Madison police now say 3 dead, not 5, in shooting at a private, Christian school in Wisconsin
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Madison police now say 3 dead, not 5, in shooting at a private, Christian school in Wisconsin.
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Mary Louise Day's 1981 disappearance has left her family members asking questions for decades
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Japan’s elderly are lonely and struggling. Some women choose to go to jail instead
The rooms are filled with elderly residents, their hands wrinkled and backs bent. They shuffle slowly down the corridors, some using walkers. Workers help them bathe, eat, walk and take their medication.
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Decades after getting a child-care bursary from Ontario, this woman was told to pay it back
Jennifer Craft says she did everything right when she received an Ontario child-care bursary in 1996 as a single mother.The money was to help pay for daycare for her two-and-a-half-year old daughter while she studied at Fleming College in Peterborough, Ont., and that's how it was used, she says."It helped subsidize some of that cost so that I could go to nursing school and provide a better life for ourselves," said Craft. But Craft was recently contacted by a collection agency seeking that money
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Missing Ohio Siblings, 8 and 9, Found in Remote Icelandic Village 3 Months After Disappearing
The children's mother reportedly took the children across the ocean after she stopped taking her medication
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I moved to China from the US to be a teacher. My $4,000 monthly salary went much further, but there were tradeoffs.
Tatiana Smith spent five years teaching in China. Although the cost of living was more affordable, she felt that China was as capitalistic as the US.
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Joe Biden Grants Clemency To Leonard Peltier
The ailing Native American rights activist has been in prison for nearly 50 years after the U.S. government lied to put him there.
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Police across Nova Scotia warn of scam targeting seniors
Halifax Regional Police are warning of a scam targeting seniors in the wake of multiple reported incidents.In a release Friday, HRP urged people to be suspicious of all calls or emails asking for money, and said they were looking for help identifying a suspect in a number of frauds in the Halifax area. In each reported instance, the victim received a call from someone pretending to be a family member who had been arrested and needed to be bailed out.They were then passed off to another individua
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Legal arguments continue this week in five hockey players' sex assault case
LONDON, Ont. — More legal arguments are expected this week in the sexual assault case of five former members of Canada's world junior hockey team as they prepare to face trial this spring.
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Rami Malek Says He Was ‘Thrown’ on the Hood of a Cop Car in Racial Profiling Incident: ‘I May Well Be Going to Jail for Something I’ve Not Done’
In a recent discussion with The Guardian, Rami Malek detailed his experiences with racism as an Egyptian-American, pointing to one racial profiling incident where he found himself on the hood of a cop car. “I got thrown on the bonnet of an LAPD cop car because someone had robbed a liquor store and stolen a …
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Fugitive Pregnant Woman Wanted for Murder of One-Year-Old Son Captured in New York
Gloria Wright, 23, was wanted for first-degree murder and first-degree cruelty to children in connection to the death of her one-year-old son
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Case of Regina man caught on street with sawed-off shotgun and bulletproof vest finally concludes
The case of a Regina man convicted of walking down a city street wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying a sawed-off shotgun is finally over.Stuart Michael George Sabiston was arrested in 2019 after members of the Regina Police Service gang unit spotted him walking in a neighbourhood police said is known for gang activity. The case ultimately went to the Supreme Court, and then back to the province's Court of Appeal.Sabiston was convicted on several firearms charges, including possession of a lo
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Smash-and-grab jewelry store heists are a thing — the industry's working to put thieves on ice
It's a scene that's become all-too familiar in the retail world: Burglars smashing the windows and doors of shops in daring fashion and at lightning speed, then making off with high-value, easy-to-snatch goods.Jewelry stores have become the targets of many of these thieves. And they don't just use hammers: in one recent case in Mississauga, Ont., a vehicle rammed into the store as thieves raced to enter.These daring crimes became more commonplace following the COVID-19 pandemic and heightened la
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Oregon man who kidnapped a Seattle woman and kept her in a makeshift cell gets life sentence
An Oregon man has been sentenced to life in federal prison after being convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting two women in separate instances, including locking one in a cinder block cell.
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Released female Palestinians say conditions in prison were 'very difficult' and 'chaotic'
Palestinian prisoners released by Israel after three hostages left Hamas captivity in an exchange said conditions in prison were “very difficult” and “chaotic.” (AP Video by Amer Abdeen and Imad Isseid and production by Jalal Bwaitel)
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Bus attack victim, 14, stabbed by youths ‘almost instantaneously’, court told
Kelyan Bokassa was stabbed around 27 times as he travelled home on a bus through Woolwich, south-east London, on January 7.
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Indian court sentences a police volunteer to life in prison in the rape, killing of trainee doctor
NEW DELHI (AP) — An Indian court on Monday sentenced a police volunteer to life in prison after finding him guilty in the rape and killing of a trainee doctor last year, a crime that sparked nationwide protests over inadequate safety for women and led to a speedy trial in the country’s slow-moving justice system.
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India police volunteer sentenced to life over rape, murder of junior doctor in Kolkata
A court in India has sentenced a police volunteer to life in prison for the rape and murder of a trainee doctor who was attacked while on duty in Kolkata last August — a crime that sparked widespread protests across the country.The trial, which started in November and was held in a closed court, was fast-tracked because of the outcry, with many people taking to the streets to voice their anger over chronic violence against women in India, as well as the lack of security measures to keep female d
- The Canadian Press
Appeals court overturns ex-49er Dana Stubblefield's rape conviction
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California appeals court has overturned the rape conviction of former San Francisco 49er Dana Stubblefield after determining prosecutors made racially discriminatory statements during the Black man's trial.
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They were sentenced to death. But they don’t want President Biden’s commutation to life in prison
Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences to life in prison without parole, as they seek to appeal their cases and prove their claims of innocence.
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'We have to come together like never before...' These stars have donated millions to California wildfires relief
Since 9 January, Los Angeles County has been ablaze in a string of devastating fires that have destroyed thousands of properties. Home to the rich and famous, some of them have lost everything and some of them have been incredibly generous with their donations to help La La Land get through this tough time.