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Delaware prosecutors announced a landmark victory in their long-running case against the violent gang MGS, securing a 100% conviction rate with more than 100 years of confirmed prison time and multiple potential life sentences for the defendants. The State's efforts have been instrumental in reducing gun violence in
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Detectives investigating the disappearance of Justin Henry, 34, in south London have found a body in the boot of a car. The discovery was made during a forensic search of a red Nissan in Purley, near Croydon, where Henry's Mercedes had been found abandoned on October 16. Henry
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David Venables, a 90-year-old farmer, is being sued by his wife's family for compensation after being convicted of her murder in 2019. Brenda Venables had been missing since May 1982, and her remains were discovered during renovation work on the family's farm in Worcestershire. The lawsuit,
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In the ongoing trial of Elijah McClain's death, Aurora police officer Nathan Woodyard testified that he used a neck hold on the 23-year-old Black man because he feared for his life after another officer said McClain had grabbed for one of their guns. Woodyard's testimony contradicts
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Toby Kelly, 38, a man accused of killing an off-duty ambulance worker by driving over him in a pub car park, has pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Kelly admitted to being "mortal drunk" during the incident, which occurred at the Bay Horse Inn in Cramlington, on April 1. The
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The city of Lewiston, Maine, began its healing process on Saturday after a U.S. Army reservist, Robert Card, opened fire at a bowling alley and a bar, killing 18 people and injuring 13. The 40-year-old Card, who grew up in the area, was found dead in nearby Lisbon from
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Police in Maine have concluded the search for Robert Card, the suspect in the deadliest mass shooting of 2023, after finding his body on Friday night. Card, a firearms instructor believed to be in the US Army Reserve, had been accused of killing 18 people and injuring dozens more in
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Illinois mourners gathered at the funeral of 6-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume, a Palestinian American boy killed in a hate crime attack. Law enforcement officials allege that 71-year-old man stabbed the boy 26 times due to his Palestinian background and Muslim faith. Illinois State Representative Abdelnasser Rashid, also Palestinian American, attended the
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A 6-year-old boy, Wadea Al-Fayoume, was stabbed to death in his bedroom in suburban Chicago, allegedly due to hate for Muslims. Wadea's landlord, Joseph M. Czuba, 71, has been charged with murder, hate crimes, and aggravated battery. The attack drew widespread condemnations, with President Biden and Attorney General
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Artist Chintan Upadhyay's sketches, initially submitted as evidence by the police to show his "mental condition," were ultimately rejected by the sessions court due to lack of expert testimony to interpret their meaning. The court, however, convicted Chintan based on circumstantial evidence, including a retracted confession
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In a critical decision in the Southern District of Alabama, a federal court has denied a motion to stay a death penalty case, ruling that a prisoner's claim related to the repeal of Alabama's judicial override system in capital sentencing is "plainly meritless." The
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The Calcutta High Court on Friday overturned the death sentences of two convicts, Saiful Ali and Ansar Ali, in the 2013 rape and murder of a college girl at Kamduni in North 24-Parganas, and acquitted a third convict, Amin Ali, citing the state police's failure to establish charges
