Missouri executes a man for the 1998 killing of a woman despite her family’s calls to spare his life
BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — Missouri executes a man for the 1998 killing of a woman despite her family’s calls to spare his life.
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Miami HeraldAn A-list actor was at one of Diddy’s infamous parties. Then he ‘stormed out’: report
The rapper remains behind bars
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Kentucky man forced out of his own home after his friends claimed 'squatters rights' and got a court order
From a gesture of good will to a legal nightmare.
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Ontario man who posted hospital selfie with woman's dying father sentenced to 60 days in jail
A London, Ont., man., who posted a selfie online showing him with a dying man in a Windsor hospital last year has received two months of jail time. Bubba Pollock is an activist who's protested against drag queens and drag storytimes. He was sentenced in a Windsor courtroom on Friday for his actions against Britt Leroux and the Windsor woman's terminally ill father."I'm happy that he's gonna be held responsible," Leroux said outside court. "I'm fearful that he's not going to learn anything in jai
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Toronto woman charged with murder in three deaths in three days: police
TORONTO — A Toronto woman is accused of killing three people over three days – allegedly targeting two of them at random – in three different southern Ontario cities this week, police said Friday as investigators work to determine if she could be linked to any other cases across the province.
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Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard found not guilty of sexual assault
Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard was found not guilty Friday of sexually assaulting a young woman in northeastern Ontario eight years ago, the culmination of a roughly two-week trial that saw both the singer and his accuser paint starkly different pictures of what happened.
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Wife Was Caught on Dashcam Injecting Husband with Poison, Which Killed Him in Minutes: ‘Get Off of Me!'
Amanda Hovanec, 37, pleaded guilty to distributing a controlled substance that resulted in the death of her husband Timothy in April 2022
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A French judge in a shocking rape case allows the public to see some of the video evidence
PARIS (AP) — A French judge in the trial of dozens of men accused of raping an unconscious woman whose now former husband had repeatedly drugged her so that he and others could assault her decided on Friday to allow the public to see some of the video recordings of the alleged rapes.
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Australian guilty of assault for cable-tying kids
Images of Matej Radelic restraining the three distressed children made global headlines in March.
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Husband, Roommates Arrested as Body of Missing Jessica Barnes Found Weeks After Mom Received Unsettling Texts
Jessica Barnes' husband Brandon Barnes has been charged with murder in connection with her death
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Parents turn in children after police release photos from flash mob robberies, LAPD says
Parents have turned their children in following flash mob robberies at several stores in the Los Angeles area, the LAPD says.
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Tech Tycoon Mike Lynch's Suspected Cause of Death Revealed Weeks After Sicily Yacht Sinking
The British businessman and his 18-year-old daughter were among seven people who died after the 'Bayesian' went down in the water in mid-August
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Factory workers in Tennessee were swept away by Helene. Their families say they weren’t allowed to leave work in time to flee
The last time Elías Ibarra Mendoza heard his wife’s voice, she was pleading for his help.
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Woman raped and killed on bench in Southall - court
A homeless man is on trial accused of the rape and manslaughter of Natalie Shotter.
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Ex-boyfriend charged after 2 women found dead in Courtice: police
A 33-year-old man has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder in the death of two women in Courtice earlier this week, Durham police say.Police say the accused is the ex-boyfriend of Katrina Zwolinksi, 30, who was found dead along with Laurie Crew, 67, at a home east of Toronto on Tuesday. A child was also found at the home unharmed, police said earlier.Officers were called to the residence on Moulton Court in the community of Courtice, which is part of Clarington, at around 1:10 p.
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Grandparents found hugging each other after fallen tree killed them in their South Carolina home
As Hurricane Helene roared outside, the wind howling and branches snapping, John Savage went to his grandparents' bedroom to make sure they were OK.
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Ex-Houston officer rushed away in an ambulance during sentencing at double-murder trial
HOUSTON (AP) — The sentencing of a former Houston police officer convicted of murder in the deaths of a couple during a 2019 drug raid was put on hold Thursday after he suffered a medical emergency in the courtroom.
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Okla. Sheriff's Office Saves Dog Abandoned in Tiny, Locked Room After Owners Moved Away
'This is one of the toughest parts of his job: when people abandon their pets,' Okla. County Deputy Sheriff Joe Hager said
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Here's what the jury didn't hear in Jacob Hoggard's sexual assault trial
A jury has found Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard not guilty of sexually assaulting a young woman in northeastern Ontario eight years ago.
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Yazidi woman freed from Gaza after decade in captivity
A 21-year-old woman kidnapped by Islamic State militants in Iraq a decade ago was freed from Gaza this week in a secret operation months in the making that involved Israel, the United States and Iraq, officials said. The woman is a member of the ancient Yazidi religious minority mostly found in Iraq and Syria which saw more than 5,000 members killed and thousands more kidnapped in an IS campaign in 2014 that the U.N. has said constituted genocide. She was freed after more than four months of efforts that involved several attempts that failed due to the difficult security situation resulting from Israel's military offensive in Gaza, Silwan Sinjaree, chief of staff of Iraq's foreign minister, told Reuters.
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He murdered his wife and stabbed their daughter. Was it 1st-degree murder and attempted murder?
There isn't much evidence that's in dispute at the trial of Hamid Ayoub.Both sides agree that on June 15, 2021, he parked his car near the home his estranged wife shared with their two children, about 20 minutes after getting an email from a tracking device he had hidden months earlier on a vehicle used by the children.Surveillance video captured him walking to the scene.With murderous intent — and after years of physical and emotional abuse that caused his family to leave him and call 911 multi