Category Archives: Victims

Stories of survival emerge from tornado victims

By doris | Published: March 4, 2012

Full Story at  news.Yahoo.com EAST BERNSTADT, Ky. (AP) — The stories from tornado survivors across the South and Midwest were remarkable: schoolchildren took cover under desks, people hunkered down in a church basement or hid out in a bank vault. One family even piled on top of one another for protection. One of the most [...]

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Threat to electrify dog cage with girl inside just ‘horseplay’

By doris | Published: January 22, 2012

Full Story at USNews.nsmbc.msn.com A man accused of punishing his 12-year-old daughter by binding her hands and feet with duct tape and sticking her in a dog cage, then threatening to electrify the crate, was just engaging in “some horseplay” that “got out of control,” his lawyer says. Here’s what happened, according to a report [...]

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Mom forces teen to wear sign: ‘I lie, I steal, I sell drugs, I don’t follow the law’

By doris | Published: January 12, 2012

Full Story at thegrio.com FORT WAYNE, INDIANA – A frustrated mom has given her wayward teenage son the ultimate punishment: public humiliation. The 14-year-old was forced to stand on a busy street for two hours with a massive sign hanging around his neck, which read, “I lie, I steal, I sell drugs, I don’t follow [...]

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Craigslist ad victim? Police identify another body

By doris | Published: December 4, 2011

Full Story at USNewsmsnbc.msn.com CLEVELAND — Authorities identified the body of an Ohio man Saturday who could be the third victim of a bogus Craigslist website ad that lured two jobseekers to their deaths. The body of Ralph H. Geiger, 56, was found in a shallow grave Nov. 25 in the same area another body [...]

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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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Jackson’s doctor found guilty of manslaughter

By doris | Published: November 7, 2011

Full Story atTODAY.com LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson’s doctor was convicted Monday of involuntary manslaughter after a trial that painted him as a reckless caregiver who administered a lethal dose of a powerful anesthetic that killed the pop star. The verdict against Dr. Conrad Murray marked the latest chapter in one of pop culture’s most shocking [...]

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Obama: Iran ‘Will Pay a Price’ for Assassination Plot

By doris | Published: October 13, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com President Barack Obama said today that Iran will “pay a price” through sanctions and international pressure for its recent hostile behavior including the alleged Iran-directed plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the U.S. in Washington, D.C. Echoing previous statements by top U.S. officials, Obama said that when dealing with [...]

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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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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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Report: Missing Calif. autistic boy found safe

By doris | Published: September 13, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. — A missing autistic boy was found Tuesday afternoon after he ran away from school and into the San Bernardino National Forest, NBC Los Angeles reported. Dozens of searchers had been scouring the mountains for Joshua Robb after he fled into the woods near his school Monday morning, [...]

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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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Sept. 11 exhibits go beyond Ground Zero

By doris | Published: September 1, 2011

Full Story at Overhead Bin.msnbc.msn.com As the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks nears, there will be gatherings at the National September 11 Memorial in New York City, at the Pentagon Memorial in Washington, D.C., and at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa. Many museums around the country also are [...]

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Rembrandt work stolen from California hotel

By doris | Published: August 15, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com MARINA DEL REY, Calif. — A drawing by Rembrandt, valued at $250,000, was stolen from a hotel in Southern California in what sheriff’s investigators said was a well-planned heist.Story: Mobile scanner brings x-rays to old paintings The pen-and-ink drawing, believed to be called “The Judgment,” was nabbed Saturday night while a [...]

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Calif. death, 76 illnesses linked to ground turkey

By doris | Published: August 2, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is scrambling to find the source of a salmonella outbreak likely linked to ground turkey that has killed one and sickened dozens more. Finding the source of an outbreak hasn’t been easy; the government has been chasing the illnesses for months. The Agriculture Department, which oversees [...]

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BP wants to end future loss claims in Gulf spill

By doris | Published: July 9, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW ORLEANS — BP is arguing that victims of last year’s Gulf oil spill should not be paid any more claims for future losses because the areas affected by the spill have recovered and the economy is improving. The British oil company makes its case in a 29-page document filed with [...]

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Casey Anthony not guilty of murder, other charges in daughter’s death

By doris | Published: July 5, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — After less than 11 hours of deliberation, a jury Tuesday found Casey Anthony not guilty of first-degree murder and the other most serious charges against her in the 2008 death of her 2-year-old daughter. But the jury convicted her on four misdemeanor counts of providing false information to law [...]

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Woman awaits freedom after 17 years behind bars

By doris | Published: May 8, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com SALT LAKE CITY — In her dream, Debra Brown pedals out of a Utah prison on a powder blue bicycle, riding past razor wire that for the last 17 years has kept her from proms and graduations and the birth of seven grandchildren. On Monday that dream figures to become a [...]

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