Aug 24, 2012
A laid-off designer fatally shot a former co-worker in the head outside the Empire State Building and injured nine more people before he was killed by police.
The suspect, preliminarily identified as Jeffrey Johnson, 53, was a "disgruntled former employee" of a company located outside the Empire State Building, New York Police Commissioner…
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Aug 24, 2012

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police say at least four people have been shot outside the Empire State Building and that the gunman is dead. A witness says the shooter was firing…
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August 23, 2012
From: Steve Quayle
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 6:45 AM
To: John Rolls
Subject: Fwd: ANOTHER VETERAN RAIDED AND HIS FIREARMS CONFISCATED–MUST…
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Aug 23, 2012
(Reuters) - Iran has installed many more uranium enrichment machines in an underground bunker, diplomatic sources said on Thursday, potentially paving the way for a…
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August 24, 2012
AMMAN - Troops and tanks swept into a restive town near Damascus on Thursday in an assault aimed at crushing opposition to President Bashar al-Assad, whose struggle for survival has dragged Syria into an increasingly bloody war.
Artillery and helicopters attacked the Sunni Muslim town of Daraya for 24 hours,…
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August 24, 2012
Are computer hackers, political activists and an underground army of anarchists preparing to overthrow next week’s Republican National Convention in Tampa? Police in Florida seem to think so, and are taking every precaution to prepare for violence.
Acting on the assumption that hacktivists with the loose-knit, international Anonymous…
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Aug. 24, 2012 Update
Declaring "enough is enough," Lance Armstrong says he will not fight charges brought by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, a stunning decision that will…
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23 Aug 2012
The gold standard has returned to mainstream U.S. politics for the first time in 30 years, with a “gold commission” set to become part of official Republican party policy. …
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Added by Larry Kyle on August 23, 2012 at 10:30pm —
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Thursday, August 23
A curious 100-year-old package will be opened at noon tomorrow in Norway, and it's got folks on reddit in guessing-game mode. The nearly 7-pound, 16-inch-long package was bestowed on the town of Sel in 1912 by then mayor Johan Nygaard with strict instructions to open it in…
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August 21, 2012
San Diego police are under close scrutiny after accidentally shooting a homeowner who called 911 after allegedly seeing a man in a ski maskprowling the neighborhood.
While searching for the man, police entered the backyard of the woman’s home, San…
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August 23, 201
On the basis that there was zero reason to detain a retired Marine and commit him to a medical facility for psychiatric evaluation, a Virginia judge has demanded that Brandon Raub be released from custody immediately.
Raub, 26, had his home visited one week …
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August 23, 2012
HOPEWELL, Va. (WTVR) – A Hopewell circuit court judge has ordered that a Marine veteran detained over anti-government Facebook posts be released from a psychiatric hospital.
CBS 6 News’ Catie Beck said the Judge Allan Sharrett dismissed the case Thursday against Brandon Raub. The judge said the original petition for Raub’s detention contained…
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August 21, 2012
JOANNE Dunn will today make the most heartbreaking decision a mother can face.
She will meet with doctors to ask them to stop feeding her son, Mark Leigep, to let him die.
Mr Leigep, 37, has been in a vegetative state…
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August 21, 2012
That Biden visit to Tampa got my wheels spinning. What the hell are they up to? How far is Biden willing to go to remain relevant? To stay on the ticket? So I put some feelers out to the WH. Got lots of people willing to talk and share these days.…
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August 23, 2012
MANKATO, Minn. – The head football coach at Minnesota State, Mankato, was charged Wednesday with two counts related to child pornography after authorities said they found nude images of children on his cellphone.
Todd Hoffner, 46, of Eagle Lake, was charged with one count of…
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Aug 23, 2012
Planes, helicopters and even ballistic missiles - name a flying target, and the S-400 Triumph missile system can probably locate it and hunt it down. The system recently demonstrated all its glory during a tactical exercise at Russia's Alushuk base.
One of the strongest features of S-400 air defense system is its mobility. A full-scale air defense…
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August 23, 2012
Only days after an autopsy report concluded that Chavis Carter was killed by a gunshot blast to his head while handcuffed in a police car, the lab that conducted the analysis admits that they did not do all the tests they were ordered to complete.
New questions are now being asked in the case of Carter, the 21-year-old Arkansas man…
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August 22, 2012
Washington (CNN) -- Law enforcement officials are concerned about possible violence by anarchist extremists at the upcoming Republican and Democratic national conventions, according to an intelligence bulletin prepared by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security.
The bulletin,…
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August 22, 2012
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is planning to travel to Tehran next week, in his first overseas visit since taking over after his father's death in December, South Korea’s Yonhap and Arirang news services reported on Wednesday.
Iran’s spokesman for the Non-Aligned Movement Summit confirmed that Kim would attend a meeting…
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Wed Aug 22, 2012
US General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
The culprits, “militants,” managed to escape undetected from the most sophisticatedly defended real estate on earth, the perimeter of Bagam Air Force Base. Lucky for them they attacked at night, a time when…
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