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Fire death house had been burgled
Police say a house in which a mother and five children died in a fire had been burgled on the same night.
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Savile nephew ‘heartbreak’ death
A nephew of Jimmy Savile may have died of heartbreak following abuse allegations against the former DJ and TV presenter, according to his family.
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Dog attack woman ‘bled to death’
A woman died of shock caused by blood loss as a result of being bitten by her daughter’s dogs, a post-mortem examination shows.
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Sandy death toll keeps climbing
The death toll from Sandy tops 80 as swathes of the US East Coast battle to recover, three days after being smashed by the massive storm.
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Canadian enquiry studies death of teen inmate
Canadian judge to examine video footage of “dehumanising treatment” of 19-year-old who went on to commit suicide.
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Storm spins death and ‘a lot of tears’ along path
Death blew in on the superstorm’s wild winds and sea water torrents, claiming 90-year-olds and children with capriciously toppling trees, taking tall-ship adventurers in mountainous Atlantic waves and average folks just trying to deal with a freakish snowstorm. It felled…
Sandusky sent to prison for death row inmates
Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky on Wednesday was sent to serve his child molestation prison sentence at an institution in far southwestern Pennsylvania that includes most of the state’s death row inmates.
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Inquiry into ‘dog mauling’ death
Police are investigating whether a 71-year-old woman found dead with injuries in south London was mauled by her daughter’s dogs.
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Inquiry into ‘dog mauling’ death
Police are investigating whether a 71-year-old woman found dead with injuries in south London was mauled by her daughter’s dogs.
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Death in Tunis as Salafists clash with police
One protester killed and three security officers injured after men armed with swords attack a police station.
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East Coast crippled by massive storm, death toll climbs
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Millions of people were left reeling in the aftermath of the whipping winds and heavy rains of the massive storm Sandy on Tuesday as New York City and many parts of the eastern United States struggled…
Sandy’s death toll climbs; millions without power
NEW YORK (AP) — Millions of people from Maine to the Carolinas awoke Tuesday without electricity, and an eerily quiet New York City was all but closed off by car, train and air as superstorm Sandy steamed inland, still delivering…
Sandy leaves death, damp and darkness in wake
NEW YORK (AP) — As Superstorm Sandy marched slowly inland, millions along the East Coast awoke Tuesday without power or mass transit, with huge swaths of the nation’s largest city unusually vacant and dark.
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Politician’s death prompts Kenya violence
Three people killed as protests hit Kisumu after the murder of a candidate for general elections due in March.
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Tributes to storm death Briton
Tribute has been paid to a British banker who was killed when a hurricane hit the islands.
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Man faces station death retrial
A man is be retried for the murder of a teenager who was killed in a gang attack at London’s Victoria station in 2010
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Mom finds 2 of her young kids stabbed to death in bathtub
Police say the family’s nanny stabbed to death two children of a media executive in a luxury Manhattan apartment before slashing her own throat.
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Inquiry call over BBC man’s death
The father of a BBC journalist who apparently killed himself calls for an inquiry into how complaints he made about alleged harassment were handled.
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Murder suspect ‘infatuated with death’
Ridgeway suspect made girls in the area uneasy, many of them said.
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Neighbor arrested in Colo. girl’s death
Jessica Ridgeway’s suspected killer is a 17-year-old neighbor who authorities plan to try as an adult, officials in Colorado said Wednesday.
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