6 h. ago Man charged with killing N.B. woman in intimate partner violence investigation

The RCMP say a 31-year-old man has been charged with manslaughter and indignity to human remains in the death of 26-year-old Sarah Teakles.

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33 h. ago Luigi Mangione indicted on federal charges in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO

If Luigi Mangione is convicted in his federal trial, it will be left to the jury to decide whether or not to recommend the death penalty.

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5 d. ago UnitedHealthcare CEO killing suspect Mangione indicted on death penalty

NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione was indicted Thursday on a federal murder charge in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a necessary step for prosecutors to seek the death penalty. The indictment returned by a grand jury in Manhattan federal court also charges Mangione with two counts of stalking and a firearms count. It […]

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5 d. ago MANDEL: ‘System in shambles’ lets alleged careless driver who killed pedestrian walk

There will be no kind of justice for an elderly pedestrian hit and killed by a vehicle just over 18 months ago in Toronto. An alleged careless driver accused of killing the man has had his charges stayed because it took too long to get to trial in provincial offences court. And Justice of the […]

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6 d. ago MANDEL: How many more women have to be killed on their way out the door?

Miranda Craig Doff is working on her PhD on gender-based violence — but even she had no idea her younger sister Brittany was herself a victim of intimate partner violence. She would only learn that horrible reality on Jan. 3, 2022 after her sister’s “on-again, off-again” partner, Kadeem Nedrick, stabbed her to death in front […]

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6 d. ago Berlin doctor charged with murder after 15 patients die under palliative care

The victims' ages ranged from 25 to 94. Most died in their own homes

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6 d. ago Berlin doctor charged with the killings of 15 patients under palliative care

BERLIN — A doctor in Berlin has been charged with murder over the deaths of 15 patients under palliative care, prosecutors said Wednesday. He is also accused of trying to cover up the evidence by starting fires in their homes. The doctor was part of a nursing service’s end-of-life care team and was initially suspected […]

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9 d. ago CRIME SCENE: 1 dead, 1 critically hurt in suspected impaired driving crash

A 23-year-old from Brampton is facing impaired driving charges after a passenger in their vehicle was killed and another was critically injured during a single-vehicle crash in Caledon. Caledon OPP said emergency crews responded Sunday at about 1:30 a.m. in the Bramalea-Boston Mills Rds. area to find two people injured and one dead at the […]

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9 d. ago Wisconsin teen charged in parents’ deaths accused of plotting to kill Trump

MILWAUKEE — A Wisconsin teenager charged in the deaths of his parents faces wider allegations that he killed them to “obtain the financial means” to assassinate President Donald Trump and overthrow the government, according to a recently unsealed federal warrant. Nikita Casap, 17, was charged last month by Waukesha County authorities with first-degree murder, theft […]

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1 week ago Man facing murder charge after fatal altercation stemming from car collision

Justin Philip Cockburn was expected to appear in court Wednesday to be charged with killing 67-year-old Antonio Zaccagna.

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2 w. ago N.B. First Nation wants RCMP ‘held accountable’ after officer cleared in man’s death

Elisopogtog First Nation community members are upset after SiRT found no grounds for criminal charges against an RCMP officer who shot and killed a man during a wellness check. 

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2 w. ago Poilievre promises tougher penalties for intimate partner violence

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he will toughen the penalties for intimate partner violence if his party forms government after this election.

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2 w. ago Family says sentence too lenient for teen’s role in their son’s killing

Nearly a year after 16-year-old Ahmad Al Marrach was killed in Halifax, the first of four youths charged in connection to his death has been sentenced.

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2 w. ago Victim’s mother angered over teen girl’s sentence in mall parking lot killing

Nearly a year after 16-year-old Ahmad Al Marrach was killed in Halifax, the first of four youths charged in connection to his death has been sentenced.

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2 w. ago Teen charged with killing parents, lived with ‘rotting corpses’ for weeks in Wisconsin

Nikita Casap, 17, faces multiple charges, including first-degree intentional homicide in the deaths of his mother and stepfather.

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3 w. ago Intimate partner violence survivors sue feds over stalled cases, delays

The statement of claim alleges the plaintiffs have been denied justice due to strict time limits on criminal proceedings set by a landmark 2016 Supreme Court of Canada ruling.

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3 w. ago Man facing murder charge after inmate at Toronto prison killed: police

An inmate died in hospital a few days after being assaulted by another inmate at a jail in Toronto last Monday, according to police.

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3 w. ago U.S. Attorney General recommends death penalty for UnitedHealthcare killing suspect Luigi Mangione

Mangione, 26, faces separate federal and state murder charges for the killing. Prosecutors have said the two cases will proceed on parallel tracks

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3 w. ago Karen Read facing music again in second murder trial in Boston cop’s death

Accused killer Karen Read’s last-ditch effort to have her charges tossed has been torpedoed. On Tuesday, jury selection begins for the 45-year-old’s second murder trial in the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe. Read is accused of slamming into O’Keefe — a 16-year BPD veteran — with her vehicle. O’Keefe was left […]

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3 w. ago Driver facing charges in Brooklyn crash that killed mother, two children

NEW YORK — A woman is facing multiple charges after she crashed into a family out for a walk in Brooklyn, killing a mother and her two children in what New York City Mayor Eric Adams described as a “tragic accident of a Shakespearean proportion.” Miriam Yarimi was charged hours after the Saturday afternoon crash […]

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