You South Africa

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AFORBIDDING fortress lies on the outskirts of Bryanston, Johannesburg. Rows of green roofs are surrounded by concrete walls and razor wire, and armed guards patrol the enormous complex around the clock. This is where more than 32 000 prisoners, among

Woman's Day

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After seeming to have turned a corner in his life, it appears Vince Colosimo is facing the brunt of the law once again, with fears that if found guilty, the actor could be headed straight to the slammer. The Underbelly star, 55, has allegedly been ca

FactCheck.org

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Sen. Lindsey Graham twisted the facts about then-Sen. Kamala Harris encouraging donations to pay bail for protesters to claim “she actually bailed out rioters," including one who "went back to the streets and broke somebody’s head open." The post Gra

Writing Magazine

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DL Russell Books specialises in horror and erotic anthologies. Editor in chief DL Russell seeks good stories with clever twists and genuine scary plots for The Big Man Selling Calendars And Other Terrifying People horror anthology. He wants tales abo

Woman's Day Magazine NZ

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It was recess when 17-year-old Nicola West checked her phone and discovered Ivan Milat had sent her a letter. “I got a text message from my mum with a picture of the envelope, and in caps: ‘HE WROTE BACK!’ I remember just freaking out. My hands were

Inc.

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IN 2005, FOUR BANKS told Laura Spaulding (above, center) her business plan wasn’t good enough for a loan. So she told the fifth bank she needed a home equity loan to replace her windows—and used the $15,000 to start her business. “I never got windows

NPR

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We asked you to tell us about your favorite horror novels and short stories, and you gave us more than 6,500 titles. Now, meet the expert judges who'll take those parts and create a beautiful monster.

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In June 2018, Christine Lyons was found guilty of the murder and attempted murder of Samantha Kelly. Ronald Lyons was found guilty of attempted murder and assisting an offender. At the sentencing, Christine Lyons’ lawyer argued his client had below-a

Writing Magazine

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The Horror Writers Association has announced the winners of the 2020 Bram Stoker Awards. The winners were: Superior Achievement in a Novel: The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones; First Novel, The Fourth Whore, EV Knight; Young Adult Novel, Clow

MoneyWeek

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King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands could lose subsidies of €4.7m over five years if he refuses to keep the 16,000-acre Het Loo crown estate open to the public all year round, says The Times. The king closes the estate – which is also a nature r

Writing Magazine

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US small press Silver Shamrock Publishing is open for submission of unagented original horror and dark fiction novels and novellas. Editor Ken McKinley is interested in seeing ‘unique spins on classic horror tropes’, ranging from ghost stories and ha

WHO

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Bright and vivacious, Helene Pruszynski seemed to have a limitless future ahead of her. A broadcasting major at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, she moved to Denver in January 1980 to begin her dream internship in the news department at KHOW radio a

Woman's Day

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TV host James Mathison has managed to narrowly avoid a criminal record after he was charged with two corporate charges last week. The 44-year-old pleaded guilty to the charges after he failed to provide liquidators the financial records from his medi

Chicago Tribune

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CHICAGO — The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services on Monday said it had two prior contacts with the family of a North Chicago boy who was found dead in an abandoned northwest Indiana house last week and whose mother and his two siblin

Los Angeles Times

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Jussie Smollett sat down for his first TV interview since his Chicago attack last month with "Good Morning America's" Robin Roberts. In a preview for the segment, which will air Thursday, the "Empire" star is seen giving a tearful account of the inci

Practical Caravan

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North Wales Police have recovered a stolen caravan, 14 years after it was taken in South Yorkshire. The van was found during a joint operation by North Wales Police and the DVSA. A former rugby professional pleaded guilty to fraud after trying to sel

TV Guide Magazine

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Last March, while cameras rolled on Season 2 of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, largerthan-life star Jen Shah (left) was arrested and charged with federal crimes stemming from an alleged telemarketing scheme that defrauded hundreds. Did the ma

New Zealand Listener

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Poor Poto Williams. The recently sacked police minister had that “rabbit in the headlights” look as she became the latest in a very long line of Kiwi politicians to have been clobbered by the gang problem. Not that the gangsters have done anything ph

Post South Africa

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I AM tired of reading about crime and people being killed. All we hear from the police is that the matters are being investigated with no arrests just yet. It sometimes takes years to find the killers, for instance, those who were arrested in relatio

New Idea

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Tamworth may be beloved as Australia’s country music capital, but one Friday morning 10 years ago, the NSW country town had its heart broken when one of its most-loved police officers was gunned down in cold blood. On March 2, 2012, Senior Constable

Huck

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Domenic Palermo has been through some shit. After playing a gig in Oakland, California, three years ago, a gang of heavy-set guys beat him up so badly that it put him in hospital. There were multiple fractures, requiring 19 staples to the frontman’s

Computeractive

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Blake Paterson is a modern version of the dodgy second-hand car salesman. Except his vehicles weren’t for sale on some squalid forecourt – they were all listed on professional-looking car dealership websites, complete with fake reviews from satisfied

Woman's Day

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It was recess when 17-year-old Nicola West checked her phone and discovered Ivan Milat had sent her a letter. “I got a text message from my mum with a picture of the envelope, and in caps: ‘HE WROTE BACK!’ I remember just freaking out. My hands were

WHO

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It’s a story within a story with extraordinary parallels,” says Estelle Blackburn of her 13-year deep dive into the secret crimes of Perth serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke that made legal history. The former ABC reporter’s first-rate detective work led

WHO

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Jane Seymour plays a retired university professor with a talent for solving mysteries in Irish crime drama Harry Wild. Harry (Seymour) finds herself at a crossroads in her life after she becomes the victim of a mugging. She soon settles into the home

High Times

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People have been negatively impacted by the War on Drugs for far too long—even those who have received convictions for cannabis crimes continue to pay for it to this day. One such individual is Michael Thompson, who has been in prison for 25 years fo

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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On a quiet Friday afternoon last year, Diane Hunt was happily prepping dinner for her son Matthew Hunt, a young constable with the New Zealand Police, who’d planned to visit after his shift. She’d bought fresh ingredients to make his favourite salmon

Woman's Day

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In 2017, an extensive two-year-long investigation by the FBI into a basketball corruption scandal led to the arrest of Christian Dawkins. The unassuming 25-year-old was alleged to be a part of a criminal enterprise infiltrating college basketball tea

Chat

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Lisa Loops, 52, Berkshire Scrolling through Facebook one day, it struck me. Almost every other post is about a lost or stolen dog, I realised. I gave my rescue spaniel Leo a little scratch behind the ears. It must be so awful, I thought. If Leo went

Woman's Day

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Retired prison officer Jane Lohse still feels a shiver run up her spine when she thinks back to the day she looked pure evil in the eye. The grandmother-of-seven had recently started working at Lithgow Maximum Security Prison, when she was asked to h