Uma pastelaria no centro de Fafe foi assaltada na madrugada desta quinta-feira, tendo sido furtada uma máquina de venda de tabaco, que veio a ser encontrada abandonada a mais de seis quilómetros do local.
O assalto ocorreu por volta das 03:30 e, ao que O MINHO apurou, a máquina de tabaco terá sido o único objeto retirado do interior do estabelecimento.
Foto: Ivo Borges / O MINHO
Os autores do furto levaram o tabaco e o dinheiro que se encontravam no equipamento, que foi depois abandonado junto à Zona Industrial de Arões, a mais de seis quilómetros da pastelaria.
Foto: Ivo Borges / O MINHOFoto: Ivo Borges / O MINHOFoto: Ivo Borges / O MINHO
A GNR deslocou-se ao local e está a investigar o caso.
Um turista canadense que se hospedou em Paradise, nos Estados Unidos, roubou um flamingo após beber demais e o levou para o quarto do hotel. Na última segunda-feira (19), foi condenado por maus tratos a animais.
Mitchell Fairbarn, 34, retirou o flamingo chileno Peachy, 27, de seu habitat no Hotel e Cassino Flamingo Las Vegas, em 3 de março. Nas imagens das câmeras de segurança, ele aparece sem camisa no elevador carregando o animal pelo pescoço. A equipe de segurança chamou a polícia.
Defesa
No depoimento, no tribunal de Nevada, o canadense revelou ter bebido entre 30 e 40 cervejas insistiu que nunca teve a intenção de machucar a ave. O advogado Josh Tomsheck afirmou aos jurados que seu cliente se arrependia profundamente das “más decisões” que tomou enquanto estava embriagado. “A verdade é que Mitch estava bêbado. Mitch foi estúpido. Ele tomou decisões ruins”, admitiu.
Os promotores, no entanto, apontaram que Peachy, que gritava nas imagens, foi encontrado com sangue nas penas e ferimentos nas asas, além de “sete ou oito penas a menos”. Segundo o “The Mirror”, Tiffany Moore, diretora do Hospital Veterinário Lone Mountain e veterinária que o atendeu, disse que o flamingo se recuperou fisicamente, mas apresentou aumento da ansiedade.
Condenação
Fairbarn, que mora em Ontario, no Canadá, não pôde deixar os Estados Unidos desde que isso aconteceu, permanecendo em prisão domiciliar. A sentença aponta crimes de abuso de animais, delito grave e contravenção. A audiência com a sentença definitiva por maus tratos está marcada para 1º de dezembro e ele pode pegar até 4 anos e meio de prisão.
EXCLUSIVE: Twenty-three years after Duane "Dog" Chapman chased fugitive Max Factor heir Andrew Luster to Mexico and tackled him on a Puerto Vallarta street, the convicted serial rapist is a free man â despite an initial sentence of 124 years.
"I hope he's smart enough â and he's smart â to never do anything like that again," Chapman told Fox News Digital Wednesday, more than two decades after the capture that helped make him a household name.
Chapman, his son Leland and several others went to Mexico after receiving a tip about Luster's whereabouts â months after he fled the U.S. in the middle of a California rape trial. They first identified him from the tipsters' photo, which showed a knee and a watch.
Chapman had been studying his face closely for weeks, but he also recognized the watch from a televised interview, he said. And he credits his son with first spotting Luster, who was speaking with a young woman in a bar on June 18, 2003.
"When I saw him, you talk about an adrenaline rush went through my body," Chapman told Fox News Digital Wednesday. "Tim got down...he snuck up behind him, and then I pushed him. He fell over. We all jumped on him, and I screamed, 'You're under arrest by the United States of America.'"
They pulled him into an SUV and drove off â only to be intercepted on the road outside town by Mexican authorities who arrested everyone amid the chaos.
Luster claimed he'd been kidnapped, Chapman said, so he handed the lead investigator what Chapman called a "bible" of information on the case.
Luster, the great-grandson of makeup mogul Max Factor, vanished during a recess in his trial and was convicted in absentia on 86 counts involving the drugging and raping of three women between 1996 and 2000 at his home in Mussel Shoals, California.
One of the victims, who asked not to be named out of concerns for her safety, said she's still struggling to comprehend Luster's release even though she knew it was coming.
"Itâs very unsettling knowing that he is not behind bars, not in a closed facility," she told Fox News Digital Wednesday. "He is out in the public, in a community that just â it just doesnât feel very good at all."
She said she has concerns for her own safety, her family, Luster's other victims and even investigators after a notebook containing a "payback list" was recovered from his Mexican hotel room â with their names on it.
She said she dated Luster for five or six months without knowing she'd been drugged and raped the night they met â something detectives discovered years later, after they recovered video tapes from the home.
"It was me, comatose on his bed, wearing the clothes that I was wearing the first night I met him," she said. "Thatâs how I knew when it happened, because I had just bought that outfit, and I was wearing it the night that I met him. So thatâs how I figured out when it happened to me, which was absolutely horrifying."
Police found more than 100 videos, she said. Not all of them involved criminal activity, but those that did were "mortifying," she said, as Luster spoke to the camera like he were playing with "a toy."
"Theyâre pretty brutal," she added, "The things that he did to us while we were completely unconscious were things that, I mean had we been able to feel anything, it would have been awful. He narrated the video and talked to the camera throughout and thoroughly enjoyed the whole entire thing."
He initially received consecutive sentences totaling 124 years â later reduced to 50, and he was released earlier this month after over two decades behind bars.
Prosecutors had opposed early release in 2024 and again in 2025. However, he was able to earn substantial early release credits under California's controversial Proposition 57 criminal justice reforms, and his prison term came to an end on Oct. 11.
"I did not know that [Prop 57] meant that it was gonna make Andrew Lusterâs crimes be deemed nonviolent," Doe No. 3 told Fox News Digital. "Thatâs just so baffling. I just feel like if anybody could watch these tapes of what he did to me and all of these other women, just to look at that and try to put the word nonviolent on it, that word could not come out of your mouth. It just would be impossible."
Chapman said he never received the bounty for Luster and lost hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own money for the operation and ensuing legal fallout.
Mexican law did not allow bounty hunters to apprehend fugitives. Chapman said he was arrested alongside his son Leland, longtime friend and associate Tim Chapman, who is not a blood relative, and members of a camera crew.
"He told me, 'Iâm going to get him for you,' and he did," Doe said of Chapman. So to help him get out after he put Luster back behind bars, she kicked off a legal fundraiser that she said attracted donations from around the country.
As part of the series, he plans to help bail out certain inmates with a history of good behavior and positive reports â but not for people facing serious felonies or sex abuse charges, he said.
"We'll call out the ones that deserve a second chance, right, and you can't be perfect OK, so if they run, yeehaw," he said. "I don't wish they would, but if they do, then I'm going to catch them."
One month after Washington, D.C., celebrated America's 250th anniversary, it marked a more ignominious milestone: a full year since President Donald Trump deployed thousands of National Guard soldiers to the capital.
The approximately 4,600 National Guard members have been an unavoidable presence in D.C., wandering the National Mall and downtown streets in groups of three or four, or standing idly in Metro stations chatting. Occasionally, they're tasked with picking up trash at parks. Tourists take selfies with them by the now-fenced-off Lafayette Square in front of the White House.
They're not going anywhere. The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to acquire up to 2,000 housing units to support long-term National Guard deployments. The Department of Defense has estimated that extending the mission from October 2026 through to the end of the Trump administration in January 2029 will cost about $1.4 billion.
According to the Trump administration, all of this has been necessary to transform D.C. "from a crime-ridden city into a safe and beautiful haven for residents and visitors alike."
Crime in D.C. is down 20 percent from 2025, according to the Metropolitan Police Department, but an August Reuters investigation found National Guard soldiers were involved in only a tiny fraction of arrests in the safer parts of the city, mostly for minor offenses such as shoplifting and turnstile jumping. Crime has been dropping nationwide, a trend that started before Trump took office and includes cities that aren't occupied by federal law enforcement and soldiers.
Even if the Guard presence has contributed to a drop in crime, it's a civil liberties nightmare. It puts untrained military in the role of policing civilians. It usurps local police departments that are ostensibly answerable to the communities they police, and it normalizes the deployment of military forces domestically—a red line for a free society.
"There's a deep irony that here we are in the capital of the free world, and our president is treating it like a police state," Scott Michelman, legal director of the ACLU of the District of Columbia, told PBS in August. "D.C. residents have lived with our National Guard troops in our neighborhoods for about a year, despite the absence of any genuine emergency and really any reason for them to be here."
Last November, a federal court preliminarily ruled that the deployment was illegal. However, an appeals court allowed the Trump administration to keep troops deployed in D.C. while it considers the administration's appeal of that ruling.
The appeals court decision is absurd. The appellate panel is fully aware that every day the case drags on is another day that D.C. residents are being subjected to a potentially illegal military occupation, and another day that taxpayers will foot the bill for a wasteful fit of presidential hubris.
The damages are compounding. The first anniversary of Trump's deployment of National Guard soldiers to D.C. should be the last.
The gender pay gap for full-time employees has continued to decline in the UK. It was 6.8% in April 2026, down from 7.2% in April 2025. This compares with 9.4% a decade ago and 16.4% 25 years ago.
Secondly, I asked Healey whether he sees the banks as making excessive profits, which would be the coherent justification for him to increase the surcharge on bank profits – as he is expected to do in the Budget next week.
He said: “You know the banks are the engine of investment in this country. The banks are doing well at the moment and that is good to see.
England and Wales judges to be able to keep inmates in cells for longer or stop visits if they refuse to face victims’ families in court
Offenders who refuse to face their victims’ families in court for sentencing could be stripped of privileges or kept in cells for weeks under government changes granting wider powers to judges in England and Wales.
The imposition of new prison sanctions, coming into effect next year, builds on existing laws that order offenders to attend sentencing or face a fine or be jailed for a further two years for contempt of court.
A violência política chegou de forma brutal à Austrália: uma deputada perdeu as duas pernas num atropelamento deliberado à porta do seu gabinete A deputada australiana Helen Haines teve as duas pernas amputadas depois de ter sido atropelada por um carro. A informação foi adiantada esta quarta-feira pelo marido, que la descreveu como uma “lutadora”. Apesar dos ferimentos graves sofridos, no que a polícia classificou como um ataque dirigido, Haines está agora em estado estável, mas em estado crítico, num hospital de Melbourne. A deputada foi atropelada na segunda-feira por um carro, junto ao seu gabinete na cidade de Wangaratta,
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