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Friends’ frantic search for Poppy Reynolds, 22, before her death – and why her mother says the mental health system failed her after losing her brother to suicide

• Advocate Poppy Reynolds, 22, died by suicide in Bundaberg on 22 June.
• Friends tried desperately to find her but arrived too late.
• Her mother says the mental health system failed her.

Poppy Eloise Reynolds, a 22-year-old suicide prevention advocate from Bundaberg on Queensland's east coast, took her own life on 22 June 2026 after disappearing, with around five close friends desperately attempting to locate her before she could harm herself. Her death follows that of her older brother Harry,…

Deep-blue Oregon is on track to elect REPUBLICAN governor, claims shock new poll that puts GOP candidate well ahead of Democrat incumbent

• Poll claims Republican Drazan leads Oregon governor Kotek 48u201344.
• Lead falls within the four-point margin of error.
• Survey was commissioned by Drazan's own campaign.

A newly published poll claims that Oregon, a state that has not elected a Republican governor since 1982, could do so in the upcoming November election. The survey places Republican State Senator Christine Drazan ahead of the incumbent Democratic governor, Tina Kotek, in what would be a significant…

How damning texts exposed NSW Police officer’s revenge plot against TikToker who filmed his mate: ‘The intel I’m gonna do is gonna make him regret his life’

• NSW officer sacked over revenge intelligence report loses reinstatement bid.
• His own threatening texts became the key evidence against him.
• Tribunal upheld the 2024 dismissal as fair and justified.

A former New South Wales Police officer, Meleck Lababidi, has lost his attempt to be reinstated to the force after he was sacked for creating a false police intelligence report as an act of revenge against a member of the public who filmed him on TikTok. Lababidi had…

Sophie Cunningham stuns the Internet with Phoenix entrance attire, new fantasy football punishment & ribs!

This piece is an instalment of OutKick's light-hearted "Friday Screencaps" column, a rambling round-up of sports and personal anecdotes rather than a single news story. The bulk of the published text focuses on the author reflecting on the end of his son's youth summer baseball season, using the…

Benefit fraudster weeps as he is jailed for claiming abandoned council flat and £160,000 of taxpayers’ money while trying to access Grenfell victim fund

• Tunisian fraudster jailed for a u00a3160,000 identity-based benefit fraud.
• He posed as a departed tenant of an abandoned council flat.
• He also tried to claim u00a35,000 from the Grenfell victims' fund.

A Tunisian man, Adam Mejri, 46, has been jailed after assuming another man's identity to fraudulently claim around £160,000 in benefits and compensation, Southwark Crown Court heard. Mejri walked into an abandoned council flat near Grenfell Tower in west London, posed as its former tenant, illegally sub-let the…

Mayor, 75, was killed in tractor crash after he was blinded by its bright headlights, inquest hears

• Mayor Barry Panter, 75, died two days after a tractor crash.
• He was reportedly blinded by the tractor's bright headlights.
• The tractor was travelling at just 18mph on a bend.

An inquest at Shropshire Coroner's Court has heard how Barry Panter, the 75-year-old mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme, was killed in a collision with a tractor after apparently being blinded by its bright headlights. Mr Panter was driving to a council meeting on 13 February last year when his Suzuki…

Edited footage of Charlie Kirk murder suspect fleeing WILL be played in court today, after Tyler Robinson’s FIVE alleged confessions to killing were revealed

• Edited footage of Kirk's alleged killer fleeing will now be shown in court.
• Judge Graf reversed his earlier block on the zoomed, annotated video.
• Prosecutors say Robinson confessed to the killing several times.

Edited surveillance footage that allegedly shows Charlie Kirk's accused murderer, Tyler Robinson, running across a rooftop and fleeing is due to be played in a Utah court on Friday, after the presiding judge reversed an earlier decision to block it. Judge Tony Graf, who is overseeing Robinson's pre-trial…