CRIME

The Massachusetts state chemist pleaded guilty to evidence tampering and drug charges after it was discovered that she was stealing from the Amherst drug lab to feed her addiction.

"This is one of the most bizarre domestic violence cases I have seen in my career," Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said.

UK-based Bitcoin exchange Exmo, took to Twitter to inform its users about having suffered a DDoS attack just days after one of its employees was kidnapped.

The incident took place at around 2.30pm local time near Long Beach Boulevard and San Antonio Drive in the Bixby Knolls neighbourhood.

The 16-year-old girl told authorities that she had been exchanging emails with Andrew Soloman in which she sent him photos of herself.

Russia security services believe that a bomb was planted in a storage room in the Perekrestok market in northwest St Petersburg on Wednesday (27 December).

A shocking video emerged online showing an endangered bear being killed inside a cage in Myanmar. The man said he shot the bear after gaining permission from the government.

Andy Sami Star, 31, and Farhad Salah, 22, both of Iraqi origin, were arrested on 19 December in Yorkshire. They are alleged to have been in possession of a 'low explosive black powder'.

Lawrence McKinney was wrongfully convicted in 1978 and only released in 2009. A recent exoneration from the Tennessee Governor means he can finally ask for compensation.

A court in Germany has ruled that Oskar Gröning, a former SS guard at Auschwitz must serve out his four-year prison sentence.

Jonathan Nash was reportedly handed a 37-year sentence in what his supporters say is "beyond all norms".

Police in Houston, Texas, say Kenneth Wayne Lockings Jr. murdered his girlfriend Aracely Jernigan by nearly decapitating her with a samurai sword.

A manhunt has been launched in Rotherham for a suspected serial sex attacker who is alleged to have carried out three assaults on Boxing Day.

A New Jersey doctor allegedly reused single-use anorectal catheters on patients while waiting for an order to be filled, potentially putting them at risk of disease.

Two people were attacked with corrosive substances within a half-mile radius of Canary Wharf in east London on Wednesday evening (27 December), police have said.

Gizar Ziyangareev beat Anna Barmina and attacked her with a knife, before dragging her into the woods to rape her with the branch of a tree in the western city of Ufa in September 2015, where all his crimes occurred.

The incident happened in India's capital city of Delhi when the girls were playing outside their home.

Northumbria Police have charged Mark Smith, 41, with the murder of Jillian Grant whose body was found in a North Shields house on Christmas day.

Lndy Lou Layman is facing a criminal mischief charge after she allegedly tore down paintings and smashed sculptures when her date with Anthony Buzbee went off the rails.

A teenager, Simon Evans, convicted of beating a rough-sleeper to death when he was 14 was denied a jail term cut by a High Court judge.

Georgia authorities are searching for an inmate who made a daring escape from jail Wednesday by using a metal rod to break through the walls of his cell.

Natasha Claus, 36, of no fixed abode, has been jailed for 13 months and banned from Woking town centre after arriving at Guildford Crown Court four hours late.

Iuliana Tudos, 22, was found dead in Finsbury Park, north London, and police have launched a murder inquiry. She is thought to have been attacked on Christmas Eve.

Florida deputies said that a man turned up at his ex-girlfriend's house in the early hours of the morning before viciously assaulting her new boyfriend.

Police in the Iranian capital of Tehran have said that women will no longer be arrested if they are in breach of the country's conservative dress code regulations.

Four people found dead on Boxing Day in a New York basement apartment have now been identified and thought to have been victims of what police are describing as a quadruple homicide,

21-year-old Sophie Smith was believed to have left her home at 3am wearing a dark vest top and light shorts. She hasn't been seen since.

DNA tests confirmed Domingo Bulacio was the father of the children born by his victim, named locally as Antonia. The eight children were fathered over a 22-year-period.

A 36-year-old woman has been left with life-changing burns to her leg and face after being victim to an acid attack in Canary Wharf, east London.