Gunman ambushes teens going home after party in Jamaica; 1 dead, 3 hurt

A gunman jumped out from behind a parked car and ambushed four young men in Queens early Sunday - killing a recent high school graduate and wounding the others.Clad in a black hoodie and armed with a .40-caliber pistol, the gunman set his deathtrap near the intersection of 113th Ave. and 157th St. in Jamaica, police sources said."It was a major shootout," said Brandi Johnson, 23, who was on her porch nearby and saw the gun's muzzle flashing as the...

Man seeking cross-border access card jailed on U.S. murder warrant

Burnaby, B.C. man applying for a cross-border travel card found himself in handcuffs in a U.S. customs office after a fingerprint scan determined he was wanted for murder in Oklahoma.U.S. customs officials say 48-year-old Suhail Shanti was at the Pacific Highway border crossing south of Vancouver on June 24 applying for a NEXUS card.As part of the process, his fingerprints were electronically scanned and compared with a national U.S. crime database,...

Notorious: Can "Whitey" Bulger get a fair trial in Boston?

With his reign as the former leader of Boston's notorious Irish-American Winter Hill Gang already fodder for books and movies, many doubt that James "Whitey" Bulger can get a fair trial in his home town."It will be as close to impossible for Mr. Bulger to get a fair trial on these...