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Recent Examples of bluecoatJackson wasn’t an overnight success: Her ingenue years, after winning a scholarship to RADA, were spent in repertory theater, assorted waitressing and retail jobs, and even as a bluecoat (a kind of performing steward) at a Welsh holiday resort.—Guy Lodge, Variety, 15 June 2023
But that night a policeman came to the house and told her James had been arrested.
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Essence,
Essence,
13 Feb. 2025
As an undercover policeman, his job is to loiter near the men’s bathroom at the local shopping mall and seduce passing trade into committing acts of what his superiors would call gross indecency.
On Friday, as residents gathered at the Bilal mosque for afternoon prayers, several constables, sheriff’s deputies and private security guards stood watch.
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Edgar Sandoval,
New York Times,
4 Jan. 2025
The budget also covers the Health Department, sheriff's office, circuit court divisions, prosecuting attorney, coroner, constables, Office of Emergency Management, museum, Veterans Services and Cooperative Extension.
Some Fort Worth neighborhoods keep losing internet for weeks because thieves have been stealing copper from cable lines.
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Tasha Tsiaperas,
Axios,
5 Feb. 2025
North Queensland has large zinc reserves as well as major deposits of silver, lead, copper and iron ore, with Townsville a major processing center for the region’s base metals.
Listen to this article A 6-year-old girl was found unconscious in a bathtub inside a Brooklyn apartment under suspicious circumstances, cops said Friday.
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Roni Jacobson,
New York Daily News,
8 Feb. 2025
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Sadly, the Ferrari’s promising racing career came to a screeching halt when French gendarmes seized the car at the Paris Orly airport parking lot—something about a dispute between Monsieur Fayen and the French tax authorities.
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Howard Walker,
Robb Report,
23 Dec. 2024
The mud-slinging scene occurred as thousands more Spanish soldiers, national police officers, and Civil Guard gendarmes arrived, or are set to arrive, at the disaster sites.
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