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A man is back in jail, charged with committing several armed robberies in three days. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said 33-year-old Branon Purcell was targeting convenience stores all across the city. JSO said Purcell faces 11 counts of armed robbery at 10 different businesses. “Purcell is no stranger to criminal activity as he had just been released from Florida State prison 21 days, 21 days before this arrest.” Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said. Action News Jax told you back in 2016 when Purcell admitted to 10 armed robberies in Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Neptune Beach, according to officers. He served...

In a key finding of the Mueller report, Ukrainian businessman Konstantin Kilimnik, who worked for Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, is tied to Russian intelligence. But hundreds of pages of government documents — which Mueller possessed since 2018 — describe Kilimnik as a “sensitive” intelligence source for the U.S. State Department who informed on Ukrainian and Russian matters. Why special counsel Robert Mueller’s team omitted that part of the Kilimnik narrative from their report and related court filings is not known. But the revelation of it comes as the accuracy of Mueller’s Russia conclusions face increased scrutiny. The incomplete portrayal...

Published: April 16, 2006 01:42 am      ‘He seemed so normal’ • Purcell reacts to news local man accused of murdering, plotting to cannibalize 10-year-old girl The Norman Transcript By Melissa A. Wabnitz Transcript Staff Writer PURCELL— Months of strategic planning and preparation led Kevin Underwood to invite in, kill, attempt to dismember and sexually assault his upstairs neighbor, Jamie Rose Bolin, District Attorney Tim Kuykendall said Saturday. “It is our belief that though she was chosen to be the victim of this particular crime, other people, children and adults, had been targeted,” said Purcell Police Chief David Tompkins. Bolin,...

Miles Costello reports on the settlement in New York that marks the final chapter in the former chairman's unhappy reign at Morgan Stanley Philip Purcell, the former chief executive of Morgan Stanley, is to be paid an exit bonus of about $44 million (£20 million) in cash. Taking into account the value of his accrued stock and options, this means Mr Purcell walks away from the bank with more than $110 million. According to a regulatory statement submitted yesterday, as part of an agreed departure settlement, Mr Purcell, pictured - who quit the bank last month following a sustained attack...