Donations pour in for cops
WEEKS SINCE THE Police Torch Run has ended donations still continue to pour in to the police. The Torch Run is staged every other year and is done to raise funds for Jamaica's Special Olympics team.

Woman freed of murder rap
A HOME CIRCUIT Court jury, after hearing evidence that a 39-year-old deacon was stabbed to death shortly after he took a machete from his girlfriend and chased Norma Smith, the mother of his four children, freed Smith of the murder charge.

Family seeks answers to man's death
MORE THAN THREE weeks after 19-year-old Leon Johnson was killed in an alleged shoot out with the police, his family and the Hermitage community are still struggling to come to terms with his death.

Jobless, homeless fisherman seeks help
A BOARD SHACK; a jobless fisherman; a handicapped son; another nine month old son; no mother. To some this reads like something out of a horrible fairy-tale, but when THE STAR went in search of Marcus Banton, this was what we found.

Bob Marley, Lee Chin on Forbes billionaires list
WHAT DO MICHAEL Lee Chin and Bob Marley have in common? Well, aside from the obvious - both are prominent Jamaican men - they have also both made leading business magazine, Forbes lists.

Second suspect held for 7-year-old's murder
THE POLICE HAVE held a 58-year-old man in connection with the rape and murder of six-year-old Shaneika Anderson. According to an officer of the East Kingston Division, the man was taken into custody last week Friday...

Hard time hits family after fire
ONE MONTH AFTER fire destroyed their home, Ivy McKenzie and her family are struggling to get back on their feet despite some help from the Port Antonio community in Portland.

Hospital stalemate
THE FAMILY OF Claudia Millford, the 33-year-old blind woman who fell from the third floor of the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) building and died on December 27, are yet to settle the matter with the hospital.