KILLED - The Salt Lake Tribune

Feds release guidelines for confronting a church shooter

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:50:09 MDT

Feds release guidelines for confronting a church shooter

By LAUREN MARKOE Religion News Service

Updated Jun 18, 2013 03:50PM MDT

Washington • For the first time, the federal government has issued written guidelines for houses of worship that are confronted with a homicidal gunman. Vice President Joe Biden released the new rules Tuesday, two days after a gunman shot a parishioner during Mass at an Ogden church and six months after the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., that left 26 dead, including 20 children. Beyond seeking shelter and waiting for police to arrive, as many Newtown victims did, the new rules also advise ad...

Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Attacks in Pakistan’s southwest kills 22

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 23:27:51 MDT

Attacks in Pakistan’s southwest kills 22

By ABDUL SATTAR and REBECCA SANTANA The Associated Press

Updated Jun 15, 2013 11:27PM MDT

Quetta, Pakistan • Pakistani forces stormed a hospital that had been taken over by gunmen Saturday in a restive southwestern province, freeing hostages and ending a five-hour standoff that capped a series of attacks that killed 22 people. The violence emphasized the challenges that new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will have in bringing calm to Baluchistan, a region beset by a separatist movement, Taliban militants and violent sectarian groups. Police said six attackers were also killed in the fi...

Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Police: Several injured in another Louisiana plant blast

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:53:14 MDT

Police: Several injured in another Louisiana plant blast

The Associated Press

Updated Jun 14, 2013 07:53PM MDT

Donaldsonville, La. • One person was killed and several others injured Friday in an explosion at a south Louisiana chemical plant, only miles from where another blast killed two plant workers the previous day, authorities said. Louisiana State Police Trooper Jared Sandifer said five people were injured, three of them critically, and were taken to area hospitals following Friday evening’s explosion at a CF Industries facility in Donaldsonville. The identity of the person killed in the blast wasn’...

Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

U.N. says nearly 93,000 killed in Syrian civil war

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:09:12 MDT

U.N. says nearly 93,000 killed in Syrian civil war

By BASSEM MROUE and JOHN HEILPRIN The Associated Press

Updated Jun 13, 2013 06:09PM MDT

Beirut • Syrians are being killed at an average rate of 5,000 per month, the U.N. said Thursday as it raised the overall death toll in the civil war to nearly 93,000, with civilians bearing the brunt of the attacks. The grim estimate reflects the growing sectarian nature of the bloodshed as the regime of President Bashar Assad scores a series of battlefield successes against the rebels. The toll also is a reminder of the international community’s helplessness in the face of a conflict that has d...

Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Worker killed at new San Francisco 49ers stadium

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:01:24 MDT

Worker killed at new San Francisco 49ers stadium

The Associated Press

Updated Jun 12, 2013 12:01AM MDT

Santa Clara, Calif. • Construction on the new San Francisco 49ers stadium has been stopped after a worker was killed in an elevator shaft. The unidentified man died around 6:50 a.m. Tuesday. Construction officials say he was on the lowest level of the stadium edifice when it happened. State workplace safety officials are expected to investigate. Construction on the $1.3 billion Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara began in April. The 49ers are expected to move there from Candlestick Park for the ...

Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Afghan Taliban boldly attack on Kabul airport

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:22:24 MDT

Afghan Taliban boldly attack on Kabul airport

By PATRICK QUINN The Associated Press

Updated Jun 10, 2013 07:22PM MDT

Kabul, Afghanistan • Seven Taliban fighters with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns launched a rare assault on NATO’s operational headquarters at the military section of Kabul’s international airport on Monday. All seven militants were killed. Their failed attack showed that despite an asphyxiating security blanket around the capital, Afghanistan’s insurgency is far from defeated after nearly 12 years of war, and militants can still menace the capital. Gunfire and explosions from the pr...

Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Utah killer will spend life in prison without parole for 2007 murder

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:27:47 MDT

Utah killer will spend life in prison without parole for 2007 murder

By Marissa Lang The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 10, 2013 11:27PM MDT

Ramona Gonzales thought she would feel satisfied Monday as a judge sentenced the man who shot and killed her son to spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. It was what she asked for. But not what she wanted. “I thought knowing he’s going to spend the rest of his life in prison would make me feel better,” she said after the sentencing. “But it doesn’t. I just want my son back.” Anthony James Prater, 29, shot and killed 35-year-old Vincent Samora in a drive-by on N...

Insider attack kills 3 Americans in Afghanistan

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 18:34:19 MDT

Insider attack kills 3 Americans in Afghanistan

By KAY JOHNSON The Associated Press

Updated Jun 8, 2013 06:34PM MDT

Kabul, Afghanistan • A man in an Afghan army uniform turned his weapon on American trainers working with him in the country’s east on Saturday, killing three of them, while an attacker with a grenade killed an Italian soldier in the west, officials said. The shooting in Paktika province was the latest in a string of so-called “insider attacks” in which Afghan forces open fire on their own comrades or international troops. The incidents threaten to shake the confidence and trust of the two sides ...

Man kills 4 in Calif. before police shoot him dead

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 10:59:04 MDT

Man kills 4 in Calif. before police shoot him dead

By TAMI ABDOLLAH The Associated Press

Updated Jun 8, 2013 10:59AM MDT

Santa Monica, Calif. • A man with a semi-automatic rifle killed at least four people and wounded several others Friday as he carried out a deadly rampage across several blocks of a normally idyllic beachfront city. Police shot him dead in the Santa Monica College Library. The violence began when the gunman, dressed in all black and wearing what appeared to be a ballistic jacket, opened fire on a house where two bodies were found, Santa Monica Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks said. Two official...