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WARNING UPSETTING CONTENT AND PICTURES: 19-year-old Alexis Avila threw her newborn baby boy into a rubbish bin behind a shopping centre on a cold winter's day, thankfully he was found by people looking through the bin that same day with the judge warning he likely would not have survived if not

Texas Governor Greg Abbott faced fierce backlash after referring to the five victims of a shooting in Cleveland as "illegal immigrants" in a statement as the suspected gunman remains on the loose

Two Brit tourists who attacked a taxi driver in Magaluf, Spain, last year, kicking and punching him before leaving him lying in the street are facing the possibility of jail

Candace Chapman Scott of Little Rock, Arkansas, allegedly sold Pennsylvania man Jeremy Lee Pauley 20 boxes of body parts stolen from a mortuary after being used as medical school cadavers

A teenage baseball player was hospitalised after being hit by a stray bullet while stood in the bullpen during a college game, needing emergency surgery as a result

A waiter at a well-known New Orleans restaurant was killed and a customer who was a tourist visiting the city for the Jazz festival injured in a shooting.

A judge has denied Donald Trump's motion for a mistrial over the civil case filed by former Elle columnist E Jean Carroll, who claims Trump raped her in a department store changing room in Manhattan in 1996

David McEvoy owns the land where the dying tree stands in Poole Harbour, Dorset, after buying the site in 1999 to stop any development there

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES Paul Jennings and his wife Sasithon were walking on the pavement near the Kingston-upon-Thames town centre with their Beagle Cody when a massive German Shepherd lunged at them

The five victims of the Texas shooting were identified as Sonia Argentina Guzman; Diana Velazquez Alvarado; Julisa Molina Rivera; Jose Jonathan Casarez; and Daniel Enrique Laso

Residents have been left completely fed up after a strange spate of vandalism has seen a number of cars completely destroyed, with some victims reporting oil being poured over driving seats and excessive graffiti on the cars' paint

Cowardly Steven Sheridan, from Droylsden, Tameside, also stopped her going on social media claiming it as for s**g and handed her a curfew during their toxic relationship

Micaela Juarez Ocolt was allegedly killed by her husband, Jose Duenas-Quinonez, in Madison, Wisconsin before he fled to Mexico with his six-year-old daughter, Avril

Troy Patterson was newly engaged and off-duty when he was ambushed by three armed thugs looking for a few bucks, in 1990. He has died after spending 33 years in a coma.

Campaigners told The Mirror that new legislation has allowed traffickers to 'act with impunity', with former PM Theresa May among those voicing their alarm about the impact of the Nationality and Borders Act

There are around 3,500 more police officers overall than in 2010 but 11 of the country’s 43 forces have seen officer numbers shrink since then and crime is rising. See how your local force is faring using our searchable widget

Cliff Lansley, a behavioural scientist, has lifted the lid on the odd body language and tiny signs and gestures hardened killers use which can expose their dark secrets

It is understood a man, who was not related to the youngster, dashed to her aid near the Tesco in Hereford on Saturday evening and now West Mercia Police want to trace him

Paul Russell, jailed for assisting Thomas Cashman in the murder of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel, said he "terrified" after the killer gave him one final message

A gunman opened fire as students from Hancock High School and Bay High School, New Orleans threw a house party to celebrate prom

A survey of 2,000 Brits for the Liberal Democrats found a staggering one in five adults avoided leaving the house in the dark because of fear of local crime spikes

Deniz Jaffer, 49, and Jamie Lewis, 34, were jailed in 2021 for taking photos of murdered sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman, whose crime scene they were protecting

The young girl was walking along a public footpath when she was approached by a stranger and sexually assaulted in Oldham, Greater Manchester, on Saturday afternoon

Police in Kenya have arrested a woman suspected of being the spiritual leader of a second starvation cult in Kihingo with 31 followers including children as young as two

The 42-year-old killer Anurag Chandra claimed he had drunk 12 beers before becoming “extremely, extremely mad” and driving the teens car off the road and into a tree killing three in Riverside Country, California