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Homicide detectives from the State Crime Command have charged a 46-year-old woman with the murder of 77-year-old Peter McCarthy, a South Coogee resident. McCarthy was found dead in a unit on Elphinstone Road, South Coogee, on December 20, 2020, with severe head and facial injuries. A post-mortem examination confirmed the
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A deadly confrontation unfolded at the US Capitol on Wednesday after President Trump summoned supporters to Washington for a rally, with pro-Trump rioters storming the building as lawmakers met to certify the president's election loss to Joe Biden. The afternoon's violence left five people dead, including
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Erika Shields, former Atlanta police chief who stepped down after a police officer shot and killed Rayshard Brooks in a Wendy's parking lot, has been selected to lead the Louisville Metro Police Department. Shields will take over on January 19, nearly a year after the shooting death of
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On December 30th, the Baghdad Anti-Crime Directorate announced the arrest of numerous suspects in various capital districts, including those accused of murder, human trafficking, electronic extortion, and theft. The operation resulted in the apprehension of individuals accused of multiple crimes, including homicide, kidnapping, forgery, and car theft. The detachments of
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David Anthony, a Florida man, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and kidnapping charges in connection with the death of his wife, Gretchen Anthony. According to the investigation, Gretchen's remains were found three miles away from the couple's Jupiter home, where she was killed on March 21.
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President Trump on Tuesday pardoned four US security contractors convicted in the 2007 killing of 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, ending a long legal saga and right-wing cause celebre. The pardons, part of a list of 20 granted by Trump with less than a month remaining in his presidency,
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In a major victory for the Jewish community, a German court has handed down a life sentence to a white supremacist terrorist who attacked a synagogue in Halle, Germany on Yom Kippur last year, murdering two people outside the building. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has welcomed the verdict, citing its
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At approximately 5:00 a.m., members of the K.I. Police Service and Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a report of a fire at a local residence on Macheetao Road in the community of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation. The investigation was conducted by members of the OPP North
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The Senate of Nigeria on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) over the extrajudicial killing of Chinedu Obi, a final-year student of the University of Port Harcourt. The student was arrested on July 19, 2019, after a disagreement with a phone seller, who accused him
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Prosecutors in Los Angeles have decided to re-try the decades-old murder case against Kenneth Earl Gay, who is charged with the 1983 shooting death of Officer Paul Verna. The incoming district attorney, George Gascon, has pledged not to seek the death penalty, despite the victim's family's
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The Senate of Nigeria has condemned the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) for its handling of the death of Chinedu Obi, a final-year student of the University of Port Harcourt, who was killed in custody. According to a petition by Omemiroro Ogedegbe, the lawyer to Obi's family, the deceased
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Three federal-death row inmates, Alfred Bourgeois, Cory Johnson, and Dustin Higgs, have been scheduled for execution by Attorney General William P. Barr for their roles in the murders of multiple victims. Bourgeois abused and killed his own daughter, while Johnson murdered seven people in furtherance of his drug-trafficking activities. Higgs
