6 h. ago Staffy owner is forced to choke his dog Karma to death when she nearly kills him in 45

GRAPHIC CONTENT Matt Porter, 34, had been shaving at his home in Illinois, United States, when his 'sweet and caring' adopted dog, Karma, pounced on him out of the blue.

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16 h. ago Grim details emerge in death of California man killed in trash sweep

James Edward Oakley, 58-year-old man living in Vallejo, was crushed by piece of excavating equipment last yearNew details have emerged in the death of a northern California man who was killed by a piece of excavating equipment during a city sweep of what officials have referred to as an illegal dumping site.James Edward Oakley, a 58-year-old man who lived on the streets of Vallejo, was found dead at the site in the city last Christmas eve. Continue reading...

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24 h. ago Killer who stabbed schoolgirl Elianne Andam, 15, to death in row over a teddy bear is jailed for life with minimum term of 23 years

Hassan Sentamu, 18, flew into a fit of 'white-hot anger' and stabbed Elianne in the neck with a kitchen knife outside the Whitgift Centre in Croydon, south London.

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50 h. ago Deaths, drownings and 'blood everywhere'... inside 'world's most dangerous theme park'

From smashed teeth and broken bones to electrocution and even death, no-one was safe at the killer theme park

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2 d. ago Trampolined to death: Girl, eight, killed by her parents in horrific 'punishment'

A father has finally learned his fate after he and his wife ordered their eight-year-old daughter to jump on the trampoline in extreme heat without food or water, eventually leading to her tragic death.

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2 d. ago Family devastated by 'needless death' after gangland gunman admits killing Scots dad

John McGregor was shot dead on Westray Street in Milton, Glasgow, at around 7.55pm on August 26 2021.

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3 d. ago America’s next killing spree: 10 days, five states, six death

Desolate spectacle of executions begins again under Trump, in landscape of capital punishment as riven as US is as a wholeDavid Leonard Wood. Jessie Hoffman. Aaron Gunches. Wendell Grissom. Edward Thomas James. Moises Sandoval Mendoza.So many names. So many dead men walking. Ten days, five states, six death row prisoners scheduled for execution. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Doctors who treated Diego Maradona face 25 YEARS in prison as trial into his death begins amid family's claims about a 'medical mafia' killing

The case revolves around allegations that their negligence contributed to the World Cup winner's death aged 60 in 2020. Maradona suffered a fatal heart attack at home in November that year.

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4 d. ago Man accused of killing fiance and staging death as suicide Googled ‘Can I kill an illegal human?’ beforehand, cops say

Ty Vaughn is accused over the death of his partner Luis Banos Norberto, who was found dead at their Baytown apartment

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4 d. ago Death sentence for the Outback killer of Peter Falconio who takes his grim secret to the grave

Bradley John Murdoch, 67,  is being treated for terminal throat cancer at Alice Springs Correctional Centre, 200km away from the remote spot where he murdered the British backpacker 24 years ago.

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5 d. ago ‘It’s been really profound’: artists Joel Meyerowitz and Maggie Barrett on laying bare their marriage on film

Photographer Meyerowitz, 87, and artist and writer Barrett, 78, invited two documentary-makers into their lives for a year. The result, Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other, is an intimate portrait that all couples should seeWe might all have domestic arguments that demand to be preserved on film for their drama, but few of them would ever live up to the intensity, eloquence and glamour of the barneys between American photographer Joel Meyerowitz and his English wife, novelist and artist Maggie Barrett.The best (or worst) of those clashes comes toward the end of the extraordinary, intimate documentary of Joel and Maggie’s marriage, aptly entitled Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other (their own private update on “till death us do part”). In that final set-to, Maggie conjures all the frustrations of the 30 years they have been together – years in which Joel has become ever more world-famous and celebrated as a photographer, and she has seen her novels rejected by publish...

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5 d. ago More than 1,000 people killed in two days of clashes in Syria, war monitor says

About 745 civilians among those killed in fighting in Latakia province between security forces and fighters loyal to former president AssadMore than 1,000 people, including 745 civilians, were killed in the two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and fighters loyal to the former Assad regime and ensuing revenge killings, a war monitor has said, one of the highest death tolls in Syria since 2011.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitor, said 745 civilians were killed mostly execution-style, while 125 Syrian security forces and 148 Assad loyalists were killed. Death tolls from the two days of fighting have varied wildly, with some estimates putting the final death toll even higher. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago 'Desert Killer' makes last ditch 'I'm innocent' declaration as Death Row execution nears

David Leonard Wood was convicted of murdering six girls and women in 1987 and yet, he is fighting to stop his upcoming execution on March 13 saying all the evidence was circumstantial

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6 d. ago Death row killer executed by firing squad in US for first time in 15 years

Brad Sigmon chose how he wanted to die after also being offered the electric chair and lethal injection.

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6 d. ago Death Row baseball bat killer executed by firing squad as last meal revealed

Brad Sigmon has been executed by firing squad in Columbia, after admitting to the brutal double murder of his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat in 2002

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6 d. ago South Carolina conducts first US firing squad execution in 15 years: ‘Barbaric’

Brad Sigmon, 67, was shot dead by prison staff despite outcry over ‘cruel’ method and calls for clemencyThe US has conducted its first execution by firing squad in 15 years, with South Carolina prison officials shooting to death Brad Sigmon, 67, on Friday evening, despite widespread concerns about the safety and cruelty of this method.Sigmon was the oldest person to be executed in the state’s history and his death was part of a series of rapid killings the state has pursued in the last six months as it revives capital punishment. There had been growing calls for clemency, but minutes before Sigmon was killed, the state’s Republican governor, Henry McMaster, announced he would not be intervening. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Police probing death of girl killed by BMW on football pitch issue major update

Poppy Atkinson was on a pitch at Kendal Rugby Club last Wednesday evening when she was struck by a car.

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8 d. ago Shocking moment killer paedophile Sidney Cooke, now 97, is battered almost to death by inmate with metal flask

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Cooke can be seen crashing down to the ground after being knocked out by the lag armed with a drinks flask for a weapon.

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8 d. ago Mum admits killing baby by Gulliver's World theme park as death triggered 500 DNA tests

The body of the infant, who came to be known as Baby Callum, was discovered in woodland close to Gulliver's World on March 14, 1998. The discovery saw nearly 500 women's DNA tested

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9 d. ago Man found bleeding to death by friend in car before alleged killer 'went on the run'

Corey Gauci, 29, denies the murder of dad-of-seven Colin Richards, 48, who died in the Ely area of Cardiff last year

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