An Ohio State University janitor who shot two supervisors, one fatally, and then killed himself had complained that he was being treated unfairly, though records show he slept on the job and was late to work during his probation.
Nathaniel Brown was days away from losing his job when he opened fire with two handguns early Tuesday in a maintenance building at the nation’s largest university, police said. No students were hurt.
Brown, 51, had a criminal history that included serving about five years in prison on a charge of receiving stolen …

Speaking in her first television interview since news broke of Venables’ recall to jail, Denise Fergus demanded answers over the claims surrounding him, including that he faces child pornography charges.
She told ITV’s This Morning “whoever’s been protecting and looking after Venables in the nine years of his release” should be dismissed.
Her comments came as she prepared to meet Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, to discuss the case.
She is expected to sit down with him later this week but said she does not expect to get answers to her questions.
She said …

Esat Altindagoglu has been inundated with more than 50 visitors a day hoping to see the “miracle” at his house near Paris.
The one-foot high painting was given to his wife Sevin by a Lebanese priest on her birthday in 2006, the Turkish-born salesman said.
It began weeping oil on February 12 this year, and had been “crying” every day since, he claimed.
He said: “As word spread, people started arriving from France, then from all over Europe.
“I’ve been having between 50 and 60 people a day turning up for more than three …

Among the 1.5 million condolence letters sent to President John F. Kennedy’s widow after his assassination in 1963 were more than two dozen from Jane Dryden, a dogged and dramatic 11-year-old who churned out a letter a week for six months straight.
“I know that you hate the whole state of Texas. I do to,” she wrote to Jacqueline Kennedy from Austin in January 1964. “I wish I lived in Washington, D.C. where maybe I could maybe see you standing on your porch. I am determined to move there as soon …

The serpent was depicted being clasped in the Tudor monarch’s fingers in the original version of the work – but it was painted over at the last minute and replaced with a more decorative bunch of roses.
Deterioration over time has meant the snake has revealed itself once more, with its outline now visible on the surface.
The portrait was created by an unknown artist in the 1580s or early 1590s.
The image has not been on display at the London gallery since 1921 but it will form part of an exhibition titled …