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PARENTS ACCUSED IN GIRL’S RAPE CASE: Mother charged with causing harm to daughter by committing abortion

A MOTHER was charged yesterday with causing harm to her underaged daughter for the purpose of committing an abortion while her husband was charged with having sexual relations with the young girl.

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Manslaughter by negligence charge for couple in infant’s death

A YOUNG couple was jailed after they were accused of causing the death of Jeremiah Thurston, their infant son, who was found hanging out of their car window earlier this month.

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Harbour Island man granted $8,000 bail charged with importing ammunition

A MAN from Harbour Island was granted $8,000 bail after he was accused of importing 50 rounds of ammunition into the country last week.

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Man remanded to jail pending bail on charge of attempted murder

A MAN was sent to prison after being accused of a botched murder bid earlier this summer.

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Local softball player becomes country’s 66th murder victim

EDRON Knowles, a local softball player, became the country’s 66th murder victim of the year late on Saturday night, leaving behind two children.

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Man hospitalised after bullet grazes his head, police are investigating

POLICE are investigating a shooting on Saturday that left a 37-year-old man in hospital.

Man injured in morning shooting

A MAN is in hospital after being shot in an early morning incident in New Providence.

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Man jailed for threatening to kill his father

A MAN was sentenced to two months in prison after he admitted to threatening to kill his father earlier this month.

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Man charged with unlawful entry and indecent assault

A MAN was granted $3,500 bail after he was accused of illegally entering the home of an 11-year-old girl in Andros last week and groping her.

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Open verdict in police-involved shooting death of Ronald Mackey

JURORS returned an open verdict in the police-involved killing case of Ronald Mackey, finding yesterday that there was insufficient evidence to conclude that his 2017 shooting death was justified or not.

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Police find burned body in Baillou Hill Road area

POLICE in New Providence are investigating after the body of man was found burnt beyond recognition Friday morning.

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Court quashes gun sentence of 81-year-old grandmother

THE Court of Appeal ordered the release of an 81-year-old great-grandmother yesterday, citing her age and medical condition while releasing her from a one-year prison sentence.

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Man remanded on charges of gun possession with intent to supply

A MAN is behind bars after police allegedly found him throwing a bag with two guns out his house window on Eastern Road earlier this week.

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Nan sentenced to 22 months for $4,000 worth of drugs with intent to supply

AN elderly man was sentenced to 22 months in prison after admitting to having $4,000 worth of marijuana.

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Police testified they 'feared for their lives' as Mackey drove toward them

A police officer who helped investigate the 2017 police-involved killing of Ronald Mackey said Mackey was drunk when two officers shot him.