Violence
Six people… stabbed at the annual Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade… by an ultra-Orthodox man who perpetrated a similar stabbing at the 2005 march. …released from prison several weeks ago after serving 10 years in prison for his last attack, which wounded three people.…
"He has a smirk on his face …I don't know if there's any remorse whatsoever based on that picture…"
…[he had] “exhibited extreme erratic behavior and has made ominous as well as disturbing statements” … "a history of mental health issues, i.e., manic depression and/or bi-polar disorder.” … wife also removed all weapons from their home because she feared his “volatile mental state” …
The gunman who opened fire inside a packed movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana, Thursday night, was 59-year-old John Russell Houser… from Phenix City, Alabama… no known connection to Lafayette… was estranged from his family and had mental health issues… applied for gun but did not pass the background check… supported Barack Obama [perversely]… "the faster he wrecks this nation, which in no way resembles what it’s founders envisioned, the faster working people with morals may re-assume command. ie I was for his re-election.…"
An Oklahoma man is accused of raping and assaulting three teens while holding them captive at his home over a span of two years. …shares the home with his parents. … [??!!??]
Police fired tear gas at rioters hurling gasoline bombs and chunks of marble Wednesday during Greece's largest anti-austerity demonstration in six months — part of a 24-hour general strike that was a test for the nearly four-month old coalition government and the new spending cuts it plans to push through. The brief but intense clashes by a couple of hundred rioters participating in the demonstration of more than 60,000 people came a day after anti-austerity protests rocked the Spanish capital, Madrid. Hundreds of Spanish anti-austerity protesters gathered again Wednesday, ending near parliament in Madrid amid a heavy presence of riot police. In Tuesday's protest, police arrested 38 people and 64 were injured.
protesters stepping up anti-austerity demonstrations … The government's drive to rein in regional overspending as part of its austerity measures has prompted a flare-up in independence fervor in Catalonia … Anti-austerity groups planned a fresh demonstration on Wednesday evening in Madrid, a day after police fired rubber bullets at thousands of protesters who tried to form a human chain around the parliament building. Police arrested 35 protesters on Tuesday and 64 police and demonstrators were injured in the clashes.
GOLDEN, Colo. --The man suspected of trying to bomb Southwest Plaza Mall is scheduled to make his first appearance in federal court Wednesday.
Children as young as eight are being raped in front of their families by Gaddafi's forces in Libya, according to a leading charity. Aid workers described horrific stories of widespread sexual abuse, including one incident in which a group of girls was abducted and held hostage for four days. When they were finally released, they were too traumatised to speak. Other children have described being forced to watch as their fathers were murdered and their mothers raped.
An off-duty Atlanta police officer got into a scuffle with a woman and punched her in the face, and the early morning incident at an IHOP was captured on video....
Brazilian police say they've arrested two men in connection to a school shooting in Rio that left at least 12 students dead... ne of the men allegedly put the gunman in touch with the other, who allegedly sold the gunman a pistol used in the shooting...
Attacker opened fire with machine gun before shooting himself in crowded mall in suburb of Alphen aan den Rijn near Amsterdam... At least five people have died ... described as a 25-year-old white male with blonde hair who wearing a leather jacket and camouflage pants.... Four of the wounded are in critical condition, five were in serious condition and at least two others were slightly wounded,,,,
A powerful blast that launched an improvised missile through the roof of a Jewish synagogue in Santa Monica, Calif., was determined late Friday to be a deliberate attack with an improvised explosive and not an accident as police originally thought. … [60yo] transient who regularly sought charity from members of the synagogue and community center is wanted as a suspect by an FBI and police task force.
Nine people have been shot, one killed after a gunman opened fire in a hall filled with teenagers in Philadelphia. The victims were celebrating the 18th birthday of a girl,
The gunman who allegedly opened fire in a Rio de Janeiro school this morning, killing 12 children before shooting himself, left behind a suicide note asking for forgiveness and revealing that he had HIV
A Corsicana man accused in the abduction and torture of a Parker County woman is under investigation in the disappearance of two other North Texas women, one of them his ex-wife whose family has not heard from her since 1992, the Parker County sheriff s...
The gruesome details of Jada Justice's death were revealed Friday when prosecutors charged the 2-year-old girl's cousin and her boyfriend with murder.... That night, while they were on their way to buy heroin, the couple realized that Jada was dead....
A body found in rural northern Indiana may be that of missing 2-year-old Jada Justice... police started questioning [babysitter's] story last week, and began investigating both [her] and her boyfriend... Neither has been cooperative with the authorities...
told them he was sitting on a bus station bench Wednesday, about to put mayonnaise on his sandwich, when another man began staring at him.... Hamilton told police that the man then punched him in the mouth and grabbed his sandwich and left....
The Miami teen accused of brutally killing nearly two dozen cats can be released on bail because he poses no danger to himself or the community, a judge ruled Wednesday... will wear an electronic monitoring bracelet while he awaits his trial and will be allowed to attend counseling sessions that were recommended by a doctor after a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation...
The teenager accused of mutilating more than a dozen cats in South Miami-Dade was not the reserved yet rabid killer some expected. He was a dog-loving class clown, a swim class instructor, an 18-year-old who grew up before the eyes of the four-legged victims' families. He appeared to be appalled by the horrific killings, and joined the Facebook group "Catch the Cat Killer!'' ... Police, working with tips gathered from the community and reading his Facebook and MySpace pages... ''He was always so nice to my animals... I have three cats and they loved him....''
After hearing the news of the gorilla's escape, a local GOP activist exposed his vile racism, by suggesting that the gorilla was an "ancestor" of Michelle Obama, the lovely and admired First Lady of the United States.
Miami Fla--A teenager has been arrested in a string of cat killings and mutilations that horrified residents of Miami's southern suburbs...
GLADSTONE, N.D. ...turned out to be four people wanted in an Alabama prison break. The suspects had holed up in a garage and held off authorities for more than 14 hours Saturday before two of them surrendered and two were wounded in a shootout with police....
An Oregon woman was charged with murdering a 21-year-old expectant mother and her unborn baby after faking her own pregnancy. [Scary: Mugshot]
Veteran Miami-Dade prosecutor David Ranck faces battery charges after an alleged scuffle with a pizza delivery woman on Saturday during a delivery that went horribly wrong. It's the second report of prosecutors gone wild in the past week. A Broward County prosecutor was arrested late last week for punching a cop in the back of the head during a barroom fight.
Court documents show that Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, the suspect in the shooting of two army personnel, has allegedly confessed. He had recently traveled to Yemen, and was under a Joint Terror Task Force investigation.
67-year-old George Tiller... A Kansas doctor reviled by anti-abortion groups for his work providing so-called "late-term" abortions was shot and killed in his Wichita, Kansas, church on Sunday, and police said they captured the man responsible.
A Lubbock man was convicted Friday of kidnapping three children who were taken to Oklahoma on a three-day camping trip where they endured what prosecutors called "terror games" that included talk of cannibalism and sex acts.
Investigators continue to search for a missing 5-year-old girl whose mother spoke of a sex offender considered a person of interest in the case as a "father figure" to her daughter, who disappeared five days ago. Police found a blood-stained towel, shorts and a photo of a girl similar to Nevaeh Buchanan during a search of the motel room where 36-year-old George Kennedy, a registered sex offender, was staying Thursday. Kennedy is a longtime acquaintance of the girl's mother, Jennifer Buchanan.