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City workers snatched a breastfeeding 11-month-old out of the arms of her “amazing” mother without a court order — despite the agency’s own staff finding “no safety concerns” in the home, a lawsuit claims.
Roosevelt Williams Jr played for the Willetton Tigers in the NBL1 West competition. (Supplied)
A premier ski resort in South Lake Tahoe is being sued after an employee’s “malicious” conduct led a five-year-old girl to suffer nasty burns from a served hot chocolate.
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City police officer who works security at the mayor’s residence and City Hall has been suspended after the department says he shot a man in the head while off duty, police said Wednesday.
Senegal won the Africa Cup of Nations final after storming off the pitch, but have been stripped of the title. (Reuters: Siphiwe Sibeko)
More than half of the Palestinian children detained in Israeli prisons at the end of last year were being held without charge or trial, a Palestinian rights group has said, as concerns mount over reported abuses in Israeli detention facilities.
Move-over Birdman of Alcatraz.
Australia's corruption watchdog found two of the bureaucrats behind the Robodebt scheme engaged in serious corrupt conduct. (ABC News)
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Imprisoned former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters was found not guilty of assault on a fellow inmate after a confrontation at the La Vista Correctional Facility in January, the Colorado Department of Corrections told FOX31.
Republicans in the California Legislature rallied with victims’ advocates Wednesday to blast Gov. Gavin Newsom and demand changes to state parole laws as another notorious child sex predator neared possible release.
China committed to cracking down on telecom and online fraud and will continue to strengthen law enforcement cooperation with Sri Lanka, the Chinese Embassy in Colombo said yesterday.
"Squalleyball" or "volley squash" — depending where you hail from — is a fast-paced indoor game that combines volleyball and squash.
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred talks to United States right fielder Aaron Judge (99) during the awards ceremony following the championship game of the World Baseball Classic against Venezuela, Tuesday, March 17, 2026, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
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An Idaho department of corrections vehicle patrols the Idaho State prison complex near Kuna, Idaho on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Kyle Green, File)
The Police yesterday warned the public regarding emerging online financial scams using the names of reputable institutions.
Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) officers stationed at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) arrested two Sri Lankan passengers early Wednesday morning (18) for attempting to smuggle a consignment of ‘Kush’ cannabis worth over Rs. 105 million into the country.
An upstate New York jury on Wednesday found the ex-boyfriend of the 20-year-old daughter of a former NYPD detective not guilty of her violent murder — 23 years after the grisly crime.
Former Sinn Féin leader, who is being sued for symbolic damages, also denies any prior knowledge of the attack
In the new BritBox drama The Lady, the stories of both Sarah “Fergie” Ferguson, the Duchess of York, and her dresser, Jane Andrews, are examined. Andrews was convicted of murdering her partner, Thomas Cressman, in 2001, and most followers of the British royals know about Ferguson’s story. Can a fictionalized retelli…
Amanda Villavicencio, the daughter of murdered presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, protests with other members of her family outside the court where suspects in her father’s murder are being tried, in Quito, Ecuador, June 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa, File)
MARCY, N.Y. (AP) — A drone flew over the grounds of an upstate New York prison after midnight and released a package containing knives, a cellphone, bandannas, hair clippers and a green leafy substance between two dormitories, officials said Wednesday.
O novo guia supremo iraniano, Mojtaba Khamenei, homenageou por escrito Ali Larijani, chefe da segurança morto num ataque atribuído a Israel. Em mensagem, Khamenei afirmou que os "assassinos” terão de "pagar o preço”, sublinhando que o crime revela a importância de Larijani e o ódio dos inimigos do Islão.
A Long Island school bus driver admitted he regularly had disgusting rendezvouses with a pre-teen girl inside of an Uber he drove at night — and now he’s expected to spend over a decade in prison.
The sole survivor of a catastrophic Tesla Cybertruck crash that killed three college students is alleging the car amounts to a “death trap,” a new lawsuit says.
Luigi Mangione appears in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, Dec. 8, 2025. (Stephen Yang/New York Post via AP, Pool, File
An antisemitic thug charged with randomly slugging a rabbi in a Queens subway station is now a wanted man after skipping out on his arraignment.
Federal police are warning that their investigations into building industry crime and corruption are being hampered by threats from organised crime figures and a culture of fear and silence still permeating the building industry.
Military police patrol during a police operation in the Morro dos Prazeres community in Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday, March 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Five years on and little progress made, says judge
Nail-biting new video shows NYPD cops tackle and arrest Islamic extremist Emir Balat moments after he hurled an improvised explosive device outside Gracie Mansion.
A 16-month-old girl was smothered to death at her day care in North Carolina — when a worker there tried to force her to nap by lying on top of her while “scrolling on her phone,” a new lawsuit alleges.
Heart-wrenching police bodycam video shows an accused cop killer grinning on the ground in handcuffs – just moments after allegedly shooting hero NYPD cop Jonathan Diller.
A Polish court on Wednesday ruled in favor of extraditing a Russian archaeologist who is wanted in Ukraine for conducting excavations on occupied territory.
I was stabbed in a fight. I am worried since I cannot present, as a witness, the physician who examined me since he has been reassigned elsewhere. The investigating officers told me not to worry because the medical certificate is enough to prove that my wound was fatal and that it would support the filing of a grave…
Shocking video footage captured the moment an off-duty NYPD police officer takes the law into his own hands and opens fire on two suspected car thieves – with the cop now suspended.
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It’s weird to call a genre of TV shows “beach reads” but it’s a good way to describe them, given that they’re based on novels that can be given that moniker. They usually feature wealthy people whose envious lives hide secrets. Imperfect Women, the new Apple TV thriller, is in that category, but is a bit different.
Louisville guard Mikel Brown Jr. walks off the court after his team lost to North Carolina in an NCAA college basketball game Monday, Feb. 23, 2026, in Chapel Hill, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Seward)
After the Confederation of African Football stripped Senegal of its title in the Africa Cup of Nations 2025 final on Tuesday, Dakar has taken its protest a step further: it accused the CAF of corruption and called for an international investigation on Wednesday.
Joint crackdown by Fire Services Department and Customs and Excise Department led to arrest of a suspected station operator and customer
Marius Borg Høiby accused of 39 offences, but denies the most serious charges of four rapes
The three suspects accused of brutally assaulting two Israeli-Americans outside a diner in San Jose, Northern California will not face hate crime charges in the attack, prosecutors revealed.
Rwanda told a panel of international arbitrators Wednesday that Britain still owes it 100 million pounds ($115 million) under a controversial refugee resettlement deal that Prime Minister Keir Starmer scrapped immediately after taking office in 2024.
A married teacher has admitted having sex with a 16-year-old student — including sick trysts in a classroom closet and even in school bushes, according to court documents.
A defiant Afroman is still trolling an Ohio cop who sobbed on the stand during his defamation trial by blasting out mocking music videos ridiculing her and the others currently suing him.
View image in fullscreenRamat Gan, IsraelFirst responders inspect the damage at the site of a missile strike on the outskirts of Tel AvivPhotograph: Ilia Yefimovich/AFP/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenBeirut, LebanonThe impact of an Israeli airstrike on buildings in the city’s Bashoura neighbourhoodPhotogra…
Commonwealth ombudsman also finds Victoria and Queensland police not keeping adequate records