Category Archives: Victims

Twister debris searched for victims; death toll rises to 280

By doris | Published: April 28, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Survivors and rescuers combed through destroyed towns and neighborhoods on Thursday, looking for belongings and victims after dozens of tornadoes ripped through the South overnight. The death toll continued to climb in Alabama, and at least 280 people in six states perished in the deadliest outbreak in nearly [...]

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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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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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Fourth Child Dies After Houston Day Care Blaze

By doris | Published: February 26, 2011

Full Story ataolnews.com A fourth child died today as a result of a fire in a Houston home day care center, a local television station reported, and investigators are trying to determine whether the center’s owner was out shopping when the deadly blaze ignited. Eighteen-month-old Elias Castillo died this morning, Houston television station KTRK reported. [...]

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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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Three Philadelphia priests, teacher charged with sexually abusing boys

By doris | Published: February 10, 2011

Full Story at religion.Blogs.CNN.com Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (CNN) – Three Philadelphia priests and a parochial school teacher were charged Thursday with raping and assaulting boys in their care, while a former official with the Philadelphia Archdiocese was accused of allowing the abusive priests to have access to children, the city’s district attorney’s office said. CNN Senior [...]

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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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Authorities believe body found in California canal is abducted boy

By doris | Published: February 1, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — California authorities extended their condolences Tuesday to the family of Juliani Cardenas, 4, after a body was found that they say matches his physical description. Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson said he believes the remains of Jose Esteban Rodriguez, the man accused of abducting the boy, are also 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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Fla. School Board Shooting: Purse Used to Smack Gunman Clay Duke Sold for $13,100 on eBay, Says Report

By doris | Published: December 27, 2010

Full Story at CBSNews.com PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (CBS/AP) The purse a woman used to hit a gunman at a Florida Panhandle school board meeting was sold for charity on eBay for $13,100, according to a report. PICTURES: Fla. School Board Shooting The purse’s owner, board member Ginger Littleton, tried to use the purse to [...]

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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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Amber Alert issued in Florida for missing Virginia girl

By doris | Published: December 9, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Florida authorities issued an alert late Wednesday night for a 12-year-old girl that police believe was abducted in Virginia by the boyfriend of her dead mother. The Amber Alert in Florida listed information about Brittany Smith and the man police believe abducted her. Authorities in Virginia launched a search [...]

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Search for 3 missing Mich. boys consumes hometown

By doris | Published: December 3, 2010

Full Story at News.Yahoo.com MORENCI, Mich. – Each day for nearly a week, volunteers have trudged through muddy fields and climbed through ditches around this small southern Michigan town, searching for three young brothers last seen at their father’s home on Thanksgiving Day. It’s a search that has consumed Morenci, a town of about 2,000 [...]

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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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Cops: 3 boys missing after dad’s suicide bid

By doris | Published: November 29, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com MORENCI, Mich. — Authorities used planes and search dogs to scour areas along the Michigan-Ohio border Sunday, hoping to find three Michigan boys who were reported missing the same day their father tried to hang himself. Police in Morenci, about 75 miles southwest of Detroit, said they fear the boys are [...]

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Giving thanks for everyday American heroes

By doris | Published: November 26, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com If someone had told Victor Perez at the beginning of the year that he’d soon find fame because of a heroic act, he would have laughed. He couldn’t even find a job. But the events of Oct. 5 were so unbelievable that the 30-year-old unemployed construction worker was left shaking and [...]

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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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Bodies of missing Ohio trio found in hollow tree

By doris | Published: November 19, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com MOUNT VERNON, Ohio — An unemployed tree-trimmer — arrested after a teenage girl was found bound and gagged in his basement — pointed the way Thursday to a hollow tree where the bodies of her brother, mother and another woman were hidden in garbage bags. The three victims and the rescued [...]

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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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