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Toledo Mayor: Neo-Nazis Had Right to March
| Posted by Admin on Monday, October 17, 2005 - 12:02 PM (4509 Reads)
TOLEDO, Ohio — The city's mayor says there was nothing he could do to stop a white supremacist group from marching along the sidewalks of a racially mixed neighborhood, a demonstration that triggered violence.
A melee broke out Saturday when protesters confronted members of the National Socialist Movement (search) who had gathered at a city park.
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Woman Jailed for Scalping Teen Girl
| Posted by Admin on Saturday, October 15, 2005 - 06:29 AM (7894 Reads)
IDAHO CITY, Idaho — A Caldwell woman who scalped a teenage friend for lying was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for felony aggravated battery.
Fourth District Judge Kathryn Sticklen ordered Marianne Dahle (search), 27, to serve at least four years in prison before she is eligible for parole. Sticklen said she had little confidence that Dahle would seek psychiatric help and avoid harming society on her own.
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63 Dead as Russian Forces Battle Chechen Rebels
| Posted by Admin on Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 11:51 AM (5643 Reads)
NALCHIK, Russia — Scores of Islamic militants launched simultaneous attacks on police and government buildings in this city in Russia's turbulent Caucasus (search) region Thursday, sparking battles that killed at least 63 people.
Chechen rebels claimed responsibility for the attacks, which forced the evacuation of schools and left corpses littering the streets of Nalchik, the capital of the republic of Kabardino-Balkariya.
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New Orleans Cops Plead Not Guilty in Taped Beating
| Posted by Admin on Monday, October 10, 2005 - 12:43 PM (6108 Reads)
NEW ORLEANS — Three New Orleans (search) police officers pleaded not guilty Monday to battery charges based on a videotape showing two patrolmen repeatedly punching a 64-year-old man accused of public intoxication and a third officer grabbing and shoving an Associated Press Television News producer who helped capture the confrontation on tape.
After a brief hearing, at which trial was set for Jan. 11, the officers were released on bond. They quickly left in cars without commenting.
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Man Gets Death for 'Video Game' Killing
| Posted by Admin on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 08:51 AM (5081 Reads)
FAYETTE, Ala. — A judge sentenced a man to die Thursday for the murders of two officers and a dispatcher at a rural police station, slayings the victims' families blame partly on the killer's obsession with a violent video game.
Devin Moore showed no emotion as the judge sentenced him to death by injection, but he apologized beforehand to his victims' relatives.
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College Suicide Bomber Tried to Buy Fertilizer
| Posted by Admin on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 08:39 AM (3511 Reads)
NORMAN, Okla. — A University of Oklahoma (search) student tried to buy fertilizer of the type used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing two days before he committed suicide using explosives outside a packed football stadium.
Police said Thursday that the attempted purchase raised the suspicions of an off-duty officer who happened to be in the feed store at the time. But though an investigation had began, authorities were not able to act swiftly enough to stop the student from taking his own life.
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Central America Death Toll Hits 236
| Posted by Admin on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 08:34 AM (3305 Reads)
GUATEMALA CITY — Rescue workers in Guatemala pulled dozens of bodies from a massive mudslide and from a swollen river Thursday, raising to at least 236 the number of people killed from five days of pounding rains in Central America and Mexico.
Officials expected the death to toll to climb as they searched for more than 150 others who were missing following the landslide in Solola, a town close to Lake Atitlan, 60 miles west of the capital, Guatemala City.
Along the country's Pacific coast, the Nahualate River broke from its banks, creating a new outlet to the sea and killing at least 20 people from a small, seaside village, navy officials said.
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Gunmen Kill Eight Pakistanis Outside Mosque
| Posted by Admin on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 08:31 AM (3776 Reads)
MULTAN, Pakistan — Assailants with assault rifles attacked a mosque belonging to a small Muslim sect in eastern Pakistan (search) early Friday, killing at least eight people and wounding 19, police and a doctor said.
The attack on the mosque belonging to Ahmadiyya (search) sect happened in the village of Mong (search), about 240 miles northeast of Multan, a main city in the eastern Punjab province, said Mohammed Arif, an area police officer.
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Texas Plant Explosion Injures Eleven
| Posted by Admin on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 08:29 AM (3701 Reads)
POINT COMFORT, Texas — Eleven people were injured, one seriously, in a plant explosion in southern Texas, the third blast at a Texas industrial facility this year.
It appeared that no toxic materials had been released into the air after Thursday's explosion at a plastics plant owned by Formosa Plastics Corp. USA.
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New York City Sitting Duck for Hurricanes
| Posted by Admin on Thursday, October 06, 2005 - 12:21 PM (3876 Reads)
NEW YORK — It's coming, with skyscraper-rattling winds and a 30-foot storm surge that threatens to submerge Wall Street, flood the subways and turn Coney Island into a water park.
When it arrives, more than 3 million New Yorkers — more than six times the population of New Orleans — could be forced to evacuate by the first major hurricane to hit the city since 1938.
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