Category Archives: Violence

Ariz. prison escapees believed to be in Yellowstone area

By doris | Published: August 9, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com The search for two men who escaped from a private Arizona prison and their accomplice has turned to the vast Yellowstone National Park area after one of the inmates was linked to a double homicide in New Mexico. The U.S. Marshals Service said Sunday information developed within the past two days [...]

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Arrest made in Los Angeles Grim Sleeper serial killer case

By doris | Published: July 8, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Authorities in California said Wednesday they have arrested a suspect in the Grim Sleeper serial killer case and will charge him with 10 counts of murder. Lonnie David Franklin Jr., 57, faces an additional count of attempted murder, Capt. Kevin McClure with the Los Angeles Police Department said. Franklin [...]

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Manson follower faces parole board for 19th time

By doris | Published: July 6, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com LOS ANGELES — Leslie Van Houten, the one-time Charles Manson follower long seen as the most likely of his ex-acolytes to win freedom someday, faces her 19th parole hearing on Tuesday with a new lawyer and new case law which may give her the best chance yet for release. Even if [...]

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Cops: NY man kills infant son, is shot by troopers

By doris | Published: June 23, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com VIENNA, N.Y. – A young father with a long criminal history, including assault charges, fatally shot his 3-month-old son in front of state troopers Tuesday morning, then was shot and critically wounded by officers. Adam Theall, 21, was outside the home in rural Oneida County in upstate New York when troopers [...]

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Calif. man arrested in drive-by killing of toddler

By doris | Published: June 15, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com POMONA, Calif. – Police have arrested a California man suspected of firing at a crowd and killing a 3-year-old boy who was celebrating his birthday. Pomona Police said Monday that they arrested Pablo Adame of La Verne last week after the 26-year-old was released from prison in an unrelated domestic violence [...]

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Bomb plot suspect arrested trying to catch flight to Dubai

By doris | Published: May 4, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com New York (CNN) — A naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan arrested overnight in the Times Square bombing investigation will appear in a Manhattan federal courtroom Tuesday morning to face formal charges. Faisal Shahzad, 30, was arrested at JFK International Airport in New York at 11:45 p.m. E.T. Monday as he prepared [...]

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Mexican violence scaring off American tourists

By doris | Published: March 19, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Tijuana, Mexico (CNN) — On Tijuana’s Avenue de la Revolucion, street vendor and sidewalk philosopher Juan Ramon Rocha leaned on his coin and jewelry cart and waited. But the tourists from across the border never rushed into the streets of T.J., as it’s often called. Rocha made one sale, to a [...]

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Victims with ties to U.S. were targeted, Mexican mayor says

By doris | Published: March 16, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) — Authorities believe assassins targeted a pregnant woman and two other people connected with a U.S. consulate who were killed in drive-by shootings over the weekend, Ciudad Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz said Monday. The killings were carried out by a local gang, known as Los Aztecas, [...]

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Suspect kills self in Ohio State shooting, police say

By doris | Published: March 10, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com CNN) — A man apparently angry over a poor performance evaluation entered an Ohio State University maintenance building early Tuesday and opened fire, killing a manager before turning the gun on himself, police said. Larry Wallington, 48, a building services manager at the OSU Maintenance Building, was pronounced dead at the [...]

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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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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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U.S. renews travel alert to Mexico

By doris | Published: February 24, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The United States has renewed a travel alert to Mexico, citing increased violence in the country. The alert, issued Sunday by the State Department, is in effect until August 20 and supersedes an alert issued August 20, 2009. “Recent violent attacks have caused the U.S. Embassy to urge [...]

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Suicide bomber strikes U.S. base

By doris | Published: February 12, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — Five U.S. soldiers were wounded Thursday when a suicide bomber attacked a U.S. base, an Afghan official said. The attacker detonated the bomb about 9 p.m. while in the “sleeping area” on the base, said Paktia province spokesman Roullah Samoun. It is unclear how the bomber got [...]

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Thousands mourn slain teacher

By doris | Published: January 5, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Thousands stuffed the bleachers on both sides of a California high school football field Monday night to remember a beloved teacher who was slain in Mexico a few days ago. Grieving family members, friends and residents of El Monte, California, waved glowsticks in the air and listened to heartfelt stories about [...]

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Failed Attack Signals New Threat?

By doris | Published: December 27, 2009

Full Story at CBS News.com (CBS/AP) U.S. counterterrorism officials are scrambling to assess a potential new threat from an explosive mixture that evaded detection aboard a Detroit-bound airliner but failed to bring down the plane. The suspect, identified by multiple law enforcement officials as a Nigerian man named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, claimed to have ties [...]

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U.S.-born militant: Al-Qaida not behind killings

By doris | Published: December 12, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com CAIRO – Al-Qaida issued a new English-language video Saturday denying it was behind a series of bombings in Pakistan that have killed hundreds of civilians, calling such attacks un-Islamic. U.S.-born al-Qaida operative Adam Gadahn, who commonly delivers the organization’s English messages, said the extremist network was being framed for the bloodshed [...]

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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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FBI foils plot to bomb NYC temple; 4 men charged

By doris | Published: May 21, 2009

Full Story At news.yahoo.com NEW YORK – Four men arrested on charges of plotting to bomb a Jewish temple and shoot down military planes are expected to appear Thursday in federal court in White Plains. Officials told The Associated Press the arrests came after a nearly yearlong undercover operation that began in Newburgh, N.Y., about [...]

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N. Korea To Abandon Nuclear Negotiations

By doris | Published: April 14, 2009

Full Story At  CBS News (CBS/AP) North Korea vowed Tuesday to bolster its nuclear deterrent and boycott six-party talks aimed at its denuclearization in protest of a U.N. Security Council statement condemning the country’s recent rocket launch. North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it “resolutely condemns” the action by the United Nations, [...]

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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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