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Donna Marie Lange, 50, is accused of smothering her boyfriend to death with her ample chest after witnesses told police they saw the couple drinking and arguing in their Everett, Wash., motor home, according to the incident report obtained by the Daily News. Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrived at …

Libya’s internationally recognised government in Tripoli will impose a full lockdown in areas of the country it controls, it said on Thursday, after a sharp rise in Coronavirus cases. Libya, split since 2014 between areas held by the Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli and a rival administration in the east, …

A 9-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her 14-year-old cousin at an undisclosed location in Mpumalanga on Thursday. According to police spokesperson Brigadier Leonard Hlathi, the teenager tied the victim with a rope, covered her mouth with a cloth and then allegedly raped her. “This incident, which is under investigation, …

Three women have been shot dead and a fourth seriously injured after a man allegedly attacked them in Sterkspruit in the Eastern Cape on Wednesday. According to police spokesperson Colonel Sibongile Soci, a 48-year-old man handed himself over to the police following the shooting. “It is alleged that on 29 …

The Groenvlei lake, in South Africa, is full of gleaming carps. The fish were introduced in the 1800s and have proliferated so much that they threaten the lake’s ecosystem. So park managers like Thulani Ndlovu, an employee at CapeNature, are trying to curb numbers of the invasive species. “We eradicate …

The body of an 8-year-old Limpopo girl who had been missing since Monday was found in the early hours of Thursday morning. She had been brutally murdered. A man has been arrested for the murder and the possible rape of the girl.   The remains of Mabareki California Molamudi, who …

The Rivers State Police Command have been charged by a human rights activist identified as Prince Wiro to investigate and prosecute its operatives accused of arresting and raping a widow over alleged breach of COVID-19 protocols. Recall that a 32-year-old widow (name withheld) alleged that policemen attached to the Sakpenwa Police …

A wing tip accident was witnessed at the cargo area of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos on Wednesday July 29.   The accident occurred when a Middle East Airlines plane was coming to park on the apron while a Turkish Airlines aircraft was taxiing out.   Passengers on the Turkish Airlines flight …

A 52-year old pastor, Adetokunbo Adenokpo, has been arrested for allegedly abducting a dispatch rider and detaining him in an underground facility in his church in Sagamu, Lagos. Parading the suspect before newsmen, the spokesperson of the Nigeria Police Force, DCP Frank Mba, said the pastor, who is the General …

A 20-year-old woman, Chioma Dioke, has narrated how kidnappers forced her elder brother to have sexual intercourse with her while they were in captivity. Speaking on Tuesday, July 28, Miss Dioke said the kidnappers held them inside a bush called Sambisa forest located in Ezzagu in Ishielu Local Government Area …