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WARNING: This article contains graphic details of violence. An Illinois landlord who killed a six-year-old Palestinian American boy and severely injured the boy’s mother in a vicious hate-crime attack days after the war in Gaza began was sentenced Friday to 53 years in prison. Joseph Czuba, 73, was found guilty in …
Read More »Burlington man arrested in Dominican Republic still stuck after drug charges dropped, family says
The wife of a Canadian man who was arrested in the Dominican Republic after he was accused of smuggling drugs says all charges against him have been dropped, but he remains stuck there indefinitely. Jane Wilcox and her husband, David Bennett, had spent a week at a resort in the …
Read More »Iran says it executed a man who was an Israeli intelligence source
Iran executed a man on Wednesday that it said worked for Israel’s foreign intelligence agency and played a role in the 2022 killing of a Revolutionary Guard colonel in Tehran, the official IRNA news agency reported. The report identified the man as Mohsen Langarneshin and said he was hanged. It …
Read More »Meet the man dubbed the ‘Brantford Boomer’ and how a viral moment is taking over his life
A St. Thomas, Ont., man photographed flashing two middle fingers outside a recent Mark Carney rally says he regrets the impulsive gesture, saying it’s led to a wave of online abuse against his family and organizations he’s been affiliated with. The image of Matt Janes, a local Liberal campaign volunteer, was …
Read More »Supreme Court orders Trump administration to return man mistakenly deported to El Salvador
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday said the Trump administration must facilitate the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, rejecting the administration’s emergency appeal. The court acted in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen who had an immigration court order preventing …
Read More »This man lost his life savings to identity fraud. He doesn’t know how it happened
When Rick Hall discovered most of his life savings had been drained from his bank account, he suspected he had been hacked. The first clue came when his password didn’t work. Then, once he regained access, he saw that on Feb. 17 a total of $28,710 had been transferred to an unknown …
Read More »Ottawa man charged after lockdown on Parliament Hill, police say
Ottawa police say a 31-year-old man has been charged with multiple offences following an hours-long Parliament Hill lockdown on Saturday. In a news release sent Sunday morning, the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) said the man entered the security screening area of the East Block of Parliament Hill around 2:40 p.m. Saturday …
Read More »Teen girl pleads guilty to assault in fatal swarming attack of Toronto man
A teen girl set to face trial for manslaughter in the death of a homeless Toronto man has pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of assault. The girl was one of two scheduled to go on trial next month in relation to the death of Kenneth Lee, a 59-year-old man …
Read More »Man pulled out alive after nearly 5 days in Myanmar earthquake rubble
Rescue crews in Myanmar pulled a 26-year-old man out alive from the rubble of the capital city hotel where he worked early on Wednesday, but most teams were finding only bodies five days after a massive earthquake hit the country. After using an endoscopic camera to pinpoint Naing Lin Tun’s …
Read More »This N.L. man took a selfie with a beached whale, and took his photography to a whole new level
It’s hard to describe the sheer size of a whale when it washes ashore. That’s why Brendon Gould took to the beach with his drone in River of Ponds, N.L., on the Northern Peninsula. In a social media video that has amassed over 10,000 views, Gould lays on the rocks …
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