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A 14-year-old girl has been charged with three counts of attempted murder and two charges of possessing a bladed article on school premises after stabbing two fellow students and a staff member at Co-op Academy in Blackley, Manchester. The incident occurred on Tuesday morning. The injured parties in
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A Thai woman has been charged with murder in connection with the death of an American diplomat found dead at the Sakura Residence + Hotel in Yangon, Myanmar. According to The Guardian , CBS News , and Al Jazeera , the incident occurred on May 11 at a facility commonly used by diplomats and internati
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Opening statements began Wednesday in the federal arson trial of Jonathan Rinderknecht, a former Uber driver accused of deliberately setting the blaze that became one of Los Angeles' deadliest wildfires. According to multiple reports, Rinderknecht, 30, was indicted on three felony counts: destructio
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Violent anti-immigration protests erupted in Belfast following a brutal stabbing attack that left Stephen Ogilvie seriously injured and blinded in his left eye. Hadi Alodid, a Sudanese man in his 30s, was charged with attempted murder, possession of a knife in public, and making threats to kill. The
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Geoffrey Wall, a former Air Canada captain, has been arrested for allegedly flying hundreds of flights without the proper license for nearly 17 years. According to Peel Regional Police, Wall was charged with fraud and other offenses following a four-month investigation known as Project Icarus. The p
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Lesley Groff, Jeffrey Epstein’s former executive assistant, testified before the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday, asserting that she was unaware of his crimes despite working for him for nearly 20 years. According to multiple reports, Groff claimed that Epstein manipulated her and kept his illi
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Nick Reiner, accused of murdering his parents Rob and Michele Singer Reiner , is seeking access to a $1.5 million trust fund established by them for his legal defense. According to multiple reports, the 32-year-old's civil attorneys filed a petition in Los Angeles County court claiming trustees have
Kellie Melinda Williams, a 31-year-old American Airlines flight attendant, died after being struck by a boat while snorkeling off Hollywood Beach in Florida. According to CBS News and Fox News, her body was discovered around 8 p.m. on June 3rd by fishermen near New Mexico Street. The Florida Fish an
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Actor James Handy , known for his roles in films like 'Jumanji' and 'Top Gun: Maverick,' was allegedly killed by his girlfriend's son, according to police reports. The incident occurred on Wednesday morning at a residence in the 19200 block of Erwin Street in Tarzana. The Los Angeles Police Departme
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A series of stabbings at New York’s Penn Station on Sunday evening left six people hospitalized, including one seriously injured and another whose condition remains unclear. Authorities reported that a male suspect is in custody following the incident. The attacks occurred around 7 p.m., according t
At least 12 people were shot near a busy street festival in Toledo, Ohio on Saturday evening. According to multiple reports from NPR and PBS NewsHour, no suspects were in custody hours after the shooting occurred. The gunfire erupted near the Old West End Festival, an annual event featuring live mus
Multiple people were shot Saturday afternoon near a community street festival in Toledo, Ohio, according to authorities. The incident occurred around 5:30 p.m. near the Old West End Festival, a two-day celebration featuring live music, food vendors, home tours, and shopping. The Toledo Police Depart
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Karmelo Anthony was sentenced to 35 years in prison for fatally stabbing Austin Metcalf during a high school track meet on April 2, 2025. The confrontation occurred at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas when both teenagers were 17 years old. The trial lasted just one week from jury selection to ver
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Michael Gledhill, 44, has been charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of veteran Hollywood actor James Handy. The attack occurred early Wednesday morning at his girlfriend's home in Tarzana, Los Angeles. The Los Angeles County District Attorney , Nathan J. Hochman, said that if convicted, Gledhil
Brendan Banfield, a former IRS law enforcement officer from Virginia, was sentenced to life in prison without parole for orchestrating the murders of his wife Christine and Joseph Ryan. The scheme involved an affair with their Brazilian au pair Juliana Peres Magalhães, who testified against Banfield
The US State Department has intervened in the controversy surrounding the murder of Henry Nowak in the UK, criticizing what it termed 'two-tier policing' practices. Nowak, an 18-year-old student from Essex, was stabbed by Vickrum Digwa on December 3, 2025, while walking home alone in Southampton. De
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An Arkansas judge has dismissed murder charges against Aaron Spencer, a former Army veteran and GOP nominee for sheriff, who shot and killed Michael Fosler. Fosler was accused of sexually assaulting Spencer's teenage daughter. The dismissal came after law enforcement mishandled evidence from the das
Karen Read has filed a lawsuit against the Massachusetts State Police and the town of Canton, alleging that investigators engaged in misconduct and negligence while probing her boyfriend's death. The complaint, filed Thursday in Bristol County Superior Court, claims that an "embedded culture of bigo
A Colorado appeals court has reversed homicide convictions against two paramedics in the high-profile case involving the death of Elijah McClain. The ruling, issued on Thursday, orders new trials for Aurora Fire Rescue paramedics Jeremy Cooper and Peter Cichuniec, who were found guilty of criminally
A Los Angeles County jury has awarded $176 million in damages to the family of two young brothers killed by socialite Rebecca Grossman and former baseball player Scott Erickson in a 2020 car crash. The verdict, returned Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, found both defendants negligent and act
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Jamshid Ghomi , a dual Iranian-U.S. national, was arrested at his $35 million ocean-view mansion in Newport Coast, California, for allegedly smuggling U.S. technology to Iran's military and nuclear programs. The 63-year-old CEO of Faraz Pardaz Rayaneh Co. Ltd , a Tehran-based computer networking com
Federal charges have been filed against Juan Gabriel Reyes , 51, for attempting to open an exit door mid-flight on a Frontier Airlines plane and assaulting an off-duty flight attendant. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida, Reyes is charged with interference w
A man holding hostages inside a California office building was shot and killed by the FBI early Wednesday after a 15-hour standoff. The incident began around 1 p.m. Tuesday when officers responded to a bomb threat at the Chase Bank building in downtown Bakersfield, which also houses a school distric
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The Court of Appeal will review the sentence handed to Vickrum Digwa for murdering Henry Nowak after a referral by the solicitor general. According to The Guardian , Ellie Reeves, the solicitor general, described the case as 'horrifying' and initiated the review under the unduly lenient sentence sch
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