Ex-gang leader’s account of Tupac Shakur killing is fiction, defense lawyer in Vegas says

LAS VEGAS – The defense attorney representing a former Los Angeles-area gang leader accused of killing hip-hop music icon Tupac Shakur in 1996 in Las Vegas said Tuesday his client’s accounts of the killing are fiction and prosecutors lack key evidence to obtain a murder conviction. “He himself is giving different stories,” attorney Carl Arnold … Read more

Upscale grocery store and market opens at the Pearl Brewery

Previously, residents and visitors to the Pearl Brewery area would have to drive ten or more minutes to the nearest grocery store or H-E-B. SAN ANTONIO — A massive, upscale grocery store is coming to the historic Pearl Brewery in the Spring of 2024, organizers said. Pullman Market will be a sprawling 40,000 square foot … Read more

Writer Leonardo Padura chronicles life in Cuba as his detective ‘alter ego’ solves gripping crimes

HAVANA – His novels recount gruesome murders, thefts, scams, bribes and humiliating secrets. But those are not even the most important themes in the stories told by award-winning Cuban writer Leonardo Padura. For the last four decades, Padura, 68, has managed to turn his series of detective thrillers into a social and political chronicle of … Read more