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CNN — A former jewelry store manager in the United Kingdom was sentenced to 28 months in prison after posting selfies wearing stolen merchandise and sending them to her coworkers, Humberside Police said in a statement. Lucy Roberts, 39, frequently took jewelry home with her during the year she worked at a high-end shop, police…
The longest-serving man on Mississippi’s death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer’s wife in a violent ransom scheme. Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder whose final appeals were denied without comment by the U.S. Supreme Court, was sentenced to death…
Hong Kong is considering changing the name of the illegal narcotic “space oil” to “zombie oil”, as lawmakers raised concerns that the current title could romanticise the drug’s usage. Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung on Wednesday revealed the plan to rename space oil, the main ingredient of which is the anaesthetic etomidate, after hearing…
The document, prepared by the State Council, describes how China will intensify its efforts to achieve scientific and technological breakthroughs and accelerate breakthroughs, amid increasingly fierce global competition and a growing need to improve high-quality technological production. Key measures include increasing spending on basic research, improving funding mechanisms that combine competitive and stable support, and…
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Sen. Chuck Schumer briefly hospitalized for dehydration Sen. Chuck Schumer briefly hospitalized for dehydration 00:28 Washington — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was taken to the hospital and treated for dehydration on Wednesday “out of an abundance of caution,” a spokesperson for his office said. The New York Democrat, 74, was at the Senate gym…
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Jun. 25—If you’ve been wondering about that big, new building under construction along Waynesville’s Russ Avenue, or what’s going up at the old gas station site on Pigeon Street — we’ve got some answers for you. The Russ Avenue building beside Zaxby’s will be home to Aspen Dental. And along Pigeon Street — where a…
An international traveler was arrested after allegedly “maliciously” assaulting a police K9 at Dulles International Airport, kicking it so hard it went airborne, according to a federal air marshal. According to an affidavit, Hamed Aly Marie allegedly attacked the Customs and Border Protection K9, named Freddy, as it was helping screen luggage Tuesday at a…
Hong Kong police are searching for a man and have arrested his girlfriend over the suspected murder of a Vietnamese woman reported missing last Saturday, after the force’s investigation uncovered sightings of a male suspect dumping suspicious, heavy-looking bags. Superintendent Gar Kam-lam of the force’s Kowloon West regional crime headquarters said on Wednesday that the…