getty image: A South African judge sentenced Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius to six years in prison for his girlfriend’s murder — closing yet another chapter in a case that has transfixed the nation. Pistorius killed Reeva Steenkamp at his home in an upscale Pretoria neighborhood in the early hours of Valentine’s Day three years ago. […]

Oscar Pistorius was sentenced to five years in prison for the 2013 shooting death of his girlfriend, Judge Thokozile Masipa announced today. Masipa also handed…

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The older brother of Oscar Pistorius is facing culpable homicide charges, for hitting a female biker during a fatal car crash. Carl Pistorius is facing 15 years in prison for the 2008 incident.

via CNN Days after a tragic shooting turned an Olympic hero into a murder suspect, South Africans tried to make sense of hazy details surrounding a case that has left the nation stunned. Information remained scant Saturday, a day after a judge charged a sobbing Oscar Pistorius with murder. Universal admiration for his sports achievements […]

via CNN Dr. Ford Vox is a medical writer and neuro-rehabilitation physician. He is the medical director of Brain Injury Rehabilitation at New England Rehabilitation Hospital and clinical assistant professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Tufts University School of Medicine. A man born without functioning legs ran the 400 meters in 45.07 seconds on […]