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Massachusetts mom Lindsay Clancy will face murder charges from her hospital bed Tuesday in the alleged strangulation of her three young children. The labor and delivery nurse, 32, will appear via Zoom in Plymouth District Court for arraignment on two counts of murder and three counts each of strangulation and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, WCVB reported. Clancy, who was on leave from her job at Massachusetts General Hospital, allegedly killed her daughter Cora, 5, son Dawson, 3, and her 7-month-old son Callan, who died later at a hospital. Upgraded charges are expected after the death of the...

A Georgia woman has been charged with murder for allegedly killing an elderly married couple at a Florida senior living community on New Year’s Eve. Vickie Williams, 50, appeared in court remotely Saturday and was ordered held in the Lake County Jail without bond for the killings of Darryl Getman, 83, and his 80-year-old wife, Shannon Getman in the Watertown Village retirement community in Mount Dora, reported the station KBTX. Williams — who had already been charged with grand theft of a motor vehicle for allegedly stealing the victims’ car — faces two counts of first-degree murder. More than a...

Dutch populist leader Geert Wilders has launched his election campaign by calling some Moroccans "scum". Mr Wilders tops opinion polls ahead of the 15 March parliamentary vote, but has seen his lead reduced in recent weeks. He has vowed to ban Muslim immigration and shut mosques if he wins.

Let’s review the murderous consequences of Obama’s realignment with the axis of evil: Only two days before Britain’s foreign minister arrived in Tehran, Israel says an Iranian Quds Force commander embedded in Syria ordered rocket fire into Israel. Israel struck back in Syrian territory, and formally protested to the six nations that negotiated the nuclear deal with Iran. As one Israeli official, Dore Gold, told Politico this week: “There’s something untenable about Iran claiming that it is in a negotiating process with the West while it reserves the right to wage war against America’s allies in the Middle East.” Since...

Why don't we start a letter writing campaign to the court to encourage them to give solid, real sentences to these monsters and not give them a slap on the wrist? By doing that we'll ensure that justice is done.

Enjoy this graphic reminder of the evil nature of the current illegal Chinese Communist regime. The brave students and martyrs at Tiananmen Square deserve a little more than MFN status for their killers. http://www.glumbert.com/media/tsquare

Two US doctors have begun an autopsy on the body of top militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, killed in a US-led operation in Iraq this week. Questions have arisen over how Zarqawi died since the Americans revealed he had still been alive following the bombing of a safe house by US planes. It is unclear if Zarqawi's remains will be released to his family in Jordan.

NAVAL STATION GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Jan. 12, 2006 – Preliminary hearings in the case of a Canadian teen accused of murdering a U.S. Army medic in a 2002 Afghan firefight began here yesterday. Omar Ahmed Khadr, 19, was 15 when prosecutors say he threw the grenade that killed U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer. The attack also cost former Army Sgt. Lane Morris an eye. Khadr appeared in court dressed like a typical teen, wearing an athletic jersey-styled red and blue T-shirt sporting the logo of a Canadian company. The only photo of Khadr that has been made public,...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - A Missouri radio talk show host was arrested on murder charges Monday for allegedly poisoning his wife by spiking her Gatorade with a chemical found in antifreeze. James Keown, 31, was arrested at the radio station where he worked in Jefferson City, Mo. He later made a court appearance via video and said he would not fight efforts to return him to Massachusetts. Prosecutors said he slowly poisoned Julie Keown, 31, with ethylene glycol while the couple were living in Massachusetts in 2004. District Attorney Martha Coakley said the motive may have been financial: Julie Keown...

According to Magen David Adom ambulance services, three persons were killed in the attack in Gush Etzion, as Arabs driving in a vehicle opened fire at the hitching post. Another five persons were wounded, among them, two seriously, one moderately, and one lightly. The wounded have been evacuated to the hospital. Eyewitnesses reported seeing backpacks strewn with victims’ blood at the intersection where the attack occurred. "A Palestinian passed by in a car, let off a burst of fire, and struck down people standing at the hitchhiking post," said Shaul Goldstein, head of the Gush Etzion Municipal Council, on Israel...

The service was held at a Baptist church in Longwood. Afterward, the three white coffins were loaded into hearses for the trip to the cemetery. There was plenty of space in the hearses, because the coffins were small. Ilona Williams died at age 9. Ian Williams was 6. Ivey was only 5. Police say their mother killed them and hid the bodies in a trundle bed. On Mother’s Day. The children’s father says he begged authorities to take the children from his estranged wife because she was mentally disturbed. Last fall, she was hospitalized twice for psychiatric evaluation under Florida’s...

Prize-winning French novelist Michel Houellebecq is to stand trial on Tuesday on charges of making a racial insult and inciting religious hatred. The controversial writer is being sued by four Islamic organisations in Paris after making "insulting" remarks about the religion in an interview about his latest book. The novel, Platform, is also cited in the case being made by the largest mosques in Paris and Lyon, the National Federation of French Muslims (FNMN) and the World Islamic League. In an interview given last year to the French literary magazine Lire, the author was quoted as saying "the dumbest...