A man has been arrested and charged following the death of a 58-year-old man in Annan.
Police were called out to a fire at a property on the town's Lady Street at about 06:55 on Tuesday.
It was put out by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and the body of a man subsequently found in the building.
Police said a 33-year-old man was expected to appear at Dumfries Sheriff Court.
Authorities say an alleged carjacking on the B.C. side of the Peace Arch border led to a long police chase down a Washington state highway Thursday before the driver, who was found to have a machete, was arrested.Around 12:40 p.m. PT, Richmond RCMP said officers responded to a report of a stolen vehicle. The owner of the vehicle was not injured, RCMP said.U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said the vehicle, a pickup truck, then sped into the Peace Arch border crossing, which connects Surre
Crystal Mangum, the woman who accused three Duke lacrosse players of rape, now says she lied about the encounter
The couple were attacked by gunmen while traveling in Angamacutiro in the state of Michoacán on Dec. 11, according to reports
HOUSTON (AP) — Prosecutors in Texas announced Friday that they will seek the death penalty against two Venezuelan men who are accused of killing a 12-year-old Houston girl after they had entered the U.S. illegally.
Earl Hollins was killed during a dispute with Anthony Ray Boyce on Friday, per police
"You have the unique ability to grant him clemency and rectify this grave injustice," reads a letter from U.S. senators and members of Congress.
The clerk reportedly told Mangione to return later in the day, when a room would be available
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal jury in Nevada has awarded more than $34 million to a woman who was arrested at age 18, wrongly convicted twice, and served nearly 16 years in a Nevada state prison for a 2001 killing she did not commit.
"They pull a blanket out of their bookbag, and they lay outside and go to sleep," said a neighbor about the boys
Victims of major public corruption cases in Pennsylvania and Illinois are angry that President Joe Biden granted clemency this week to the two convicted officials.
The three suits, filed in New York state on Thursday, allege the mogul drugged and sexually assaulted three men between 2019 and 2022
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The wife of a Wisconsin kayaker who faked his own drowning so he could leave her and their children and meet a woman in Eastern Europe filed court documents Thursday seeking to end their marriage.
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Filipino death row inmate Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso knelt to pray when officers came to take her to an execution site in May 2015, just a few feet away from her isolation cell on an Indonesian prison island, where a 13-member firing squad was waiting.
Eight people were hurt when a snowy wagon ride took a chaotic turn in Brockville, Ont., on Thursday afternoon, according to local police. Brockville police said the incident began around 1:30 p.m. on Front Avenue, where a man was offering horse-drawn wagon rides. Police said the horses became agitated during one trip and the driver lost control.The runaway horses pulled the wagon west, colliding with parked vehicles as they careened onto four-lane Stewart Boulevard, which connects Brockville's d
"One new brace for my wrist and some ice for my arm and it’ll heal just fine," the South Carolina Republican had written.
Edmonton police say eight more complainants have come forward since they announced a sexual assault charge against chiropractor Bradley Basaraba last month.Basaraba, 60, is now facing eight new sexual assault charges, city police said Thursday.In April of this year, a woman reported to police that Basaraba had inappropriately touched her while he provided a hip adjustment at his chiropractic clinic YEG Chiro and Neuro on Jasper Avenue.Following an investigation by Edmonton police, Basaraba was c
A US serviceman was sentenced to five years in prison for kidnapping and raping an underage girl last year, an official from Naha District Court on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa told CNN Friday.
The man accused of killing a security guard inside a central Edmonton apartment building last week has an extensive criminal history of violent crimes dating back more than a decade.Harshandeep Singh, 20, who had been on the job only three days, was gunned down early Dec. 6 while patrolling a building in the Central McDougall neighbourhood.Surveillance videos circulating online appear to show the moments leading up the shooting: a man in a yellow security jacket is shoved into a stairwell, then
Scott Jeff was handed a life sentence for the murder of Isabella Wheildon, two, and must serve at least 26 years.
Relatives of a western Quebec man killed in a workplace accident in 2023 said they were devastated his boss did not appear in person as his flooring company pleaded guilty to workplace safety charges on Thursday. Southgate Carpets was fined $100,000 plus a 25 per cent victim surcharge over workplace safety violations leading to the death of Ron Hill, 62, who died doing demolition work for his employer on a weekend in September 2023. As proceedings were under the Occupational Health and Safety Ac
