Times Square Shooting: Police Offer Kills Armed Man

There has been a fatal shooting in Times Square, New York City. A plainclothes police officer shot and killed an armed man on Thursday morning.  The officer was reporting to panhandler harassment reports from street vendors when the situation suddenly turned violent, and...

i35: Salvo win i35!

Birmingham Salvo have won Counter-Strike: Source here at i35, their third I-series in a row. After both Reason Gaming and Birmingham Salvo eliminated maps from the map pool they were left playing de_tuscan, followed by de_nuke if a third map was needed. Salvo would start on...

Omhari Sengstacke Arrested Outside Obama's Chicago Home

31-year-old Omhari Sengstacke, a member of a prominent Chicago family, was arrested outside Senator Barack Obama's Chicago home after he went up to security and asked to speak to Obama regarding a job. In his car, police found a .40 caliber pistol, ammunition and a...

YouTube Copycat High School Shootings - the New Social Statement?

MATTI Juhani Saari has one thing in common with Pekka Eric Auvinen, Jokela High School shooter, and the Virginia Tech murderer:  they were all ardent admirers of the Columbine shooters, misfits Klebold and...

Sex Pistols Frontman Johnny Rotten To Star in Ads For Butter

Legendary Sex Pistols lead singer Johnny Rotten, who once sang "there's no future, no future for me" seems to believe he has a future as an advertising pitchman. "Decked out in an English gentleman-style tweed...

Man arrested in D.C. with weapons

"WASHINGTON (CNN) — Capitol Police arrested a man Friday after an officer spotted a rifle in his car when he stopped the officer to ask for directions two blocks from the Capitol building. Christopher Shelton Timmons, 27, has been charged with carrying a deadly weapon,...

N Korean shooter stripped of medals

By Joe Havely in Beijing "I feel the figures are rather encouraging" --Proffessor Arne Ljungqvist, head of IOC medical commission.  " Two-time North Korean shooting medalist Kim Jong Su has been...

Discontinued sports from past Olympics

As the Beijing Olympics draws closer and the competition becomes fierce for the athletes competiting for the gold, let's take a look back at past Olympic events that are no longer competitive sports, but must have...

Wedding guests chase gunman who shot bride, groom

"LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP) -- An apparent stranger shot the bride, groom and two other people at an outdoor wedding in rural Arkansas, then was arrested after being chased by outraged guests, a sheriff's official said Sunday. The wedding was just ending Saturday when the...

Man shoots bride, groom, guests

A lovely, outdoor, May wedding by a river in Arkansas.. a happy event, as most weddings are, then suddenly saddened with gunfire as a mad man, not at all associated with the wedding, opens fire, shooting the bride, groom and two guests.It would appear that the term 'A...

Armed Cops Bust MP3-Player-Wielding Man

"Armed police arrested a man listening to his MP3 player and took a sample of his DNA after after a fellow commuter mistook his music player for a gun."""I got off and started walking home. I saw this cop gesture at me and at first I couldn't hear what he was saying. I turned...

Four paintings sought after €112m Zurich heist

"Three armed men are being sought after paintings by Cézanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet were stolen from a private museum in Zurich. The paintings, which were stolen yesterday, have been valued at €112m. They are: 'Poppies near Vetheuil' by Claude Monet (1879),...

Rapper Lil' Wayne Arrested on Drug Charges

Notoriously pro-narcotic 'high, lit bent' rapper Lil' Wayne was caught with a hefty tour bus stash and arrested in Arizona on drug possession charges."According to a TMZ report, Lil Wayne was arrested last night...

Body parts found at Moscow estate

"Body parts belonging to an estimated 34 people have been unearthed along with a rusty pistol at a 19th-Century Moscow mansion undergoing renovation. Workers found the remains at a city centre site once owned by a tsarist-era noble family, the Sheremetyevs. Forensic experts...

'The General' gets ten years

"THE leader of a gang whose members killed Damilola Taylor was jailed for at least ten years yesterday. Marlon Grandison, the “commander-in-chief” of the feared Peckham Boys, was shopped by his OWN community. The 25-year-old general was caught with a massive arsenal after...

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