Jack Parke News Today

There are three different schools within a mile radius of Magherafelt and one word keeps coming up as pupils gather to collect their GCSE results.

Carol Lapaglia made the worst phone call of her life on a Monday afternoon. "I just got home from work and my husband, he’s on the ground," Carol screamed to an Allegheny County, Pennsylvania 911 dispatcher on July 21, 2014. "He’s, he’s, he’s dead. There’s a big puddle of blood." Her boyfriend of more than two decades, Jack Parkes, 59, lay dead on the floor of the living room in the Kennedy Township home, six weeks before their scheduled wedding. By 3:00 p.m., the o...