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California: 81-year-old ‘serial slingshot shooter’ arrested after terrorising neighbours for a decade

28May

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California: 81-year-old ‘serial slingshot shooter’ arrested after terrorising neighbours for a decade

An 81-year-old man has been arrested in California after police allege he terrorised neighbours with a slingshot for round a decade. Prince King of Azusa is suspected of breaking home windows and automotive windshields and narrowly lacking individuals with ball bearings shot from a slingshot, Azusa Police mentioned in an announcement on 23 May. Dozens of individuals had reported being "victimised" by the unknown particular person, who police known as a "serial slingshot shooter," over the course of 9 to 10 years.No accidents have been reported.King was arrested after ball bearings and a slingshot have been discovered throughout a search of his residence within the metropolis - which is 25 miles (40km) from Los Angeles. Read extra from Sky News:Tornadoes go away path of destru...

Arizona teenager saved by brother after black bear barges into cabin and assaults him

28May

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Arizona teenager saved by brother after black bear barges into cabin and assaults him

A teenage boy was saved by his brother after a black bear barged into his cabin and left him with scratches throughout his face and arm - with the animal having a sit down on a settee on the household's porch after the assault.Brigham Hawkins, 15, was "just chilling" in one among two cabins on his household's property in Alpine, Arizona, when the bear "walked in through the front door and swiped him across the head" on Thursday night, his mom Carol stated. Ms Hawkins instructed Sky News' US accomplice NBC News that Brigham has a "neurological disorder" and he or she believes he would have been killed if her different son Parker, 18, had not intervened. The mom stated: "The front door was open to let the cool night air in."Brigham was watching YouTube and did not realise what ...

Post Office Horizon IT scandal: 80 detectives throughout UK set to analyze

28May

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Business

Post Office Horizon IT scandal: 80 detectives throughout UK set to analyze

The legal investigation into the Post Office scandal is to be expanded, with 80 detectives set to be concerned.The Metropolitan Police began inspecting potential offences, together with perjury and perverting the course of justice, in January 2020. This is now widening to forces throughout the UK as a public inquiry into the scandal progresses. Please use Chrome browser for a extra accessible video participant 1:38 Paula Vennells breaks down in tears once more Hundreds of sub-postmasters had been wrongly convicted of theft and ...

28May

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Politics

A message from the Bronx for Donald Trump

"The Bronx County Conservative Party would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to Republican Presidential candidate and Conservative Party endorsee Donald J. Trump for visiting the Bronx. As one of the first groups to publicly endorse him, and having made numerous public statements and invitations, we were overjoyed to welcome him to the South Bronx," stated Gonzalo Duran, vice chairman of the Bronx County Conservative Party, in a written assertion shared Inside with the Beltway. Content Source: www.washingtontimes.com

AI regulators ‘under-resourced’ in comparison with builders, committee warns

28May

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Technology

AI regulators ‘under-resourced’ in comparison with builders, committee warns

Regulators for synthetic intelligence within the UK are "under-resourced" in comparison with builders of the expertise, the Commons science committee chief has warned.Outgoing chairman of the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, Greg Clark, stated he's "worried" by the hole between regulators and the "finance that major developers can command". In a report produced by the committee into the governance of AI, the group stated the £10m introduced by the federal government in February to assist Ofcom and different regulators reply to the expertise's development was "clearly insufficient".The subsequent authorities ought to announce additional monetary assist "commensurate to the scale of the task", it added."It is important that the timing of the general election does n...

Home Alone home goes up on the market – here is what it appears like inside

28May

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Entertainment

Home Alone home goes up on the market – here is what it appears like inside

The home famously used when Kevin McCallister was left Home Alone at Christmas is on sale.The five-bed, six-bathroom mansion in Winnetka, Illinois has been put in the marketplace for a staggering $5.25m (£4.1m). It is the primary time since 2012 that the property has been put in the marketplace, in keeping with American property brokers, Zillow. Image: The price ticket for the mansion is sufficient to shock Kevin McCallister. Pic: twentieth Century Fox/Kobal/Shutterstock Since the discharge of the 1990 basic movie directed by Chris Columbus, the home has gone below excessive renovation.Posting a walkthrough of the interiors, property brokers The Dawn Mckenna Group, mentioned the present house owners have doubl...

Sunday Notes: Matthew Lugo Has Been Boston’s Top Performing Prospect

27May

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Baseball

Sunday Notes: Matthew Lugo Has Been Boston’s Top Performing Prospect

The Portland Sea Dogs roster consists of three Top 100 prospects, however neither Roman Anthony (15), Marcelo Mayer (42), nor Kyle Teel (83) has been the Double-A affiliate’s greatest participant thus far this season. That distinction belongs to a 23-year-old, shortstop-turned-left-fielder whom the Boston Red Sox drafted 69th total in 2019 out of the Carlos Beltran Baseball Academy. Along with taking part in stellar protection at a brand new place, Matthew Lugo is slashing .306/.404/.653 with 10 residence runs and an Eastern League-best 191 wRC+. Markedly-improved plate self-discipline has performed a giant function in his breakout. Last 12 months, Lugo logged a 5.9% stroll fee and a 27.6% strikeout fee. This 12 months these numbers are 13.4% and 22.5%. The key to his newfound capabil...

Ruud’s 4 RG Favorites, And Why He’s Not On The Checklist

27May

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Tennis

Ruud’s 4 RG Favorites, And Why He’s Not On The Checklist

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Monday May 27, 2024Casper Ruud arrives in Paris on the heels of his twelfth profession title, however the Norwegian says don’t depend him among the many favorites at Roland Garros 2024. Novak Djokovic? That's a special story, he says...“To me even though Novak hasn't had the best year as he typically has or the same level, I think he is still the favorite,” Ruud advised reporters on Sunday in Paris. “He is No. 1 seeded, and he has 24 slams under his belt, so if there's anyone who knows when to find their peak and form, it's probably him.“Then after that it's a lot of other guys, and I also want to mention Rafa obviously. He is not seeded and he has not maybe played the way he used to play on clay, but if he is physically fit, I think I'm not going to cal...

Bruce Springsteen cancels exhibits over ‘vocal points’

27May

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Bruce Springsteen cancels exhibits over ‘vocal points’

Bruce Springsteen has cancelled a collection of dates as a result of "vocal issues", days after performing in what he described as "hellacious" climate in Sunderland.The US star, 74, postponed exhibits in Marseille, Prague and Milan over the subsequent fortnight, together with his European tour set to renew in Madrid on 12 June. In an Instagram put up on Sunday, he mentioned he was "recuperating comfortably" and he and the E Street Band "look forward to resuming their hugely successful European stadium tour".With "further examination" and "consulting", the assertion additionally mentioned, medical doctors decided Bruce "should not perform for the next 10 days".Springsteen had performed at Sunderland's Stadium of Light on Wednesday, the place he admitted the climate was signif...

Tornadoes go away path of loss of life and destruction throughout elements of US

27May

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World

Tornadoes go away path of loss of life and destruction throughout elements of US

Powerful storms have killed at the very least 15 individuals and left a path of destruction of their wake as they swept throughout elements of the central United States.A twister tore by a rural space in northern Texas, close to the Oklahoma border, on Saturday night time, killing at the very least seven individuals. Cooke County sheriff Ray Sappington mentioned two youngsters, aged two and 5, had been among the many victims, with quite a few accidents additionally reported.He mentioned a few of the many trailer properties within the space had been "completely gone", whereas others suffered large harm from the storm which left 1 / 4 of a mile-wide path of destruction for 3 to 4 miles."It's just a trail of debris left," he mentioned. "The devastation is pretty severe." Storms ...