The prosecutor said Abril confronted the couple, at which point James MacEgan was shot and killed, before Abril grabbed MacEgan’s wife and pulled her into the creek.
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Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
26 Mar. 2026
Scheierman also hit two earlier threes, grabbed five rebounds and pestered Gilgeous-Alexander to force a third-quarter turnover to help Boston take down the defending NBA champions 119-109.
The Longhorns snatched a narrow 68-66 win over NC State during the tournament’s First Four bout, salvaging their postseason run thanks to sixth-year senior Tramon Mark’s last-second shot.
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Mia Fishman,
CNN Money,
19 Mar. 2026
Lena Horne’s former New York home has swiftly been snatched off the market.
Then, with an hour and a half to deadline, the telex room came to our rescue with a report of an explosion at a Welsh coalpit, which had left scores of miners trapped hundreds of feet underground.
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Christine Smallwood,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
Excess heat is being trapped by ever-rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere as humans continue to burn fossil fuels.
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Andrea Thompson,
Scientific American,
23 Mar. 2026
And now, for the first time, a specimen has been successfully GPS-collared and released back into the region — marking a major victory for conservation efforts to protect the elusive vulpine.
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Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
The 3-year-old female gray wolf when it was collared in 2025.
Justice Samuel Alito expressed concern over how the rise of state laws allowing mail ballots to be received after Election Day could undermine public confidence in the electoral process, as the Supreme Court grappled with the legality of Mississippi’s late-arriving mail ballot law Monday.
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Jack Birle,
The Washington Examiner,
23 Mar. 2026
The court also grappled with whether state laws allowing for late-arriving ballots from military and overseas ballots could survive.
Maghnes Akliouche scored a brilliant individual goal and American forward Folarin Balogun netted a penalty as Monaco rallied to win 2-1 at Lyon on Sunday for a sixth straight league victory.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
22 Mar. 2026
MaKenna Aure netted the game’s lone goal in the second period, firing a shot through traffic.
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