Category Archives: Guns

Tasers may provoke deadly heart problems, study finds

By doris | Published: May 2, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.com (CBS News) Tasers may provoke heart problems in the people it strikes, according to a new study from the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation. VIDEO: Taser: An officer’s weapon of choice The study of electronic control devices (ECDs) – often known as Tasers – was conducted by Dr. Douglas P. Zipes, [...]

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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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10 S.C. schools locked down after shots fired

By doris | Published: October 29, 2011

Full Story at 10 schools locked down after shots fired – US news – Crime & courts – msnbc.com GREENVILLE, S.C. — A gunman fired on a South Carolina police officer checking on a suspicious license plate Friday, causing 10 schools in Greenville to go on lockdown. The schools reopened their doors after a couple [...]

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6 killed, 3 wounded in California salon shooting

By doris | Published: October 12, 2011

Full Story at  msnbc.com SEAL BEACH, Calif. — Six people were shot to death and three others wounded at a hair salon on Wednesday in a normally sedate Southern California beach community, Orange County authorities said. One suspect was in custody. The shooting occurred at Salon Meritage around 1:30 p.m. in the 500 block of [...]

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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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Gunman kills 3, wounds 6 at Nevada IHOP

By doris | Published: September 6, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A gunman opened fire Tuesday at a Carson City, Nevada, IHOP restaurant, killing three people and wounding six others before turning the gun on himself, police said. The suspected gunman is not expected to survive, said Sheriff Ken Furlong of the Carson City Sheriff’s Office. The shooting began shortly [...]

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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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Congressman, grandson fight off armed intruder

By doris | Published: July 18, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com DES MOINES, Iowa — An eight-term congressman from Iowa helped fight off an armed man who invaded his farm house in Decatur County and attacked his daughter on Saturday night, according to a statement from his office. The attack occurred around 10:45 p.m. on Saturday at a farm in Lamoni, where [...]

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Memorial Day marked by ceremonies, tributes

By doris | Published: May 30, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — Americans from Washington to California are marking Memorial Day with parades, barbecues and special tributes tied to the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. An annual holiday honoring the nation’s war dead was infused with new meaning this year, coming just months before the 10-year anniversary.

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Warriors who became walking libraries

By doris | Published: May 28, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) — Roland Marbaugh wrote 509 pages of his tales of war — from the swampy Solomon Islands in World War II to the frozen Chosin Reservoir in Korea. His son typed them all up on an electric typewriter in the 1980s but unpublished, Marbaugh’s stories remained largely in [...]

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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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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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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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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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Man Charged in Connection with Brother’s Shooting Death

By doris | Published: February 27, 2010

Full Story at wciv.com Colleton County, SC – Authorities say a 21-year-old man was arrested in connection with the shooting death of his brother in Colleton County on Wednesday. The Colleton County Sheriff’s Office have charged Eric Plant with the death of this 21-year-old brother Joshua Plant. According to investigators, on Wednesday, police received a [...]

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Man carries assault rifle to Obama protest — and it’s legal

By doris | Published: August 18, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Video from the protest in Phoenix, Arizona, shows the man standing with other protesters, with the rifle slung over his right shoulder. Phoenix police said authorities monitored about a dozen people carrying weapons while peacefully demonstrating. “It was a group interested in exercising the right to bear arms,” said police spokesman [...]

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Defiant North Korea ‘to weaponize plutonium’

By doris | Published: June 13, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com North Korea officials said they were enriching uranium and would weaponize all plutonium, according to KCNA, the state-run North Korean news agency. When enriched to a high degree, uranium can be used for weapons-grade material. Plutonium can be used in atomic bombs. These moves are in response to Friday’s U.N. resolution, [...]

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Iraq insists on U.S. leaving cities by end of June

By doris | Published: May 5, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com BAGHDAD – Iraq’s government Monday ruled out allowing U.S. combat troops to remain in Iraqi cities after the June 30 deadline for their withdrawal, despite concern that Iraqi forces cannot cope with the security challenge following a recent resurgence of bombings. Asking U.S. forces to stay in the cities, including volatile [...]

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Another U.S. ship escapes Somali pirate attack

By doris | Published: April 15, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com MOMBASA, Kenya – A cargo ship loaded with humanitarian aid was headed to Kenya under Navy escort Wednesday after evading pirates firing grenades and automatic weapons, the second unsuccessful hijacking attempt of a U.S. freighter in a week, officials said. In defiance of President Barack Obama’s vow to halt their banditry, [...]

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Family, academy express relief after captain’s rescue

By doris | Published: April 13, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com But for those four days, they were on the minds of people around the globe, from the captain’s hometown in Vermont, to the White House, to port cities and anywhere that families send their loved ones off to sea. “I actually was more concerned for his family,” said Adm. Rick Gurnon, [...]

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