Monday, January 27, 2014

Daily News: Crime and Trials News Headlines - Chinese man sentenced to death for hospital rampage

Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 11:26 PM PST

Chinese man sentenced to death for hospital rampage 
Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 11:26 PM PST
A court in eastern China on Monday sentenced to death a man who went on a rampage in a hospital and killed a doctor, because he was unhappy with the results of an operation on his nose, state media said. The case of Lian Enqing in wealthy Zhejiang province underscored difficulties in tackling violence in a sector plagued by corruption, with hospitals overwhelmed by patients and doctors badly paid. Unable to find him, he produced a knife and stabbed to death the head of the department, according to the official Xinhua news agency. Lian's sister, Lian Qiao, told the court that he had suffered respiratory problems and discomfort after the surgery in March 2013, Xinhua said.
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Dozens of dissidents arrested in Cuba as major summit looms 
Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 03:12 PM PST
A man works during preparations at the complex where the CELAC summit will be held, in Havana on January 18, 2014Dozens of dissidents have been detained in a "wave of political repression" ahead of a major international summit in Cuba, activists said Sunday. "The government is carrying out a wave of political repression ahead of the summit" in Havana that ends Wednesday, warned dissident Elizardo Sanchez. One dissident who planned to attend an event on the summit's sidelines, Jose Daniel Ferrer, was arrested Friday after meeting with European diplomats, Sanchez said. No one knows where he is," said Sanchez, who heads the outlawed Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation.
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High school teacher arrested for dry humping his mailbox in the nude 
Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 12:07 PM PST
Police say a high school teacher in Walpole, Mass. wearing only a ski hat, ski goggles and a towel ambled down to his mailbox early Monday morning, then dropped the towel and began thrusting his hips in the direction of the mailbox. Norfolk County Agricultural High School teacher Marc Mertz trotted from his house, which is secluded behind some trees, down a snow-covered driveway to his mailbox at the edge of what appears to be a reasonably busy road. Walpole police chief John Carmichael said Mertz, 44, then made "a return trip" to the mailbox a couple hours later.
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