The U.S. state of Georgia executed its only woman on death row on Wednesday, marking the first time in 70 years the state has carried out a death sentence on a woman, a prison official said. Kelly Gissendaner, 47, died by lethal injection at 12:21 a.m. EDT at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, …
Late movie star Paul Walker’s daughter filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday against Porsche. The carmaker has responded: “As we have said before, we are very sad whenever anyone is hurt in a Porsche vehicle, but we believe the authorities’ reports in this case clearly establish that this tragic crash resulted from reckless driving and …
GOP frontrunner (behind the Donald), Ben Carson, has seen an increase in his fundraising totals following his comments about a Muslim president. Ben Carson raised more than $500,000 after his controversial remarks in which he said he would not support and Muslim president, campaign communications director Doug Watts said Monday. “There really is a broadening …
An elderly Newcastle woman has left her entire $4M estate to a charity homeless children. Lily Fardell, 96, adored kids and had donated her wealth to charity St Vincent de Paul, says the Sydney Morning Herald. “She couldn’t have children of her own,” her nephew Michael Ellis told the newspaper. “But she loved children and …
If you were watching Pope Francis’s numerous public addresses during his visit to the United States, then you heard him repeatedly make one request. “I ask you, please, to pray for me,” the pontiff said, in one way or another, throughout his trip. Few audiences were spared the request. Francis asked bishops, families, children and …