The Sun

James Bulger’s mum ‘petrified’ her son’s killer will be freed after series of jail release blunders

Venables was freed with a new name in 2001 after just eight years in a youth prison THE mum of James Bulger is “petrified” gaffe-prone justice chiefs will release her son’s killer amid a climate of ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

South Boston man pleads guilty in 2 cold case slayings tied to Bulger's circle

LEWIS ADMITTED GUILT. WHEELCHAIR BOUND 65 YEAR OLD MICHAEL LEWIS FACING JUSTICE TODAY FOR CRIMES COMMITTED DECADES AGO. DO YOU WISH TO CHANGE YOUR PLEA FROM NOT GUILTY TO GUILTY? GUILTY? LEWIS ...
Rolling Stone

Grateful Dead Singer Donna Jean Godchaux Dead at 78

Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, who spent the Seventies singing with the Grateful Dead, sang backup on several classic Sixties hits, and fronted her own bands, has died. She was 78. Godchaux died Sunday ...
Forbes

‘Is Trump Dead?’ Rumors Debunked As Trump Seen Leaving For Golf

Ty Roush is a breaking news reporter based in New York City. President Donald Trump on Saturday was photographed leaving for his golf course in Virginia, dispelling unfounded rumors spread on social ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Celebrate Day of the Dead With These 15 Scenes of Festivities and Remembrance

These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show how communities in Mexico and beyond mark Día de los Muertos. A couple visits a cemetery during Day of the Dead, against the backdrop of ...
Los Angeles Times

Phil Lesh, bassist for Grateful Dead, dies at 84

Phil Lesh, the bassist for the Grateful Dead who propelled many of its wildest musical explorations yet also composed and sang one of its loveliest songs, “Box of Rain,” has died. He was 84. An ...
Rolling Stone

Phil Lesh, Grateful Dead Co-Founder and Bassist, Dead at 84

Phil Lesh, the classically trained musician who co-founded the Grateful Dead and whose unconventional bass playing steered the band into some of its most experimental directions, died Friday at the ...
New York Post

Ex-Mafia hitman who killed Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger sentenced to 25 years

What’s another 25 years when you’re already serving a life sentence? Fotios “Freddy” Geas — the ex-Mafia enforcer already serving a life sentence — was given an additional 25 years by a judge Friday ...
Newsweek

James ‘Whitey’ Bulger Killing: Ex-Mafia Hitman Sentenced to 25 Years

Fotios "Freddy" Geas, a former Mafia hitman, added 25 years to his life sentence following a guilty plea in the murder of Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger. Bulger, 89, was killed hours after he ...
PBS

Former hitman sentenced to 25 years for prison slaying of crime boss ‘Whitey’ Bulger

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — A former Mafia hitman was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday in the 2018 fatal prison bludgeoning of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger. Federal prisoner ...
WMUR

An ex-Mafia hitman is sentenced to 25 years in the slaying of gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger

A former Mafia hitman was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday in the 2018 fatal prison bludgeoning of notorious Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger.Federal prisoner Fotios "Freddy" Geas was ...