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  • DNA breakthrough IDs boy found dead 53 years ago in Lorton, turns up more unanswered questions

    08/05/2025 6:51:44 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 29 replies
    WTOP-News ^ | August 04, 2025 | Thomas Robertson
    A 4-year-old boy who was found dead in Lorton, Virginia, more than 50 years ago, and whose name has remained a mystery, has finally been identified after a flood of tips, a series of DNA tests and decades of twists and turns. Fairfax County police Chief Kevin Davis announced the breakthrough Monday, saying the child’s identification has led police to two people who are believed to have been involved in his killing, and another missing boy whose body has never been discovered. The case of the boy, identified as 4-year-old Carl Matthew Bryant, confounded police and the public for decades....
  • Yes, Britain and France should be linked by a road bridge, but is it possible? [srsly?]

    01/19/2018 6:53:58 AM PST · by Olog-hai · 11 replies
    TheLocal.fr ^ | 19 January 2018 13:09 CET+01:00
    Britain’s foreign secretary Boris Johnson says it’s time Britain and France were linked by a bridge, calling it “ridiculous” that the two European powers were “only linked by a single rail line”. But is it even possible? And which side of the road would they drive on? The often loose-tongued and bungling Johnson made the eyebrow raising suggestion at Thursday’s Franco-British summit, held at a British army base. Johnson, who along with Theresa May had thrashed out a new summit with French president Emmanuel Macron, championed the idea of a bridge over the English Channel. […] … [T]he idea of...