Man murders mum and three children before raping girl as she was dying

A company linked to the husband of Scottish businesswoman Michelle Mone ploughed tens of thousands of pounds into the Conservatives.

Cancer has taken another great from us! Anita Pointer was just 74 years young.

Anita Pointer, one of the founding members of the R&B group The Pointer Sisters, passed away Dec. 31 in Los Angeles. She was 74.

Bob Nalbandian, whose journalism and film career chronicled the ups and downs of the heavy metal scene in print, film and online, died Friday, December 30 in Redding, California at age 58.

Barbara Walters, the television journalist, 20/20 host and creator of The View, has died. She was 93.

Bob Penny, a poet and professor who after retirement appeared in small parts in movies including Forrest Gump, Sweet Home Alabama and My Cousin Vinny and in the TV series In the Heat of the Night, died December 25 in Huntsville, AL. He was 87.

British fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood, who was a key part of bringing punk fashion into the mainstream, has died at 81. No cause was given, but a tweet from her fashion house said she passed “peacefully and surrounded” by her family in Clapham, South London.

Peter Sealey, a former Columbia Pictures president of global marketing during the studio’s release of Ghostbusters, Tootsie, Stand By Me and The Karate Kid, died Dec. 15 from complications following a fall. He was 82 and passed in Palm Springs, Calif.

Ruggero Deodato, the Italian filmmaker whose hyper-realistic found-footage horror pic Cannibal Holocaust got him arrested and was banned in more than 50 countries, died today, Italian media reported. He was 83. No details of his death were given.

Bob Marley’s grandson Joseph “Jo Mersa” Marley has died at age 31.

Dax Tejera, the executive producer of This Week with George Stephanopoulos, died suddenly on Friday of a heart attack. 

Maggie Thrett, the actress and singer who most memorably played Ruth in the “Mudd’s Women” episode of the original Star Trek, has died her family announced. She was 76.

A distraught mother of two has been left homeless days before Christmas after a fire destroyed her entire home. Toni Shield, 35, had left the house on December 21 at around 6:10pm to meet up with her friends when she began receiving an influx of panicked phone calls from her neighbours.

Bode Miller and Morgan Beck got quite the scare this week.

Terry Hall, the longtime voice of legendary ska group The Specials has died after what the band termed a brief illness. He was 63.

Newly released surveillance video from downtown Moscow, Idaho appears to show two of the four slain University of Idaho students walking with an unidentified man hours before they were murdered.

Drew Griffin, CNN’s award-winning Senior Investigative Correspondent, died Saturday after a long battle with cancer, his family told the network. He was 60.

Kim Simmonds, leader of the last post-Beatles wave of British blues bands with Savoy Brown, has died at the age of 75, the band announced.