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Alaskan Teacher Eaten By Wolves
MSNBC | Submitted by: honkey Infidel
We seen her gloves on the road where she was running," Kalmakoff told the paper. "She didn't get away too far from them; they took her down pretty fast. You could see a blood trail of her body getting drug down the hill."
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Pope In On Catholic Sex Abuse Scandal?
Times of London | Submitted by: whatsnew74
The Pope was drawn directly into the Roman Catholic sex abuse scandal for the first time tonight as news emerged of his part in a decision to send a paedophile priest for therapy. The priest went on to reoffend and was convicted of child abuse but continues to work as priest in Upper Bavaria."
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Squeamishness Codified In Georgia Law
CNN | Submitted by: petone9 - ZOMBIE KILLER
The judge's order came on the same day the Georgia House Governmental Affairs Committee unanimously passed "The Meredith Emerson Memorial Privacy Act," which would prevent gruesome crime scene photos from being publicly released or disseminated, according to Rep. Jill Chambers, the bill's principal sponsor. House Bill 1322 would prevent the release of photographs of the bodies of crime victims that are "nude, bruised, bloodied or in a broken state with open wounds, a state of dismemberment or decapitation."
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Greece General Strike Over Debt Measures
Wire Services | Submitted by: Mr. Misrell
Greek workers staged another general strike on Thursday to protest austerity measures announced as a consequence of the country's debt crisis... More than 10,000 strikers and protesters marched through central Athens, banging drums and chanting slogans such as no sacrifice for plutocracy... Anarchists pelted police with beer bottles, stones and chunks of paving stones torn up from sidewalks. The police responded with several rounds of tear gas, leaving a thick, acrid cloud of smoke that sent passers-by scurrying into side streets, eyes streaming."
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Rail Enthusiast's Magnificent Moustache
BBC | Submitted by: Veggie
A rail passenger has been found guilty of grabbing and racially abusing a ticket inspector in Hertfordshire... Geoffrey Porter, prosecuting, told the jury Law was "seeking to avoid payment" when he attempted to follow other passengers through a barrier. Giving evidence, Mr Materke said: "I asked him if he had a ticket. He said ah yes, that's a problem..."
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Do-Over Drive-Over
Stuff NZ | Submitted by: P Ray
Earthmoving contractor Terry was run over yesterday morning when his wife Sandy reversed the vehicle down their long driveway near Opoutama, in northern Hawke's Bay... It appeared Mrs Telford, not realising what had happened, then drove forward, running over her husband again."
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Mimes Make Poor Slasher Films
Orlando Sentinel | Submitted by: Mendo Green
Johnson, 37, became "enraged" during an argument, according to a statement from one of the victims. He grabbed the chain saw but could not start the tool... "He then went into the child's room and again tried to start the chain saw, but it would not start. He then swung the chain saw at the 6-year-old child in the bed." Johnson was found later Wednesday in Leesburg at a friend's house "hiding under a bed."
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The Restless Ghost of James Brown
Daily Mail | Submitted by: Veggie
James Brown's daughter has claimed the singer's body has gone missing from its crypt... LaRhonda Pettit, 48, alleges the body of Brown, who died in December 2006 aged 73, is being hidden to prevent a full autopsy being carried out."
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Civil Rights Hero Freezes To Death
New York Times | Submitted by: THE MIGHTY SNERT
Neighbors were chagrined last week when the police here found the body of a 75-year-old woman who had frozen to death, alone in her house, during unexpectedly frigid weather. But they were shocked this week when they learned that the woman, Juanita W. Goggins, had been a civil rights trailblazer who in 1974 became the first black woman elected to the South Carolina legislature."
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East Texas Schools A Nation
Washington Monthly | Submitted by: tonberry
Views like these are relatively common in East Texas, a region that prides itself on being the buckle of the Bible Belt. But McLeroy is no ordinary citizen. The jovial creationist sits on the Texas State Board of Education, where he is one of the leaders of an activist bloc that holds enormous sway over the body’s decisions... Among other things, they aim to rehabilitate Joseph McCarthy, bring global-warming denial into science class, and downplay the contributions of the civil rights movement."
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High School Enforces Gender Roles
CNN | Submitted by: Jethro Bodine
A Mississippi high school faces a lawsuit over its decision to cancel its prom rather than allow a lesbian high school student attend with her girlfriend... At the center of the lawsuit is a memorandum from the school to students, dated February 5, which states that prom dates must be of the opposite sex. Also, when McMillen expressed a desire to wear a tuxedo to the prom, the superintendent told her only male students were allowed to wear tuxes."
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Go Beat Someone Else's Children
NBC4I | Submitted by: Mr. Misrell
Conone is accused of waiting until parents aren't watching, moving in and striking children in the head with a key protruding from his fist... He was arrested Wednesday night after two alleged assaults in a Bethel Road Walmart... Conone apparently does it for the thrill."
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It's How You Tell Them Apart
News Corporation | Submitted by: honkey Infidel
The incident occurred while the man was at home alone with the boy and his twin brother. The court was told the man drew the curtains and... When he realised the boy wasn't dead," he renewed his attempt to strangle him. "While his other twin son watched, the man then tied a shoelace around the boy's neck before finally panicking and calling police."
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Choking Victim Goaded With Tazer
New York Daily News | Submitted by: anonymous
Police attempted to handcuff Grande, who had reportedly swallowed a bag of marijuana. When he resisted, police Tasered him. Once he was struck by the powerful electrical jolt, Grande yanked the wires from his chest but showed signs of choking... Paramedics later arrived and removed the bag, but it was too late." [Video of struggle]
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Narcos Infiltrate DHS Border Agencies
San Antonio Express-News | Submitted by: Torkulson S. Maroon, 2nd.
The Zapata County sheriff Thursday was questioning why a Mexican military helicopter was hovering over homes on the Texas side of the Rio Grande. It was one of the more jarring incidents of the fourth week of border tensions sparked by drug killings, and rumors of such killings, in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas... As violence continued Thursday with a highway shootout in Tamaulipas, a Senate subcommittee in Washington heard testimony that drug cartels are trying to infiltrate U.S. agencies along the border, with corruption cases among Homeland Security personnel on the rise."
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Jet-Set Whale Sushi Flyby
New York Daily News | Submitted by: The SouthPark Kids (...reparation for the 'orca to the moon' epi
The Hump came under fire after allegations surfaced in Tuesday's New York Times that it had served meat from an endangered sei whale, possibly straight from the trunk of a white Mercedes-Benz... The complaint charges Typhoon Restaurant Inc. -- the parent company of the Hump, which sits next to the runway at the Santa Monica Airport -- and Kiyoshiro Yamamoto, the chef, with the illegal sale of a marine mammal product for an unauthorized purpose." [Typhoon also noted for serving cockroaches, ants, other insects]
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Tumor Disfigures Haitian Girl
CNN | Submitted by: larry
A few years ago, the Haitian teen was forging a new future after doctors removed a massive tumor-like growth that had taken over her face, threatening her life and forcing her into mortified seclusion. She was making her way back into the world and smiling again." [Incredible family photo]
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Giant Snails Drunk For Essence
Miami Herald | Submitted by: honkey Infidel
One witness told investigators that during the ritual, Stewart grabs a snail from the cage, then would "hold it over the devotee, then cuts the snail and pours the raw fluid directly from the still live snail into the mouth of the devotee." Several followers became violently ill, losing weight and developing strange lumps in their bellies, the warrant said. Witnesses told investigators they saw at least 20 snails in his backyard box and several black-spotted eggs."
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Duct-Tape Vampire's Menacing Pipe Bomb
Seattle Times | Submitted by: Veggie
According to police, employees of a Second Avenue mission said the suspect, clad in black and covered in duct tape, had come into the mission "and threatened to blow the place up." He then told staffers "that he was a vampire and wanted to eat people." The man, who also called himself "a space cowboy," showed the pipe-like device taped to his wrist."
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Survive Doomsday With Geneological Loopback
New York Daily News | Submitted by: The Ratzinger's, semper-fi!
An award-winning video director was unmasked Thursday as a brutal, bizarre serial breeder who repeatedly raped his daughters to create a "pure" bloodline... "He said the world was going to end, and it was just going to be him and his offspring and that he was chosen."
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We Put You In The Zoo
Australian Broadcasting | Submitted by: JJ
The State Education Department has confirmed that a fenced-off area is used for students with special needs at Seven Hills West Public School. It says the school is located near a busy road and many of the students have no sense of boundaries... The area contains just one tree with benches around it, surrounded by dirt."
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Stymied By Vulcan Balltap
San Jose Mercury News | Submitted by: Mojave666
A Vallejo teenager allegedly shot himself in the testicles Thursday afternoon, police said... The gun is still outstanding, police said, and the teen has not been cooperative."
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LSD Baguettes Sont Irresistibles
London Telegraph | Submitted by: LsbumblePubes
In 1951, a quiet, picturesque village in southern France was suddenly and mysteriously struck down with mass insanity and hallucinations. At least five people died, dozens were interned in asylums and hundreds afflicted... An American investigative journalist has uncovered evidence suggesting the CIA peppered local food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD as part of a mind control experiment at the height of the Cold War... The mystery of Le Pain Maudit [Cursed Bread] still haunts the inhabitants of Pont-Saint-Esprit, in the Gard, southeast France."
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Chief Exorcist Condemns Vatican
Times | Submitted by: Queenburger
Sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church are proof that that "the Devil is at work inside the Vatican", according to the Holy See's chief exorcist... When one speaks of the smoke of Satan in the holy rooms, it is all true -- including these latest stories of violence and paedophilia"... He said it sometimes took six or seven of his assistants to to hold down a possessed person. Those possessed often yelled and screamed and spat out nails or pieces of glass, which he kept in a bag."
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The Science of Suicide
Discovery | Submitted by: Suicide Guy
There are many stories of animal suicide dating back centuries. In 1845, for example, the Illustrated London News reported a "Singular Case of Suicide" involving a "fine, handsome and valuable black dog, of the Newfoundland species." The dog had for days been acting less lively than usual, but then was seen "to throw himself in the water and endeavor to sink by preserving perfect stillness of the legs and feet."
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Don't You Stoners Compost
Philadelphia Inquirer | Submitted by: steve zombieraper
Police last month raided six New Jersey homes -- several of them $1 million McMansions -- and seized more than $10 million worth of cannabis growing inside under artificial lights, authorities announced today... "He followed his nose. Then he saw smoke rising from a chimney." Overpowered by the scent, Lucasiewicz called his squad. When backup arrived, Lucasiewicz knocked on the door of the single-story ranch house. They were greeted by a surprised man, "the gardener, essentially, who was burning some of the unusable parts of the plants in the fireplace."
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Unstoppable Christmas Bloodbath
Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Submitted by: ditchley
Arriving at the scene, the trooper attempted to take control of Larson by firing a Taser stun gun into the man's back, to no effect. Investigators concluded that Larson then charged at the trooper, who drew his .40-caliber service weapon and shot him. The trooper watched as the bullet hit and Larson kept coming toward him, throwing punches and attempting to choke the trooper. "I was backing up as I continued to fire at the subject who was still coming at me."
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Bali Nightclub Bomber Assassinated
Christian Science Monitor | Submitted by: ditchley
Dulmatin and two other men were killed during a raid that has been linked to a group of alleged militants captured last month in Aceh... Dulmatin is believed to have helped plot and execute the 2002 Bali nightclub bombing that killed 202 people, mostly foreigners. His death comes six months after members of Indonesia's US-trained counterterrorism unit killed Noordin Top, the leader of a splinter group of the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah."
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Teacup Collection In Sixty Tiny Cages
Sacramento Bee | Submitted by: DD
Authorities found the canines -- mostly boxers and Chihuahuas, along with a few small terriers -- in dirty cages stacked throughout 65-year-old Alice's two-bedroom home... "These dogs were kept in crates, from what we're being told, up to 23 hours a day... Most have injuries to their feet and noses from trying to escape from their crates."
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Bank Of America Commandeers Parrot
Wall Street Journal | Submitted by: TypoFaery
Bank of America Corp. apologized after its local contractor entered the home of a mortgage borrower when she was away, cut off utilities, padlocked the door and confiscated her pet parrot... A bank employee erroneously sent the contractor to the woman's house with instructions to install a new lock if it appeared to be vacant. The contractor then mistakenly concluded the home was vacant... Ms. Iannelli wasn't in default, and that the instructions to the contractor were thus inappropriate."
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MSNBC | Submitted by: honkey Infidel
We seen her gloves on the road where she was running," Kalmakoff told the paper. "She didn't get away too far from them; they took her down pretty fast. You could see a blood trail of her body getting drug down the hill."
Discuss
Times of London | Submitted by: whatsnew74
The Pope was drawn directly into the Roman Catholic sex abuse scandal for the first time tonight as news emerged of his part in a decision to send a paedophile priest for therapy. The priest went on to reoffend and was convicted of child abuse but continues to work as priest in Upper Bavaria."
Discuss
CNN | Submitted by: petone9 - ZOMBIE KILLER
The judge's order came on the same day the Georgia House Governmental Affairs Committee unanimously passed "The Meredith Emerson Memorial Privacy Act," which would prevent gruesome crime scene photos from being publicly released or disseminated, according to Rep. Jill Chambers, the bill's principal sponsor. House Bill 1322 would prevent the release of photographs of the bodies of crime victims that are "nude, bruised, bloodied or in a broken state with open wounds, a state of dismemberment or decapitation."
Discuss
Wire Services | Submitted by: Mr. Misrell
Greek workers staged another general strike on Thursday to protest austerity measures announced as a consequence of the country's debt crisis... More than 10,000 strikers and protesters marched through central Athens, banging drums and chanting slogans such as no sacrifice for plutocracy... Anarchists pelted police with beer bottles, stones and chunks of paving stones torn up from sidewalks. The police responded with several rounds of tear gas, leaving a thick, acrid cloud of smoke that sent passers-by scurrying into side streets, eyes streaming."
Discuss
BBC | Submitted by: Veggie
A rail passenger has been found guilty of grabbing and racially abusing a ticket inspector in Hertfordshire... Geoffrey Porter, prosecuting, told the jury Law was "seeking to avoid payment" when he attempted to follow other passengers through a barrier. Giving evidence, Mr Materke said: "I asked him if he had a ticket. He said ah yes, that's a problem..."
Discuss
Stuff NZ | Submitted by: P Ray
Earthmoving contractor Terry was run over yesterday morning when his wife Sandy reversed the vehicle down their long driveway near Opoutama, in northern Hawke's Bay... It appeared Mrs Telford, not realising what had happened, then drove forward, running over her husband again."
Discuss
Orlando Sentinel | Submitted by: Mendo Green
Johnson, 37, became "enraged" during an argument, according to a statement from one of the victims. He grabbed the chain saw but could not start the tool... "He then went into the child's room and again tried to start the chain saw, but it would not start. He then swung the chain saw at the 6-year-old child in the bed." Johnson was found later Wednesday in Leesburg at a friend's house "hiding under a bed."
Discuss
Daily Mail | Submitted by: Veggie
James Brown's daughter has claimed the singer's body has gone missing from its crypt... LaRhonda Pettit, 48, alleges the body of Brown, who died in December 2006 aged 73, is being hidden to prevent a full autopsy being carried out."
Discuss
New York Times | Submitted by: THE MIGHTY SNERT
Neighbors were chagrined last week when the police here found the body of a 75-year-old woman who had frozen to death, alone in her house, during unexpectedly frigid weather. But they were shocked this week when they learned that the woman, Juanita W. Goggins, had been a civil rights trailblazer who in 1974 became the first black woman elected to the South Carolina legislature."
Discuss
Washington Monthly | Submitted by: tonberry
Views like these are relatively common in East Texas, a region that prides itself on being the buckle of the Bible Belt. But McLeroy is no ordinary citizen. The jovial creationist sits on the Texas State Board of Education, where he is one of the leaders of an activist bloc that holds enormous sway over the body’s decisions... Among other things, they aim to rehabilitate Joseph McCarthy, bring global-warming denial into science class, and downplay the contributions of the civil rights movement."
Discuss
CNN | Submitted by: Jethro Bodine
A Mississippi high school faces a lawsuit over its decision to cancel its prom rather than allow a lesbian high school student attend with her girlfriend... At the center of the lawsuit is a memorandum from the school to students, dated February 5, which states that prom dates must be of the opposite sex. Also, when McMillen expressed a desire to wear a tuxedo to the prom, the superintendent told her only male students were allowed to wear tuxes."
Discuss
NBC4I | Submitted by: Mr. Misrell
Conone is accused of waiting until parents aren't watching, moving in and striking children in the head with a key protruding from his fist... He was arrested Wednesday night after two alleged assaults in a Bethel Road Walmart... Conone apparently does it for the thrill."
Discuss
News Corporation | Submitted by: honkey Infidel
The incident occurred while the man was at home alone with the boy and his twin brother. The court was told the man drew the curtains and... When he realised the boy wasn't dead," he renewed his attempt to strangle him. "While his other twin son watched, the man then tied a shoelace around the boy's neck before finally panicking and calling police."
Discuss
New York Daily News | Submitted by: anonymous
Police attempted to handcuff Grande, who had reportedly swallowed a bag of marijuana. When he resisted, police Tasered him. Once he was struck by the powerful electrical jolt, Grande yanked the wires from his chest but showed signs of choking... Paramedics later arrived and removed the bag, but it was too late." [Video of struggle]
Discuss
San Antonio Express-News | Submitted by: Torkulson S. Maroon, 2nd.
The Zapata County sheriff Thursday was questioning why a Mexican military helicopter was hovering over homes on the Texas side of the Rio Grande. It was one of the more jarring incidents of the fourth week of border tensions sparked by drug killings, and rumors of such killings, in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas... As violence continued Thursday with a highway shootout in Tamaulipas, a Senate subcommittee in Washington heard testimony that drug cartels are trying to infiltrate U.S. agencies along the border, with corruption cases among Homeland Security personnel on the rise."
Discuss
New York Daily News | Submitted by: The SouthPark Kids (...reparation for the 'orca to the moon' epi
The Hump came under fire after allegations surfaced in Tuesday's New York Times that it had served meat from an endangered sei whale, possibly straight from the trunk of a white Mercedes-Benz... The complaint charges Typhoon Restaurant Inc. -- the parent company of the Hump, which sits next to the runway at the Santa Monica Airport -- and Kiyoshiro Yamamoto, the chef, with the illegal sale of a marine mammal product for an unauthorized purpose." [Typhoon also noted for serving cockroaches, ants, other insects]
Discuss
CNN | Submitted by: larry
A few years ago, the Haitian teen was forging a new future after doctors removed a massive tumor-like growth that had taken over her face, threatening her life and forcing her into mortified seclusion. She was making her way back into the world and smiling again." [Incredible family photo]
Discuss
Miami Herald | Submitted by: honkey Infidel
One witness told investigators that during the ritual, Stewart grabs a snail from the cage, then would "hold it over the devotee, then cuts the snail and pours the raw fluid directly from the still live snail into the mouth of the devotee." Several followers became violently ill, losing weight and developing strange lumps in their bellies, the warrant said. Witnesses told investigators they saw at least 20 snails in his backyard box and several black-spotted eggs."
Discuss
Seattle Times | Submitted by: Veggie
According to police, employees of a Second Avenue mission said the suspect, clad in black and covered in duct tape, had come into the mission "and threatened to blow the place up." He then told staffers "that he was a vampire and wanted to eat people." The man, who also called himself "a space cowboy," showed the pipe-like device taped to his wrist."
Discuss
New York Daily News | Submitted by: The Ratzinger's, semper-fi!
An award-winning video director was unmasked Thursday as a brutal, bizarre serial breeder who repeatedly raped his daughters to create a "pure" bloodline... "He said the world was going to end, and it was just going to be him and his offspring and that he was chosen."
Discuss
Australian Broadcasting | Submitted by: JJ
The State Education Department has confirmed that a fenced-off area is used for students with special needs at Seven Hills West Public School. It says the school is located near a busy road and many of the students have no sense of boundaries... The area contains just one tree with benches around it, surrounded by dirt."
Discuss
San Jose Mercury News | Submitted by: Mojave666
A Vallejo teenager allegedly shot himself in the testicles Thursday afternoon, police said... The gun is still outstanding, police said, and the teen has not been cooperative."
Discuss
London Telegraph | Submitted by: LsbumblePubes
In 1951, a quiet, picturesque village in southern France was suddenly and mysteriously struck down with mass insanity and hallucinations. At least five people died, dozens were interned in asylums and hundreds afflicted... An American investigative journalist has uncovered evidence suggesting the CIA peppered local food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD as part of a mind control experiment at the height of the Cold War... The mystery of Le Pain Maudit [Cursed Bread] still haunts the inhabitants of Pont-Saint-Esprit, in the Gard, southeast France."
Discuss
Times | Submitted by: Queenburger
Sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church are proof that that "the Devil is at work inside the Vatican", according to the Holy See's chief exorcist... When one speaks of the smoke of Satan in the holy rooms, it is all true -- including these latest stories of violence and paedophilia"... He said it sometimes took six or seven of his assistants to to hold down a possessed person. Those possessed often yelled and screamed and spat out nails or pieces of glass, which he kept in a bag."
Discuss
Discovery | Submitted by: Suicide Guy
There are many stories of animal suicide dating back centuries. In 1845, for example, the Illustrated London News reported a "Singular Case of Suicide" involving a "fine, handsome and valuable black dog, of the Newfoundland species." The dog had for days been acting less lively than usual, but then was seen "to throw himself in the water and endeavor to sink by preserving perfect stillness of the legs and feet."
Discuss
Philadelphia Inquirer | Submitted by: steve zombieraper
Police last month raided six New Jersey homes -- several of them $1 million McMansions -- and seized more than $10 million worth of cannabis growing inside under artificial lights, authorities announced today... "He followed his nose. Then he saw smoke rising from a chimney." Overpowered by the scent, Lucasiewicz called his squad. When backup arrived, Lucasiewicz knocked on the door of the single-story ranch house. They were greeted by a surprised man, "the gardener, essentially, who was burning some of the unusable parts of the plants in the fireplace."
Discuss
Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Submitted by: ditchley
Arriving at the scene, the trooper attempted to take control of Larson by firing a Taser stun gun into the man's back, to no effect. Investigators concluded that Larson then charged at the trooper, who drew his .40-caliber service weapon and shot him. The trooper watched as the bullet hit and Larson kept coming toward him, throwing punches and attempting to choke the trooper. "I was backing up as I continued to fire at the subject who was still coming at me."
Discuss
Christian Science Monitor | Submitted by: ditchley
Dulmatin and two other men were killed during a raid that has been linked to a group of alleged militants captured last month in Aceh... Dulmatin is believed to have helped plot and execute the 2002 Bali nightclub bombing that killed 202 people, mostly foreigners. His death comes six months after members of Indonesia's US-trained counterterrorism unit killed Noordin Top, the leader of a splinter group of the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah."
Discuss
Sacramento Bee | Submitted by: DD
Authorities found the canines -- mostly boxers and Chihuahuas, along with a few small terriers -- in dirty cages stacked throughout 65-year-old Alice's two-bedroom home... "These dogs were kept in crates, from what we're being told, up to 23 hours a day... Most have injuries to their feet and noses from trying to escape from their crates."
Discuss
Wall Street Journal | Submitted by: TypoFaery
Bank of America Corp. apologized after its local contractor entered the home of a mortgage borrower when she was away, cut off utilities, padlocked the door and confiscated her pet parrot... A bank employee erroneously sent the contractor to the woman's house with instructions to install a new lock if it appeared to be vacant. The contractor then mistakenly concluded the home was vacant... Ms. Iannelli wasn't in default, and that the instructions to the contractor were thus inappropriate."
Discuss
Aussie Cabbie Set For 4,000-Mile Drive
NYC chef creates breast milk cheese
Robber holds up 11 people, gets $6
Cops: Man copies key on test drive, steals truck
Nurses' union: Care does not include sex
Giant Snail Smuggled For Its Slime Appeal
NYC funeral home van ticketed, then towed - with body inside
Finger-in-Chili Woman Banned From Wendy's
Zebra snapped putting head in hippopotamus's mouth
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