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The Independent

 A police officer cries as he recalls how he thought he would die from his injuries following a savage attack on duty.PC Ashley Aspinall suffered a horrific brain injury when he was attacked by Ian Scott, 50, as he tried to apprehend him outside a bar in Blackpool on 7 April, last year.PC Aspinall, of Lancashire Police, lay injured on the ground as Scott continued his assault.The police officer feared he would never see his daughter again as he lay critically injured.Scott appeared at Preston Crown Court on 30 April, and was given a 24-month suspended sentence after pleading guilty to wounding of an emergency worker.

Police officer cries recalling savage attack outside seaside bar

Tom Neblett had thrown bricks towards officers and climbed on top of a white van

Boy, 15, first to be charged with riot as more violent disorder suspects locked behind bars

Kaitlynn Lee, 25, was killed by her ex-boyfriend Joshua Thompson who shot her in the head through a window, police said

Mom-of-three was having fun filming a TikTok in a kitchen with her friend. Moments later she was shot dead

 A charity working with homeless people in Auckland, New Zealand unknowingly distributed candies filled with a potentially lethal dose of methamphetamine in its food parcels after the sweets were donated by a member of the public. Auckland City Mission told reporters on Wednesday that staff had started to contact up to 400 people to track down parcels that could contain the sweets — which were solid blocks of methamphetamine enclosed in candy wrappers. New Zealand's police have opened a criminal investigation. The amount of methamphetamine in each candy was up to 300 times the level someone would usually take...

Food bank unknowingly distributes candy made from meth

Minneapolis, MN

 Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, has been moved to a new federal prison following his stabbing by an inmate last year.Chauvin, 48, was transferred from Tuscon Federal Correctional Institution in Arizona to the Oklahoma Federal Transfer Center last week.The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed the move to The Independent but said it could not give any further details “for privacy, safety, and security reasons.”In November 2023, Chauvin was stabbed 22 times by inmate John Turscak, while Chauvin was serving a 21-year sentence for violating Floyd’s civil rights. Chauvin’s sentence is running concurrently with a 22.5-year...

Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin who murdered George Floyd is moved to new prison after near-fatal stabbing

Wisconsin State

A Wisconsin jury has convicted a man in the shootings of three men whose bodies were found outside a quarry

Wisconsin man convicted in killings of 3 men near a quarry

Kellyanne Conway formerly served as campaign manager and senior advisor to Donald Trump

Former Republican staffer calls out ex-Fox host for ‘open threat’ to Kellyanne Conway: ‘Disturbing’

Fort Worth, TX

 A Texas mother will likely spend the rest of her life behind bars for poisoning her young daughter with Benadryl and other drugs to fake a seizure disorder.Jesika Jones, 32, was sentenced on Friday to 60 years in prison after reaching a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to one count of injury to a child with serious bodily or mental injury and abandoning or endangering a child with reckless criminal negligence.Jones was first arrested in June 2022, when she took her then four-year-old daughter to the Cook Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth and said she had been having...

Mom who poisoned her 4-year-old with Benadryl to fake seizure disorder will likely spend the rest of her life behind bars

Missouri State

Ferguson, MO

A Ferguson, Missouri, police officer who was critically injured during a protest on the 10th anniversary of Michael Brown’s death is showing “small but significant signs of progress” from a severe brain injury

Injured Ferguson officer shows 'small but significant' signs of progress in Missouri

A cardiologist in Denver has been found guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting nearly a dozen women. On Tuesday, Stephen Matthews, 36, was found guilty on 35 felony counts of assault and sexual assault, according to the Denver Post. Matthews attacked 11 people. “Stephen Matthews took advantage of nearly a dozen women in the most egregious way imaginable, and for that he will now pay a significant price,” Denver District Attorney Beth McCann said in a statement Tuesday. “I hope today’s verdict provides a measure of comfort to all the victims.”The cardiologist was arrested in March 2023 after a woman...

Cardiologist found guilty of 35 counts of date rape and assault after attacking a dozen women

One mom said her two sons became ill after ingesting products from former councilman’s store

City councilman jailed for six years, forfeiting monster truck and $1.9m, for selling drugs

South Carolina State

The family of a South Carolina woman struck and killed by a rotting 70-year-old utility pole will get $30 million in a wrongful death settlement

Family of woman killed by falling utility pole to receive $30M settlement

A total of 80 adults have been sentenced so far after unrest broke out across the country following the Southport stabbings at the end of July.

Who are the people sentenced so far following recent disorder?

 Remarkable new scientific research at Stonehenge has revealed an extraordinary new mystery. Mineralogical tests on the massive six-tonne stone at the heart of the monument show that this central rock, known as the altar stone, was brought to Stonehenge from the far north of Scotland.The altar stone is arguably the most ritually important stone in Stonehenge, because it is the rock that marks the intersection of the prehistoric temple’s two most important celestial alignments – the winter solstice sunrise to summer solstice sunset alignment, and the summer solstice sunrise to winter solstice sunset alignment. It’s already known that some...

Mystery of Stonehenge deepens after ‘jaw-dropping’ discovery

Clark County, WA

 A 7-year-old girl who went missing from a campsite in Washington state was found and rescued after a local fisherman heard her crying.Shelby Wolff had been staying with her grandparents at the Lake Merwin Campers Hideaway, in Clark County, but vanished on Sunday evening.Deputies and area residents conducted a search for the youngster but she was not located, according to Clark County Sheriff’s Office. Shelby remained missing overnight, despite the efforts of search and rescue teams. Efforts continued in the morning and sheriff’s marine patrol and major crimes unit were called for help. Access to Lake Merwin Campers Hideaway...

Fisherman saves missing 7-year-old girl after he hears crying

Stumpy, the gnarled, old cherry tree, is gone. But its clones — little Stumplings — live on.

Ocala, FL

A white Florida woman told investigators she fired a shot through her door at a Black neighbor because she panicked as the other woman pounded heavily on her door and threatened her amid an ongoing dispute over the neighbor's children, according to a video statement played in court Wednesday.The mother of the woman who was fatally shot disputed that, telling reporters at a news conference that Susan Lorincz was not in fear for her own life but was intent on harming Ajike “A.J.” Owens on June 2, 2023, in Ocala, Florida. Lorincz is on trial for manslaughter in the shooting."She...

White Florida woman says she fatally shot Black neighbor amid fear for her own life

Confirmed infections among children aged 5 to 9 rose from 15 percent in 2022 to 40 percent in June 2024

‘Slapped cheek’ rash-causing virus on the rise among kids, CDC warns

Colorado State

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David Heitz

A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

Detroit, MI

Michigan State

A Detroit judge who ordered a teenager into jail clothes and handcuffs while she was on a field trip to his courtroom will be off the bench while undergoing “necessary training."

Detroit judge who ordered teen into jail clothes, handcuffs during field trip is sidelined

Police in Barcelona have detained a fourth man accused of participating in the stabbing of the father of 17-year-old Spain soccer star Lamine Yamal

Police arrest 4th man accused of participating in stabbing of Lamine Yamal's father near Barcelona

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