Two Bulgarian brothers said to suffer mental disorder have managed to fright the US Embassy, Bulgaria's police revealed. Last weekend, the two rang up the American diplomatic mission to say a bomb was planted at the office.
Young nationalists announced plans to take on a rally this week in Pazardzhik to protest against the lingering police work into a double murder.
A journalist from a major Russian television network has been found dead near Moscow, police said. Vyacheslav Akatov, a special reporter for TV Center channel, went missing on May 22.
Bulgaria's interior minister made yet another move to speed up and bring to indictments legal proceedings against people with more than one pending trials, who are currently at large. As before, however, no names were disclosed.
Sofia police is hunting for the murderer of a 25-year-old man with a criminal record, who was found stabbed Saturday night. The man was stabbed several times.
A Bulgarian thief stole a bag full of lottery tickets during a robbery of a lottery office in the northern Bulgarian town Targovishte Saturday evening. The man armed with a gas pistol entered the lottery office and grabbed the bag that he probably believ
One man was killed and another two were seriously injured while illegally fishing near the southern Bulgarian village of Zhelezari. One of the men, aged 51 died immediately, while the other two suffered serious wounds.
Bulgarian police arrested the administrator and system operator of the arenabg.com web site, which is one of Bulgaria's main torrent sites providing users with pirate music, movies and software.
An Italian citizen has been injured in an assault in the southern city of Stara Zagora, the local police department announced. The 48-year-old Italian works in Bulgaria.
Five Georgian citizens aged 22 to 39 have been arrested when attempting to trespass the green border near the Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint. The five intruders tried to escape and opposed the arrest therefore the border officials were forced to shoo
A crime gang selling drugs in several Sofia neighbourhoods was crushed by Sofia police. Four people were arrested during the specialized police operation that took place Thursday.
The executive director of Bulgaria's Agriculture Fund Assen Drumev has been questioned in connection to trial against his deputy Krassimir Nedelchev. Nedelchev was accused of taking a bribe of BGN 357,000 (about EUR 128,000) and malfeasance in office.
International drug-trafficker Sreten Jocic was released on a bail of EUR 300,000. Jocic will be able to carry on with his defence outside of custody, according to a statement from the court.
The former head of Sofia municipal company "Sofinvest" Vladimir Petkov has robbed the municipality for the benefit of a company he owns. Therefore Sofia Municipality Council launched a probe into his work.
Pazardzhik Prosecutor's Office is to prolong by another two months the investigation into the brutal murder of two sisters. Regional Prosecutor Ivan Daskalov told in an interview for Darik radio that the investigation would be prolonged as of May 31.
A Swedish man aged 46 was hit by a car in Bulgaria's Sunny Beach, media said Thursday. The driver fled the site without trying to help the victim, according to reports.
Graham Sankey, who was in Bulgaria at the time of a bar incident last year, failed to attend court as police tried to ban him from attending football matches in Britain and overseas.
Stara Zagora Regional Court gave three years suspended sentence to 72-year-old Svetla Kostadinova for tax siphoning attempts. In April the elderly woman was arrested in a raid against financial fraudsters.
Unidentified assaulters have broken into the Sofia headquarters of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union - People's Union (BANU-PU) late on Tuesday.
Yet another Bulgarian schoolteacher has faced accusations of abusing pupils, media revealed Monday. The incident occurred in the Chervena Voda village near Russe, northeast Bulgaria, where a 59-year-old teacher was nabbed for abusing girls.
The car of a Bulgarian construction entrepreneur was set on fire on Sunday night, local media revealed. Georgi Iliev's Audi was parked outside his home in Sofia's Iztok district.
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