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An Australian woman was on Monday convicted of murdering three elderly relatives of her estranged husband with a meal laced with poisonous mushrooms, in a case that has gripped the country. Erin Patterson, 50, was charged with the murders of her mother-in-law, Gail Patterson, father-in-law, Donald Patterson, and Gail’s sister, Heather Wilkinson, along with the attempted murder of Ian Wilkinson, Heather’s husband. Erin Patterson is photographed in Melbourne, on April 15, 2025. AP The four gathered at Erin Patterson’s home in Leongatha, a town of about 6,000 people, some 84 miles southeast of Melbourne, where the mother of two served…
10:01 PM: Seattle Fire has a big response headed to a crash at 16th SW/SW Sullivan – firefighters have told dispatch they’ll have to extricate someone from the crashed vehicle. 10:03 PM: The person is now out so they’re downsizing the response. But 16th is closed, Thistle to Cloverdale, and that’s expected to last a while. Source link
Gary O’DonoghueChief North America correspondentReporting fromKerr County, TexasWatch: BBC reports from Camp Mystic, where search for missing girls continuesAt least 78 people have been confirmed dead in central Texas and another 41 are missing following flash floods on Friday.Sixty-eight of the fatalities, including 28 children, occurred in Kerr County, where a riverside Christian girls’ camp was deluged. Ten girls and a counsellor from Camp Mystic are still missing.Officials say the death toll is certain to rise. More storms are expected in the next 24-48 hours in the region, which could hamper rescue teams who are already facing venomous snakes as…
Infamous last words. A rapper and podcast host blew part of his hand off in a gruesome Fourth of July fireworks mishap after sharing a video on social media holding fireworks and joking about blowing somebody up. “Who wants to get blown up today,” rapper 4xtra asks in the Independence Day post. “I’m going to blow your a– up! I’m blowing somebody up today.” That somebody, it turns out, was himself. Rapper 4xtra blew off part of his hand in a fireworks mishap after jokingly threatening to blow people up with them. GoFundMe The rapper and co-host of No…
(WSB photo from Summer Fest Eve 2024) West Seattle Summer Fest – next Friday, Saturday, Sunday (July 11-13) in the heart of The Junction – is the main event, but Summer Fest Eve (Thursday, July 10) gets bigger all the time. It’s always the same night as July’s West Seattle Art Walk, which this time includes The Art of Music mini-concerts (not just in The Junction). Here’s the announcement from Art of Music coordinator John Redenbaugh: The next free admission Art of Music performances presented by the West Seattle Junction Association are coming up on Second Thursday Art Walk rvening…
US President Donald Trump has hit out at former close ally Elon Musk over the multi-billionaire’s plan to launch a new political party.”I think it’s ridiculous to start a third party,” said Trump, speaking to reporters on Sunday before boarding Air Force One. “It’s always been a two-party system and I think starting a third party just adds to the confusion.”After teasing the idea for weeks, Musk posted on X over the weekend that he had set up the America Party to challenge the Republican and Democratic “Uniparty”.Trump and Musk were formerly close allies, with the Tesla boss leading the…
A social media post by ESPN has drawn criticism after it described the late Bobby Jenks as being “on the roster” of the White Sox’s 2005 world championship team in a post about his death earlier this week. The problem with that was Jenks was more than just “on the roster,” in fact he was the closer when the White Sox won the World Series in 2005 and appeared in six postseason games during that run, earning saves in Game 3 of the ALDS and Games 1 and 4 of the Fall Classic against the Astros. But the post on…
Israel says it has launched strikes on Houthi targets in three Yemeni ports, including the western port of Hudaydah, Ras Isa and Saif.The attacks came shortly after the Israeli military issued evacuation orders for civilians in the areas, warning of imminent air strikes.Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz confirmed on social media that the strikes on the Houthi-controlled sites included a power station and the commercial ship Galaxy Leader. The ship, hijacked by the rebel group in 2023, was being used to monitor maritime vessels in international waters, Israel said.Following the strikes, Israel’s military said two missiles were launched from Yemen…
For the first Yankees win in six games, Aaron Judge, as expected, played an important role. Judge hit a two-run home run in the top of the fifth inning to extend their lead to 5-0 in their eventual 6-4 victory at Citi Field as Max Fried worked to keep the Mets offense at bay. Judge blasted it on the first pitch for a career-high 11th time this season, sending an 83-mph changeup on the outside corner sailing 388 feet to left-center field. It was his 33rd home run of the season, coming in the Yankees’ 90th game. He hit 31…
With the holiday weekend ending, we checked the log for the big picture on fire calls to which SFD responded. The log doesn’t have a call category for “fireworks fires,” so we can’t say for sure how many of these were caused by people setting off fireworks. But these are the calls in our area that were categorized as “fire”: FRIDAY, FOURTH OF JULY If you noticed that burned, foamed (and obscenely graffitied) car parked on the west side of the 4500 block of California SW in The Junction, it caught fire just after 11:30 pm Friday. It was still…