A serial killer known as the "Grim Sleeper" was sentenced to death Wednesday for the murders of nine women and a teenage girl that went unsolved for years as the body count grew in a poor section of Los Angeles haunted by the scourge of crack cocaine. Lonnie Franklin Jr. was sentenced in Los Angeles County Superior Court after emotional family members of his victims spoke about the pain they had endured for decades. "I can't think of anyone I've encountered in all my years in the criminal justice system that has committed the monstrous crimes that you have," Judge Kathleen Kennedy told Franklin.
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By Gul Yousafzai QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber in Pakistan killed at least 70 people and wounded more than 100 on Monday in an attack on mourners gathered at a hospital in the southwestern city of Quetta, and Islamic State claimed responsibility. Abdul Rehman Miankhel, a senior official at the government-run Civil Hospital, where the explosion occurred, told reporters that at least 70 people had been killed, with more than 112 wounded. "There are many wounded, so the death toll could rise," said Rehmat Saleh Baloch, the provincial health minister.
Ten-year-old Caleb Schwab was decapitated while riding what has been dubbed the world’s tallest water slide at the Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas City, police said. Caleb Schwab, the son of a state lawmaker, sustained a fatal “neck injury” at around 2:30 p.m. while riding the 168-foot-tall “Verruckt” (meaning “insane” in German) water slide, the Associated Press reports. Schwab boarded the raft with two women who were not related to him, they both suffered minor cuts and scrapes on their face in the incident.
The father of the man who shot up Orlando's Pulse nightclub is endorsing Hillary Clinton. Gunman Omar Mateen’s father, Seddique, was seen sitting behind Clinton at a rally in Kissimmee, Florida, Monday not far from where the massacre took place. "Hillary Clinton is good for United States, versus Donald Trump, who has no solutions," he told Orlando station WPTV.
Wife Of Military Husband Almost Unrecognizable After Jaw-Dropping Makeover.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday pledged to reinvigorate ties after their first meeting since Ankara shot down a Russian warplane last November. Erdogan's visit to Putin's hometown of Saint Petersburg is also his first foreign trip since the failed coup against him last month that sparked a purge of opponents and cast a shadow over Turkey's relations with the West. "We lived through a very complicated moment in the relations between our states and we very much want, and I feel our Turkish friends want, to overcome the difficulties," Putin told journalists at a joint press conference.
Entrepreneur Arshiya Kherani launches 'Sukoon,' an athletic line that specializes in hijab's for Muslim women. Muslim woman to Wear his job the traditional Muslim head had cover. ABC's Matt Gutman caught up with her earlier this week.
The data recorder from the cargo ship El Faro, which sank near the Bahamas during a Caribbean hurricane last October, has been recovered, offering possible answers about why the vessel went down, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday. A U.S. Coast Guard panel in May revealed the ship's captain intended to avoid the brewing storm when he departed, but may have had outdated weather data.
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The mother of a skydiver who plummeted to his death with an instructor in a California vineyard said her teenage son was an adventurous spirit who was willing to try just about anything — including the jump that was on his bucket list of things to do in life. Tyler Turner, 18, had a mild case of cerebral palsy and walked with a crouched gait. Tyler Turner had graduated from high school with honors and had been bound for the University of California at Merced this month to study biomedical engineering.
For advice on how to stay?safe at water parks, see these tips shared by?the?International Association of Amusement Parks?and Attractions and?the Red Cross. The Kansas boy who was killed tragically at a water park on Sunday suffered a "fatal neck injury," police have revealed. Authorities in Kansas City say Caleb Schwab, the son of a state politician, was killed while riding Verrückt, a water slide dubbed the tallest on Earth.