8 h. ago Mum and stepdad 'abandon daughter, 14, in home filled with dog faeces and urine'

Employees at a store noticed a young girl stumbling as she walked outside - they called the police and discovered she had been 'abandoned at home with seven dogs after her parents moved away'

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53 h. ago Moment brazen bag thief prowling St Pancras arrested by undercover police

Hossein Rabah, 34, was jailed within 24 hours of swiping £600 worth of possessions at the central London station

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57 h. ago Gangster's moll who flaunted £40,000 of Rolexes, Gucci clothes and trips to Dubai bought with drug cash is locked up

Police found £40,000 of upmarket goods when they arrested Whitney-Marie Walker, 23, and her partner, Fred Cook, who police had identified as a 'principal member' of an underworld gang.

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4 d. ago Shooter who killed Brown students and MIT professor planned attack for months, says DOJ

The U.S. Department of Justice reveals that Claudio Neves Valente, the shooter who killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor, had planned the attack for at least six semesters

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8 d. ago Police and rape experts warn women are being duped by a firm selling self

Thousands of women are being 'misled' by a firm selling self-swab rape kits as a 'deterrent' which could lead to attackers walking free, police have warned.

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1 week ago Hilarious moment bank robbers who drilled 18ins into vault in brazen ‘£30m’ Xmas heist PAY for parking before fleeing

THIS is the comical moment a gang of bank robbers politely paid for their parking - just moments after pulling off a heist potentially worth tens of millions. Bizarre footage shows a masked man, dressed in a grey jumper and balaclava, calmly feeding coins into a parking metre, slotting them in one by one. He...

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1 week ago Moment comedian's bag is stolen from under her seat by brazen thieves in London restaurant

Cally Beaton was sitting in a diner, enjoying a meal on Marylebone High Street in central London, when two brazen thieves sneakily swiped her bag.

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1 week ago Powerful winter storm to batter much of US with snow, rain and strong winds

Snowy holiday season in the upper midwest and north-east comes as a cold front is expected to hit the southA powerful winter storm was sweeping east from the Plains on Sunday, driven by what meteorologists describe as an intense cyclone that is expected to impact much of the US with a mixture of snow, ice, rain and strong winds.“Part of the storm system is getting heavy snow, other parts of the storm along the cold front are getting higher winds and much colder temperatures as the front passes,” said Bob Oravec, a lead forecaster at the National Weather Service (NWS) office in College Park, Maryland. “They’re all related to each other – different parts of the country will be receiving different effects from this storm.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Brown shooting suspect: gruelling academic climate may have taken mental toll, say ex

Cláudio Valente and one of victims, Nuno FG Loureiro, both studied at notoriously challenging Técnico in LisbonAs investigators in Massachusetts work to piece together a motive for the murders of two Brown University students and an MIT physics professor, former classmates of the suspected gunman and one of the victims have been asking if the roots of the tragedy lie in their shared experience at a top university in Portugal.The suspected gunman, Cláudio Valente, and one of those killed, Nuno FG Loureiro, studied at the prestigious and notoriously challenging University of Lisbon engineering and technology school, known locally as Técnico, both graduating in 2000. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Police probe mystery death of man, 20, found under a viaduct

Officers rushed to the scene at the Collegewood Viaduct in Penryn near Falmouth in West Cornwall where they made the tragic discovery of the young man's body at 8.40am on April 27.

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2 w. ago My daughter was in the Brown University library, hiding under the desk | Sarah Ruhl

This normalization of gun violence in the US – who is it serving? Why can we not collectively make this not normal again?On her first day of fourth grade, wearing her magenta spectacles, my daughter Anna arrived to the Big School where she couldn’t reach the drinking fountains. She was small for her age, in terms of stature, though she had big ideas.I went to pick her up that afternoon, the first day of school, and I looked eagerly at all the young faces streaming out the door, but no Anna. The high schoolers flooded out, then the middle schoolers. Still no Anna. I started to get that mother panic vibration thing in my belly and I called the lower middle school office.Sarah Ruhl is a playwright, essayist, teacher, mother of three and Brown University graduate. Her most recent book is Lessons from my Teachers, from preschool to the present. Her collaboration with A Great Big World, the musical Wonder, is at American Repertory Theater in Boston through February Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Moment brazen shoplifter arrested on Oxford Street after trying to evade facial recognition cameras

Officers detain woman, in her 50s, minutes after she gave store security staff the slip during Christmas theft spree

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2 w. ago Hundreds mourn Brown University sophomore Ella Cook, killed in campus shooting

Hundreds of Alabama funeralgoers mourned a Brown University sophomore killed in a recent campus attack

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2 w. ago Police investigate as two women killed walking down road in horror crash

The two victims suffered catastrophic injuries and were pronounced dead at the scene in Bolton

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3 w. ago MIT scientist poised to upend fossil fuel industry before assassination linked to Brown University shooter

The murdered MIT professor, Nuno Loureiro, was leading a potentially world-changing effort to upend the fossil fuel industry when we was fatally shot Monday.

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3 w. ago Insane twist of fate for homeless hero who cracked Brown shooter case amid hapless feds' FIVE

The tipster, known under the pseudonym John, who cracked the Brown University shooter case is no longer living on the streets and 'being taken care of' by the feds.

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3 w. ago Brown University shooting suspect died two days before body discovered, autopsy shows

Suspect killed himself after allegedly killing an MIT professor and two Brown University studentsAn autopsy report on the suspect in the mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of an MIT professor in Massachusetts has shown that he died from by suicide two days before he was found in a storage locker on Thursday.The New Hampshire attorney general’s report estimates that Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, a Portuguese national who had been living in the US, died on 16 December, the same day that his fellow countryman, MIT nuclear physics professor Nuno Loureiro died at a hospital in Massachusetts. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘Reddit Detective Agency’ learned from past mistakes before crucial Brown University shooter tip

The latest AI-powered surveillance was of little use in the early search for the Brown University shooter

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3 w. ago How a Reddit post helped police find vital clue in Brown University shooting

An amateur detective was the one who helped police in the huge manhunt for the Browns University shooter in Rhode Island - as he posted a tip off on Reddit of his encounter with the man

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3 w. ago Fears black cab rapist John Worboys will walk free after police drop rape probe

Detectives in Lancashire have dropped a probe into one of Britain's worst serial sex offenders over a historic allegation of rape, paving the way for him to walk free

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