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Police ask for help finding suspect in fatal New Year’s Day shooting in West Town

Jimmy Chamberlain, 31, is wanted in connection with a slaying that left a 28-year-old dead at a hookah lounge , police said.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 28, 2023

UK's longest-serving female prisoner to STAY behind bars after losing freedom bid

Maria Pearson, who stabbed her ex-boyfriend's new partner 17 times in 1986, was also denied a move to an open prison having initially been sentenced to a minimum of 11 years behind bars

Daily Mirror · Feb 28, 2023

Baby was home during Detroit cops' murder-suicide

LIVONIA, Mich. — A 1-year-old boy was home last week when his father allegedly fatally shot his mother before turning the gun on himself, according to a police report from the Livonia officer who found the lifeless bodies and the crying child inside their townhouse.

Tribune News Service · Feb 28, 2023

Idaho could pursue executions by firing squad. Here’s how much it would cost

BOISE, Idaho — The cost of implementing a bill that seeks to make the firing squad Idaho’s backup execution method has more than doubled since it was last reviewed by the state prisons system, according to a spokesperson for the agency.

Tribune News Service · Feb 27, 2023

Alex Murdaugh’s defence rests case in disgraced attorney’s double murder trial

Mr Murdaugh’s younger brother John Marvin Murdaugh was the final witness for the defence, bringing to an end the week-long case

The Independent UK · Feb 27, 2023

Mexican soldiers kill five young men in border city, rights group alleges

Soldiers in a northern Mexican border city allegedly killed five young men who were unarmed and driving to their homes in a pick-up truck, a local human rights group said on Monday, calling on the government to investigate the shootings.

Reuters · Feb 27, 2023

Romford: Three teenagers stabbed near train station

Police and paramedics were called to South Street at 5.38pm to reports of a stabbing

Evening Standard · Feb 27, 2023

Student detained after police called in over 'imitation firearm' on university campus

University bosses say it was an 'isolated incident'

Manchester Evening News · Feb 27, 2023

Girl, 13, arrested on suspicion of assaulting another teenager and police

The incident took place at Laurelhill Community College Lisburn

Belfast Live · Feb 27, 2023

26 arrested in gang takedown following Central California massacre

LOS ANGELES — Authorities in Central California arrested 26 people as part of a law enforcement response to the massacre of six family members in Goshen in January, the Tulare County Sheriff's Department announced.

Los Angeles Times · Feb 27, 2023