Besancon

(Newser) - A onetime "star anesthetist" in France will spend the rest of his life in prison. A court in Besançon on Thursday handed 53-year-old Frédéric Péchier a life sentence for poisoning 30 patients over nearly a decade, 12 of whom died after suffering cardiac arrest during...

(Newser) - French police stormed a pre-school today and apprehended a sword-wielding 17-year-old who’d taken several small children and their teacher hostage. The teen, armed with a sword in each hand, had initially taken 20 children hostage, but released 13 of them throughout the morning. A fourteenth “more or less...