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Officers with the Fort Worth Police Department responded on Tuesday to a residence on 9900 block of Farmers Branch Street, after an anonymous tipster alerted them to a disturbing image that appeared to show a woman covered in blood.
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Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
23 Apr. 2025
Anonymous tipsters can contact police at 1-866-60-CRIME or go to stancrimetips.org.
The bookmakers always think Sweden is going to win Eurovision.
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Natasha Frost,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
Oddschecker, an online betting platform that includes more than 80 bookmakers and is licensed and regulated by the U.K. Gambling Commission, said Trump was the favorite to take home the prize this year as betting trends were unveiled for the first time.
The companies navigating this transition successfully will be those with real business models and deep pockets, not land speculators.
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Jackie Snow,
Quartz,
28 May 2025
Today, crypto runs that same risk, offered as the next great frontier of finance, but developed primarily with early crypto adopters, high-net-worth speculators, and large institutions in mind.
Yet as Russian war atrocities have become more evident, and Ukraine’s need for heavy armor has increased, the lines have grown blurrier and the rhetoric sharper.
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David E. Sanger,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2022
Both offer blistering acceleration and sharper handling than the standard model.
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