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Setting clothes ablaze leads to deadly stabbing of Portmore teen
This undated combination of images provided provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows a person of interest in connection with the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025, in Orem, Utah. (Federal Bureau of Investigation via AP)
FBI releases photos of a person of interest in Charlie Kirk’s assassination
Father in Bahamas jailed for having sex with daughter
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Security threat triggers sweep of Seaview Gardens Police Station
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Body with gunshot wounds found in garbage pile
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St Elizabeth man dies after Mark X overturns in Santa Cruz
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Manchester gun battle ends in death of deportee ‘Brownman’
Rushell Clayton of Jamaica moments before competing in the women's 400m hurdles final at the Paris Olympics at the Stade de France, in Paris, Saint-Denis, France on Thursday, August 8.
Injury forces Clayton out of Jamaica’s World Champs squad
Dispute in St Catherine leaves man dead, another injured
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Teen shot and injured inside Spanish Town bar
Science, Energy, Telecommunications and Transport Minister, Hon. Daryl Vaz (right), converses with Superintendent of Police, Jeffery Lecky, in Papine, St. Andrew, on Monday (September 8), while observing the rollout of the National Rural School Bus Programme.
Free bus rides for students up to October
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Woman allegedly beaten by hairdresser, left with broken leg
Hanover fraudster admits to $181,000 scam on California woman
One murder on Election Day, but Jamaica’s double-digit streak continues
Woman stabbed after confronting man for allegedly slapping her butt
Body with gun shot wounds found in ditch in Manchester
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Man dies in car crash near Vauxhall High School
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Updated | Farmer struck by lightning while on roof in Bethel Town
A man was arrested over the seizure in Hanover.
Man says car stopped to close to him, gets shot at
Firefighters responding to a blaze along Fitzgerald Avenue in St Andrew on September 5.
Blaze destroys houses in Maxfield, St Andrew
St Ann burglar caught after victim’s phones lead cops to his home
Three Haitians plead guilty to overstaying in Jamaica
Thomas sued Carlos Casserly in 2017, seeking a declaration that they were equal owners of unregistered Ina’s Farm, which she claimed they built together after establishing the farm in 2005.
Court frees woman held with Constant Spring lock-up fugitive
Firearms seized by US in the case against Trinidadian Shem Wayne Alexander. (US Embassy Photo)
Man arrested in Jamaica admits role in firearms trafficking to Trinidad
Businessman caught on JamaicaEye surveillance stealing Probox
Former Godfrey Stewart High School student, Joyel Ricketts. 
Former Godfrey Stewart High School student cops 10 CSEC passes
FILE - An Amazon Prime logo appears on the side of a delivery van as it departs an Amazon Warehouse location in Dedham, Mass., Oct. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
Dominican Republic becomes Amazon’s Caribbean distribution hub
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'Jesus Fresh' gunned down in alleged police confrontation in Portmore
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Decomposing body found in house in Manchester

Sports

Kishane Thompson training at the Athletic Stadium at the Oi Central Seaside Park Sports Forest in Tokyo, Japan, yesterday. Bolt happy with growth of men’s sprinting
Octaivian Halloway (left) of Kingston College (KC) and Andre Langford (right) of Charlie Smith High compete for the ball during their Manning Cup football match at Stadium East on Saturday. KC won 3-0. Wolmer’s, Excelsior score big wins - Hillel Academy make victorious...
PRETTY PERFECT, with Dane Dawkins in the saddle, parades in front of the stands with connections after winning the Winston ‘Fanna’ Griffiths Trophy, a Grade One Stakes, ahead of ALCHEMY OF SOULS (Clive Lynch) over 9 1/2 furlongs at Caymanas Park on Sunday. Back-up selections advised for Sunday race card
Her excellency Shorna-Kay Richards (second right), Jamaica Ambassador to Japan, with Jamaica’s athletes (from left) - discus thrower Ralford Mullings, sprinter Oblique Seville and long jumper Nikaoli Williams. Jamaica launch quest at Tokyo World Championships
Jamaica’s triple jumper Jordan Scott at the Shinagawa Prince Hotel, Takanawa, Minato Ward in Tokyo on Tuesday. ‘I’m not thinking limits’ - Triple jumper Jordan Scott enters...
Allan Cole Sr (left) and Carlton ‘Spanner’ Dennis at the thanksgiving service for the life of Allan Cole Jr at the Excelsior Auditorium at Excelsior High School in Kingston on Sunday, October 8, 2017. ‘Long live the King’ - Nation mourns passing of football legend...
Orane Watson (left) of Glenmuir High and Bustamante’s Omario Brissettt tussle for the ball during their ISSA/WATA daCasta Cup football match at Glenmuir yesterday. Watson scored eight goals. Glenmuir win 13-0 - Draw ‘feels like a win’ for St James
Roshawn McDonald (right) of Denham Town High and Jahiem Fuller (back to camera) of Tivoli Gardens High challenge for the ball during the ISSA/WATA Manning Cup football match at St Andrew Technical High School on Spanish Town Road in Kingston yesterday. Tivoli Gardens High won 7-0. Tivoli inspired by emphatic start
BULLETPROOFCOFFEE (right), ridden by Demar Williams, winning the Trevor McKenzie Memorial Trophy ahead of 99-1 long shot JOHNCROWJEFF (Anthony Allen) over five furlongs straight at Caymanas Park on Saturday. Millions at stake in single-winner bonus
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