Suspects in Kansas City Chiefs fans' deaths plead not guilty
Woman arrested on suspicion of murder
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Police found boy, now 14, after responding to a burglary call and arresting his mother, who didn’t have custody of him
A boy who was allegedly taken by his mother, who didn’t have custody of him, seven years ago from Atlanta was found last month in Colorado after the mother was arrested in an unrelated incident in suburban Denver, authorities said on Wednesday.
Rabia Khalid, 40, was arrested on 23 February after sheriff’s deputies were asked to investigate a suspected burglary taking place at a vacant home that was for sale, the Douglas county sheriff’s office said. The deputies found two children in a vehicle outside the property and a man and a woman coming out of the home who initially told them they were working for a realtor, it said in a press release.
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The former soldier previously admitted to murdering a BBC commentator’s wife and their two daughters in a crossbow attack at their home in Bushey
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Prosecutors said Kyle Clifford searched for Tate’s podcast less than 24 hours before the killings
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Kyle Clifford, 26, had already admitted murdering Louise Hunt, her sister Hannah and their mother, Carol
A former soldier has been found guilty of raping his ex-girlfriend before murdering her with a crossbow in a “final act of spite”.
Kyle Clifford, 26, shot dead Louise Hunt, 25, and her sister Hannah Hunt, 28, with a crossbow and fatally stabbed their mother, Carol Hunt, 61, during a four-hour attack at their home in Bushey, Hertfordshire, on 9 July last year. The women were the wife and daughters of the BBC racing commentator John Hunt.
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Northumbria Police said it had received a report of ‘malicious communications’ on Thursday morning
Baby Callum was found close to Gulliver’s World theme park in Warrington, Cheshire, on March 14 1998
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Five women have told their stories on cameras for the first time, after being deceived into long-term relationships designed to spy on their activism
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Couple ‘brutally’ executed their Argentinian mastiff after drinking heavily, court in Auxerre, France heard
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Cumbria Constabulary said there is no indication to suggest it was a deliberate act
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Caroline Darian has written a new book So That We May Remember about the Dominique Pelicot rape scandal
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Michael Ivory Fletcher alleged to have entered at least seven stores, loaded cart with Lego items and left quickly
A man in California has been charged with nabbing about $25,000 of Lego in two state counties, according to officials.
Michael Ivory Fletcher, 32, is accused of stealing the Lego products from Target stores in Walnut Creek and San Ramon between 15 August 2024 and 15 February 2025, according to the Contra Costa district attorney’s office. He faces multiple charges of commercial burglary and grand theft.
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A married man in his 30s said he was placed on the sex offenders register after his porn addiction escalated into viewing child sexual abuse images
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Tiffany jewelry worth $770,000 allegedly gulped during arrest ‘will need to be collected … after they are passed’
A suspected thief gulped down two pairs of diamond earrings during his arrest on the side of a Florida Panhandle highway last week, detectives say, leaving them with the unenviable task of waiting to “collect” the Tiffany & Co jewelry worth nearly $770,000.
An X-ray of the suspect’s torso showed what the Orlando police department believed to be the diamond earrings – a white mass shining brightly against the grey backdrop of his digestive tract.
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Driver arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving after the incident at Kendal Rugby Union Football Club in Cumbria
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Kyle Clifford deceived his ex-partner’s mother Carol Hunt into allowing him into their family home
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Police say it could be ‘extraordinary amount of time’ before scale of crimes is known, as UCL student convicted of raping 10 women
Zhenhao Zou thought, acted and offended as if he was untouchable. When detectives searched the south London flat he rented for thousands of pounds a month, they found the trappings of a comfortable, if not lavish, lifestyle.
DCI Richard Mackenzie said of the search in January 2024: “There were designer bags, jewellery, a Rolex, designer clothes, some in the wardrobe with the tags still on.”
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Police conclude a large number of victims remain unidentified as they say they are still trawling through 6.5 terabytes of data on rapist’s devices
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Xhoni Leka was jailed for over three years for running a large-scale cannabis farm in Whitehaven, Cumbria
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Police hunt killers of Lathaniel Burrell, who reported fled scene in Stockwell on a moped
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Zhenhao Zou had filmed his victims on a secret camera which was later discovered by the Met Police
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The pair inflicted ‘severe psychological harm’ to their victims, judge says
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How a group of Silicon Valley math prodigies, AI researchers and internet burnouts descended into an alleged violent cult
Years before she became the peculiar central thread linking a double homicide in Pennsylvania, the fatal shooting of a federal agent in Vermont and the murder of an elderly landlord in California, a computer programmer bought a sailboat.
The programmer was known to friends, foes and followers as Ziz. She had come to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2016 as part of an influx of young people arriving to study the dangers that artificial intelligence could pose to humanity.
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Nearly one in 10 women who have died at the hands of men in the UK in the past 15 years were killed by their sons. Here are 10 such cases
A report has revealed that more than 170 mothers across the UK have been killed by their sons in the past 15 years – nearly one in 10 of all women who died at the hands of men.
Here we look at 10 cases of mothers killed by their sons. They underline the range of ages, backgrounds and family circumstances of the victims and perpetrators, and some key factors – most strikingly, mental health problems – that led to the killings.
In the UK, Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123 and the domestic abuse helpline is 0808 2000 247. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is on 13 11 14 and the national family violence counselling service is on 1800 737 732. In the US, the suicide prevention lifeline is 1-800-273-8255 and the domestic violence hotline is 1-800-799-SAFE (7233). Other international helplines can be found via www.befrienders.org
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The incident caused a brief power cut for over 1,000 homes
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Annabel Mackey, 2, was discovered at Kingsley Pond after she went missing from her home nearby
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The boy died after being shot in Paradise Road in Clapham on Tuesday afternoon
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