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Making The Most Of A Second Chance: Troy Delone Leaves Prison Behind

Troy Delone was not always an upstanding citizen. His extracurricular street activities landed him in the country’s largest maximum-security prison, Angola State Penitentiary in Louisiana, when he was 21. Though he was sentenced to double-life […]

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Elephant Psy-Kick: Zoo Tusker To Predict Euro Soccer Results

A 42-year-old elephant at Hagenbeck Zoo has been selected to try to predict team results at the UEFA European Championship this month. Yashoda, the oldest elephant at the Hamburg, Germany, zoo, was chosen to predict […]

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Hundreds Of Police To Enforce Covid Rules In Australian State

MELBOURNE, Australia — Victoria Police will have 450 officers patrolling the state’s roads to make sure Melbourne residents comply with Covid restrictions. The rules have been eased in regional Victoria, and police say there is a risk people […]

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Regulators Have Eye On Housing Investors In Australia

SYDNEY — Financial regulators are keeping an eye on Australia’s booming housing market, but at this stage, they are comfortable that lending standards have not been relaxed. New lending figures for April are released on June […]

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Family Stripped Of Life After Cop’s Death

PARRAMATTA, Australia — As a police officer, David Vidal has seen many bodies, but he cannot rid himself of the moment he had to identify his high-achieving son. “That image of Aaron on the table, lying […]

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Australia’s New South Wales Labor Leadership Nominations To Open

SYDNEY — The weary New South Wales Labor Party will meet on June 4 for the first time since its leader Jodi McKay stepped down, sparking a drawn-out process to choose her successor. Kogarah Member of Parliament […]

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Grandmother Blazes New Trail From ‘Black Wall Street’

It was breakfast time, and Wanda Armstrong was rolling out the crust for her famous peach cobbler at Evelyn’s Soul Food Restaurant, a well-known dining spot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that’s frequented by NFL veterans, politicians […]