Odds and Sods

Odds and Sods

A year's pursuit leads to hit-and-run arrest

Ashley Jackson's friends were relentless after a bicycle accident left her gravely injured.  

Her story 

Also: 

• Pedal power tourism
• Bike policy backlash
• Bicycle safety tips

Russian court jails 2 men for eating teenage girl

A Russian court has convicted two men of murdering and eating a 16-year-old schoolgirl in January.

First degree murder for porn magazine slaying A man who admitted that he killed a Newport Beach liquor store owner in a tussle over a stolen porn magazine was convicted today of first-degree murder.

Attorneys for 31-year-old Weston Scott Kruger had maintained their client was guilty of manslaughter, not murder. The defense argued that Kruger had tried to give the magazine back to the store owner, and had not intended to kill the man.

But jurors heard testimony that the robber slammed the diminutive shopkeeper so hard that the victim flew into the air and landed on his head.