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Here's the latest for Friday, May 17th: Bodies of three Israeli hostages found in Gaza; One killed in Russian airstrike on Odesa; Golfer Scottie Scheffler arrested at scene of traffic fatality; Flying car demo held in Tokyo
Latest stories
- The Independent
Innocent elderly woman knocked out cold at LA airport when she lands in middle of a road-rage fight
The woman was rushed to the hospital in critical condition
- Manchester Evening News
Mum smashed her car into Tesco Express - before she was battered by woman with pram she nearly drove into
Emma Poingdestre, 55, was nearly three times over the limit
- CNN
Abducted child found dead and sister injured in suspected human trafficking case, authorities say
A Louisiana man arrested for the killing of a woman and her daughter is believed to have had an accomplice, Jackson Police Department said on Friday.
- The Telegraph
Former SNP equalities officer who wanted to ‘beat up terfs’ convicted of sexual assault
A former SNP equalities officer who told how he wanted to “beat the f***” out of gender critical feminists has been convicted of sexually assaulting six young adults.
- Associated Press Finance
Divers find remains of Finnish WWII plane that was shot down by Moscow with a US diplomat aboard
The World War II mystery of what happened to a Finnish passenger plane after it was shot down over the Baltic Sea by Soviet bombers appears to finally be solved more than eight decades later. The plane was carrying American and French diplomatic couriers in June 1940 when it was downed just days before Moscow annexed the Baltic states. All nine people on board the plane were killed, including the two-member Finnish crew and the seven passengers — an American diplomat, two French, two Germans, a Swede and a dual Estonian-Finnish national.
- The Telegraph
Clive Myrie: ‘I was told about the kind of bullet that would be used to kill me’
Clive Myrie, the BBC Mastermind host, said he was left “shaken” after receiving death threats which involved “talking about the kind of bullet that he’d use in the gun to kill me”.
- Sky News
Crocodile that lunged at children is shot and cooked for local residents in northern Australia
A "problem" crocodile that was stalking both adults and children has been shot and cooked for a local Aboriginal community, police in Australia have said. Since then it had been "stalking and lunging out of the water at children and adults", they added. It was "on the barbecue" and "cooked up into crocodile tail soup", remote sergeant Andrew McBride told ABC News.
- Daily Echo
Popular park festival is called off due to bad weather
A popular community festival has been cancelled - and this is why.
- The Telegraph
Tradesman jailed for charging ‘52 times the going rate’ for laying artificial grass
A rogue tradesman has been jailed for 32 months for conning a 90-year-old man into paying £42,000 to lay artificial grass.
- The Telegraph
Police ram cow with car prompting Home Secretary to demand urgent explanation
The Home Secretary has demanded an urgent explanation after police officers rammed a cow that was charging around a residential area.
- Manchester Evening News
Mum went to investigate when she heard a helicopter overhead - what she found will never leave her
Rumall Ingram shot his half-brother Zikel Bobmanuel dead in the street after a row over trainers
- The Telegraph
‘Zionist devil’ insults hurled at Labour MP canvassing outside mosque
A Labour candidate was forced to abandon leafleting outside a mosque on Friday after a crowd barracked him as a “Zionist devil” with “the blood of Palestinian children on his hands”.
- News Shopper
Man ‘with heart of pure gold’ dies in hospital three days after being shot in London
A 20-year-old man has died in hospital three days after being shot in west London.
- The Telegraph
Mother urges suspected ‘hitwoman’ daughter to turn herself in after Birmingham shooting
The mother of a suspected American hitwoman hired to take part in the assassination of a Birmingham businessman has urged her daughter to hand herself over to police.
- Associated Press
Missouri woman's murder conviction tossed after 43 years. Her lawyers say a police officer did it
A judge has overturned the conviction of a Missouri woman who was a psychiatric patient when she incriminated herself in a 1980 killing that her attorneys argue was actually committed by a now-discredited police officer. Judge Ryan Horsman ruled late Friday that Sandra Hemme, who has spent 43 years behind bars, had established evidence of actual innocence and must be freed within 30 days unless prosecutors retry her. “We are grateful to the Court for acknowledging the grave injustice Ms. Hemme has endured for more than four decades,” her attorneys said in a statement, promising to keep up their efforts to dismiss the charges and reunite Hemme with her family.
- Glasgow Times
'I can't': Driver refused drug test after cops 'smelled cannabis'
A driver refused to give a blood sample for drug testing after police "smelled cannabis" in his car.
- The Independent
Serial killer already convicted of 14 murders has just been charged in connection to a cold-case killing
Prosecutors allege Itisha Camp was strangled to death in 1998 by Chester Turner
- Dorset Echo
Swimmers 'shouting for help' rescued by paddleboarder
Swimmers off a Dorset beauty spot were 'shouting for help' before being rescued by a nearby paddleboarder
- The Telegraph
Young driver who caused ‘extremely dangerous’ collision lent sports car by friend’s father
The decision to lend a 21 year old a BMW sports car that later propelled an oncoming vehicle into a lamp post has been called “foolish” by a judge.