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Authorities: Hofstra student was killed by police

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:38:08 MDT

Authorities: Hofstra student was killed by police

By FRANK ELTMAN The Associated Press

Updated May 18, 2013 11:38PM MDT

Mineola, N.Y. • A New York college student being held by an armed home intruder was shot and killed by a Nassau County police officer who had responded to a report of a home invasion at an off-campus home, police said Saturday. Andrea Rebello was shot once in the head Friday morning by an officer who opened fire after the masked intruder, Dalton Smith, pointed a gun at the officer while holding the 21-year-old junior in a headlock, Nassau County homicide squad Lt. John Azzata said. The Nassau Co...

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Salt Lake police dedicate plaque to officer killed on bike in 2000

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:36:57 MDT

Salt Lake police dedicate plaque to officer killed on bike in 2000

By Jim Dalrymple II The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 17, 2013 10:36PM MDT

Christian Smith wasn’t alive on July 17, 2000, the day that Salt Lake City police Officer Michael Dunman was killed while on patrol as a bicycle cop. But the 10-year-old was instrumental in making sure the city remembers Dunman’s service. On Friday afternoon, Dunman’s family and former colleagues gathered near 1500 S. State St., the site of the fatal crash, to dedicate a bronze plaque in his memory. Dunman’s widow, Sandi Dunman-Bromley, pulled a sheet of paper from the brick wall of Piper Down P...

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For the U.S. military, a baffling rise in suicides

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:15:10 MDT

For the U.S. military, a baffling rise in suicides

By JAMES DAO and ANDREW W. LEHREN The New York Times

Updated May 15, 2013 08:15PM MDT

After Spc. Freddy Hook, a medic with the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, killed himself in 2010, the trail of possible causes seemed long. He had used illegal drugs: Was it the demons of addiction? His rocky relationship with his fiancee? A wrenching deployment to earthquake-ravaged Haiti or the prospect of an impending tour in Afghanistan? As with most of suicides plaguing the military today, no one will know for sure. “There are so many factors,” said his mother, Theresa Taylor, of Lafayette, L...

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Philadelphia abortion doctor gets third life sentence

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:21:07 MDT

Philadelphia abortion doctor gets third life sentence

By MARYCLAIRE DALE The Associated Press

Updated May 15, 2013 10:21AM MDT

PHILADELPHIA • A Philadelphia abortion doctor was sentenced Wednesday to a third life term for killing an aborted baby that he described as so big it could “walk to the bus.” Dr. Kermit Gosnell was convicted this week of first-degree murder in the deaths of three babies born alive, then stabbed with scissors. He was given two life sentences Tuesday in a deal with prosecutors that spared him a potential death sentence, and the third sentence was handed down Wednesday. Gosnell was also sentenced t...

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Aussie gun control

Sat, 11 May 2013 01:01:05 MDT

Aussie gun control

Updated May 11, 2013 01:01AM MDT

America has a long history of individual freedom and personal responsibility. Its westward expansion by rugged individuals and the romanticizing of its gun history strengthen its gun culture in America, especially in the West. That almost everything about American society has changed since the 1800s seems irrelevant to gun fanatics. In 1999, the Columbine shooters killed 13 and wounded 24. Public outrage resulted in no major long-term gun control. Five years later, America allowed the assault ...

Venom killed Arizona climber covered with bee stings

Thu, 09 May 2013 08:44:48 MDT

Venom killed Arizona climber covered with bee stings

The Associated Press

Updated May 9, 2013 08:44AM MDT

TUCSON, Ariz. • A medical examiner says a Tucson climber founded dead, hanging from a southern Arizona cliff in his climbing gear, died from venom from bee stings. Steven Johnson had hundreds of bee stings when found Monday in the Santa Rita Mountains. And the Arizona Daily Star reports that Dr. Gregory Hess says venom killed Johnson. The 55-year-old was last seen Friday when he went hiking, and a search began Monday when friends got worried because he didn’t go to work. Searchers found both Joh...

Milbank: Whistle-blower’s yarn fails to tie Benghazi lapses to politics

Thu, 09 May 2013 09:53:02 MDT

Milbank: Whistle-blower’s yarn fails to tie Benghazi lapses to politics

By Dana Milbank The Washington Post

Updated May 9, 2013 09:53AM MDT

WASHINGTON — They summoned a whistle-blower to Capitol Hill, but instead they got a virtuoso storyteller. Gregory Hicks, the No. 2 U.S. diplomat in Libya the night Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed, was to be the star witness for Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the man leading the probe of the Obama administration’s handling of the attack on the diplomatic outpost in Benghazi. But despite Issa’s incautious promise that the hearing’s revelations would be “damaging” to Hi...