Yahoo Finance Melinda Gates Is Putting $12.5 Billion Toward a Mission Uniquely Her Own
The philanthropist and businesswoman said Monday she would leave the Gates Foundation and announced her new focus.
The philanthropist and businesswoman said Monday she would leave the Gates Foundation and announced her new focus.
Rex Heuermann left his office near the Empire State Building and strolled down a still-bustling Fifth Avenue as the sun set on a hot Thursday evening in Manhattan.
A woman who fatally stabbed a 3-year-old boy sitting in a grocery cart outside an Ohio supermarket attacked him and his mother in less than five seconds before walking away, police said.
A California judge dismissed multiple state charges on Thursday against David DePape, who was sentenced in federal court last month for attacking Paul Pelosi in 2022.
Anthony Stocks, 54, devised a plan to kill a young boy who had tried to stop him assaulting a young girl and pushed him off a cliff. Stocks was found guilty of four counts of sexual assault of a child under 13, and one count each of causing or inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity, rape and attempted murder. One of the police officers who worked on the investigation has labelled it "without a doubt one of the worst cases of child abuse that I have investigated".
A Florida man is facing a felony grand theft charge in Broward County after a plucky airline passenger scheduled to fly out of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in March tracked her stolen luggage to the man’s home, according to the probable cause affidavit in the case.
VANCOUVER — A man convicted of murdering a 13-year-old Burnaby, B.C., girl has repeatedly told a pre-sentencing hearing that he didn't kill her, after refusing to listen to his interpreter during an impact statement by the girl's father.
Alberta Occupational Health and Safety has laid charges against three companies after two men died in an explosion at an oil and gas site north of Edmonton.Greg Podulsky, 29, and Darcy Schwindt, 47, were killed on Nov. 12, 2022 while they were working at the Marten Hills site near the hamlet of Smith, about 200 kilometres north of Edmonton. The charges were laid on May 9 against Tamarack Valley Energy of Calgary, Voltegic Energy Services of Athabasca and Peace Pipefitting of Wembley.According to
Lawyers and judges are scrambling to expedite the case of a Calgary woman who was approved for medical assistance in dying (MAID) but is, instead, starving herself to death. The 27-year-old woman, who can only be identified as M.V. because of a publication ban, was set to receive MAID in February but her father, known as W.V., has been fighting in court to prevent that from happening. Earlier this year, W.V. got a temporary injunction, blocking his daughter's MAID access. Although a Court of Kin
WARNING: This story contains distressing details.A 32-year-old Kingston, Ont., mother accused of abandoning her two young children — causing her infant boy to die from neglect in their home — has a history of substance abuse and domestic instability, according to neighbours and a close family source who spoke with CBC News.Child welfare workers and first responders found the siblings last Friday at an apartment building in Kingston's downtown area.Police said the younger of the two — a baby — wa
A retired NASCAR driver and his son were arrested Wednesday and charged along with two other Pennsylvania men for allegedly assaulting police during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office. Tighe Scott, 75, and his son Jarret Scott, 48, face two felony offenses each as well as a multiple misdemeanor offenses for a series of alleged assaults prosecutors say they engaged in outside the Capitol among the pro-Trump mob. Charging documents show the FBI confirmed Tighe Scott's identity in part because a witness told agents he was a retired NASCAR driver.
Charges against a Halifax-area teacher accused of sexually assaulting a youth three years ago at a high school have been dismissed, after he agreed to a peace bond that forbids him from contacting the complainant.Matthew Douglas Moriarty, 42, appeared briefly Thursday in provincial court in Dartmouth, N.S., on charges of sexual assault and sexual exploitation.Following the court hearing, both the defence and Crown lawyers declined to explain in detail why the case will not head to trial."I would
In her more than 27 years of marriage to Rex Heuermann, Asa Ellerup likely did not know about the gruesome double life her husband is accused of living, Suffolk County’s top cop says.
Dmitry Lobovikov, a former junior sergeant in the Russian military, said he was drunk when he killed seven soldiers with a grenade.
The woman told local media she and her husband were attacked while walking on the street after a dinner date.
FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Seventeen years after she was accused of killing her British roommate, Amanda Knox returned to an Italian court to hear the outcome of a slander charge that has stuck long after she was exonerated of the murder.
The case has been the subject of international headlines since Jason Corbett was found dead in his NC bedroom and his wife and her father were charged.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, must report to prison by July 1 to serve his four-month sentence for defying a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the U.S. Capitol insurrection, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
A Nova Scotia man is facing a slew of charges following a year-long police investigation into the trafficking of $1 million worth of stolen cars from Alberta into Nova Scotia.The charges against the 41-year-old man include nine counts of possessing stolen property and fraud over $5,000.Police say the vehicles they recovered were each worth more than $100,000. RCMP Cpl. Guillaume Tremblay told CBC News the targeting of luxury vehicles by thieves is a trend across Canada.He said some of the stolen
Peter Nygard's lawyer announced her resignation Wednesday by telling the court she no longer wants to represent the 82-year old former fashion executive convicted of four counts of sexual assault in November. Toronto attorney Megan Savard is the second lawyer to resign on Nygard, and like her predecessor Brian Greenspan, she too cited ethical concerns for her resignation. The court hearing started out with Savard's request for Nygard to attend the sentencing hearing virtually, a motion the Crown
DETROIT (AP) — A man who for years controlled the finances at a group that has turned Detroit's riverfront into a popular attraction was charged Wednesday with embezzling tens of millions of dollars.