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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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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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By doris | Published: January 21, 2011

Full Story at Yahoo.com SEOUL, South Korea – At dawn Friday, South Korean commandos steered their boat to a hijacked freighter in the Arabian Sea. Under covering fire from a destroyer and a Lynx helicopter, they scrambled up a ladder onto the ship, where Somali pirates were armed with assault rifles and anti-tank missiles. Five [...]

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Wild horses help tame wild men

By doris | Published: December 29, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Carson City, Nevada (CNN) — Just like the men training them, these horses used to be free. The animals were free to roam the land in the West, and the men were free to come and go as they please. Now they are both captive at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center. [...]

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Two women, two children missing in Ohio

By doris | Published: November 14, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Authorities and residents in rural Ohio searched Saturday for two women and two children who have been missing for several days. Blood was found in the Howard home of Tina Herrmann, 32, and her children Sarah Maynard, 13, and Kody Maynard, 10, Knox County Sheriff David Barber said Friday. [...]

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Teacher describes how he stopped shooting

By doris | Published: February 25, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Denver, Colorado (CNN) — During emergency drills at Deer Creek Middle School, teacher David Benke used to tell his students that if anything ever happened, he wanted to be able to “do something about it.” When he saw a man shooting at students as they were leaving the Littleton, Colorado, school [...]

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Missing boy spent 11 days wandering New York subways

By doris | Published: November 26, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com New York (CNN) — A 13-year-old teenager with Asperger’s syndrome spent 11 days in October wandering New York’s vast subway system until a police officer recognized him from a missing persons’ poster, according to police and the youth’s mother. Francisco Hernandez Jr., who has Asperger’s, a developmental disorder that affects the [...]

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Gunman kills 3 officers, wounds 4th in Oakland

By doris | Published: March 22, 2009

Full Story At news.yahoo.com OAKLAND, Calif. – A police officer was battling for his life and three more were dead after a parolee with an “extensive criminal history” opened fire at a routine traffic stop and hours later gunned down members of a SWAT team searching for him. The gunman was also killed Saturday, capping [...]

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