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Couple who ‘beat, belittled and starved’ a vulnerable man to death after he was sent to live with them by social services found guilty of murder
A couple have been found guilty of murdering a vulnerable man who had been placed in their care after social services sent him to live with them. The case raises serious concerns about the safeguarding of adults placed in private homes and whether warning signs of abuse were identified. The prosecution said the man was…
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Couple suffer life-threatening injuries in M18 crash as man arrested on drug driving offences
A couple suffered life-threatening injuries in a crash on the M18, while a man was arrested on suspicion of drug-driving offences. The incident has prompted a police investigation and is likely to have caused disruption on the motorway. The available article text does not provide further details about the crash, including its location, timing, vehicles…
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California mom welcomes baby in Jack in the Box parking lot after little girl couldn’t wait
A Southern California couple welcomed their daughter, Valentina Isla Campbell, in a Jack in the Box car park after labour progressed too quickly for them to reach hospital. Firefighters assisted with the delivery after Michelle Cisneros and Darren Campbell called emergency services, giving the family an unusual but successful birth story. Valentina was born healthy…
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Beshear draws Democratic attention, GOP barbs with McConnell pressure campaign
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear is drawing national Democratic interest while facing Republican criticism over a campaign that puts pressure on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. The effort matters because it raises Beshear’s profile beyond Kentucky and could shape perceptions of his future national political ambitions. The supplied article text is inaccessible, so the available information…
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Man who used motorhome to smuggle drugs jailed
Christopher Sale, 47, from South Elmsall near Wakefield, has been jailed for helping smuggle cannabis resin worth up to £720,000 into the UK in a motorhome. The case highlights the role of a wider organised crime group that used ferry routes from mainland Europe to bring illegal drugs into Britain. Sale and associate Russell King…
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LA real estate vet comes at Mayor Bass with receipts over damning homelessness report: ‘She doesn’t get it’
Los Angeles homelessness has risen again, according to new official figures, prompting renewed criticism of Mayor Karen Bass’s handling of the crisis. Local activist and business owner John Alle told Fox News Digital that Bass has failed to confront crime, drug use and deteriorating conditions in affected neighbourhoods, arguing that she does not understand the…
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‘I had a really crippling break’: how author Michael Thomas lost 20 years to mania, depression and more
Michael Thomas’s acclaimed 2006 debut novel, Man Gone Down, brought major literary recognition, a €100,000 Dublin literary award and an academic promotion, but was followed by a 20-year gap before his next book. His new memoir, The Broken King, explains how mental illness, poverty, trauma and other pressures disrupted his life and writing, showing that…
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Pediatricians and health officials are sidestepping Trump’s CDC on vaccine advice
Pediatricians, medical organisations and some state and local health officials are increasingly directing families to independent vaccine guidance rather than relying solely on the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. The shift follows Trump administration changes to federal childhood vaccine recommendations and reflects concern among these groups that the revised advice may create confusion…
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From just 11, Sarah was enslaved by paedophile Muslim men who plied her with alcohol and drugs and raped her. Now, thanks to Labour’s early release scheme, they could be out in just five years…
Sarah Wilson, now 34, has spoken about being abused for five years from the age of 11 by a grooming gang of men in Rotherham, who plied her with alcohol and drugs before raping her, and has waived her anonymity to campaign for justice. She has learned that under the Government’s new Sentencing Act 2026,…
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Kevin McNicholl meets Sheffield man saved by his stem cell donation
Stephen Cutts, a retired surgical instrument maker from Sheffield who survived acute myeloid leukaemia, has met Kevin McNicholl, the stem cell donor whose transplant saved his life. Cutts was diagnosed with the aggressive blood cancer in April 2023 and received seven rounds of chemotherapy before a match was found through the Anthony Nolan register. Their…