3 h. ago Dead Man’s Wire review – Gus Van Sant calls the shots with surreal true

Venice film festivalAl Pacino, Colman Domingo and Myha’la excel in this gripping take on the events of 1977 when an Indianapolis businessman held his mortgage broker hostage With terrific chutzpah, black-comic flair and cool, cruel unsentimentality, screenwriter Austin Kolodney and director Gus Van Sant have made a true-crime suspense thriller set in the 1970s, tapping into the spirit of both Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon and Network. Apart from anything else, it is a reminder that in that post-Kennedy, post-Watergate age, plenty of lawless and febrile things happened that would now be considered phenomena purely attributable to social media.In 1977, an Indianapolis businessman named Tony Kiritsis, with many acquaintances in the police department, kidnapped a mortgage broker named Richard Hall, and tied Hall’s neck with a “dead man’s wire” to his shotgun, which would therefore go off if police sharpshooters tried to kill him. Kiritsis even paraded his victim like this on TV while...

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7 h. ago Woman who died after horror fall from block of flats named by police

Tia Langdon was found with serious injuries after the incident last Thursday.

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7 h. ago Pictured: Woman, 25, who plunged to her death from block of flats

Tia Langdon suffered severe injuries following the fall and died in hospital a day later. An 18 year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with her death.

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4 d. ago Prime suspect as Brit boy, 3, 'abducted' in Marbella named by police

Little Oliver Pugh, who is three years old, was last seen in Marbella on July 4. Spanish authorities now fear his mum may have taken him to her native country of Russia

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4 d. ago Murder probe launched as police name man found dead in Kirkmuirhill

The 30-year-old man found dead at the scene in Kirkmuirhill has been named as Scott Boyd.

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5 d. ago Minneapolis school shooter 'obsessed with killing kids' fired 116 rounds

Minneapolis school shooter Robin Westman, 24, appeared to be 'obsessed with the idea of killing children' and listed the names of mass shooters on a YouTube channel, police said

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5 d. ago Trans Met Police volunteer officer , 27, is guilty of sexually assaulting 12

Volunteer Metropolitan Police officer James Bubb, who now identifies as a woman named Gwyn Samuels, has been found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting a child.

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5 d. ago Volunteer Met officer used position to ‘intimidate’ child he met online

James Bubb, who now identifies as a woman named Gwyn Samuels, was a volunteer special constable with the Metropolitan Police.

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5 d. ago Porepunkah police shooting live updates: Victoria police ‘throwing everything’ at manhunt for suspect as search enters day three – latest news

Police officers allegedly shot dead on Tuesday identified as detective leading senior constable Neal Thompson and senior constable Vadim de Waart. Follow today’s news liveWho is Dezi Freeman? Porepunkah shooting suspect has association with ‘sovereign citizen’ ideas and called police ‘terrorist thugs’Slain police officers named as manhunt for alleged killer continuesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAlpine parts of Victoria saw a fresh blanket of snow overnight, with the Bureau of Meteorology warning one of the strongest and widespread cold outbreaks of the winter season will soon move across the state in the coming days.Helen Reid, a meteorologist at the Bureau of Meteorology, said snow is expected to be a big part of a cold weather system moving across south-eastern Australia. The system could dump large amounts of snow – up to half a metre – over Alpine mountains near the Victoria-NSW border. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Tommy Robinson will not be charged over alleged St Pancras assault, police say

British Transport Police say alleged victim ‘did not wish to provide a statement to the investigation’The far-right activist Tommy Robinson will not face charges over allegations he punched a man to the ground at a London train station, police and prosecutors have announced.Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm after the incident on 28 July at St Pancras train station. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Victoria shooting update: alleged gunman fled with ‘powerful firearms’ and ‘understands bushcraft well’, police say

Police say suspect Dezi Freeman knows Victorian high country bushland ‘better than us’, as tributes paid to two dead officersVictoria police shooting live updatesWho is Dezi Freeman? Porepunkah shooting suspect called police ‘terrorist thugs’ and tried to arrest magistrateWhat we know so far about the shooting in rural AustraliaGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAn adventure-loving local detective planning his retirement and a senior constable on temporary assignment in Victoria’s alpine region have been identified as the victims of a shooting in Porepunkah.Detective leading senior constable Neal Thompson, 59, and senior constable Vadim De Waart, 35, were on Wednesday named by police as the officers allegedly killed by Dezi Freeman on Tuesday morning. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Porepunkah shooting live: police victims named; up to one metre of snow forecast for Victoria’s alpine areas as manhunt continues

Victoria police chief commissioner Mike Bush says suspect Dezi Freeman, 56, is “heavily armed” and still at large. Follow live updatesPorepunkah shooting: two Victoria police officers dead, one injured in attack at rural propertyWhat we know so far about the shooting in rural AustraliaThe chief commissioner of Victoria police, Mike Bush, said Freeman, 56, is “heavily armed” and still at large. Bush said a “large team” were “absolutely focused” on finding the suspect:We are pouring every resource into this search for this person, we must find him The hunt will continue until we find him. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Australia police shooting suspect named as urgent manhunt enters its second day

Two police officers were shot and killed in the rural Victoria town of Porepunkah

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7 d. ago Names of victims of Isle of Wight helicopter crash confirmed by police

The fourth person in the helicopter, a man aged in his 30s, was airlifted to hospital in Southampton where he remains in a stable condition.

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8 d. ago B996 crash: Passenger, 22, who died in crash near Blairadam named by police

The young man was killed in a collision at 10.50pm on Sunday August 17

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8 d. ago Passenger killed in Fife crash named by police as tributes paid

Ollie Nelson was travelling in a black Seat Leon which crashed on Sunday August 17.

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9 d. ago Man who died in 'workplace accident' at funfair named as police launch investigation

Corrie Lee Stavers, 28, was treated at the scene of the incident at the Spanish City Summer Funfair in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, but was declared dead a short time later

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9 d. ago Man killed working on funfair in Northumbria named by police

The man's family has said "the pain of losing him so suddenly is impossible to put into words"

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1 week ago Woman found dead in reservoir named by police after major rescue operation

Kimberley Johnson was reported to have got into difficulty in the water at the weekend.

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1 week ago Police name man, 26 charged with murder of 'famous' ice cream man stabbed in street

Police have charged a 26-year-old man in connection with the murder of Shazad Khan, 41, who was knifed to death in Monks Park, Wembley on August 19 in front of horrified residents

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