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A man has been arrested on a triple murder charge after a deadly knife rampage that left three dead in Nottingham city centre.Valdo Calocane, 31, of no fixed address, was tasered and arrested after allegedly knifing 19-year-old students Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar on Ilkeston Road, before stabbing a school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, on Magdala Road and stealing his van, in the early hours of Tuesday.

Nottingham remained a city in grief on Thursday, still yet to come to terms with a tragedy that shocked the country.Thousands turned out to pay tribute to two 19-year-old students and a school caretaker who were brutally killed in a knife and van rampage.A vigil at the city's Market Square heard the families of each victim take to the stage to pay tribute to their loved ones, while local leaders called for unity in the wake of the deadly attacks.

Sign up for our amNY Sports email newsletter to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams Former Mayor Bill de Blasio has been ordered to cough up nearly $500,000 by the city's Conflicts of Interest Board (COIB) for improperly billing New York taxpayers for his NYPD security detail's out-of-state travel expenses during a failed 2019 presidential bid.

Six highway workers were killed on a busy highway outside Baltimore on Wednesday when they were struck by a car that traveled into their work zone, the authorities said.The accident took place at about 12:40 p.m., when the driver of an Acura tried to change lanes in the inner loop of Interstate 695, also known as the Baltimore Beltway, in Woodlawn, Md., in Baltimore County, the Maryland State Police said in a statement.

The last time that Reyna Cristina Ical Seb saw her family, she promised them that she would send enough money to fix their small home in a rural Indigenous town in Guatemala.At just 20 years old, she made her way north, crossing several borders before settling in Chicago last October.Ical Seb was hopeful that she would be able to help her parents after finding a job shortly after arriving in the city where she had no other family, only colleagues from other towns in her native country.

Starbucks has long portrayed itself as a queer-friendly workplace.On its own website, the company touts its benefits for trans employees, its longtime support of marriage equality, and its willingness to fly the rainbow flag at its Seattle headquarters.The Human Rights Campaign calls it one of the best places to work for LGBTQ+ equality.

Local The Florida governor took credit last year for an operation that flew 49 migrants from Texas to Massachusetts.Last fall, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other officials from his state organized the transportation of 49 migrants from San Antonio to Martha's Vineyard in a shocking move that made national news.

A Brookfield man has been charged in the Tuesday shooting of two boys, ages 12 and 16, outside a library in West Garfield Park.Police charged Adam Avizius, 37, with one felony count of aggravated battery for allegedly shooting the two children outside the Legler Regional Branch Library, according to the Chicago Police Department.

Two days after a pair of boys were shot outside a Chicago Public Library branch in West Garfield Park, local leaders and anti-violence activists gathered on the library's front steps to call for more investment in underserved neighborhoods as a way to reduce the city's entrenched gun violence.The boys, ages 12 and 16, were shot about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday outside the Legler Regional Branch library, 115 S. Pulaski Road, according to Chicago police.

Across great swathes of English local government, three lost years of levelling up have served principally to foster a growing sense of frustration, resentment and disappointment.The value of piecemeal pots of money made available by Westminster has been dwarfed by the impact of long-term austerity on council finances.

The Syracuse police were searching on Tuesday for the assailant in a drive-by shooting that killed an 11-year-old girl who lived nearby as she was apparently walking home after buying milk.The shooting on Monday night occurred at an intersection in the city's Southside neighborhood just opposite an elementary school named for Martin Luther King Jr., on a holiday named for the slain civil rights leader.

Russia assumed that Ukraine's population could be controlled by shutting off access to heat and water.Aleksandr Geraskino and Elena Geraskina, her mother, prepare lunch, the only hot meal of the day for them, as daily life continues in Bakhmut, Ukraine, on December 21, 2022.Andre Luis Alves / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images Despite international calls for a holiday ceasefire, the Russian military launched massive missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian towns and energy infrastructure this week, killing several civilians and robbing millions more of heat and light as the new year approaches.

Crime "We have an argument for a hate crime charge, and that may still occur depending on how the facts play out."Details concerning a rape and kidnapping outside a Quincy MBTA station have both local leaders and the region's Asian community unsettled.A 64-year-old Asian woman was on her way to work early Saturday morning when she was kidnapped by a man outside Wollaston station, police said.

AUSTIN, Texas As the City of Austin and the Austin Police Association (APA) fight over a new police union contract, a new measure has been put in place to make sure officers keep getting salaries and benefits if the current contract lapses.City leaders say Item 61, in addition to maintaining the current pay and benefits in place for officers, will also keep police oversight in mind.

AUSTIN, Texas Austin Energy crews continue to work around the clock to restore power to all customers in the Austin area.While thousands of people have gotten their power restored, others haven't been so lucky yet.Local leaders know that without power, food spoils.People are also having to deal with home repair costs and low wages due to business closures.

AUSTIN, Texas On Tuesday, local leaders gathered in Austin to announce a new federally funded project to help address overdoses as a public health crisis in the Central Texas area.U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin), a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee, was joined by Austin Mayor Kirk Watson, Travis County Judge Andy Brown and representatives from Austin Public Health to announce the new funding, which will be used to break ground on the "substance use and misuse education and prevention project."

An individual was identified Friday in connection with a threat to synagogues in New Jersey, but the Jewish community in Los Angeles remains on alert after a recent spate of antisemitic incidents in and around the city.Law enforcement increased patrols at Los Angeles area synagogues and local leaders have asked members of the community to remain alert after a number of incidents, and recent comments by celebrities, have raised worries about possible hate incidents or attacks.

Two Santa Clara County school districts are creating safe school environments for LGBTQ students, but a new report shows more progress needs to be made.Both Santa Clara Unified and San Jose Unified school districts received middle-tier scores according to the 2022 Equality California Safe and Supportive Schools Report Card, which rates districts on LGBTQ advocacy using factors including LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum and awareness training for staff.