Veteran comedian and actor Leslie Nielsen has died in a Florida hospital, his family confirmed to Global News on Sunday evening. The Canadian actor was 84.
Nielsen rose to fame with roles in the Airplane and Naked Gun film franchises. He had apparently been suffering from pneumonia for more than a week.
“Today at 5:30 with his friends and his wife by his side, he just fell asleep and passed away,” his nephew Doug Nielsen told Manitoba radio station CJOB68.
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2010-11-28
2010-11-27
Black Friday - 19-year-old Somali-born student arrested in bomb plot
A Somali-born teenager attempting to detonate what he believed was a car bomb at a packed Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in downtown Portland, Ore., was arrested by the authorities on Friday night. They had spent nearly six months tracking him and setting up a sting operation, officials in Oregon said.
The bomb, which was in a van parked off Pioneer Courthouse Square, was a fake — planted by F.B.I. agents as part of the elaborate sting — but “the threat was very real,” said Arthur Balizan, the F.B.I.’s special agent in charge in Oregon. An estimated 10,000 people were at the ceremony on Friday night, the Portland police said.
New York Times
The bomb, which was in a van parked off Pioneer Courthouse Square, was a fake — planted by F.B.I. agents as part of the elaborate sting — but “the threat was very real,” said Arthur Balizan, the F.B.I.’s special agent in charge in Oregon. An estimated 10,000 people were at the ceremony on Friday night, the Portland police said.
New York Times
Black Friday - Man arrested at Wal-Mart with gun, 550 rounds, anti-government literature, meth
During his arrest, officers say they found methamphetamine but it's the other items inside his backpack that had officers concerned.
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Around 11:22 Thursday night, Branson West police searched for one man in the crowd of shoppers at Wal-Mart. “They confronted him when he was in a crowd of people and he stuck his hand in his coat pocket,” Branson West Police Chief Doug Rader said. “They ordered him to remove his hand and he did remove his hand. They took him away from the crowd.”
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Police say they found a .22-caliber handgun in the same pocket Campbell was reaching into. “He had a backpack with approximately 550 rounds of ammo, a couple knives and anti-government literature,” Rader said.
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Around 11:22 Thursday night, Branson West police searched for one man in the crowd of shoppers at Wal-Mart. “They confronted him when he was in a crowd of people and he stuck his hand in his coat pocket,” Branson West Police Chief Doug Rader said. “They ordered him to remove his hand and he did remove his hand. They took him away from the crowd.”
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Police say they found a .22-caliber handgun in the same pocket Campbell was reaching into. “He had a backpack with approximately 550 rounds of ammo, a couple knives and anti-government literature,” Rader said.
KSPR
2010-11-26
Black Friday - Ex-Marine stabbed in the back while volunteering for Toys for Tots
A US Marine reservist was stabbed in the back when a suspected Black Friday shoplifter fled a Best Buy store in Augusta, Ga., The Augusta Chronicle reported.
A man was seen on the store's security cameras attempting to steal a laptop computer about 1:15pm local time Friday. He became upset when store employees asked him to return the laptop, store sales manager Orvin Smith said.
“He was really irate. A whole lot of energy,” said Smith. “We basically tried to get him to let go of a laptop. In doing that, he finally let go of the laptop, ran out the front door, knocked one of my employees down and pulled out a knife so he could make sure he could get out the front door.”
The victim, identified as Cpl. Phillip Duggan, 24, was collecting toys for the Toys for Tots charity at the store with three other Marines. Smith said the Marines clotheslined the suspected shoplifter, at which point he began waving the knife around and stabbed Duggan in the back.
NY Post
A man was seen on the store's security cameras attempting to steal a laptop computer about 1:15pm local time Friday. He became upset when store employees asked him to return the laptop, store sales manager Orvin Smith said.
“He was really irate. A whole lot of energy,” said Smith. “We basically tried to get him to let go of a laptop. In doing that, he finally let go of the laptop, ran out the front door, knocked one of my employees down and pulled out a knife so he could make sure he could get out the front door.”
The victim, identified as Cpl. Phillip Duggan, 24, was collecting toys for the Toys for Tots charity at the store with three other Marines. Smith said the Marines clotheslined the suspected shoplifter, at which point he began waving the knife around and stabbed Duggan in the back.
NY Post
Black Friday - Mother left her children in an unlocked running car for half an hour.
A Connecticut woman is facing charges for allegedly leaving her children in the car while she went Black Friday bargain hunting.
Police say at about 1:45 a.m. Friday a shopper at the East Windsor Walmart told officers at the store that two children had been left in a parked car.
Police tell The Hartford Courant they found the 2-year-old girl and 7-year-old boy sleeping in the back seat of a running, unlocked car."
FOX
Police say at about 1:45 a.m. Friday a shopper at the East Windsor Walmart told officers at the store that two children had been left in a parked car.
Police tell The Hartford Courant they found the 2-year-old girl and 7-year-old boy sleeping in the back seat of a running, unlocked car."
FOX
Black Friday - Salvation Army bell-ringer has kettle stolen at Wal-Mart
Thieves stole a Salvation Army kettle from a bell ringer outside the Walmart on Tidewater Drive Friday afternoon.
Matthew Pochily, director of public relations for the Salvation Army, said in a news release that one man distracted the bell ringer about 2:30 p.m. while a second man snuck up behind him, unhooked the kettle and fled.
While it was uncertain how much money the thieves took, the Salvation Army set a goal of $650 or more at the location for Black Friday, Pochily said in the release.
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Matthew Pochily, director of public relations for the Salvation Army, said in a news release that one man distracted the bell ringer about 2:30 p.m. while a second man snuck up behind him, unhooked the kettle and fled.
While it was uncertain how much money the thieves took, the Salvation Army set a goal of $650 or more at the location for Black Friday, Pochily said in the release.
WAVY
Black Friday - Man arrested for bringing a gun, knives and 'pepper grenade' to Wal-Mart
A police log said Scott wore a .40-caliber Glock handgun with a 30-round magazine in a holster at his hip, as well as two concealed knives and a "pepper grenade."
He also had prescription pills but no label or paperwork, the police log said.
Scott said he had a proper weapon permit in Arizona and believed it was reciprocal in Florida.
He also didn't understand why he was charged with carrying a concealed weapon when he wore the gun in plain sight, as advised by colleagues.
And he said he had proper documents for the prescription drugs.
Palm Beach Post
He also had prescription pills but no label or paperwork, the police log said.
Scott said he had a proper weapon permit in Arizona and believed it was reciprocal in Florida.
He also didn't understand why he was charged with carrying a concealed weapon when he wore the gun in plain sight, as advised by colleagues.
And he said he had proper documents for the prescription drugs.
Palm Beach Post
Black Friday - Woman dies from self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in a fabric shop.
Jo-Ann Fabrics and Crafts at the Colony Square Mall was shut down on Black Friday after authorities say there was a death in the business.
According to Det. Sgt. Ric Roush with the Zanesville Police Department around 8:15 in the morning Friday a 54-year-old woman died from what appears to be a self-inflicted gun shot wound in the business.
Whiz News
According to Det. Sgt. Ric Roush with the Zanesville Police Department around 8:15 in the morning Friday a 54-year-old woman died from what appears to be a self-inflicted gun shot wound in the business.
Whiz News
Black Friday - Woman cuts in line at Toys 'R' Us, threatenes to shoot people who protested.
A Wisconsin woman who cut in front of a long line of Black Friday shoppers was arrested, police say, after she allegedly threatened to shoot those she moved ahead of.
Lanessa L. Lattimore, 21, attempted to cut in front of a line of "several hundred shoppers" at a Toys R Us store in Madison, Wisconsin, on Thursday, according to a Madison police report.
"She was confronted by numerous shoppers and in turn she made threats to retrieve a gun and shoot the shoppers," the report said.
CNN
Lanessa L. Lattimore, 21, attempted to cut in front of a line of "several hundred shoppers" at a Toys R Us store in Madison, Wisconsin, on Thursday, according to a Madison police report.
"She was confronted by numerous shoppers and in turn she made threats to retrieve a gun and shoot the shoppers," the report said.
CNN
2010-11-21
Pastor gets 50 years for raping an orphan and giving her AIDS
On the fateful day, according to Prosecutor Chief Inspector Edward Etaye, the accused visited the home of the minor’s grandmother and cheated them that he wanted to offer a special prayer to the girl.
He told the grandmother about his prophesy that the granddaughter would one day become insane if special prayers were not offered to ward off the hovering bad spirits that were to attack her.
On hearing this, the grandmother, who trusted the man of God, released the only granddaughter to him for one-week special prayer session at the pastor’s home.
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He told the grandmother about his prophesy that the granddaughter would one day become insane if special prayers were not offered to ward off the hovering bad spirits that were to attack her.
On hearing this, the grandmother, who trusted the man of God, released the only granddaughter to him for one-week special prayer session at the pastor’s home.
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Schizophrenia may be caused by a viral infection
The facts of schizophrenia are so peculiar, in fact, that they have led Torrey and a growing number of other scientists to abandon the traditional explanations of the disease and embrace a startling alternative. Schizophrenia, they say, does not begin as a psychological disease. Schizophrenia begins with an infection.
The idea has sparked skepticism, but after decades of hunting, Torrey and his colleagues think they have finally found the infectious agent. You might call it an insanity virus. If Torrey is right, the culprit that triggers a lifetime of hallucinations—that tore apart the lives of writer Jack Kerouac, mathematician John Nash, and millions of others—is a virus that all of us carry in our bodies. “Some people laugh about the infection hypothesis,” says Urs Meyer, a neuroimmunologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. “But the impact that it has on researchers is much, much, much more than it was five years ago. And my prediction would be that it will gain even more impact in the future.”
Discover
The idea has sparked skepticism, but after decades of hunting, Torrey and his colleagues think they have finally found the infectious agent. You might call it an insanity virus. If Torrey is right, the culprit that triggers a lifetime of hallucinations—that tore apart the lives of writer Jack Kerouac, mathematician John Nash, and millions of others—is a virus that all of us carry in our bodies. “Some people laugh about the infection hypothesis,” says Urs Meyer, a neuroimmunologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. “But the impact that it has on researchers is much, much, much more than it was five years ago. And my prediction would be that it will gain even more impact in the future.”
Discover
Scientists discover unknown lizard species at lunch buffet
It may be an old menu standby to Vietnamese diners, but it's turned into a smorgasbord of discovery for scientists.
Researchers have identified a previously undocumented species of all-female lizard in the Mekong River delta that can reproduce itself by cloning, and the story of how it was discovered is almost as exotic as the animal itself.
Leiolepis ngovantrii is a small lizard found only in southern Vietnam. A Vietnamese reptile scientist who came across tanks full of the remarkably similar looking reptiles at small diners in rural villages in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province became intrigued when he noticed that all of the lizards appeared to be female.
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Dr. Lee Grismer and his son, Jesse Grismer, a doctoral candidate, flew all the way to Hanoi and then faced a grueling two-day motorcycle trip out to a restaurant where the owner promised to set aside a stash of the creatures for study.
But there was a little problem, says Grismer.
"Unfortunately, the owner wound up getting drunk, and grilled them all up for his patrons... so when we got there, there was nothing left."
CNN
Researchers have identified a previously undocumented species of all-female lizard in the Mekong River delta that can reproduce itself by cloning, and the story of how it was discovered is almost as exotic as the animal itself.
Leiolepis ngovantrii is a small lizard found only in southern Vietnam. A Vietnamese reptile scientist who came across tanks full of the remarkably similar looking reptiles at small diners in rural villages in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province became intrigued when he noticed that all of the lizards appeared to be female.
[...]
Dr. Lee Grismer and his son, Jesse Grismer, a doctoral candidate, flew all the way to Hanoi and then faced a grueling two-day motorcycle trip out to a restaurant where the owner promised to set aside a stash of the creatures for study.
But there was a little problem, says Grismer.
"Unfortunately, the owner wound up getting drunk, and grilled them all up for his patrons... so when we got there, there was nothing left."
CNN
Nazis Were Given ‘Safe Haven’ in U.S.
The Justice Department report, describing what it calls “the government’s collaboration with persecutors,” says that O.S.I investigators learned that some of the Nazis “were indeed knowingly granted entry” to the United States, even though government officials were aware of their pasts. “America, which prided itself on being a safe haven for the persecuted, became — in some small measure — a safe haven for persecutors as well,” it said.
The report also documents divisions within the government over the effort and the legal pitfalls in relying on testimony from Holocaust survivors that was decades old. The report also concluded that the number of Nazis who made it into the United States was almost certainly much smaller than 10,000, the figure widely cited by government officials.
The Justice Department has resisted making the report public since 2006. Under the threat of a lawsuit, it turned over a heavily redacted version last month to a private research group, the National Security Archive, but even then many of the most legally and diplomatically sensitive portions were omitted.
New York Times
The report also documents divisions within the government over the effort and the legal pitfalls in relying on testimony from Holocaust survivors that was decades old. The report also concluded that the number of Nazis who made it into the United States was almost certainly much smaller than 10,000, the figure widely cited by government officials.
The Justice Department has resisted making the report public since 2006. Under the threat of a lawsuit, it turned over a heavily redacted version last month to a private research group, the National Security Archive, but even then many of the most legally and diplomatically sensitive portions were omitted.
New York Times
2,000 aborted fetuses found at Bangkok Buddhist temple
On the grounds of a Buddhist temple, dozens of white plastic bags lay in carefully arranged rows. Each sack was knotted at the top and contained the remains of a fetus. Thai authorities found about 2,000 remains in the temple's mortuary, where they had been hidden for a year — apparently to conceal illegal abortions.
A strong stench had drawn police to the temple in Bangkok's old city Tuesday, and authorities searching the mortuary — where bodies awaiting cremation are normally kept — initially found more than 300 fetuses. They returned Friday to find more than five times that number, according to police Lt. Col. Kanathud Musiganont.
Health officials, police and charity workers counted the fetuses, placing each one in a white plastic bag bearing the charity's name in red Thai script and Chinese characters. The group is often involved in the handling of remains, including recovering bodies from accident scenes and organizing burials.
Yahoo News
Mother stabbed her eleven-month-old baby until she died
An 11 month-old baby girl found dead in an Abergavenny flat died from multiple stab wounds, police have said.
Officers were called to the ground floor flat at St David's Road at around 5.30am, where they gave the infant heart massage. But she was later pronounced dead by paramedics.
A 22-year-old local woman, understood to be the child's mother, is being detained under the Mental Health Act and is undergoing medical assessment. She was being named locally as Jade Ruck and the baby as Harley.
Wales Online
Officers were called to the ground floor flat at St David's Road at around 5.30am, where they gave the infant heart massage. But she was later pronounced dead by paramedics.
A 22-year-old local woman, understood to be the child's mother, is being detained under the Mental Health Act and is undergoing medical assessment. She was being named locally as Jade Ruck and the baby as Harley.
Wales Online
Man lets his wife rot to death in her own bed
An Ohio man has pleaded guilty in the death of his sickly wife who was found at her home covered in bed sores and maggots.
WTOL
WTOL
Two women and an eleven-year-old boy stabbed to death, butchered, stuffed in a tree
Two women and an 11-year-old boy were stabbed to death and dismembered before their remains were placed in a hollow tree, a coroner has revealed.
Tina Herrmann, her son Kody Maynard and her friend Stephanie Sprang were attacked with a knife and stabbed multiple times in the back and chest, Knox County Coroner Jennifer Ogle said.
'They were then placed inside large plastic garbage bags and later lowered into the hollow of a large tree,' Ogle added in a statement.
They were attacked on November 10 and there were no signs of sexual assault, she said.
The search began two days later after Herrmann failed to turn up for work and a co-worker who went to check on Herrmann at home found the place spattered with blood.
Three days later, Herrmann's 13-year-old daughter, Sarah Maynard, was found bound and gagged in the basement of a home.
Daily Mail
Tina Herrmann, her son Kody Maynard and her friend Stephanie Sprang were attacked with a knife and stabbed multiple times in the back and chest, Knox County Coroner Jennifer Ogle said.
'They were then placed inside large plastic garbage bags and later lowered into the hollow of a large tree,' Ogle added in a statement.
They were attacked on November 10 and there were no signs of sexual assault, she said.
The search began two days later after Herrmann failed to turn up for work and a co-worker who went to check on Herrmann at home found the place spattered with blood.
Three days later, Herrmann's 13-year-old daughter, Sarah Maynard, was found bound and gagged in the basement of a home.
Daily Mail
Former head of police board illegally monitored by crooked cop(s?)
Secret recordings obtained by CBC News offer proof that Toronto police conducted illegal eavesdropping on a former police board chair.
There have been allegations for years that police began spying on their civilian boss, Susan Eng, beginning in May 1991, days after she was sworn in.
Then police chief Bill McCormack and Julian Fantino — superintendent of detectives at the time and later police chief and OPP commissioner — have repeatedly refused to say whether they requested or were aware of the surveillance.
But now CBC News has obtained the tape recordings of Eng talking to her confidant and friend, Peter Maloney, about everything from police business to the very personal.
At the time, police had gone to a judge claiming Maloney may have ties to drug dealers.
CBC
There have been allegations for years that police began spying on their civilian boss, Susan Eng, beginning in May 1991, days after she was sworn in.
Then police chief Bill McCormack and Julian Fantino — superintendent of detectives at the time and later police chief and OPP commissioner — have repeatedly refused to say whether they requested or were aware of the surveillance.
But now CBC News has obtained the tape recordings of Eng talking to her confidant and friend, Peter Maloney, about everything from police business to the very personal.
At the time, police had gone to a judge claiming Maloney may have ties to drug dealers.
CBC
2010-11-15
Man seeks restraining order against President Obama, former Gators QB Tim Tebow and Jesus.
"I was trespassed from the Kangaroo Gas Station on University for saying T-Bo sucks," Gilliand wrote in his petition for an injunction for protection against Tebow. "I personally hate any type of exercise although I feel Billy Blanks has a wonderful video."
The petitions were rejected the same day they were filed but Gilliand filed a supplemental affidavit, this time naming only Obama and Tebow, asking the court to reconsider his requests.
UPI
The petitions were rejected the same day they were filed but Gilliand filed a supplemental affidavit, this time naming only Obama and Tebow, asking the court to reconsider his requests.
UPI
Australian pedophile priest says his child rape was just God's Spirit acting through him.
''KNOW that I will always love you,'' Father Brian Spillane wrote to a girl he is accused of indecently assaulting the day after the death of her best friend in a car crash.
He denies the assault, which is said to have taken place in his car after he had said a home Mass for the distraught 17-year-old's friends and family in 1981.
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The former priest denied any ulterior motive behind inviting eight- to 12-year-old children to sit on his knee in confession.
''It was my pastoral approach, to break down the barrier between the fearful God and the loving God.''
Sydney Morning Herald
He denies the assault, which is said to have taken place in his car after he had said a home Mass for the distraught 17-year-old's friends and family in 1981.
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The former priest denied any ulterior motive behind inviting eight- to 12-year-old children to sit on his knee in confession.
''It was my pastoral approach, to break down the barrier between the fearful God and the loving God.''
Sydney Morning Herald
GOProud (the gay republican group) has officially joined with the Tea Party.
And in a leaked letter to the GOP, they beg the republicans to block social issues in government.
Original letter via Politico
Original letter via Politico
Woman kills her autistic son by making him drink bleach.
A mother from east London who made her 12-year-old autistic son drink a cup of bleach because she feared social services would take him away has pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
Satpal Kaur Singh, 44, killed her son Ajit just hours after she refused to cooperate with council staff at a meeting over his care.
But she had appeared "calm" and no one else who attended had "any concerns about her immediate behaviour", the Old Bailey heard.
Berwich Advertiser
Satpal Kaur Singh, 44, killed her son Ajit just hours after she refused to cooperate with council staff at a meeting over his care.
But she had appeared "calm" and no one else who attended had "any concerns about her immediate behaviour", the Old Bailey heard.
Berwich Advertiser
Children microwave two puppies.
Child Protective Services is considering whether the parents of two boys, ages 3 and 4, are fit to keep their children after they put two puppies in a microwave earlier this week, burning the animals.
Lebanon police said a neighbour alerted police about the incident. Lt. Brent Wheat said police don't know why the boys decided to cook the animals.
6 News
Lebanon police said a neighbour alerted police about the incident. Lt. Brent Wheat said police don't know why the boys decided to cook the animals.
6 News
2010-11-05
2010-11-04
2010-11-03
Man beats 22 month old girl to death.
Broward Sheriff's Office investigators said Deliard and the child's mother had been arguing all night because Jamisa's biological father was just released from prison and wanted to see the baby.
In one text message sent from Deliard's phone to Shari Morris, the child's mother, the angry boyfriend alleged wrote, "I ain't her daddy."
Moments later, the little girl was dead.
NBC Miami
In one text message sent from Deliard's phone to Shari Morris, the child's mother, the angry boyfriend alleged wrote, "I ain't her daddy."
Moments later, the little girl was dead.
NBC Miami
KKK/Blackface costumes win first prize at Royal Canadian Legion party
The Royal Canadian Legion ordered its Campbellford, Ont., chapter to close while police are investigating a complaint that a person in Ku Klux Klan robes led a man in blackface with a rope around his neck and won first prize at its Halloween party.
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"It's utter stupidity. First of all they should not have permitted them to come into the legion. And I'm outraged that they would give them first prize," Pigeau said. "Could you be more insensitive? I'm absolutely outraged by it.
CBC
Crazy baby killing woman had a really stupid boyfriend. And husband.
Michele Kalina appeared in court Wednesday in the eastern Pennsylvania city of Reading. Authorities say she hid the remains of five babies, at least four born alive, in coolers or encased in concrete in her closet.
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Prosecutors say Kalina hid at least six pregnancies from her husband and longtime boyfriend.
San Francisco Chronicle
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Prosecutors say Kalina hid at least six pregnancies from her husband and longtime boyfriend.
San Francisco Chronicle
"Queer kissing flashmob" planned for Pope's visit to Barcelona
The event's Facebook page urges same sex couples to gather in front of the church and start kissing as soon as the pope emerges at 10 a.m. Organizers expect about 300 people to attend.
"We are hoping for a crowd of people of the same sex who will kiss each other for two minutes in front of the pope," one of the organizers, Marylene Carole, told AFP. "After two minutes, the flashmob will finish and each participant will leave as if nothing happened."
USA Today
"We are hoping for a crowd of people of the same sex who will kiss each other for two minutes in front of the pope," one of the organizers, Marylene Carole, told AFP. "After two minutes, the flashmob will finish and each participant will leave as if nothing happened."
USA Today
Mother slits baby's throat so she'd stop crying.
The baby, Auliyani Yuliani, was sleeping beside her when she woke up and cried.
With the husband out selling food on a handcart, Sunari had no one to help and she breast-fed the baby to calm her.
The baby didn’t stop crying and the mother carried her to the kitchen, took a knife and cut her throat.
After the baby died, Sunari put her on her lap and waited for her husband to arrive.
“I have killed your baby,” the indictment quoted Sunari as telling husband Sugiono.
Jakarta Globe
With the husband out selling food on a handcart, Sunari had no one to help and she breast-fed the baby to calm her.
The baby didn’t stop crying and the mother carried her to the kitchen, took a knife and cut her throat.
After the baby died, Sunari put her on her lap and waited for her husband to arrive.
“I have killed your baby,” the indictment quoted Sunari as telling husband Sugiono.
Jakarta Globe
"I'm sorry I can't be more helpful" - "I'm sorry I couldn't be more useful."
A paramedic who responded to the 7/7 bombing went in against orders, despite the fact that there could have been another bomb. By the time she was there, there was nothing she could have done for the girl. Instead of simply declaring the girl dead (which would have been procedure), she tried further to re-initiate a pulse using what tools where available to her until she knew there wasn't a single chance of saving her. At an inquest hearing today, she repeatedly and emphatically apologized to the family of the girl she tried to save for not being able to do more.
Irish Examiner
Irish Examiner
2010-11-02
Playground monitor fired for telling parents about schoolyard abuse
The abuse was of a seven-year-old, who was tied to a fence and whipped with a skipping rope.
Dinnington Guardian
Dinnington Guardian
Woman kidnaps daughter after custody granted to her former lesbian partner
The court ordered that the non-biological mother of the child was the more fit parent. The kidnapper had 'renounced her homosexuality'.
Washington Post
Washington Post
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