Category Archives: Attacked

Authorities Find Body Believed to Be Mt. Rainier Shooting Suspect

By doris | Published: January 2, 2012

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com The man suspected of killing a ranger at Mount Rainier National Park in Washington State is believed to have been found dead, according to police. Authorities located a body face-down in the snow without any identification, but believe it to be Benjamin Colton Barnes, 24, the sole suspect in Sunday’s shooting, [...]

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US to pay $2.5 million to anthrax victim’s widow

By doris | Published: November 29, 2011

Full Story at USNews.msnbc.msn.com The U.S. government has agreed to pay $2.5 million to the widow and family of a Florida tabloid photo editor killed in the 2001 anthrax attacks. A document obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press shows that Maureen Stevens will drop all other claims stemming from the death of Robert Stevens. The [...]

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Black Friday violence: 2 shot in armed robberies, 15 others pepper-sprayed

By doris | Published: November 25, 2011

Full Story at usnews.msn.com Violence erupted at Black Friday sales across the U.S. with one bargain-hunter left critically injured after being shot during a robbery and 15 other people injured when an angry shopper used pepper spray. Several of the incidents took place at Wal-Mart stores as millions of Americans loaded up on holiday purchases. [...]

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Images of a captured Gadhafi, bloodied and dazed, broadcast

By doris | Published: October 20, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com SIRTE, Libya — Moammar Gadhafi, the man who ruled Libya with a dictatorial grip for 42 years, was seen on Arab television pinned against a car, being struck on the head with a pistol while a group of fighters manhandled him. Video footage showed Gadhafi, dazed and bloodied but still clearly [...]

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1 dead in shooting as motorcycle club members brawl inside Nevada casino

By doris | Published: October 1, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Los Angeles (CNN) — A brawl between motorcycle club members at a western Nevada casino devolved into a gunfight that left one person dead and two wounded, police said Saturday. Around 11:25 p.m. Friday, a fight broke out among members of the Hell’s Angels and Vagos clubs in front of the [...]

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Mass. man accused of plotting attack on Pentagon, Capitol

By doris | Published: September 28, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com BOSTON — A Massachusetts man was arrested and charged Wednesday with plotting to attack the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol with a remote-controlled aircraft filled with plastic explosives, federal officials said.Rezwan Ferdaus, 26, of Ashland, was also charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to al-Qaida in order to carry [...]

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After a decade of grief and recovery, nation remembers 9/11

By doris | Published: September 11, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com New York (CNN) — Thousands gathered Sunday morning at New York’s Ground Zero, stood still in silence, some crying as they listened to the names of victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks were read aloud. “They were our neighbors, our friends, our wives, children and parents,” said New York Mayor [...]

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Sunday comics plan unique 9/11 tribute

By doris | Published: September 9, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — When you open your Sunday paper this weekend, you’ll notice a common thread in the comics section. Nearly 100 cartoonists — including the cartoonists behind Family Circus, Blondie, The Amazing Spider-Man, Doonesbury and others — are dedicating their strips to those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001. [...]

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After 9/11: A decade of deaths, marriages, war and peace

By doris | Published: September 8, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com Six-year-olds often times forget their own last names, but I remember Tuesday, September 11, 2001, like it was last week. I remember wearing my favorite jumper and my mother braiding my hair. I remember eating scrambled eggs off a yellow plate. And then I remember the radio anchor said, ‘Wow! Have [...]

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Gadhafi family reportedly flees to Algeria

By doris | Published: August 29, 2011

Full Story atmsnbc.com TRIPOLI, Libya — Members of Moammar Gadhafi’s family have entered Algeria, Algeria’s state news agency said Monday, but the whereabouts of the ousted Libyan leader were unknown. Libyan rebels claimed to have killed one of his sons. The report by APS news agency cited Algeria’s Foreign Affairs Ministry as saying Gadhafi’s wife [...]

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Boy who was stuffed in oven: Don’t jail my dad

By doris | Published: August 5, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW YORK — A Staten Island boy, whose father burned his hands on the stove and then tossed him naked into an oven, begged a Staten Island judge on Friday to go easy on his father. The youngster’s emotional appeal worked. “He made a big mistake, but really somewhere in his [...]

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At least 91 dead in Norway shooting, bomb attack

By doris | Published: July 23, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com OSLO (Reuters) – A suspected far-right gunman in police uniform killed at least 84 people in a ferocious attack on a youth summer camp of Norway’s ruling Labor party, hours after a bomb killed seven in Oslo. Witnesses said the gunman, identified by police as a 32-year-old Norwegian, moved across the [...]

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Hostage held in cage reveals ordeal

By doris | Published: June 5, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — It was the life they dreamed of and they were finally living it in the temperate mountains of Central Mexico. Eduardo Garcia Valseca, a Mexican businessman, and his American wife Jayne, had rehabilitated an old, abandoned ranch near a quaint, colonial town. “Life was pretty perfect,” Jayne says. “We [...]

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Terror plot against New York synagogue busted

By doris | Published: May 12, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com New York (CNN) — Two men suspected of planning an attack on a New York synagogue have been arrested, marking the end of a seven-month undercover operation carried out by New York police officers. The suspects, Ahmed Ferhani and Mohamed Mamdouh, who were detained Wednesday night in midtown Manhattan, had not [...]

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Bin Laden unarmed when killed, White House says

By doris | Published: May 3, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Abbottabad, Pakistan (CNN) — Osama bin Laden was not armed but did put up resistance when U.S. forces entered the compound he was in and killed him, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Tuesday. Providing some new details of the events that transpired early Monday in Pakistan, Carney said U.S. Navy [...]

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Obama OKs use of Predator drones in Libya

By doris | Published: April 21, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com The United States is using armed Predator drones in Libya to target Moammar Gadhafi’s forces with the approval of President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday. The unmanned aircraft, already used to target militants along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, will allow for precise attacks against Gadhafi’s forces, Gates [...]

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Missiles strike Libya in first wave of allied assault

By doris | Published: March 19, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com BENGHAZI, Libya — A coalition of American and European forces bombed Libyan targets by air and sea Saturday in the first phase of a military campaign to drive Moammar Gadhafi from power. French warplanes fired the first shots in the broadest international military effort since the Iraq war, destroying government tanks [...]

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Gunmen kill 2 kids, woman in Mexican resort

By doris | Published: March 15, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com MEXICO CITY – A convoy of gunmen chased their target into a home in the resort city of Acapulco and sprayed the residence with bullets on Tuesday, killing two small children and an elderly woman inside, authorities said. Police in Guerrero state, where Acapulco is located, said witnesses reported the man [...]

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At least 18 charged in alleged sexual assault of Texas girl

By doris | Published: March 8, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Thirteen adults and five juveniles have been arrested as part of an investigation into the alleged sexual assault of a Texas girl, police said. Darrell Broussard, assistant police chief for the Cleveland, Texas, police department, said Monday that the investigation into the incident “is continuous,” with more significant developments [...]

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Why do America’s police need an armored tank?

By doris | Published: March 4, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com America’s most in-demand police vehicle is a 10-officer 16,000-pound armored tank that takes bullets like Superman and drives 80 mph. The federal government buys dozens each year for local police departments. Do America’s local police need tanks? Every day, America produces a fresh batch of barricaded gunmen, some of whom want [...]

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