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Iranian backed terrorist organization Hamas announced Monday it will not comply with the next stage of a previously negotiated hostage deal, falsely claiming "Israeli violations" as the reason for the decision. The deal Hamas agreed to requires the release of three more hostages this week, which now isn't happening. blockquote class="twitter-tweet">They may be running out of hostages in living or presentable condition. https://t.co/1QN5H5XwW1— Eugene Kontorovich (@EVKontorovich) February 10, 2025🚨BREAKING🚨 Hamas has announced they are breaking the deal and will not release remaining phase 1 hostages unless Israel meets “new demands.”This just days after the release of 3 hostages who were...

TRACY — Police have arrested a Tracy couple in connection with a case involving an emaciated teen boy who stumbled into a local gym Monday wearing a heavy chain padlocked to his ankle. Kelly Layne-Lau, 30, and Michael Schumacher, 34, face charges of torture, kidnapping, false imprisonment, child endangerment and corporal injury to a child, according to police spokesman Matt Robinson. Kelly Layne-Lau also goes by the alias of Kelly Lau-Schumacher, police said. They are each being held on $1.185 million bail. Police served a search warrant on their house Monday night and pulled out evidence. Another woman, Caren Ramirez,...

19 September 2005 EXCLUSIVE: GRAN STARVES TO DEATH Ivy, 79, abandoned by family, friends and social services By Robert Stansfield A GRAN starved to death because her council home had no letterbox so her pension could not be delivered. Penniless Ivy Allen, 79, had barely drunk or eaten in the last three months of her life. None of her 10 children, 30 grandkids, social services or pensions officials noticed she was dying at her home in Warrington, Cheshire. Grandson Anthony Bradbury, 24, said: "I can't forgive myself." _______________ TRAGIC Ivy Allen's pension was sent back each week after the council...