Witnessing World

One of the most important eye-witnesses to the Trayvon Martin shooting, a neighbor who told police Trayvon was straddling George Zimmerman, pinning him to the ground, changed his story once prosecutors took control of the case. The man, identified in prosecution documents as “Witness 6,” originally said Zimmerman was the person screaming for help as [...]

At first, the howling in the dark sounded like a dogfight. Then came cries. “Help! Help! Help!” No one knows who was crying out. In a steady drizzle that February night, George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin were fighting for their lives — a fact that wasn’t immediately clear to the witnesses in a case that [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) Roger Clemens’ lawyer jabbed his left index finger and hammered away, relentlessly attacking Brian McNamee over his personal life and accusing the government’s chief witness of ”making up this stuff on the fly.” The attorney finally sprung his trap and pointed out what appeared to be a flaw in the McNamee’s story about [...]

The newly released evidence includes pictures of a bloodied George Zimmerman, but no witnesses actually saw what – or who—initiated the fight between him and Florida teen Trayvon Martin. NBC’s Kerry Sanders reports. A key witness to the Trayvon Martin shooting changed the story he had given Sanford, Fla., police, telling state authorities he was [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The key witness in former baseball pitching ace Roger Clemens’ perjury trial testified on Friday that evidence he turned over to federal investigators showed Clemens had used performance-enhancing drugs but that it also included items used by other players. Near the end of a days-long assault on his credibility by the defense, [...]