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An Alberta man killed his 12-year-old girlfriend's family because she said they could only be together if her parents and brother were dead, a court has heard.
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Residents in Edson, Alta., are offering a $22,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Emily Stauffer's killer.
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A woman allegedly told two social workers how she killed her mother's partner, a court hears.
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An Alberta judge denied a request from the accused in an animal torture case to change his plea, paving the way for a sentencing date more than two years after the incident.
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What drives Choi Hyun Mi is the thought of how her father abandoned a privileged position in North Korea and risked his life to give his daughter the freedom to pursue her dream.
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For South Koreans, boxing is mainly a sport of the past. Now, a girl whose family fled North Korea is breathing new life into the sport by winning a world championship at age 17.
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An 11-year-old Hampshire schoolgirl who went missing for 24 hours is found safe and well.
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A teenaged girl convicted of killing her parents and younger brother in their home in Medicine Hat, Alberta is back in court today.
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A Maryland teenager has pleaded guilty to killing his father, mother and two younger brothers as they slept.
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A Maryland teen pleaded guilty Monday to shooting his father, mother and two younger brothers to death as they slept.
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A 51-year-old man is jailed after he admits raping an 11-year-old girl while on a family holiday in Spain.
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The husband of a teacher whose body was found near the Long Island Expressway confessed to choking her to death and staging an elaborate cover-up.
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New Zealand Police start an inquiry into the killing of a British teenager whose body was found in a stream.
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The family of a young girl who died suddenly last month wants to know why coroners at a London, Ont., hospital removed her brain during the autopsy but didn't tell them until after the girl was buried.
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A coalition of Muslim, immigrant and feminist groups gathered in Toronto Tuesday to express their unhappiness over a Toronto Life article about the killing of Aqsa Parvez.
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An Alberta man accused of slaying his underage girlfriend's family was the means, and she was the motive, the Crown said Monday on the first day of a triple murder trial in Calgary.
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Cecily von Ziegesar's half-brother Peter finalized a deal with St. Martin's last week to write an as-yet-untitled "family memoir." According to a posting on the Publishers Marketplace deal-wire (sub. required), the book will cover the childhood Mr. von Ziegesar spent living in the "wealthy and privileged enclaves of the northeast" and the relationship he had as an adult with one of his step-brothers, a homeless schizophrenic also named Peter. According to the author's literary agent, David Kuhn, Mr. von Ziegesar's memoir will not be about his famous Gossip Girl-creating half-sister Cecily any more than it will be about any of the 50 secondary characters that will populate the book. readmore
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The Fenty family in 2006: Michelle, Matthew, Adrian, Andrew. (Jahi Chikwendiu - The Washington Post) It's a girl! And her name is Aerin. The family of D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty welcomed its much-anticipated baby girl this morning -- the first female born into the mayor's family in three generations....
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The jury in a triple murder trial in Calgary had another difficult day of testimony as a blood-splatter expert showed dozens of images of the crime scene on courtroom monitors.
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The jury in a triple murder trial in Calgary had another difficult day of testimony as a blood-splatter expert showed dozens of images of the crime scene on courtroom monitors.
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The family of a man who was beaten to death outside a pub in Oxfordshire are suing the people they believe were responsible.
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An Alberta man who admitted to killing his girlfriend's parents cried for the first time since his first-degree murder trial began, when his mother testified about his broken childhood on Tuesday.
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A little girl from Albertville, Sask., who kicked out a truck window following a serious crash and ran for help is being hailed as a hero.
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THE family of Tipperary schoolboy Brian Rossiter, 14, who died two days after being found unconscious in a garda cell, was told that internal Garda disciplinary proceedings were none of their business. The Rossiters have launched a civil action against the State, alleging wrongful killing.
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A little girl from Saskatchewan who kicked her way out of a crashed truck and helped save her family has been honoured in Prince Albert.
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THEY said she would never be able to walk again. But yesterday brave Nicole Cahill proved the medical experts wrong.
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A man who is accused of sexually assaulting two children in Hay River, N.W.T., gave police a confession while he was in custody in Toronto, says the Crown prosecutor handling the case.
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ROGERS, Ark. (AP) -- An Arkansas woman has given birth to her 18th child. Michelle Duggar delivered the baby girl by Caesarean section Thursday at Mercy Medical Center in Rogers. The baby, named Jordyn-Grace Makiya Duggar, weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces and was 20 inches long....
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Anne Arundel County has reached an agreement to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a naked and unarmed Glen Burnie man who was fatally shot in 2005 by a county police officer.
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The family of a man shot dead on his doorstep on Merseyside four years ago appeal for fresh information on the anniversary of his death.
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A teenage girl charged with capital murder for her role in the deaths of her mother and two young brothers agreed to a plea deal that could make her eligible for parole when she's 59, her attorney said.
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The Pitkin County Sheriff's office identified a family of four found dead at an Aspen home with high levels of carbon monoxide.
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The Crown prosecutor's office in Edmonton plans to seek dangerous offender status for convicted killer Thomas Svekla, which could keep him behind bars indefinitely.
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Q. We're hoping to spend February half-term in South Africa with our three children. Finding a suitable accommodation for the five of us often proves tricky, so we're thinking of self-catering. Can you recommend anywhere suitable – comfortable but not too expensive – in Cape Town, and possibly in a game reserve or national park? D Lynes, via email
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The last remaining treasures of the French royal family – including a silk purse embroidered by Queen Marie Antoinette in her prison cell – will be auctioned in Paris next week. The objects, including jewellery, paintings, miniatures and furniture, are the remnants of one of the greatest royal fortunes in Europe, diminished first by revolution and, more recently, by scandal. The auction is also the latest chapter in a dispute that broke in 1999 upon the death of the pretender to the French throne, the Comte de Paris.