killing
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Cars, he pointed out, “have a direct link to the higher likelihood of killing children and people on the streets.”
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
President Fernández turned up at Rosales’s funeral, and bemoaned that one of the suspects in the case had been repeatedly stopped by police before the killing but remained free.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Flooding and mud slides hit the Rasuaw region in the morning on Wednesday, killing at least 95 people in Nepal and three in Tibet, according to Chinese state media.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
A US federal judge postponed on Monday the trial of a Libyan man accused of making the bomb that destroyed a Pan Am flight over Scotland in 1988, killing 270 people, citing new evidence.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
As punishment for killing the bird, the old sailor of the poem’s title was forced to wear its gruesome remains as a necktie.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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During closing arguments, Clancy's lawyer Kevin Reddington recalled that the mother had made several pleas for help before the killings and received "lousy medical care" from the doctors she consulted.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
There has even been a surge of conspiracy theories blaming Patrick Clancy, Lindsay’s ex-husband and father to the deceased children, for the killings.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
A month before the killings, Musgrove said, her daughter came to her and Clancy's then-husband, Patrick Clancy.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Although she is investigating a new set of Ghostface killings, Kirby later becomes a prime suspect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
The movement regularly holds protests against police killings of African Americans and against such issues as racial profiling, police brutality, and racial inequality in the United States criminal justice system.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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