Is cats killing birds baloney? Nope
23 May 2012, 6:47 pm
  I just had a phone message from some guy who said that in a recent column I had “repeated the baloney that cats slaughter” thousands of songbirds every year. I would usually ignore such ignorance, but the “baloney” part irked me, so here goes. Numerous studies have shown the danger to songbird populations by domestic and feral cats. House cats were brought to the New World by Europeans and are ...

Houston killing suspect arrested in Virginia
23 May 2012, 6:20 pm
The killing suspect that prompted four Klein ISD schools into lock-down on May 2 has been captured in Virginia, KTRK-TV reports on its website. Police in Virginia arrested Zumbotha Newsome on Wednesday, Channel 13 reports. He was wanted in the April 15 road rage shooting death of Damien Goss. Klein High School and three other campuses were on lock-down the afternoon of May 2 as Precinct 4 deputy ...

Speculation over 'killing' of Assad brother-in-law
23 May 2012, 12:03 pm
Speculation was rife on Wednesday among Syrian anti-regime activists over the alleged "killing" of President Bashar al-Assad's brother-in-law who is also Syria's deputy defence minister.

Baby on the Way for The killing's Eric Ladin
23 May 2012, 11:17 am
The actor and wife Katy will welcome their first child this winter, they tell PEOPLE

Brad Pitt film, ‘killing Them Softly’ premieres at Cannes
22 May 2012, 2:48 pm
“killing Them Softly,” Andrew Dominik’s adaptation of the George V. Higgins crime novel “Cogan’s Trade,” will have its gala premiere tonight at the Cannes Film Festival. The film screened this morning for the press, who were treated to a gritty, stylized and deeply cynical genre exercise in which Brad Pitt played hardened hit man Jackie Cogan. (Pitt last worked with Dominik on “The Assassination ...

killing Them Softly: A gangster flick about 'our time and who we are'
22 May 2012, 2:09 pm
Film starring Brad Pitt as a mob enforcer played as a heavy-handed allegory for capitalism run amok

5 Egyptian cops sentenced for killing protesters
22 May 2012, 10:19 am
Security officials sentenced to 10 years in prison for using deadly force during anti-Mubarak demonstrations

Cannes 2012: Brad Pitt's 'killing Them Softly': Anti-capitalist screed?
22 May 2012, 9:55 am
Pitt and writer-director Andrew Dominik offer with frankness their unfavorable opinion of capitalism as recently practiced in the U.S.

Brad Pitt brings 'killing Them Softly' to Cannes
22 May 2012, 8:31 am
The Cannes Film Festival got its biggest shot of celebrity adrenaline yet on Tuesday, even if it was only half the dose some were expecting.

Egypt: 5 police sentenced for killing protesters
22 May 2012, 7:50 am
An Egyptian court sentenced five policemen to 10 years in prison in absentia on Tuesday for killing protesters, in a rare conviction of security officials accused of using deadly force against the demonstrations that overthrew Hosni Mubarak in 2011.