Singapore police uncovered more luxury watches, gold bars and other assets from a massive money laundering scheme that was busted last month, they said, bringing the total amount of assets seized or frozen to $1.75 billion. The police had launched further operations related to a group of foreign nationals suspected …
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The “trial of the century” came to a close on this day in history, Oct. 3, 1995, with the acquittal of Orenthal James “O.J.” Simpson for two counts of murder. Simpson’s acquittal came nine months after the trial began — and about 16 months after Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, …
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A prolific Colombian serial killer who confessed to murdering more than 190 children during the 1990s died Thursday in a hospital, prison authorities said. He was 66. Luis Alfredo Garavito, nicknamed “The Beast,” confessed to having murdered children between the ages of 8 and 16 — mostly from low-income families …
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A woman has sued a Tennessee police department after her son was shot and killed when he tried to drive away from a traffic stop with an officer leaning into the car. Linda Allen, whose son Eric Allen, 39, died in the November 2022 interaction with Mt. Juliet Police, filed …
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MARKHAM, Ill. – An expert on police tactics says “unreasonable and unnecessary” force was used by suburban Chicago police who fired beanbag rounds at a knife-wielding 95-year-old. Park Forest Officer Craig Taylor is on trial on a felony reckless conduct charge in the death of John Wrana. The victim refused …
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FARMINGDALE, N.Y. – Five pilots have reported seeing green lasers while flying over New York and New Jersey. The Federal Aviation Administration says it happened to four planes between 9:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Thursday over Long Island, about four miles northwest of Farmingdale. CBS New York reports that another …
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EXCLUSIVE: Sam Haskell IV, the Hollywood heir accused of killing his wife and her parents before disposing of garbage bags full of human remains, was behaving erratically and “paranoid” at a Los Angeles diner with his kids weeks before police found a headless torso in a dumpster that they believe …
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Extremist-linked rebels have killed at least 44 villagers in separate attacks in Congo’s volatile east, local authorities and civil society leaders said Tuesday. The Allied Democratic Forces rebels with ties to the Islamic State group attacked Kishanga village in North Kivu province on Sunday night and killed 33 people including …
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A heavily armed gang surrounded a hospital in Haiti on Wednesday, trapping women, children and newborns inside until police rescued them, according to the director of the medical center who pleaded for help via social media. Jose Ulysse, founder and director of the Fontaine Hospital Center in the sprawling Cite …
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Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday morning said that federal authorities are probing whether the shooting of three Palestinian students over the weekend in Vermont was a hate crime. Garland shared the brief public remarks at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York City, where he met with other federal, …
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