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A $5 million Kansas City manor has been destroyed after what officials believe was an accidental fire that started in the property's vast attic. Sitting on bluffs just north of the Missouri River, the 15,000-square foot Briarcliff home - owned by local property developer Charles Garney and his wife Patty, is famous to downtown residents - visible from Highway 169 and famous for hosting fundraisers and political events. It took 80 firefighters to control the three-alarm blaze after it broke out some before 11pm on Thursday, according to KCTV. The couple had been at a tournament event that night and returned home separately. Charles Garney was already home and asleep when Patty Garney arrived with their house guest. She told firefighters she had only been home about 15 minutes and was about to go to bed when she went to check on their dog. She then noticed a glow coming from the skylights of a two-story ball room at the center of the house. I determined it was fire because it was mov...

David Beckham’s plans to build a football stadium in Miami have been opposed by cruise company Royal Caribbean. The football star wants to build a stadium for his new Major League Soccer (MLS) franchise in the U.S. city and his preferred site is near PortMiami, one of the world’s busiest harbours. But the proposed 12-acre site is close to Royal Caribbean's headquarters. In a blog on its website, Royal Caribbean said it had ‘deep reservations’ to the plans and revealed that it had tabled an objection. The company said it was concerned about traffic but it also has its own plans to develop the site that Beckham and his investors have pinpointed. The cruise company’s headquarters overlaps with the blueprint for the proposed stadium on the waterfront. Royal Caribbean said its existing car park, daycare centre and employee gym would have to move to make way for a stadium that could contain between 25,000 and 40,000 seats. But the blog said the port’s southwest corner was too shallow to ...

As members of the Boko Haram were displaced from their Sambisa forest stronghold and forced back from Maiduguri by the Nigerian Army, indication emerged yesterday that they may have relocated to the southern part of the state. This caused many motorists to shun the Biu/Maiduguri highway for fear of being waylaid by the sect on the lonely road. It was also gathered that the members of the sect invaded Pela Birni village of Hawul Local Government Area of Borno state in the southern part of the state, killing two residents and setting ablaze two churches and many residential houses. Pela Birni is one of the most populated and remotest villages under Kwajjafa District in southern Borno with a large Christian population. It is few kilometres from Garkida town of Adamawa state. An eyewitnesses said the gunmen came to the village at about 10pm on Sunday with sophisticated weapons and opened fire on their targets displacing hundreds of residents who are now taking refuge around the mountainous...

Welcome to Linda Ikeji's Blog: 4.4 Magnitude Earthquake hits Los Angeles area : A 4.4-magnitude earthquake shook the Los Angeles area this morning Monday March 17th. The residents were still asleep when the earthqua...

A Russian mother convinced she had been given the wrong baby at a hospital is suing health officials after she finally managed to organise a DNA test - and discovered her suspicion was correct. Flera Fazlyeva, 54, from the city of Kazan in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, gave birth at hospital where her son was accidentally swapped with another baby boy born around the same time in 1986. After discovering the truth, Ms Fazlyeva contacted Razia Fakarova who had been given her son by mistake. But tragically, Ms Fazlyeva found that her real son, who had been named Aidar, had died in 2004 in a car accident when he was 18. She said: 'I was at the hospital on July 3, 1986. I knew as soon as they put the baby in my arms that something was not right. 'I told them then that they had given me the wrong baby and refused to take it, but then a nurse and a doctor came to me and explained to me that it was impossible, as the baby had been given a special tag right after birth. 'They p...

Oscar Pistorius was in the process of buying six guns at the time he killed his girlfriend, his murder trial heard today. Gun licenser Sean Rens said the Paralympian had placed an order for three shotguns, two revolvers and an assault rifle which he cancelled a month after the shooting. He also testified that Pistorius had once described how he drew his gun and went into 'combat mode' after hearing a possible intruder at his home months before shot Reeva Steenkamp. The noise turned out to be a washing machine, the High Court in Pretoria heard. Mr Rens, manager of the International Firearm Training Academy, said he had many conversations about firearms with Pistorius, who he claimed had 'a great love and enthusiasm' for guns. Mr Rens said he met Pistorius in 2012, trained in a gun range with him and that the runner was seeking to collect guns. In one conversation, Pistorius described how he was startled by a noise at home and decided to clear the house by drawing his gu...

An Abuja Magistrates’ Court on Monday sentenced a truck-pusher, Onyekachi Okwonkwo, 18, to three months in prison for attempting to rape a minor. Okwonkwo of Jabi Upstairs, Abuja was arraigned on a count of attempting to commit indecent assault. The Magistrate, Mr Musa Jobbo, sentenced Okwonkwo with an option to pay N2,000 fine following his plea of guilt. “The punishment is to make you change your lifestyle from that of crime to being a good citizen,’’ the magistrate said. The convict in his plea for leniency said: I had an urge and could not control myself. Please I am begging for forgiveness, I am an orphan.” Earlier the Prosecutor, Cpl. Buba Irimiya, told the court that the convict had threatened to rape the little girl. Irimiya said that one Salama Audu of Jabi Upstairs reported the matter at the Utako Police Station on March 5. After the convict’s guilty plea, the prosecutor prayed the court to summarily sentence him under Section 157 (1) of the Criminal Procedure Code. The secti...

Ricky Lee Blackwell Sr., right, was sentenced to death for the 2009 kidnapping and murder of Heather Brooke Center, inset, on Sunday night. Blackwell reportedly killed Center in front of his ex-wife and grandsons in 2009. Center's murder was thought to be in retaliation for Blackwell's ex-wife, Angela Davis, dating Center's father Bobby Center at the time.