91 m. ago Bob Weir was a songwriting powerhouse for the Grateful Dead – and the chief custodian of their legacy

‘The Kid’s jazz-influenced rhythm guitar made him utterly integral to the Dead and his later collaborations solidified the band’s influence over latter-day alt-rock• Bob Weir, co-founder of rock group the Grateful Dead, dies at age 78• Bob Weir: a life in picturesFor most of their career, the other members of the Grateful Dead referred to Bob Weir as “the Kid”. You can understand why. He was only 16 when the band that would ultimately become the Grateful Dead was founded. Moreover, Weir was implausibly fresh-faced and boyishly handsome, particularly compared to some of his bandmates. Jerry Garcia’s photo was used in one of Richard Nixon’s campaign broadcasts, a symbol of all that was wrong with US youth. Keyboard player Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, by all accounts sweet-natured, nevertheless gave off the air of a man who would strangle you with his bare hands as soon as look at you. Weir, on the other hand, somehow managed to look like the kind of charming young man a mother would be happ...

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7 h. ago Teen son wakes to find mum dead on floor on Christmas morning

Louise McKenzie, 38, wished her son Reece 'Merry Christmas' before bed - but when the 18-year-old woke up, she was already dead.

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23 h. ago Jeffrey Epstein’s brother says new autopsy details will be released in February and will prove pedophile was murdered

Multiple federal reviews have concluded Epstein died by suicide, but doubters continue to insist he died from foul play

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31 h. ago Mum, 38, found dead on the floor by her horrified teen son on Christmas Day

Reece Barrett's mum Louise McKenzie, 38, died suddenly on Christmas Day morning from a suspected brain haemorrhage after visiting doctors the previous day where she was diagnosed with an inflamed pancreas

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40 h. ago The astonishing litany of police blunders that left one family grieving a car crash victim who was still alive... and a second family clinging to hope when their beloved son was already dead

His parents, reeling from the loss of their 17-year-old son in a car crash two weeks before Christmas, had been to the funeral director with the clothes they'd wanted him dressed in for his final journey.

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40 h. ago Mother who killed her three young children then paralyzed herself in botched suicide attempt will 'very likely kill herself' during murder trial, lawyer says

Lindsay Clancy, 35, is accused of strangling her three children with exercise bands in the basement of her $750,000 Duxbury home.

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44 h. ago Swiss bar fire owner's dad admits son 'bears responsibility' for 40 dead after arrest

Jean Moretti confirmed his son Jacques' house is now under police protection after rising public anger over the Swiss ski bar fire tragedy, which also left 116 people injured

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63 h. ago Jealous' husband, 85, shot his wife dead before killing himself in murder

Robert Jobson, 84, shot his wife Rosemary, 69, twice before killing himself at their home in North Lincolnshire where they ran a shooting school, on July 14, 2023.

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68 h. ago Dad and son found dead had been reported missing months before 'murder

Police are awaiting post-mortem examination results to confirm their suspicions. They have said they are not seeking anyone else in connection with the deaths

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2 d. ago Horror as dad and son found dead in suspected murder suicide

Oisin O'Reilly, 11, was found dead at a house in Clondalkin, West Dublin, on Thursday morning after his father Wayne O'Reilly, 48, was discovered dead at a property in Ballyfermot

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3 d. ago Horror as bodies of father and young son, 11 found in 'suspected murder suicide'

The bodies of a man and a child have been found in two separate locations in Clondalkin and Ballyfermot, west Dublin, with Gardai launching an investigation into the discoveries

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3 d. ago Nick Reiner's lawyer quits case during hearing for film star charged with famous parents' murder

Hollywood legend Rob and his wife Michele Reiner were found dead on 14 December 2025 and their son Nick was charged with two counts of first degree murder

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3 d. ago Woman pregnant at 62 claims unborn baby is the 'reincarnation of her dead son'

The unnamed mum from China claimed that her love of sweet food means that the child will be a boy as medics raised concerns over having a baby at such a late stage in life

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4 d. ago Parents thought son was dead for three weeks after police mix

Police mistakenly told a family their teenager was dead but he was actually fighting for his life in hospital, while mixing him up with another boy - here are eight things you need to know

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4 d. ago Family forced into 'important update' after 'dead' teen son suddenly wakes from coma

Police said a boy was killed in a horror car crash just days before Christmas, but his family issued a shocking update about the teenager just three weeks later

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4 d. ago Family wrongly thought son was dead for three weeks after police bungle

Trevor Wynn, 17, from Worksop, was wrongly identified by South Yorkshire Police after a collision in Rotherham. The teen woke from a coma and told medics his name, revealing the mistake

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4 d. ago Family had to wait three weeks to find out their ‘dead’ son was actually alive

A heartbroken family was told their teenager died in a horror car crash but that boy woke up in a hospital bed weeks later and told doctors his name

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4 d. ago Police tell wrong family their young son is dead after horror crash

Police said they mixed up the identities of two teen boys

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5 d. ago Rob Reiner's son Nick taken off suicide watch ahead of hearing on double murder of his parents

The 32-year-old - who has been charged with two first-degree murder counts in the December 14 slayings - remains in solitary confinement at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility.

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6 d. ago Nurse 'shot sons and gran before killing herself' in awful 'quadruple murder suicide'

A small town is grieving after nurse Heather Thompson, 32, allegedly shot and killed her two young children and 88-year-old grandmother before taking her own life

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