11 h. ago 'I told police my wife wouldn't be going back to hospital. I was then arrested'

Edward Cope says he was placed in a police van after protesting against his partner returning to hospital

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32 h. ago Three people killed in Louisville, Kentucky, motor vehicle office shooting

One person was dead at the scene and two others died at the hospital; no reported arrests nor information on the shooterThree people were shot and killed at a motor vehicle office in Louisville, Kentucky, on Friday, police said.Major Donald Boeckman of Louisville metro police department told reporters that officers found one person dead at the scene and another two wounded. The two wounded were taken to hospitals and died there. He said there was no ongoing threat to public. Continue reading...

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59 h. ago Police must avoid risk of ‘institutional capture’ accusations, force told

It comes amid an employment tribunal involving a nurse who was suspended following an incident involving a trans doctor in a female changing room.

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62 h. ago Asylum seeker declared a child by UK judges... despite Home Office finding he was 23 with a receding hairline and thick facial hair

An asylum seeker who is at least 23 years old and has a receding hairline as well as thick facial hair was declared a child by judges.

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67 h. ago Chinese woman ‘escapes’ Panama hotel holding hundreds of America’s deportees

An Irish citizen had already been repatriated

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3 d. ago Panama police search for Chinese woman who escaped hotel holding US deportees

Zheng Lijuan fled Panama City hotel as 170 of deported migrants were transported to dense, lawless regionPolice are searching for a Chinese woman who escaped from a downtown Panama City hotel where she was being held following her deportation from the US under Donald Trump’s intensified campaign against immigrants.Zheng Lijuan was one of 299 migrants – from China, Afghanistan, Iran and other countries with which the US lacks extradition agreements – who have been flown in shackles to Panama since last Wednesday. Panamanian authorities say they believe that Zheng was aided by locals who had been “prowling” outside the Decapolis hotel in the capital city where the deportees had been held. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Judge orders Mississippi newspaper to delete editorial criticizing public officials

First Amendment lawyers and press freedom advocates blast blatantly ‘unconstitutional’ order

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3 d. ago Bargain Hunt star Charles Hanson told police his 'headlock' on wife was a 'loving hug'

The jury at Derby Crown Court was told Charles Hanson claimed during a police interview that his wife, Rebecca Hanson, was a 'fantasist'

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3 d. ago ‘The energy in the delivery room was insane’: Maggie Shannon’s best photograph

‘The mothers and midwives never asked me to leave. Most of the time, they would call me over and say, “You’ve got to photograph this!”’I hadn’t met Aquilla Flemming before I photographed her giving birth. I was sitting on my couch at home when her midwife Chemin texted to say there was a woman in labour and she had given permission for me to take pictures. It was my day off, so I hesitated at first. But as soon as I got to the birthing centre I was glad I had come.When I arrived, Aquilla and her partner were outside, under a pepper tree. She was sitting on a birthing ball and they were holding hands. It was such a beautiful moment – the birth was special from the outset. Chemin had worked with Aquilla’s mother too, so there was this generational thing. The woman holding Storie, as the baby was called, is a student midwife. It was taken right after Storie was born. She’s still connected to the placenta – you can see the cord in the bottom of the frame. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Bargain Hunt star Charles Hanson ‘told police alleged headlock was loving hug’

The television personality is on trial at Derby Crown Court accused of using violence against his wife.

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3 d. ago Police did not properly probe killer’s assaults before attacks, report says

Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates were killed by Valdo Calocane in June 2023.

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4 d. ago UN tribunal head told police 'I'm a judge' when officers came to probe reports she was holding a woman as a slave, court hears

Ugandan High Court judge Lydia Mugambe, 49, is accused of conspiring with deputy High Commissioner John Leonard Mugerwa to bring the woman to the UK.

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4 d. ago Florida man shoots two Israeli tourists after mistaking them for Palestinians

Mordechai Brafman told police he shot at two Israeli tourists because he thought they were Palestinians

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4 d. ago Mum of 3 who 'killed husband after affair discovered' in court as body still missing

The alleged murder only came to light when a man claiming to be Jennifer Gledhill's lover went to the police and told them she confessed to shooting her husband dead and hiding the body

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5 d. ago Florida woman broke into friend’s house and attacked him with gardening tools after he stood her up, cops say

She had previously hit him over the head with a lock, the victim told police

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5 d. ago UN tribunal judge deceived a young Ugandan woman into coming to the UK to work as her slave and look after her children while she studied for a PhD in law at Oxford, court hears

Ugandan High Court judge Lydia Mugambe conspired with deputy High Commissioner John Leonard Mugerwa to bring the woman to the UK to look after her children for free, prosecutors said.

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5 d. ago Arsonist set fire to neighbour's door but put it out to save his cat

Darren Evans later told police he started the fire after a disagreement with his neighbour but added: "He's a c*** but his cat ain't though."

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5 d. ago BBC Death In Paradise fans 'fear for show's future' after sudden announcement

Commissioner Selwyn Patterson has been told that his job in the Saint Marie police force is being dissolved, leading fans to believe that the star is leaving the show altogether

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5 d. ago UN judge deceived woman to work as slave while studying for law PhD, court told

Lydia Mugambe is accused of preventing the young Ugandan woman from holding down steady employment due to forced unpaid work.

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