Landscaping was hardly his lifelong dream. As a teenager, Alton Lucas believed basketball or music would pluck him out of North Carolina and take him around the world. In the late 1980s, he was the right-hand man to his musical
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Mexico cartel bloodbath leaves bodies strewn across street as military called in
Lifeless bodies were left strewn across the road as nine men were killed in a brutal criminal turf war in Mexico. Shocked locals shared footage of the bloody aftermath after members of the Northeast Cartel and the Gulf Cartel opened
Ex-drug addict shows off incredible transformation after nearly 20 years in jail
A former heroin addict who was jailed for almost 20 years says he has transformed his life after giving up drugs and going straight. Shawn Penkenth, 45, had been doing drugs for nearly 30 years. He started smoking cannabis in
Girl who gave birth aged five tops troubling list of worlds youngest mothers
The Daily Star’s FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inbox Doctors believed Lina Medina was suffering from a large tumour when her stomach began to grow at five years old. They were
Students ‘mixed Cadbury’s Dairy Milk with cannabis’ at homemade ‘drug factory’
Cannabis-fused chocolate bars have been seized by police during a dawn raid at a student house. Officers found a stash of Cadbury's Dairy Milk bars containing the cannabis butter at a property in Lenton, Nottingham, on Friday, June 4. Police
Corrupt copper helped crime gang nick £850k by ‘confiscating’ cash from rivals
A former Metropolitan Police officer would turn up to cash handovers to confiscate funds from his gang's rivals while in uniform. Kashif Mahmood dressed in his uniform and used marked and unmarked police cars to confiscate “significant quantities of criminal
Laughing daughter ‘cut out mum’s beating heart in savage family murder’
The Daily Star’s FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inbox A young woman accused of murdering her own mum and cutting out her still beating heart is expected to receive a reduced
Brit man stabbed to death in Tenerife was ‘armed intruder’, Spanish police claim
A British man stabbed to death at a Tenerife apartment last week was an armed intruder, police believe. Expat Andrew Walch a criminal who was convicted over a bizarre attempt to smuggle drugs on a drone into a Cheshire prison
Sick taunts of ‘dominant’ killer who left lover to die after extreme sex session
A man left his partner to die after an extreme sex session he was filmed saying: "You can’t breathe just how I like it." Warren Coulton, 52, has been found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence for refusing to untie
Drug dealer told police he had ‘half an ounce of cocaine under his b***s’
The Daily Star’s FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inbox A suspected drug dealer told police arresting him that he had “half an ounce of coke under his b***s” but insisted that