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Memphis man gets 80 years in prison for raping a woman a year before jogger’s killing
Cleotha Abston, whose history of criminal charges dates back to the 1990s when he was a juvenile, received 40 years in prison for aggravated rape, 20 years for aggravated kidnapping and another 20 years for being a felon in possession of a weapon. The sentences will run consecutively, or one after the other, Shelby County Criminal Court Judge Lee Coffee ruled. Abston, 40, was convicted April 12 of raping a woman while holding her at gunpoint in September 2021.
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British Dancer, 26, Was Killed by BF in ‘Reckless Sex Game Gone Wrong’
ReutersA British coroner said this week that Georgia Brooke, a 26-year-old dance teacher said to have been fatally strangled by her boyfriend, had died from a “reckless sex game gone wrong.” British authorities said Brooke’s boyfriend, 31-year-old Luke Cannon, took his own life by hanging just after he learned his lover had died in a local hospital—unable to recover from cardiac arrest.The coroner, Martin Fleming, added Wednesday that drugs may have played a factor in the tragedy, with traces of
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A top NATO general says Russian troops don't have the numbers or the skills to mount a strategic breakthrough in Kharkiv
"The Russians don't have the numbers necessary to do a strategic breakthrough," said Gen. Christopher Cavoli, Supreme Allied Commander Europe.
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Gunman's family told deputy before Maine's deadliest shooting that they hadn't removed his weapons
Police have said repeatedly in the aftermath of Maine’s deadliest shooting that officers thought the gunman's family had been taking his weapons away. Testifying before an investigative committee on Thursday, the gunman’s sister-in-law suggested that law enforcement officers should have known this wasn’t true, because she and her husband, Ryan Card, told a deputy on the phone a month before Robert Card killed 18 people that he still had access to weapons, despite his deteriorating mental health
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‘No Wonder They Shot Him’: Marjorie Taylor Greene Shares Wild Conspiracy Theory
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesMarjorie Taylor Greene wasted no time in suggesting that the shooting of Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico Wednesday could be linked to his position on COVID vaccines.The MAGA lawmaker shared a post on X Wednesday which contained a video with English subtitles in which Fico purportedly rails against the treatment of those who opposed vaccination and other government measures to manage the pandemic (The Daily Beast has not verified the translation
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Man and woman killed in two-vehicle crash in Fresno County. Two others injured, CHP says
It happened near Sanger.
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Texas governor pardons ex-Army sergeant convicted of killing Black Lives Matter protester
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a full pardon Thursday for a former U.S. Army sergeant convicted of murder for fatally shooting an armed demonstrator in 2020 during nationwide protests against police violence and racial injustice. Abbott announced the pardon shortly after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles announced a unanimous recommendation that Daniel Perry be pardoned and have his firearms rights restored.
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