14 h. ago Father of track meet murder suspect claims son was ‘not the one who started it’

‘He’s a good kid’ insisted the father of Karmelo Anthony, 17, who has been charged with the murder of Austin Metcalf, also 17

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27 h. ago Heartbroken dad of teen arrested for murder at Texas track meet claims his son 'didn't start it' and is a 'good kid'

Karmelo Anthony was arrested on suspicion of murder after the shocking incident, in which Austin Metcalf, also 17, was stabbed in a brawl over a seat at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco.

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4 d. ago Their children died together in horrific circumstances, now these parents have achieved something extraordinary

The petition was started by Crystal Owen following the death of her son Harvey, 17, and his three friends, Hugo Morris, 18, Wilf Fitchett, 17, and Jevon Hirst, 16 in Gwynedd

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6 d. ago Tiger Woods' son and Donald Trump's granddaughter receive startling news after golf performance

Charlie Woods and Kai Trump did not fare well at the Sage Valley Junior Invitational last week, but both teenagers received some positive news in the greater scheme of things

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8 d. ago Martin Kemp's startling marriage confession branded 'horrendous' by shocked son Roman

Roman Kemp was left taken aback after his dad Martin made a confusing marriage confession, with the pop star's comments leaving his famous son baffled

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1 week ago Jeff Brazier 'launches legal bid' to stop son Freddy from seeing his nan

Jeff Brazier has reportedly started legal proceedings to stop his 20 year old son Freddy - who he shares with late Big Brother star Jade Goody - from seeing his nan Jackiey Budden.

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2 w. ago Mum's holiday horror as baby turns 'lifeless and floppy' after getting in hotel pool

Morgan Kendall claims her one-year-old son Ritchie was lethargic and started vomiting within 30 minutes of playing in a hotel pool in Turkey on the £9,500 family holiday

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2 w. ago ‘He nails it on the first take’: how the Beatles helped my autistic son find his voice

After John Harris’s son was diagnosed, conversation always seemed focused on the things he would struggle with. But a shared passion for playing music grew into something James could do – brilliantlyI start playing songs to my son James from the moment he is born. If I’m given the job of rocking him back to sleep, I usually put on reggae: Junior Murvin’s Police and Thieves and Dawn Penn’s You Don’t Love Me (No, No, No) tend to do the trick. If my partner Ginny or I sing along to whatever is on the CD player, it brings him a gurgling kind of delight. In this, he is – obviously – no different from any other child. But not long after his first birthday, I get a sharp sense that music might speak to him in a particularly vivid, mood-altering way.I play James the title track of Clear Spot by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band only once. Its mixture of discordant guitar, growling vocals and knock-kneed drumming, I suspect, might strike him as curious and funny, like a big, monster-centr...

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4 w. ago Everybody Loves the Sunshine is just one point of perfection in Roy Ayers’ truly ubiquitous legacy | Alexis Petridis

Ayers’ genre-bending jazz-funk sound produced one fantastic album after another – and then found a new lease of life in hip-hop sampling• Roy Ayers, jazz-funk pioneer behind Everybody Loves the Sunshine, dies aged 84There’s a sense in which Roy Ayers was blessed from the start. Aged five, the son of two musicians – and by all accounts already showing talent as a pianist – he was famously presented with his first set of vibraphone mallets backstage at a gig by Lionel Hampton. If you wanted to take a romantic view, you could look on that as an act of benediction: the man who had more or less singlehandedly popularised an instrument that had previously been viewed as a novelty passing on the mantle along with his mallets. Hampton had broken racial barriers in the process: at a time when jazz bands were almost entirely segregated, Hampton and pianist Teddy Wilson’s work with Benny Goodman’s quartet was subtly acclaimed by one critic as “the most beautiful example of men working together...

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