Posted on November 6th, 2009 by Meg
Major Nadal Malik Hasan, a military psychiatrist, opened fire at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday at a Fort Hood military processing center, wounding 30 and killing 13, according to Lt. Gen Robert Cone. Some of the victims at the readiness center were headed to Iraq or Afghanistan.
The shooter, a U.S. citizen of Jordanian descent, practices psychiatry [...]
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Posted on November 5th, 2009 by Meg
Seven-month-old Shannon Dedrick was reported missing by her mother Chrystina Lynn Mercer at 11:23 a.m. on Saturday, October 31. In a startling discovery, made at 9:55 p.m. Wednesday night, sheriff’s deputies found the healthy infant hidden under a bed at the home of her babysitter, Susan Elizabeth Baker and the sitter’s husband James Arthur Baker [...]
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Posted on November 1st, 2009 by Meg
Meb Keflezighi became the first U.S. runner to win the New York City Marathon race since 1982 when Alberto Salazar took top honors. In fact, six of the top finishers were Americans – the most in 30 years.
American men in the top ten were Ryan Hall finishing 4th place, Jorge Torres finishing 7th, Nick Arciniaga [...]
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Posted on October 27th, 2009 by Andrea
UConn football player Jasper Howard
John William Lomax, 21, has been arrested and charged with the murder of University of Connecticut football player Jasper Howard.
Howard was fatally stabbed during a fight on campus on October 18, after a University-sponsored dance.
Lomax was arrested and booked Tuesday morning on murder charges, and is being held on $2 million [...]
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Posted on October 23rd, 2009 by Meg
Two Northwest Airlines pilots claim they were in a heated argument and lost track of where they were when NW Flight 188 overshot Minneapolis International Airport by 150 miles on a flight from San Diego on Wednesday night.
The ground control center at Denver lost radio contact with the plane, carrying 144 passengers and five crew [...]
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