All news by author: Fiona Leishman

Evelyn Adams, from New Jersey, won a staggering £3.9 million in 1985, but was hit with a barrage of bad luck which left her penniless and living in a trailer park

Mary Surratt was the first woman executed by the US government when she was hanged in 1865 after being found guilty of being a conspirator in the plot to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln

Kevin Masters, who runs a fetish wear company, said he first became interested in medical casts as a child but it was a near-death experience that led him to regularly wear them

WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann led an extravagant lifestyle with stories of vodka-filled water guns at company retreats, tequila shots after layoffs and marijuana found stashed on private jets

WeWork shares trading suspended as founder Adam Neumann says reports of bankruptcy is 'disappointing' - the former Wall Street darling had initially seemed to thrive in a post-pandemic world

Judge Arthur Engoron has repeatedly asked Trump's lawyer to "control" their client as the former president gave lengthy answers on the stand, with the judge warning that it is not a "political rally"

Amber Wright from Utah posted a clip to Instagram of her hugging her son after his team won a football game which quickly went viral and attracted the attention of online trolls

Former President Donald Trump has arrived at the Manhattan Supreme Court as he is set to take the stand in a $250 million civil fraud trial where he is accused of inflating his assets so the Trump Organization could secure better loans and deals

Former president Donald Trump is set to take the witness stand in the civil fraud case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James after referring to the judge in the case, Arthur Engoron, as a 'wacko' following Trump's sons' testimony

As Iowa's Citizen Bank became the fifth US banking casualty this year, there are concerns about the strength of the banking sector following the collapse of crypto-banking giants Silvergate Capital and Signature Bank

Donald Trump's two oldest sons, Donald Jr, 45 and Eric, 39, have both taken the stand in Trump's civil fraud trial in New York City where he is accused of inflating the worth of his properties to secure better deals and loans

Prospero Serna is alleged to have attacked three of his four children in his Lancaster, California home, beating and stabbing two of them to death, if convicted he faces life in prison without parole

NASA astronaut Ken 'TK' Mattingly had been set to fly on the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission, when a last minute health screening saw him removed from the flight - but he still played a pivotal role in bringing his fellow astronauts home

Sam Bankman-Fried's parents, Joe Bankman and Barbara Fried, both Stanford Law School professors, broke down in tears in the courtroom as they learned their son had been found guilty of fraud and money laundering

Walter Primrose and Gwynn Morrison lived under the names of dead babies from Texas for decades, with Primrose even joining the Coast Guard and gaining security clearance under the false name

Donald Trump and wife Melania have been seen in public together for the first time since Easter as they joined a Halloween bash at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida

Ivanka Trump celebrated her 42nd birthday over the weekend with a dinner at her mansion on Miami's Indian Creek Island just hours after finding out that she will be taking the stand as a witness in her dad Donald Trump's civil fraud trial in New York

An alleged serial killer who referred to himself as 'the Beast' is facing 41 charges, including murder, after going on a violent crime spree shortly after being released from prison

A witness recalls the moment he grabbed his katana sword and chased of a suspect after realising his neighbour was being stabbed to death in the shared area of their apartment complex

Dr Talat Jehan Khan was stabbed multiple times and killed in Conroe, Texas, over the weekend while she sat outside her apartment building with her dog on a picnic table

US Army Reservist and Maine shooting suspect Robert Card had incriminated himself while filling out the paperwork requiring a local store to release a silencer ordered online to him

A woman from Hauser, Idaho, is suing a fertility doctor she saw 34 years ago, saying he used his own sperm instead of anonymous donor sperm, to impregnate her and only found out after her 33-year-old daughter took a 23andMe test

As authorities continue their search for Robert Card in connection with a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, that left 18 dead and 13 injured, there are several questions that remain

Authorities are continuing their search for US Army Reservist Robert Card who is the prime suspect of a mass shooting that killed 18 and injured 13 others in Lewiston, Maine

Everett James Clayton was driving a truck found to be in an unsafe condition in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, when he sped around a corner, losing control and smashing into the car of Kellie Adams