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Global News
3 days ago
- Global News
N.S. man charged in child luring investigation involving 10-year-old American girl
A 42-year-old man from Dartmouth, N.S. has charged in connection with a child exploitation investigation that began after a tip from the U.S. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Halifax Regional Police say the accused is facing multiple charges, including luring a child under 16, making and possessing child pornography, and firearms-related offences. The investigation revealed that the man had been communicating online with a 10-year-old girl in the United States, posing as a 15-year-old boy. The interactions, which began in January 2025, involved inappropriate sexual content and the mailing of handwritten letters and gifts. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. Sign up for daily National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy On June 5, investigators executed a search warrant at Shute's residence on Gaston Road in Dartmouth, where they seized electronic devices and firearms. Police say John Aaron Shute was arrested without incident and has been remanded into custody. He is scheduled to appear in Dartmouth provincial court at a later date. Story continues below advertisement The Halifax Integrated Child Exploitation Unit has now collaborated with the Lakeshore Regional Child Advocacy Center in Wisconsin to advance the investigation. Police are urging anyone with information about suspected child exploitation to contact them, or submit an anonymous tip to Crime Stoppers. In Nova Scotia, it is mandatory to report suspected child pornography. Failing to do so could result in penalties similar to those for failing to report child abuse under the Child and Family Services Act. The investigation remains ongoing, and additional charges may be laid.
The Citizen
15-05-2025
- The Citizen
Heavy traffic in CBD due to roadworks
Motorists are urged to exercise caution in Murchison Street due to heavy traffic volumes. This is due to road construction in Lyell Street. Also read: Will the Shute shooter get bail? As a result, traffic is moving slowly in Murchison Street, since most vehicles are now using it as an alternative route. Please follow us on our YouTube channel and do not be shy; please subscribe and comment as well. Click to receive news links via WhatsApp. Or for the latest news, visit our webpage or follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Join us there! At Caxton, we employ humans to generate daily fresh news, not AI intervention. Happy reading!
Telegraph
13-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Critics called this wartime novelist a ‘lightweight'. Nonsense
Half a century ago, Nevil Shute was one of the best-known English novelists. He had a huge following, one that would persist for a while after he died, just before his 61st birthday, in 1960. But Shute was a novelist for different times, and that popularity has since waned. Only a few of his works have maintained their high reputation, most notably A Town Like Alice (1950) and On the Beach (1957). Both were made into highly successful films, in 1956 and 1959 respectively, sealing Shute's fame – at least for a time. He had been writing novels since the 1920s, while pursuing a career as an aeronautical engineer. He practised his profession under his real name, Nevil Norway, fearing he would not be taken seriously if it were known he wrote fiction in his spare time. Aeronautics and scientific knowledge generally play a large part in many of his novels, but particularly those related to the Second World War. Beyond A Town Like Alice, there are three further such novels, yet they are largely forgotten, and borne down by their author's reputation as a lightweight. Re-reading them today, one realises both why he was popular and that he was not lightweight at all. What Happened to the Corbetts, the first of these, was written in 1938, and published in 1939, days after Neville Chamberlain had told Hitler that a German invasion of Poland would provoke all-out war. The novel describes, with remarkable accuracy and foresight, the effect of mass aerial bombing on a British city. Shute chose Southampton, to whose inhabitants he apologised. He was keen to use a real and not a fictional town to bring home the realities of such an assault. Shute later said that he had not properly appreciated the extent to which firestorms would spread after bombing; but otherwise the destruction, the disruption, the fear are all vividly depicted. Shute's characters are usually people such as him: from the professional middle classes, with a good grasp of practicalities, and called upon to solve problems. In What Happened to the Corbetts, the problems are no water, no food and the threat of cholera. Corbett himself is a lawyer and has a small boat, and there is a sense that in parts of the city less fortunate than where they live, things are even worse. He manages to sail his boat along England's southern coast, taking his wife and their three small children with him, and rescues two Fleet Air Arm men who have been shot down. The Navy thanks them by giving them assistance to sail to northern France, whereupon the wife and children are put on a boat to Canada, and Corbett does his duty by joining the Navy. In a final successful prophecy, Shute has a Frenchman say that Britain will win the war because the Dominions will come in and the Americans will provide aid. Landfall: A Channel Story was written in 1940 and set in the Phoney War. A young pilot is thrilled to have bombed and sunk a U-boat; but it then seems that he has in fact sunk a British submarine. The book is devoted to the pilot's redemption – he bravely volunteers to fly a plane testing a new missile, in the course of which he crashes into the sea – but it transpires later that he had no need to be redeemed: the British submarine that was sunk had in fact been hit by the U-boat (which the pilot had sunk subsequently). The key part of the story is how the pilot's girlfriend – a barmaid – picks up information that leads to the discovery of the U-boat's responsibility, careless talk on this occasion not costing lives. Pastoral (1944) is another tale of aerial heroics, about the crew of a bomber whose commander suffers from combat fatigue and is distracted by an unsatisfactory love affair with a woman from the WAAF. Shute focuses on relations between fighting men, but sets the story against a backdrop of English rural life, and especially the men's shared interest in angling. Critics also detected a theme of continuity: of nature and human relationships being more powerful than conflict. All these war-related novels, along with much else written by Shute, display not only his genius as a storyteller but also how he reflected the world around him. Eighty years after the war's conclusion, he richly deserves rediscovery.
Yahoo
24-02-2025
- Yahoo
Dyess airman dies after fall from downtown parking garage
A Dyess Air Force Base airman died over the weekend due to injuries sustained in a fall from a downtown parking garage Sunday, according to a media release Monday. Police have identified the motorcyclist as Alexander Shute, 28, who died Sunday in a Fort Worth hospital, the release said. Next of kin have been notified. Around 1:15 p.m. Sunday, police responded to the corner of Pine Street and North Fourth Street after receiving a report of an injured individual, according to an Abilene police release. When officers arrived they found Shute lying in the roadway of North Fourth Street near the intersection. According to the news release, Shute had been in the parking garage of the First Financial Bank Building with four other riders when he flew over the top floor retaining wall and landed in the roadway below. Shute was transported to the hospital with severe injuries, the release said. He was later transported to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth due to the severity of his injuries where he later died. The riders told police they had gone to the garage to take photos and videos on their motorcycles when the incident occurred. The parking garage is open to the public on weekday evenings and weekends. The investigation is ongoing by the police traffic division and no citations have been issued as of Sunday, according to the release. Fed cuts could pothole the road for Meals on Wheels Musk's DOGE makes cuts in Abilene This article originally appeared on Abilene Reporter-News: Motorcyclist dies after fall from Abilene parking garage
