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Local News.

Just found this thread, and have noticed a tendancy to report mostly bad news. Here's the latest news from my town.

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Malmesbury town crier sought to bring life to local events

A new town crier is being sought for a historic town following more than a decade without one.
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One former town crier is Gordon Williams who took on the role from 1992 to 1997.

He said: "It was really good fun and a lovely role to showcase England's oldest borough and I'm thrilled that it's going to return.

"I wanted to give back to the town, which was so wonderful for me, my wife and my family."

The new town crier will make up a trio of important ceremonial roles, which aim to celebrate Malmesbury, its culture and heritage.

The successful candidate will be provided with the appropriate uniform and will be expected to attend up to four formal occasions a year. They will be paid a honorarium of £75 per event.
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Pixel42 said:
Just found this thread, and have noticed a tendancy to report mostly bad news. Here's the latest news from my town.

www.bbc.co.uk

Malmesbury town crier sought to bring life to local events

A new town crier is being sought for a historic town following more than a decade without one.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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I feel like this belongs in the Europe local news thread, not the USA and Canada one.

This is why I never wanted the Local News threads split by region in the first place.
 
I didn't even know there were two. I saw this one when I checked 'New Posts', and didn't notice the subforum until after I posted on it.
 
I posted this elsewhere, but it fits here. It begins almost in my front yard in a small town just north of Orlando.

Almost two years ago, I opened my front door to receive a package and saw a police car screaming down the road in front of our house. I recall it because I had never seen a police car going that fast on our road with its emergency lights on let alone off. It was going at least 70mph in the 25mph zone along our road and didn't have its lights on.

Later I saw a video that went viral showing the police car being pulled over by a county deputy for going 80 in the 45mph section of the road. The police officer argued with the deputy then sped off, but was stopped again and arrested.

He was fired from his job as a police officer.

Then ... he was given a slap on the wrist, reinstated as a police officer, and is about to have the whole thing expunged from his record.

 
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A crane fell on a house on Merritt Island in Central Florida. The owners of the home, Jim and Amanda Crane, were home at the time, but fortunately not injured.
 
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We had some nasty wind and rain last night. Here's a news report from about 3 miles away that starts out with a downed tree, but goes on to show a corrugated metal shed that was lifted off its base and jumped over a 7' block wall.


If you look at 1:45 you can see where the shed came from--it was covering up that junk at the top right.
 
After 40 years, investigators have finally identified the last unidentified victim of the Bear Brook murders here in New Hampshire. These murders have been in the news here many times over the past 40 years.

Decades-old mystery solved: girl identified in New Hampshire serial killer case

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The recent identification of a little girl found dead in a New Hampshire state park nearly 25 years ago both closed a key chapter in an investigation spanning four decades and opened a new search for another likely victim of her serial killer father, authorities said Monday.

The mystery, one of the first major cases to highlight genetic genealogy in solving crimes, began in 1985 when a hunter discovered the bodies of a woman and 9-year-old girl in a barrel at Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown. In 2000, an investigator found another barrel nearby containing the body of two more girls estimated to be ages 2 and 3.
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Authorities determined that all four had been killed in the late 1970s or early 1980s and placed in the park. By 2019, they had identified all but the “middle child” and concluded based on DNA analysis that the killer was her father, Terry Rasmussen, who died in prison in 2010 after being convicted of killing another woman in California. But for years, they didn’t know the name of the girl.

That changed after the New Hampshire State Police's cold case unit partnered with the DNA Doe Project, which used extensive DNA analysis and genealogical research to identify her as Rea Rasmussen.
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Terry Peder Rasmussen was an extremely vile piece of ◊◊◊◊ who was also suspected of killing two other women and a young girl.
 
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