Category Archives: Victims

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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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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Florida woman behind bars, accused of attempting to sell grandson

By doris | Published: November 9, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A Florida grandmother and her boyfriend were in jail Monday after trying to sell the woman’s 8-week-old grandson for $30,000, police said. Patty Bigbee, 45, and her boyfriend, Lawrence Works, 42, were arrested and charged last week. Bigbee is accused of having approached a potential buyer in late October, [...]

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9 possible jurors retained in Smart kidnap trial

By doris | Published: November 2, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com SALT LAKE CITY — Nearly every Utah juror questioned on the first day of the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping trial said they knew about the case and believed the man charged was likely responsible. Jury selection began Monday in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City for the trial of Brian David [...]

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‘Slim’ chance of survival after China mine blast

By doris | Published: October 18, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com YUZHOU, China — Hopes were fading Monday for the remaining seven Chinese miners still missing after a deadly gas leak over the weekend that left 30 dead. The State Administration of Work Safety announced on its website that as of 6 a.m. local time (5 p.m. ET on Sunday), rescuers had [...]

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Clinton: U.S. can do more to help Mexico fight drug cartels

By doris | Published: October 17, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S. can do more to help Mexico battle drug cartels that have started operating more like terrorists and insurgent groups. “It is one of my highest priorities,” Clinton said Friday during a speech in San Francisco at the nonpartisan Commonwealth Club. “This [...]

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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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China coal mine explosion kills 20, traps 17

By doris | Published: October 16, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com BEIJING — A dawn explosion in a Chinese coal mine killed 20 and trapped 17 workers underground Saturday in the country’s central region, a national work safety official said. The blast came shortly after the world was riveted by Chile’s dramatic rescue of 33 trapped miners after they spent more than [...]

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All 33 miners may be released from Chile hospital by weekend

By doris | Published: October 15, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Copiapo, Chile (CNN) — More miners are expected to be discharged Friday from a regional hospital in Chile following their rescue after 69 days underground, and officials hope that all 33 will be home by Sunday. Three of the miners were discharged Thursday night, CNN Chile reported. CNN’s sister network identified [...]

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Wife of American who went missing at lake pleads for help

By doris | Published: October 12, 2010

Full Story atCNN.com (CNN) — Authorities in the Tamaulipas state attorney general’s office gave conflicting information Monday over whether authorities are pursuing a pair of suspects in the case of a U.S. citizen who disappeared during a sightseeing trip on the U.S.-Mexican border in South Texas. While Luis Homero Uvalle, a spokesman for the office, [...]

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Driller from Denver becomes Chile mine rescue hero

By doris | Published: October 10, 2010

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com SAN JOSE MINE, Chile – Jeff Hart was drilling water wells for the U.S. Army’s forward operating bases in Afghanistan when he got the call to fly to Chile. He spent the next 33 days on his feet, operating the drill that finally provided a way out Saturday for 33 trapped [...]

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More than 200 rescued from blazing ferry in Baltic

By doris | Published: October 9, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com BERLIN — More than 200 passengers and crew were evacuated after a ferry caught fire near the German island of Fehmarn in the Baltic Sea, German authorities said Saturday. The Lithuanian passenger and car ferry Lisco Gloria was en route from the northern city of Kiel to the Lithuanian port of [...]

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Chile list says which miners should go first, last

By doris | Published: October 8, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com SAN JOSE MINE, Chile — Before 33 trapped Chilean miners can begin their passage to the outside world, still more people will join them down below to make their journey as smooth as it can be. These men — an elite group of three paramedics with the Chilean navy’s special forces [...]

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Data shows balloon descended rapidly; survival ‘unlikely’

By doris | Published: October 2, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Rome, Italy (CNN) — Race organizers Friday said a balloon carrying two missing Americans over the Adriatic Sea off Italy made a rapid descent during rough weather, conditions which would make their survival “unlikely.” “This is very pessimistic information,” says the statement from the race organization — Coupe Aeronautique Gordon Bennett. [...]

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Army’s largest base reeling from four apparent suicides in one weekend

By doris | Published: September 30, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Four soldiers from Fort Hood, Texas died over the week. In all four cases, it appears the soldiers, all decorated veterans from the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan, took their own lives, according to Christopher Haug, a Fort Hood spokesman. If confirmed as suicides, it would be on top [...]

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Chilean hospital prepares for the arrival of 33 trapped miners

By doris | Published: September 23, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Copiapo, Chile (CNN) — Military choppers are on standby to swoop into the heliport. Motorcycle police are on alert to escort a fleet of ambulances. And a throng of electric beds with crisp white sheets stand vacant and ready. This is part of the contingency plan to rush 33 trapped miners [...]

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Three shot on Army base near El Paso

By doris | Published: September 21, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The FBI is on its way to Fort Bliss in west Texas to investigate a shooting at a convenience store on the base that left a man dead and two women wounded, according to base spokesman Dieter Jester. The man, who authorities say shot the females, was shot and [...]

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Nine years after 9/11, a photo provides some peace

By doris | Published: September 11, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com New York (CNN) — Judson Box has never known exactly how his son, Gary, died on September 11, 2001. But an unexpected find nine years later has given him a glimpse into his son’s final hours. Gary, then 35, had been working as a firefighter in Brooklyn for roughly five years [...]

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Oosterhouse lends hand to rebuilding New Orleans

By doris | Published: September 5, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com Cause Celeb highlights a celebrity’s work on behalf of a specific cause. This week, Carter Oosterhouse, who first appeared in the public eye as the carpenter on “Trading Spaces,” talks about his work with Rebuilding Together . The organization does volunteer house repairs for the elderly, people with disabilities and those [...]

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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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