Houston police have uncovered what they call a "prison room" in Texas where at least four victims were being held against their will. Local station KTRK reported that officers responded to the Houston home on Friday morning after a tip that four elderly men between 54 and 70 were being held captive in the garage.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Nalvany was released one day after a court in the city of Kirov found him guilty of misappropriating about $500,000 in a lumber deal when he was an advisor to the region's governor. The 37-year-old is one of Russian's President Vladimir Putin's fiercest critics. He predicted he would be convicted to prevent him from running for mayor of Moscow, but denies any kind of wrongdoing. His conviction, some claim, is Putin's attempt to silence another critic of his presidency
Former NBA superstar Charles Barkley said that he agrees with the not guilty verdict handed out to George Zimmerman last week, but blasted the media for giving platform for racists to "vent" their ignorance.
In response to his outrage following Rolling Stone magazine's decision to put Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on its front cover, Sergeant Sean Murphy, a Massachusetts State Police tactical photographer who was working during the massive manhunt to capture the Tsarnaev brothers, released photos of the apprehended terror suspect without permission from his agency.
