Bourbon Street reopens after 14 people were killed and more than 30 injured in New Orleans truck attack
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Bourbon Street reopens after 14 people were killed and more than 30 injured in New Orleans truck attack.
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CBCShe was searching online for a recipe. She found a video of herself engaged in a sexual act
WARNING: This story contains details of intimate partner violence and may affect those who have experienced it or know someone who has.Natalie Brown sat down one day to search the Food Network for a recipe. But another website starting with "F" popped up immediately — Fetlife, a Canadian social networking site for people interested in fetishism — and on it, she found a video she didn't know existed of herself engaged in a sexual act. "I was so humiliated. I felt stupid, I felt embarrassed, I fel
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Pair who took own lives in Polmont ‘given death sentence’, families’ lawyer says
A sheriff has ruled the deaths of Katie Allan, 21, and William Brown, 16, could have been avoided.
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Giuliani settles legal fight with former Georgia election workers and agrees to stop defaming them
NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani reached a deal Thursday that lets the cash-strapped ex-New York City mayor keep his homes and belongings, including prized World Series rings, in exchange for unspecified compensation and a promise to never again speak ill of two former Georgia elections workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against him.
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College students appear in court in case stemming from ‘Catch a Predator’ fad on TikTok
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Five Massachusetts college students appeared in court Thursday, accused of plotting to lure a man to their campus through a dating app and then seizing him as part of a “Catch a Predator” trend on TikTok.
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Stepdad Accused of Repeatedly Throwing Boy, 2, into Pool to Teach Swimming Charged with Murder After Drowning
A 6-year-old girl allegedly told police Dakota Hays would throw the 2-year-old into the water and that “she would have to go retrieve him from the bottom of the pool"
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Man Murdered Wife in Front of Kids After She Asked for Divorce, Then Fled for 18 Months Before Dramatic Capture
Jonathan Bates was sentenced to life in prison this week for his wife Cynthia Bates' 2017 killing
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Video shows violent robbery of 83-year-old woman who had just claimed Florida lotto money
Security camera footage shows the woman leaving a convenience store in Orlando after claiming her win when a man violently attacked and robbed her.
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Public confidence in police at risk if former officer allowed to have job back, CPS lawyer argues
It's a very bad idea to allow convicted criminals to serve as Calgary Police officers, a lawyer for the service argued Wednesday. Former Calgary constable Alex Dunn was before the Law Enforcement Review Board (LERB) on Wednesday, fighting to get his job back 14 months after he was fired for discreditable conduct. He had been convicted for assaulting a handcuffed Black woman by throwing her on the ground face first. "If you want the public to lose respect for the police, have convicted, sentenced
- People
Video Shows Suspected Thief on All Fours Sneaking into Car at Gas Station, Stealing It in Front of Driver
The suspect was able to flee the scene in the stolen vehicle
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American accused of assaulting a Pennsylvania student is extradited from France to the US
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An American accused of sexually assaulting a Pennsylvania college student in 2013 and later sending her a Facebook message that said “So I raped you” was extradited Thursday from France to the United States.
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Jan 6 rioter Pamela Hemphill says she will refuse Trump’s pardon
Reformed ‘MAGA Granny’, who spent 60 days in jail for her role in the attempted insurrection at the US Capitol, has since washed her hands of the president-elect’s movement, calling it a ‘cult’
- People
Pa. Family, Including Teen Sons, Killed in Massacre: 'Four Tragedies All at Once'
Police believe one of the sons, Clifford Hunt Jr., murdered his parents and brother.
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South African miner describes horrors for those who spent months underground
STILFONTEIN, South Africa. (AP) — Dozens of men sat and lay together in small caves, some so shallow they couldn’t stand up. The air was wet and stuffy, and wracking coughs echoed in the confined space.
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Judge denies Alexander brothers bail, criticizes attorney claim that a woman isn't incapacitated if she can stand up
The judge denied the Alexander brothers bail in their sex traffic case on Wednesday. They have pleaded not guilty to federal sex trafficking charges.
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Jewelry store owners call for 'serious action' amid rise in robberies in Peel Region
Jewelry store owner Shahrouz Ahmed was sitting and working on a laptop near the front of his Mississauga, Ont., store on Tuesday evening, when thieves in a grey Jeep tried to smash their way inside. The vehicle rammed the exterior windows and metal cage reinforcements at Jannat Jewellers at least three times. The Jeep approached the store at an angle to avoid metal security posts out front, he said.Thieves tried to burst through the door but fled once the store filled with white smoke — a securi
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Bitter feud among Sinaloa cartel families brings grim new tactic: Grave desecration
In the escalating war among rival factions of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, sons of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán are suspected of ordering the destruction of elaborate mausoleums that belong to rival families, including one for a fallen grandson of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada.
- People
AMBER Alert for Ill. Girl, 4, Who Was in Mom's Car When It Was Stolen
The vehicle has been found, but the girl remains missing
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Christmas Day homicide victim remembered as loving, full of laughter
Jolene Arreak is mourned by her friends and family. The 46-year-old woman was found dead on Dec. 25, 2024. Ottawa police have charged a man with second-degree murder.
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Ex-Kitchener neurologist Jeffrey Sloka makes brief court appearance for update in ongoing sexual assault trial
Warning: This story contains some graphic details.Jeffrey Sloka made a brief appearance virtually in a Kitchener, Ont., courthouse Wednesday for an update to his sexual assault trial.The ex-Kitchener neurologist faces 50 counts of sexual assault in connection with alleged incidents dating back to 2010 that surfaced in 2017. He has pleaded not guilty to all counts and none of the allegations have been proven in court.Sloka's time in court Wednesday began with the defence apologizing for missing a
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Man sentenced for series of stabbings that left one dead, two injured in northeast Edmonton
A knife-wielding attacker who killed a man and left two women injured in 2022 has been sentenced to more than 14 years in prison.Clarence Lawrence, now 28, admitted Wednesday to attacking three people after taking two kitchen knives from his grandparents' house in the Homesteader neighbourhood of northeast Edmonton on the afternoon of Sept. 7, 2022.Over the course of a few chaotic minutes in the area of Hermitage Road and Henry Avenue, Lawrence randomly stabbed a woman inside a bus shelter, then