Great-grandmother shoots dead 580lb alligator.

A great-grandmother who spent three years hunting an alligator that ate one of her miniature horses has finally caught the beast. Judy Cochran killed the 12-foot, 580lb gator with a single shot on Sunday evening after luring it with a 'seasoned' racoon carcass. She reportedly used a Winchester .22 Magnum to shoot it in the Trinity River, Texas."One-shot in the head and he went under," she told WLS-TV .

Kitten left to die after cruel thugs cut out testicles.

An emaciated kitten was left to die in a box after having his testicles cut off with scissors. Rescuers say the innocent animal “suffered beyond belief” and only has a 50 per cent chance of surviving his wounds after being attacked by unknown thugs.

Power restored to over 160,000 ESB customers .

ESB NETWORKS CREWS have restored power to over 160,000 customers following Storm Ali yesterday, but a number of outages remain across the country. The outages have affected homes, farms and businesses across Ireland. ESB Networks crews this morning restored power to 14,000 further customers that lost supply due to the impact of Storm Ali. At the height of the storm yesterday afternoon, 186,000 customers were impacted.

London's serial cat killer turns out to be a fox.

THERE MIGHT NOT be a maniacal cat-killer on the loose in London after all, or at least not a human one. The mutilated remains of hundreds of domestic cats and kittens along with some foxes and rabbits have been turning up in the south of London since 2015. Horrified locals have pinned the blame on a Jack the Ripper-type figure dubbed the “Croydon Cat Killer” who got his kicks from disembowelling pets and posing their remains near schools and outside owners’ homes.

Man testing bulletproof vest 'accidentally kills himself'.

A young man testing a bulletproof vest accidentally killed himself when fired a shot into his stomach at point-blank range. Shocking footage shows the man firing a bullet into the vest and then dropping to his knees in pain.