Category Archives: Attacked

Rodney King beating 20 years later: Can’t we all just get along?

By doris | Published: March 3, 2011

Full Story at thegrio.com This week marks the twentieth anniversary of the Rodney King beating, an incident which shone the spotlight on police brutality and race relations in Los Angeles and throughout the United States. On March 3, 1991, King — who was driving with two of his friends in his white Hyundai — was [...]

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ICE agent killed, another injured in Mexico shooting

By doris | Published: February 15, 2011

Full Story at news.blogs.CNN.com [Updated at 8:14 p.m.] One of two American immigration and customs officers who were shot in Mexico on Tuesday has died, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said. The two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agents were shot while driving between Monterrey and Mexico City on Tuesday afternoon by unidentified [...]

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18 days of protest culminate in Mubarak’s ouster

By doris | Published: February 11, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Cairo, Egypt (CNN) — Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down Friday and handed over power to the military, his nearly three decades of iron rule ended by a groundswell of popular protests that began January 25. In a somber one-minute announcement on state television, Vice President Omar Suleiman announced Mubarak’s resignation [...]

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2 arrested in fatal Ohio fraternity house shooting

By doris | Published: February 6, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Two men have been arrested and charged in a shooting at an Ohio fraternity house that killed one student and injured 11 people at a party near Youngstown State University campus, police said Sunday. Each man is charged with aggravated murder, shooting into a house and 11 counts [...]

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Stacy Pagli, N.Y. Woman, Pleads Guilty to Killing Teenage Daughter Who “Pushed My Last Button”

By doris | Published: February 2, 2011

Full Story at CBS News.com CBS/AP) Stacy Pagli, a suburban New York woman who said she strangled her 18-year-old daughter because she “pushed my last button,” pleaded guilty Tuesday to first-degree manslaughter. Pagli, 38, had been charged with murder in the Feb. 22, 2010 killing of her daughter Marissa at Manhattanville College in Purchase. PICTURES: [...]

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Missing Michigan mother, 2nd woman found buried

By doris | Published: January 30, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A man has been arrested in connection with the shooting deaths of two Michigan women, including a mother who went missing shortly after her children left on the bus for school, authorities said. Investigators found the bodies of Amy Henslee, 30, and Tonya Howarth, 36, Friday morning. They had [...]

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Nevada councilwoman found dead faced possible sanctions

By doris | Published: January 25, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A Nevada city councilwoman who faced possible sanctions over a travel expense voucher and public comments was found dead with her husband Tuesday, hours before a city council meeting that had the issues involving her on its agenda, officials said. Donna Fairchild and Bill Fairchild were found in a [...]

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9-year-old shooting victim’s organs help save child

By doris | Published: January 15, 2011

Full Story atmsnbc.com An organ donation from the 9-year-old Tucson shooting victim has saved the life of a child in Boston, according to media reports. Christina Taylor Green was one of six people killed in the shooting rampage that targeted U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords outside a Safeway store outside of Tucson. Giffords, 40, remained in [...]

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Fiery package in DC triggers memories of anthrax

By doris | Published: January 8, 2011

Full Story atmsnbc.com WASHINGTON — Postal workers who returned to work Saturday said a package that ignited at a government mail facility conjured painful memories of the anthrax attacks that killed two of their colleagues in 2001. The fiery package found Friday, which was addressed to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, followed two packages that [...]

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Fists swinging, Ohio woman comes to cop’s rescue

By doris | Published: December 17, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — When she saw a Dayton, Ohio, police officer tangled up with a man, Angela Pierce could have kept on driving. Instead, she got out of the car to team up with the officer and join the fight. While the danger was real — especially with the suspect in arm’s [...]

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All hostages freed from Wis. classroom

By doris | Published: November 30, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com MARINETTE, Wis. — A student armed with a handgun held nearly two dozen students and a teacher hostage in a Wisconsin high school for about five hours before shooting himself when police broke into the classroom, authorities said Monday. No other injuries were reported. Officers who were outside the Marinette High [...]

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Feds: Somali-born teen plotted car-bombing in Ore.

By doris | Published: November 27, 2010

Full Story at News.Yahoo.com PORTLAND, Ore. – Undercover agents in a sting operation stopped a Somali-born teenager from blowing up a van full of explosives at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in downtown Portland, federal authorities said. The bomb was a dud supplied by the agents and the public was never in danger, authorities [...]

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N. Korea fires on S. Korea, killing 2 and injuring more than a dozen

By doris | Published: November 23, 2010

Full Story atCNN.com Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — North Korea fired artillery toward its tense western sea border with South Korea on Tuesday, killing two South Korean marines, the South’s Defense Ministry said. Fifteen other South Korean soldiers were wounded, five of them seriously, defense officials said. Three civilians were injured in the attack. At [...]

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9/11 workers approve settlement with New York City

By doris | Published: November 20, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com New York (CNN) — A settlement in New York City will pay out hundreds of millions of dollars to ground zero workers exposed to toxic debris after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, lawyers said Friday. Plaintiffs narrowly approved the deal after facing a Tuesday night deadline that required 95 percent [...]

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Girl safe, arrest made in Ohio missing family case

By doris | Published: November 15, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com HOWARD, Ohio — A 13-year-old girl missing for days was found bound and gagged but alive in a basement Sunday, and authorities hoped a man charged with kidnapping her might lead them to her mother, brother and another woman who disappeared with her. Matthew J. Hoffman, 30, was arrested at his [...]

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5 Americans killed in Mexico in past week

By doris | Published: November 4, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A U.S. university student was shot to death, becoming the fifth American slain in this violent border city in six days, Mexican and U.S. authorities said Wednesday. Eder Diaz, a student at the University of Texas at El Paso, was killed Tuesday evening along with a classmate, [...]

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Second wife warned U.S. of Mumbai plotter

By doris | Published: October 17, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com.com There were two separate warnings that an American businessman was plotting a terrorist attack in India with the Pakistani extremist group that carried out the Mumbai assault, NBC News confirmed Saturday. But the second warning, given by the man’s wife to the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad just a year before the [...]

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MGM defends safety practices after lion attack caught on tape

By doris | Published: September 9, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — MGM Resorts defended its safety practices Wednesday after amateur video surfaced showing a lion attacking its trainer inside its habitat at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, as horrified visitors to the hotel looked on. The trainer was treated and released from the hospital after the incident earlier [...]

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Acid attack victim: Sunglasses — and God’s hand — saved my vision

By doris | Published: September 4, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Bethany Storro doesn’t usually wear sunglasses, but she got a surprise paycheck and bought a pair earlier this week. Those sunglasses, she is convinced, saved her eyesight when a woman threw a cup of acid in her face 20 minutes later. “God is watching over me,” Storro, of Vancouver, [...]

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N.J. man held at JFK: I’ll outdo Fort Hood killer

By doris | Published: June 8, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. – The young men’s intentions were sinister, according to officials: to head to Somalia to seek terror training from al-Qaida-affiliated jihadists and unleash attacks against fellow Americans. But their preparations apparently were unsophisticated.

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