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Martina and Ammi Burke were 'risk assessed' when they were committed to prison and it was decided they would be housed together in a room with no other inmates, despite the overcrowding crisis.

Rachel found her mother nearly unresponsive, with her eyes not closing and her mouth drooping. Marsha's toes had started to turn black due to reduced blood flow as her body began to shut down.

Victims' Commissioner Claire Waxman expressed her delight at the government's decision, stating that the change is long overdue and acknowledges the years of campaigning led by bereaved families like Tracey Hanson, who sought justice following the tragic death of her son Josh.

It is alleged that Mr Zhyvytskyi suffered a stab wound to the chest during an altercation in Knapp's Square in Cork city at 7.50pm on March 16. He managed to make his way to his nearby home where he was later pronounced dead.

Dutch police contacted neighbouring Belgian and German forces and eventually Interpol about the possibility of an international appeal for information on the cases. It was this that brought Roberts' and other unidentified death cases to the desk of Susan Hitchin, from the forensics team at Interpol's headquarters in the French city of Lyon.

Every state now has a legal avenue where people can request DNA testing of evidence after being convicted. But in many cases, it's not clear if those statutes apply once convicts have died, said Brandon Garrett, a law professor at Duke University.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

Murdaugh's attorneys argued Wednesday before the South Carolina Supreme Court, asking the justices to overturn the two murder convictions and life sentence Murdaugh is serving for the shooting deaths of his wife, Maggie, and younger son, Paul, outside their home in June 2021. The defense argues the trial judge made rulings that prevented a fair trial, such as allowing in evidence of Murdaugh stealing from clients that had nothing to do with the killings but biased jurors against him.

According to the Los Angeles Times, citing two law enforcement sources, there were signs of forced entry and blood found at the residence in the Catalina Foothills area where Nancy Guthrie was last seen at about 9.30pm Saturday. Chris Nanos, the Pima county sheriff, said in a press conference on Monday it was imperative she was found soon because she has limited physical mobility and requires regular life-saving medication.

Whiteman, 45, filed a civil lawsuit in March 2024 accusing the Alexander brothers of sexually assaulting her more than a decade earlier. In court filings, she said she met the brothers at a Manhattan nightclub in 2012 and was forced into a sport utility vehicle as she was leaving. She alleged they drove her to a Hamptons estate where she was assaulted.

As authorities continue to unravel the circumstances of how a teenager's body came to be stuffed in the trunk of singer D4vd's Tesla months ago, a key grand jury witness was dragged back to L.A. from Montana recently, after a judge issued a warrant for his arrest for failing to testify. Neo Langston, a social media influencer often photographed with the singer, bailed out of the Los Angeles Police Department's jail for $60,000 over the weekend, records show. LAPD Capt. Mike Bland said the department is not in a position to comment on the arrest.

It was the type of Saturday evening that Nancy Guthrie treasured: dinner and game night at the home of her eldest daughter and son-in-law. They lived near each other in the unincorporated desert communities north of Tucson, Arizona, and Guthrie arrived by Uber just after 5:30 p.m. on Jan. 31. The family spent about four hours together before Guthrie was driven home by her son-in-law, who watched to ensure she made it safely inside, police said later.