Thursday, April 30, 2009

Three

Three people are dead
after a vehicle went
out of control and
slammed into a utility

pole in southeast Missouri.
Randy Williams, the driver,
was 55; the passengers
were Larry McKinney, 65,

and Cynthia Hall, 48. All
died at the scene,
four miles east of
Doniphan. Save on Craftsman.


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Source: Associated Press, April 30, 2009

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Five

Five


A bus carrying a
group of tourists skidded
onto its side, ejecting
several, and killing at

least four instantly. The
crash occurred around 3:20
p.m. on U.S. 101.
The bus hit a

center divider on the
four-lane highway in
Soledad, perhaps on an
overpass? Responding to the

accident were more than
a dozen ambulances and
eight helicopters. Without cafeteria
trays, colleges find savings.


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source: The New York Times, April 29, 2009
Jesse McKinley, reporting

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

One

Charles Morrow II, 23,
and two other men
were standing near a
taco truck at the

corner of 48th Avenue
and International Boulevard when
someone in a car
opened fire on them

shortly after midnight. The
three were taken by
car to Oakland’s Highland
Hospital, where Morrow was

pronounced dead. Sacramento has
2 more swine flu
Cases, raising the count
in California to 13.

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Source: SFGate.com, April 28, 2009
Henry K. Lee, reporting

Monday, April 27, 2009

Three

In order to thwart
possible May Day attacks
police conducted at least
60 raids across Istanbul.

In one early morning
raid on an apartment
block in the Bostanci
area shooting broke out.

A leader of the
“Revolutionary Headquarters” was killed.
A civilian and a
police officer also died.

Some officers were wounded
when the “leftist, separatist,
radicals” threw bombs in
response. A television cameraman

is among the injured.
In Iceland prime minister
Johanna Sigurdardottir claims
victory for leftist coalition.


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source: Al Jazeera, April 27, 2009

Sunday, April 26, 2009

One

Six members of Topeka-
based Bikers Against Child
Abuse of Northeast Kansas
were returning home after

visiting children they had
helped (earlier in the
day they had participated
in a ride to

benefit the cause) when
one of the members
was hit by lightning.
The victim, 44, was

alone on his motorcycle.
“Strangest thing,” said Jefferson
County Sheriff Jeff Herrig.
Tokepa Dillons to close.


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source: Topeka Capital-Journal, April 26, 2009
Kevin Elliott, reporting

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Three

Joshua Cartwright, 28, of
Fort Walton Beach, Florida,
was being sought for
possible involvement in domestic

abuse. Okaloosa County Sheriff’s
Deputies acted on a
tip that he was
at the Shoal River

Gun Club. When confronted,
Cartwright engaged officers in
a shootout. Deputy Warren
“Skip” York and Deputy

Burt Lopez were both
shot and airlifted to
a trauma center where
they died. Fleeing in

his truck, Cartwright veered
off the highway to
avoid spikes. The truck
flipped over. After more

gunfire, Cartwright was killed
at the scene. In Jackson
County 30 tubers rescued
from flooding Chipola River.


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source: WMBB News Dept, Panama City, Florida, April 25, 2009

Friday, April 24, 2009

One

Just after 3 p.m.
Wednesday in a field
near Camp Creek Lake
a gas well blew.

A length of pipe
hit Robert Jost, 38,
in the chest. He
died at St. Joseph

Regional Health Center in
Bryan, Texas. Jost worked
for Express Energy, under
contract to Encana which

owned the well. To
deter camera-shy robbers,
some Houston banks ask
customers to doff hats.


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source: Associated Press, April 24, 2009

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Seventy-Five

At least 75 people were
killed and 120 wounded
in two explosions in
Iraq on Thursday. In

the bombing in Baghdad’s
Karada district, a woman
wearing a suicide belt
exploded herself as dozens

of people lined up
at a food giveaway,
killing 28, including 12
police officers, and wounding

50. The food was
being distributed by members
of the Iraqi police
and the Red Crescent

charity in front of
an apartment building. In
the blast’s aftermath, the
street was littered with

bags of flour and red
apples, and pieces of
human flesh attracted masses
of flies. In the

attack in Muqdadiya in
Diyala Province, a bomb
went off inside a
restaurant where a group

of Iranian tourists were
eating lunch, killing 47 and
wounding 70. Of the
dead all but five

appeared to be Iranians.
Evidence for a suicide
bombing was not clear.
Slump lessens American mobility.


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source: The New York Times, April 23, 2009
Timothy Williams, reporting

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

One

Sharon Kelley, 51, of
Kansas City, Kansas, was
killed in Tuesday morning’s
rush-hour crash with

a pickup truck. The
truck, headed north on
North 99th, attempted to
turn left onto Donahoo,

and collided with the
motorcycle headed south on
North. The rider died
at the scene. The

driver of the truck
was unharmed. Vehicle sale
fees in Missouri to
be kept under $200.


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source: Kansas City Star, April 22, 2009

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Five

Five


Christopher Wood, 34, discussed
his family's financial problems
in six notes he left
behind after he killed

himself, his wife, and
their three children Friday.
The 5 were discovered by
a relative a day

later. The sheriff of
Frederickson County, Maryland, said
the man struggled with
depression and was $450,000

in debt. After killing
them the man nearly
decaptitated the three children
using a kitchen knife

and saw. A second
home in Florida was
not selling. 24 hour
towing hotline, all makes.


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Source: Associated Press, April 21, 2009

Monday, April 20, 2009

One

A standoff with Michael
Batchelor began just before
9 p.m., the Utah County
Sheriff's Office reported. When

called to the scene
officers were told Batchelor
was possibly suicidal and
may have shot himself.

They entered the home
after hearing a crash,
yet Batchelor remained hidden,
calling out threats. A

SWAT team arrived and
began trying to talk,
to convince him to
surrender. They said, instead

he brandished a gun, so
they shot him. Little
Cottonwood Canyon Road reopens
after avalanche debris cleared.


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source: The Salt Lake Tribune, April 20, 2009
Jason Bergreen, reporting

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Eight

8 Mexican law enforcement officers
were killed Saturday in
an attack on a
police convoy transporting an

important drug suspect in
western Mexico. Of the
eight, four were federal
police officers, two federal

investigative agents and two
prison employees. The attackers
escaped in three trucks.
Prisoners in Mexico are

often transported in convoys
of regular SUVs, pickups
or buses accompanied by
heavily armed officers. Despite

the killings a top
lieutenant of the Beltran-
Leyva cartel named Jeronimo
Gamez, and eight other

suspects were delivered successfully
to a prison in
Tepic. Slash your energy bill
with two solar panels.


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source: Associated Press, April 19, 2009
Mark Stevenson, reporting

Saturday, April 18, 2009

One

A Palestinian, 16, was
fatally shot by Israeli
troops after throwing firebombs
at the gate of

a Jewish settlement in
the West Bank; another, 19,
who was also from
the Jalazoun refugee camp,

was wounded in the
leg. The Israeli military
said the two were
among a group of

Palestinians throwing firebombs at
the Beit El settlement.
See Bible prophets organized
in time, one view.


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source: Associated Press, April 18, 2009

Friday, April 17, 2009

One

A Norwegian officer was
killed and another wounded
Friday in an explosion
in northern Afghanistan.

The roadside bomb blast
in Balkh province was
triggered by a suicide
car bomb, an Afghan

official said. The Taliban
claimed credit, identifying the
bomber as Abdul Based.
The Taliban spokesman insisted

that 10 NATO soldiers
were dead and three
tanks destroyed in the
attack. Norwegian Defence Minister

Anne-Grete Strom-Erichsen
told reporters the vehicle
hit was unarmoured. B(l)aby
belt makes womb musical.


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source: Deutsche Presse-Agentur, April 17, 2009

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Two

Edward Denson and Katelen
Blacklaw of Woodland, Washington,
both 15, were hit

by an Amtrak train
at 7:10 Tuesday evening
while standing on the
tracks. The teens were

waiting for a southbound freight
to pass on the
other track. Seemingly, they
did not hear or

see the northbound
train approaching, though there
is no curve in
that segment of railway.

Train safety expert Bob
Boston said many accidents
happen as Tuesday’s did,
one train’s noise drowning

out another. “When one
one train goes by,
they get hit, having
no idea the other’s

coming.” The train’s crew
requested to be taken
off duty. Tax on
cigarettes increases 62 cents.


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source: The Daily News Online, April 16, 2009
Greg Garrison, reporting

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Eleven

11 police have been killed
and 23 people wounded
in a car bomb
attack in the northern

Iraqi city of Kirkuk.
Those killed had been
protecting an oil installation.
They were travelling through

a southern neighbourhood of
the city when the
bomb, which was planted
in a parked car,

exploded. Many of the
injured were civilians. Kirkuk
is the centre of
northern Iraq's oil industry,

and home to a
volatile mix of Kurds,
Arabs and Turkmen. Survey
finds Iraqis more positive.


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source: BBC News

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

One

In Kinde, Michigan a
41-year-old man
may have been mauled
to death by dogs.

A neighbor found the
man’s body inside a
small camper. The neighbor
also was severely bitten

by three dogs, which
had to be beaten
off by another neighbor.
Film fest schedule announced.


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source: Associated Press/Chicago Tribune, April 14, 2009

Monday, April 13, 2009

One

An 18-year-old
man walked into the
Alcoholics Anonymous building at
2015 College St. in

Five Points about 10:48 p.m.
Saturday and demanded money.
“Gimme what you got,”
witnesses quoted the robber

as saying. As one
AA visitor dropped
something on the floor —
possibly his wallet — another

pulled out his own
pistol and shot the
robber “multiple times.” Kayson
Helms, 18, of Edison, New

Jersey, was pronounced dead
at Palmetto Health Richland
at 11:24 p.m. Saturday. An
autopsy showed bullets hit

Helms in the abdomen,
chest and neck. At
twilight Sunday, the center
was deserted. A sign

on the front read,
“No Money Left in
Club Overnight.” LeCorn's injury
sours offense’s strong day.


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source: The State [New Jersey], April 13, 2009
John Monk, Rich Glickstein, reporting

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Thirteen

Two ambushes, suspected to
have been carried out
by leftist rebels, left
13 soldiers dead in a

mountainous region of Peru,
Ayacucho Province, a coca-
growing area and the
birthplace of the Maoist

Shining Path guerrilla group.
The rebels used grenades
and dynamite to attack
army patrols as they

passed. One soldier was
killed in the first
attack, while 12 troops
died in the second.

Peru’s government says the
Shining Path has all
but abandoned its fight
from leftist ideological in

favor of running drugs.
Bringing troops home from
Iraq might require Obama
to be like Ike.


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source: Reuters (via NYT)

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Seven

A suicide bomber driving
a dump truck detonated
a load of explosives
at a police headquarters

in the northern city
of Mosul, killing
five American soldiers and
two Iraqi police officers.

Guards fired at the
vehicle when the driver
disobeyed orders to stop.
The American soldiers "were

just in the vicinity,
passing by" when the
truck detonated. The blast
wounded 22. Sunni insurgents

target Iraqi security forces,
seeing them as loyal to
a Shiite-led government
installed by an occupation

force. Some Mosul residents
felt fresh outrage watching
a video that shows
Shiite National Police officers

taunting a blindfolded and
handcuffed Sunni inmate. It
is on YouTube.
Yellow ribbon magnets personalized.


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source: Washington Post, April 11, 2009
Ernesto Londoño, Dlovan Brwari, K.I. Ibrahim, Aziz Alwan and Qais Mizher, reporting