-rebel member of the Sri Lankan parliament in a church during midnight Mass. The attack is the latest in a string of incidents that has heightened tensions between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels, and threatens to revive a civil war.
Dec 23rd, 2005 · On Christmas Eve, 1945, the Sodder family of Fayetteville, W.V., lost five children in a fire. Strange events that night and afterward fueled speculation, which continues to this day, that the children may have been kidnapped or murdered.
Dec 20th, 2005 · Police in Boston are trying to solve the city's deadliest crime in a decade. Last week, four young men -- three of whom were members of a hip-hop rap group -- were gunned down in a private home. The multiple murders stunned a neighborhood -- and alarmed a city that not long ago was a model for crime prevention.
Dec 15th, 2005 · Actor Tommy Lee Jones stars as a laconic Texas ranch foreman who sets off on an honor quest to bury his murdered friend in his hometown in Mexico. The film marks Jones' directorial debut and has garnered the Oscar-winning actor accolades for his work behind and in front of the camera.