Here's three words you probably thought you'd never hear: "Butt-injection homicide."

Hip-hop booty-video babe Pebbelz Da Model (aka Natasha Stewart) has gained some fame in certain circles for her tremendously exaggerated 48-inch rear end, and now Bossip reports that she has been arrested in connection with a homicide.

A man accused of killing seven people at a small Northern California Christian college is not mentally fit for trial, a judge ruled before temporarily suspending criminal proceedings until the defendant is deemed competent.

Alameda County Superior Court Judge Carrie Panetta on Monday put on hold the criminal case against One Goh. Two psychiatric evaluations concluded that Goh suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.

Goh is charged with seven counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder in the April 2 attack at Oikos University in Oakland. He has pleaded not guilty and remains jailed.

Alameda County Assistant Public Defender David Klaus said after Monday's brief hearing that both doctors who examined Goh found that he suffers from hallucinations and delusions and harbors a deep mistrust of people, including those trying to help him.

"He's certainly a deeply troubled man," Klaus said. "He's locked up in shame, remorse and sadness. He's not eating, he's not taking care of himself."

A Chinese man hired experienced gamers to kill his son's avatar in a desperate attempt to stop his gaming addiction and make him find a job.

Mr. Feng chose a peculiar way to handle his son's gaming addiction. He hired game professionals to kill his son's persona over and over again until he lost interest in the games, Chinese People's Daily Online reports.

The younger Feng started playing online games while at school, but his father was not concerned as his academic performance was not affected and his son still received good grades.

However, sometime later the son's keen interest in online gaming began to worry Feng, who saw it as the main reason the 23-year-old could not find a job.

Five years on from the Panorama outburst that resulted in a worldwide viral viewing, John Sweeney has written a book on the dangers of the cult religion

The Church of Scientology is a cult whose core aim is to fight a space alien Satan that's brainwashed the rest of us. The Church fights the world's insanity, its celebrity followers argue, and people who tell you differently are bigots. So who's right?

Lawrence Wright is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who has written what promises to be a great book on Scientology. Going Clear is due to be published everywhere on 17 January - except Britain. Just before Christmas, Transworld, Wright's British publishers, pulled it, leading to questions about whether it had fallen to the Church's reputation for going after its detractors and Britain's libel laws.

Wright had a huge advance negotiated by über-agent Andrew Wylie, publishers around the world primed to publish on the same day, a reported print run of 150,000 in the US and a team of researchers checking every fact. He will have things to say in his book that readers - especially young people, the audience the Church seeks to recruit - may think they have a right to know. American readers will learn all, while Wright's potential British readers will have no book to buy.

By way of explanation, Transworld's publicity director Patsy Irwin said: "The legal advice that we received was that some of the content of the book was not robust enough for the UK market, that an edited version would not fit with our schedule and the decision was made internally not to publish."

Even the judge cried.

Tears flowed throughout a packed Manhattan courtroom yesterday as serial killer Rodney Alcala was sentenced to 25 years to life yesterday for raping, torturing and strangling two women, both 23, in the 1970s.

Dubbed "The Dating Game Killer" for his 1978 TV game-show appearance as "Bachelor No. 1," the mop-haired Alcala now returns to San Quentin prison in California, where he will languish on death row for a '70s West Coast murder spree that claimed four women and a 12-year-old girl.

"This is the kind of case I've never experienced, and hope to never again," Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Bonnie Wittner told yesterday's courtroom audience, which was packed with family members and friends of the two young New York victims.

Then the judge turned away from her microphone and broke into sobs before gathering herself and continuing.

"Sorry," she said. "In 30 years, I've never had a case like this."

Last weekend, more than 1,000 people gathered in Steubenville, Ohio, a small town with a history of high school football glory, to support the victim of an alleged rape. These kinds of rallies happen from time to time, largely on college campuses. What made this one striking was the fact that many protesters were wearing Guy Fawkes masks.

Those masks are a trademark of Anonymous, the shadowy collective of hackers that has taken on Steubenville as a vigilante cause. In terms of criminal justice, this is far from ideal. But for our culture at large, it represents an unlikely glimmer of hope.

The Steubenville story began with old power dynamics, the ones that stem from a mix of athletic glory, power, and sex. At a series of parties last August, according to news reports, a 16-year-old girl, unconscious due to alcohol or drugs, was allegedly gang-raped by at least two members of the beloved Steubenville High School football team. The girl learned about the attacks the next day, the press reported, after various boys posted photos and mocking tweets - which they later deleted - on social media.

Two of the football players were charged, as juveniles, with rape. Their trial begins next month. But some locals, including a crime blogger, kept hammering at the story, claiming town officials were protecting other athletes, circling around a subgroup that is treated as untouchable. Last month, The New York Times published a long, meticulously researched account, which included a pointed threat to a reporter from the high school football coach.

Then Anonymous took up the cause.

New York - Staten Island's Community Education Council is on record supporting a proposal to hire 300 to 500 retired police officers to serve as plainclothes security guards, carrying concealed weapons and rotating among the city's 1,750 schools.

The 10-member council's vote on Monday night only has the power to make a recommendation to the New York City Department of Education, which means the proposal has little chance of becoming reality.

The department said it will not consider the plan, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg, one of the nation's most outspoken gun-control advocates, last week called it a "terrible idea."

The proposal passed after two hours of comments, for and against, from parents and other speakers from the community and was in reaction to the deadly elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., last month that killed 20 first-graders and six educators.

The proposal also calls for hardened security, including a buzzer system with video cameras and panic buttons, similar to those in banks, that link directly to 911 for use by school safety agents screening visitors entering schools.

On the opening day of a preliminary hearing to determine whether James E. Holmes will stand trial in the July shooting, witnesses struggle to stay composed as they describe trying to help the wounded and dead.

Two veteran police officers who were first to arrive at the Aurora movie theater shooting struggled in court Monday to describe the carnage. Strobe lights from the alarm were flashing as the midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises blared on the screen above the screams. Some movie-goers were trying to flee. Others lay motionless on the floor.

But what they remembered most was the blood. There was so much of it.

Aurora Police Officer Justin Grizzle said some people were crawling for safety covered in blood. With a wavering voice he said he slipped on something slick as he made his way into the theater, only later realizing it was blood.

The officers described victims who were shot in the face. Some of the wounded were so badly hurt it was impossible to tell their gender.

Grizzle recounted how he loaded victims in his patrol car and sped them to the hospital because it was faster than waiting for an ambulance. After several trips there was so much blood in his car he could hear it slosh as he sped around corners.

Grizzle and Sgt. Gerald Jonsgaard testified on the opening day of a preliminary hearing to determine whether James E. Holmes will stand trial in the July 20 rampage that killed 12 people and wounded at least 70 others.

The testimony was the first time police witnesses have publicly disclosed details of the shooting and how they responded.

At about 2pm there was a ­sudden ­moment of ­relative quiet in ­courtroom 207. The angry ­exchanges stopped. No one moved ­except the two dozen policemen, in khaki coats, who shoved the lawyers, the journalists and the simply curious aside. "They are coming," a barrister muttered.

There was no need to ask who "they" were. There has been no need through the three weeks since the rape of a 23-year-old medical student in south Delhi, on 16 December. To say that this vast, seething city of 17 million has talked of no one else and nothing else would be an exaggeration.

But there was little sense that anyone was ready to move on. News channels continue to devote hours to issues that received minutes of airtime a month ago; front pages still carry every twist in the investigation; and conversations naturally turn to the woman whose ashes were scattered on the Ganges last week, and to what should be done to the six men who are accused of raping her repeatedly on a moving bus before dumping her on a roadside.

Five of the men - a sixth, a juvenile, is being held separately - had been brought from the high-security Tihar prison in the mid-morning. This was a pre-trial hearing at which they would be presented with the multiple charges against them: rape, abduction, banditry, murder and others. The case would be sent on to a higher court by the metropolitan magistrate Namita Aggarwal. If they are convicted a death penalty seems a certainty.

"It should be a straightforward thing," said SK Singh, a supreme court advocate at the hearing, who said he represented the family of the victim.

By noon the accused were yet to appear. They waited in a cell beneath six floors of land disputes, rent rows, robberies, frauds and traffic offences. In their absence Aggarwal presided over a 20-minute shouting match sparked by the offer of one advocate to defend them. "I know the whole country thinks they are guilty and the evidence is against them ... but their families have contacted me," he said.

Local lawyers, who voted to refuse to represent the alleged rapists, hurled themselves across the room, shouting abuse. "This is a very, very heinous crime and we are human beings living in society," explained Rajpal Kasana, of the Saket Bar Association. The court will have to appoint a lawyer for the men over the coming days.

Eugene, Oregon - A series of explosions hit an underground utility system Monday at the University of Oregon, plunging several student dormitories and other buildings into darkness as crews scrambled to restore power.

Nobody was hurt, but about 3,000 students living on campus had no power in their rooms, university officials said. Campus police stepped up patrols, and the university gave away flashlights. Officials planned to bring in generators, but the task wasn't complete by evening.

University officials said electrical equipment overheated, causing circuits to ignite and melt.

The blasts were audible above the ground and from several hundred feet away. A video clip from the campus showed puffs of smoke coming from a manhole cover, and university officials said smoke also was visible inside the university health building, which was evacuated and closed for the rest of the day. A slight smell of burning rubber lingered outside for hours.

It could take days to permanently repair electrical circuits, university spokeswoman Julie Brown said.

Without electricity to power a television or charge a laptop, students were given additional entertainment options Monday, including a watch party for the college football championship game.

In a dormitory near the blast, pitch-black stairwells became obstacles for students trying to get to class, said Camila Rowland, a freshman majoring in psychology.