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Yetunde Price was the loving half-sister of tennis champs Venus and Serena Williams — but then she was suddenly killed in a drive-by shooting in 2003. Yetunde Price was in the prime of her life on September 14, 2003. At 31 years old, she was a successful nurse, a thriving business owner, and worked part-time as an assistant to her famous sisters, tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams. Vince Bucci/Getty ImagesYetunde Price, left, with Serena Williams during the 2003 ESPY Awards in Los Angeles on July 16, 2003, just two months before Price’s death....

Caught by plane, satellite, or even Google Earth, these strange aerial photos show some of the most bizarre things ever discovered on planet Earth. Whether by satellite, plane, or even idly zooming around the planet via computer screen with Google Earth, it turns out there are still plenty of bizarre things to be discovered right here on our home planet. From immense holes appearing in the ground to bizarre blood-red waterfalls spewing forth from the snow, these strange aerial photos show 12 of the most bizarre things lurking on the surface of the Earth, while we explain how they came to be there:...

Sleepwalking has been a controversial criminal defense since its first use in 1846, with some going so far as to call it a “Twinkie” defense (or a legally dubious explanation for committing a given crime). In spite of this defense’s hard-to-believe nature, however, defense attorneys in the landmark cases below were able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that their clients were asleep at the time of their crimes, and therefore could not be held criminally accountable for them....

You know Wikipedia well. You probably use it regularly. But you’ve definitely never heard some of these strange Wikipedia facts. Starting with its inception in 1768, the Encyclopaedia Britannica was the flagship reference resource, the ultimate catalogue of all human knowledge. For over 200 years, that standard didn’t change. Then, in 2001, Wikipedia came along. When Wikipedia launched on January 15, 2001, there was little reason to suspect that a crowdsourced, paperless encyclopedia could become the most used and most comprehensive encyclopedia the world had ever seen....

Discover the astounding stories behind the biggest heists in history, whether the perpetrators were eventually captured or the case remains unsolved. From ingenious bank robberies, and that time a couple of malicious thieves fastened a collar bomb around a pizza delivery guy’s neck, to the elaborate mafia-backed Lufthansa Heist, these are the most astonishing grafts in recent history. And as notorious as some of these heists are, it’s likely you’ve never heard of the people who carried them out — and some were so brilliantly conceived that we may never find the true culprits....

The bill would require offenders 21 and over to pay for their own chemical castration upon their release. Wikimedia CommonsAlabama passed a bill which will require some convicted pedophiles undergo chemical castration as a condition of their parole. After Alabama’s primitive abortion ban was passed only a few weeks ago, another ethically questionable law has come out of the heart of dixie state. CBS42 reports that Alabama legislators have signed off on a bill that would require convicted pedophiles over the age of 21 to undergo chemical castration before they can be released from prison....

Timothy Cunningham went home sick from his job at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta on Feb. 12, 2018. He’s now been missing for two weeks. Atlanta Police Department, CDCTimothy Cunningham “Love you. I’ll talk to you later.” That’s what Tiara Cunningham and her brother, Timothy J. Cunningham, last said to each other before hanging up the phone on Feb. 12, 2018. As it turned out, those were the last words any family member would say to Timothy Cunnigham....

Danyal Hussein murdered sisters Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry on June 7, 2020 as part of an imagined pact with a demon that he thought would bring him lottery winnings. Metropolitan PoliceDanyal Hussein showed little remorse for murdering Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman. After making a pact with a demon to “sacrifice” victims in order to win the lottery, Danyal Hussein murdered two women in a London park in June 2020....

Researchers studied a partial skull of the pterosaur and determined that the dinosaur cousins were likely covered in fuzz-like hairs and sported a bold crown of feathers. Maria McNamaraPaleontologists found branched feathers similar to those of modern birds in the pterosaur’s fossilized crest. Scientists have long known that dinosaurs had feathers of some sort, but now they believe they’ve found proof that these feathers existed 100 million years earlier than they previously thought....

Built on Heart Island in New York during the early 20th century, Boldt Castle was meant to be the ultimate expression of love. But it all ended in heartbreak. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 19 Photos Of The Stunning Thousand-Year-Old French Castle On Sale For $17 Million 27 Stunning Photos Of McDermott’s Castle, The Irish Palace With A Haunting Secret...

Born with a rare form of albinism in the Jim Crow South, George and Willie Muse were spotted by a cruel showman and forced into a life of exploitation. PRGeorge and Willie Muse, who were both born with albinism, stand with their parents after their harrowing experience in the circus as “Eko and Iko.” In America’s era of sideshow “freaks” in the early 20th century, many people were bought, sold, and exploited like prizes for indifferent circus promotors....

Source: Wikipedia Queen Elizabeth I vs. Mary, Queen of Scots Most know Queen Elizabeth I for hearkening England’s Golden Age and love or loathe her historical legacy in equal, but there was one particular lady that Queen Elizabeth was not fond of: Mary, Queen of Scots. The two had a very public dispute over sovereignty that eventually led to Mary’s demise. As the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth had a legitimate, if often contested, claim to the throne....

Fans of the seasonal comedy classic “Groundhog Day” have wondered for decades how long Phil Conners spent reliving the same day — and there’s still no definitive answer. Columbia PicturesThe film’s original commentary claimed Phil Connors was stuck for 10 years. At this point, it would be hard to find someone unfamiliar with 1993’s Groundhog Day starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell — or at least with its time-loop concept....

Beginning in 1923, Ed Leedskalnin started construction on Coral Castle, but no one knows how he carved and stacked one thousand tons of stony coral by himself. The construction of Coral Castle remains one of Florida’s greatest mysteries. Legend has it that it was sculpted by one man, Edward Leedskalnin, in the early 1900s. But many find it unbelievable that this 100-pound man who stood just a hair over five feet tall was able to move, carve, and manipulate more than 1,100 tons of stony coral....

Initially sentenced to the murder of 22 victims, former policeman Mikhail Popkov has been found guilty of an additional 56. RFE/RLMikhail Popkov Former Siberian policeman Mikhail Popkov, who was convicted in 2015 of murdering 22 women and confessed to murdering 59 others earlier this year, has just been found guilty of an additional 56 slayings. Combined with his initial conviction, it would appear that Popkov has taken a total of at least 78 victims....

Helen Mirren and Liam Neeson? Anjelica Huston and Jack Nicholson? These are the old loves that celebs want to forget and we love to remember. Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford The world was shocked when Fisher admitted in 2016 that she and her Star Wars costar had had a three-month affair during filming. “I’m surprised at the reaction,” she said of the response to her revealing the secret tryst with the then-married father of three....

Nearly 100 years after the Tulsa race riots that burned down ‘Black Wall Street,’ the city is coming closer to reckoning with its bloody past. Library of CongressResearchers believe they have found a mass grave filled with bodies belonging to victims of the Tulsa race riots. Those demanding answers for the black victims killed in the 1921 Tulsa race riots are getting much closer to their wish, after the city announced the possible discovery of a mass grave site believed to be linked to the tragedy....

Not only did Richard Norris Williams make it out of the Titanic alive, he then went on to win the U.S. Tennis Championship later that same year. Wikimedia CommonsRichard Norris Williams was one of 700 people to surviving the Titanic sinking. Richard Norris Williams wasn’t supposed to be on the RMS Titanic. The young American tennis player meant to leave Europe earlier, but a bout of measles delayed his return home....

Researchers find Thomas Jefferson’s kitchen, an ancient Roman board game, and a 1,700-year-old musical instrument that still works. Archaeologists Discover Thomas Jefferson’s Kitchen – Home Of Some Of America’s First Mac And Cheese The Thomas Jefferson FundationThe remains of a fireplace in Thomas Jefferson’s kitchen. After venturing down into the cellar of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation in Virginia, archaeologists have uncovered one of the biggest culinary finds in history. There, they discovered the 250-year old kitchen belonging to Thomas Jefferson and his enslaved chef, James Hemings, according to Live Science....

Of 1,350 American adults interviewed, 70 percent say fewer people seem to care about the Holocaust than they used to. Alexander Vorontsov/Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty ImagesA group of child survivors stand behind a barbed wire fence at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on the day of the camp’s liberation. January 27, 1945. A majority of people polled in a comprehensive national study believe something like the Holocaust could happen again. Meanwhile, of the 40,000 concentration camps and ghettos that existed, nearly half (45 percent) of the study’s participants couldn’t name one....