Spectacle: The lynching of Claude Neal By Ben Montgomery, Times Staff Writer In Print: Sunday, October 23, 2011 GREENWOOD Allie Mae Neal pushed through the screen door and found a shady spot on her porch where the summer sun didn't bite. Kittens purred at her feet and wasps flitted in and out of holes in the roof. The few neighbors who passed by saw an old woman in a wheelchair, blue eyes lazy and unfocused behind thick glasses. She'd wave and they'd wave back. Black or white. She has never held a grudge. "I never blamed nobody," she said. "I never knew who to blame." She never knew because nobody was ever charged with a crime, and because no man spent a single second in ... Continue reading →
Resistance would have been dangerous, so Ms. O’Connor handed it over. The two then sauntered arrogantly away. The whole encounter lasted no more than 15 seconds — just one more coordinated mugging by rhesus monkeys in a city increasingly plagued by them. “I had other bags with me, but they knew the bag that had the fresh bread in it,” Ms. O’Connor said. “They were totally silent, very quick and highly effective.” The monkey population of Delhi has grown so large and aggressive that overwhelmed city officials have petitioned India’s Supreme Court to relieve them of the task of monkey control. “We have trapped 13,013 monkeys since 2007,” said R. B. S. Tyagi, director of veterinary services for Delhi’s principal city government. Nonetheless, Delhi’s monkey ... Continue reading →
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FORT MYERS — An endangered Florida panther was found dead Wednesday on a Lee County road after getting hit by a vehicle, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reported. The male panther, estimated to be about 2 years old, was found on State Road 80, about 14 miles east of Interstate 75. So far this year, 12 panthers have been found dead, including five that have been hit by vehicles. Five others have died in fights with other panthers, and biologists don’t know the cause of the other two deaths. Continue reading →
A sneezing monkey, a blue tarantula and an orchid that only blooms at night are included in the latest top 10 list of new species chosen by scientists. They were among 200 nominated animals and plants described for the first time last year. The list is published each year by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University in the US. Continue reading →
Around 170 of Fukushima’s workers have a slightly elevated risk of cancer due to their radiation exposure. YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/epa/Corbis Few people will develop cancer as a consequence of being exposed to the radioactive material that spewed from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant last year — and those who do will never know for sure what caused their disease. These conclusions are based on two comprehensive, independent assessments of the radiation doses received by Japanese citizens, as well as by the thousands of workers who battled to bring the shattered nuclear reactors under control. The first report, seen exclusively by Nature, was produced by a subcommittee of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) in Vienna, and covers a wide ... Continue reading →
Every week writers for Miami New Times and our parent company, Village Voice Media, produce elegant magazine-style feature writing -- a gritty portion of which comes in the form of true-crime stories. Now VVM has collected some of its best recent true-crime yarns into an ebook: Seven Sins: A True Crime Anthology from Village Voice Media. Available on Amazon and iTunes, the book features seven stories, including the incredible tale of a young American Muslim woman "honor-killed" by her own father; the odd story of a young San Francisco woman so enamored of serial killers that she became known as America's most prominent "murder groupie"; and a historic murder case in Colorado in which the golden age of tabloid journalism collided with Erle Stanley Gardner, ... Continue reading →
