Five MPs on Teesside have called on the government to provide more help to local police and fire services after a week in which nine people have died in two incidents.
As film and TV studio services giant Quixote cuts down its exposure to empty soundstages, the lease at one of its vacated locations has been taken over with plans to make it a home base for a production label.
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Texas Senate candidate James Talarico (D-TX) speaks at a campaign rally on March 2, 2026 in Houston, Texas. Talarico is visiting various locations around the state in the lead up to tomorrow's primaries.
Let’s flashback 20 years to Aug. 27, 2006, and the 58th Primetime Emmys, held back then at the Shrine Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles. NBC aired the ceremony that year, which is why it was so early — so as not to conflict with “Sunday Night Football.” (This year, NBC once again is airing the Emmys, but it has smartly shifted the telecast to a Monday to keep it in September and not encroach on our fleeting summer plans.)
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“My sister was one of the most generous, thoughtful, and kind people I’ve ever known,” she writes in online tribute
Dolly Parton‘s younger sister Stella posted a tribute to the late country icon today on Facebook. “My sister was one of the most generous, thoughtful, and kind people I’ve ever known,” she wrote. In the lengthy post, she talked about how she kept in touch with Dolly, who was three years older than her.
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Ratko Mladić, the infamous Serbian general who was serving a life sentence for genocide committed during the Bosnian war, has died in prison in The Hague.
Mladić had been one of the main architects of the policy of ethnic cleansing during the Bosnian war. He was convicted of genocide for orchestrating the 1995 killing of at least 8,000 Muslims in the UN-designated “safe area” Srebrenica, the worst massacre in Europe since the second world war.
Samuel Monroe Jr., the veteran character actor and star of Menace II Society, has died. He was 52.
“I want to thank all of my Facebook family and friends new and old for praying for Samuel Monroe Jr., my son. But today God called him home. Please honor my final request to pray for the family, especially his 3 children,” Joyce Patton, his mother, wrote in a post on Thursday.
Ismail Sabri, 66, pleaded not guilty to a charge that allege he failed to provide a complete declaration of assets.
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob has been charged with failing to declare tens of millions of dollars worth of assets, becoming the country’s third former prime minister to face criminal charges after leaving office.