Chicago Tribune

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CHICAGO - A Chicago woman who allegedly wore a "Scream" mask while repeatedly stabbing another woman after breaking into an apartment where the victim was dog sitting was held without bond Sunday. Patricia Calhoun-Murdock, 20, of the 8400 block of So

WHO

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As a little girl Pearl Nelson would listen to stories her uncle told her about the mother she never knew – how despite a troubled life of prostitution and drug abuse, Audrey Nelson delighted in buying presents for her baby girl, including a lamp that

Chat

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As Nou Loeung, then 33, sat down with his wife and kids and his friend, Duc Le, for dinner, all he could hear was his family chattering away happily. It was 12 February 2016 and they were enjoying a quiet evening in. Only, suddenly, they were interru

NPR

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Simon Bramhall, who used a medical device to etch his initials onto at least two livers during transplant surgeries, pleaded guilty to two counts of assault.

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES - Families of the Golden State Killer's victims have waited decades for answers, and on Wednesday they could see the face of a man police suspect in a years-long series of crimes. Authorities arrested a 72-year-old Citrus Heights resident

Chat

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I can still remember my husband Darren, then 31, setting off on his motorbike on his way to work at London Stansted Airport as a baggage handler. It was July 2000 and, as I watched him ride out of our road, I didn’t know it was the last time I’d see

Newsweek

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Updated | Too bad Mark Swidan and Wendell Brown don’t play basketball for UCLA. Unlike the three Bruins players China expelled after President Donald Trump intervened in November, Swidan and Brown could spend another Christmas behind bars in China. W

Chicago Tribune

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CHICAGO - A mother and her daughter have been charged in the killing of a 19-year-old pregnant woman who was strangled before her baby boy was cut from her womb. At a news conference Thursday, Chicago police officials said detectives found coaxial ca

Family Tree UK

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Glamorgan County Asylum Records 1845-1920 contains asylum registers for Cardiff from 1845 to 1920. The database includes admission and discharge registers, burial records and indexes to case notes. Some of the records include extra details about a pa

New Idea

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The woman’s body was found by a local teenager, in a bed of brambles in a quiet, overgrown part of Sydney’s Queens Park. A small, slight woman named Iris Marriott had been bludgeoned to death by her attacker. Five months earlier, in July 1932, anoth

Los Angeles Times

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SANTA ANA, Calif. - Orange County prosecutors charged a former schoolmate of Ivy League college student Blaze Bernstein with murder on Wednesday. Samuel Lincoln Woodward, 20, was arrested Friday after DNA evidence at the crime scene in Borrego Park a

Chicago Tribune

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AURORA, Ill. - A college student home on spring break beat his mother to death with a baseball bat in the middle of the night, thinking she was an intruder and believing he was acting in self-defense, Kane County prosecutors said. Those same prosecut

The Marshall Project

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"This isn’t a place that provides treatment, help, or even empathy to those who suffer from stress, depression, and mental illness."

The Independent

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A woman accused of abandoning her newborn baby in a dumpster 14 years ago has been arrested, according to authorities in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Tara Brazzle, aged 44, reportedly admitted to police that she was the mother of the newborn, whose deat

Los Angeles Times

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The secretary of a local Republican Party in Florida, who was convicted in a brutal 2007 hammer attack on a high school classmate in Los Angeles, can keep his position, state party leaders have decided. Rupert Tarsey was elected to the Broward County

Chicago Tribune

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CHICAGO - Alderman Proco "Joe" Moreno has been charged with insurance fraud and obstruction of justice after falsely reporting that his Audi sedan had been stolen in January, according to Chicago police. Moreno was taken into custody Tuesday night on

Post South Africa

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SOLOMON Lazarus, the former chief financial officer of Crime Intelligence, has been granted leave to appeal against his 10-year sentence for using state funds to buy vehicles for himself and his children. Four vehicles amounting to almost R238 000 we

PC Gamer

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This contains all the clues, testimony, and observations you’ve gathered, and helpfully directs you towards the next step in the investigation. Here you’ll try to find connections between clues so you can form deductions, of which you’ll once again

Woman's Day

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A group of escaped convicts invade a lake house occupied by a fractured family, and it’s up to the spunky and rebellious daughter Becky (Lulu Wilson) to save them. It stars Joel McHale, as well as a career-defining performance from Kevin James. IN

Chat

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With her sun-kissed skin that made her strawberry-blonde hair shine and her blue eyes sparkle, Ashlee Brown was your ‘typical Aussie girl’. She loved the beach, singing, dancing and, like most teenagers, couldn’t wait to spread her wings. By the time

Choice Magazine

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Remember when motorists had to have those little parking lights that you hung on the offside front window then wound your window up? In a built up area you had to have the lights on if you were within 30ft of a junction. The night patrol sergeant kin

NPR

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For more than two years, activists say, Buck has avoided being charged with a crime because he is white, wealthy and politically connected.

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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On a quiet Friday afternoon last year, Diane Hunt was happily prepping dinner for her son Matthew Hunt, a young constable with the New Zealand Police, who’d planned to visit after his shift. She’d bought fresh ingredients to make his favourite salmon

Shooting Times & Country

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Bedfordshire Police has assigned an officer to investigate whether a criminal offence was committed by the RSPB when it published advice on baiting electric fences (News, 24 November 2021). A controversial manual published by the charity included adv

Woman's Day Magazine NZ

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A group of escaped convicts invade a lake house occupied by a fractured family, and it’s up to the spunky and rebellious daughter Becky (Lulu Wilson) to save them. It stars Joel McHale, as well as a career-defining performance from Kevin James. IN

Shooting Times & Country

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Ill-considered use of messaging apps and social media has proven to be yet another wildlife criminal’s downfall. Mark Bond, 38, of Westwood Road, Maidstone, was found guilty of killing a fallow deer and causing unnecessary suffering to a dog after a

NPR

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The All Things Considered host is retiring in January. He recalls memorable stories on parole boards in Alabama, policing in Baltimore, and the exoneration of a man convicted for murder in New Jersey.

PC Gamer (US Edition)

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This contains all the clues, testimony, and observations you’ve gathered, and helpfully directs you towards the next step in the investigation. Here you’ll try to find connections between clues so you can form deductions, of which you’ll once again b

Tribune Content Agency Opinions

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True to his profession, actor Jussie Smollett reacted to his sentence of jail time for his hate-crime hoax, with the passion of a courtroom drama. As he was about to be escorted out of the courtroom in Chicago to begin serving 150 days in custody, he

High Country News

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Poachers began to target bigleaf maple trees in the Pacific Northwest in the early 2000s for the beautiful three-dimensional patterns found in some specimens’ grain. In Washington’s Gifford Pinchot National Forest, thieves often felled trees in the m