Friday, December 25, 2009
From full article at findarticles.com: Remember the officers’ appreciation of Rory Vertigan’s actions the next time you hear some anti-gunner saying, “The cops don’t want private citizens to carry guns.”
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
From full article at GOA: Texas state Rep. Suzanna Gratia-Hupp is recognized worldwide as one of the leading advocates for an individual’s right to carry a concealed firearm. Several years ago, while testifying in opposition to additional gun control legislation, she related the emotional account of how she lost both of her parents to a [...]
Thursday, October 15, 2009
From full article at Seattle PI: Seattle knew Edward McMichael by sight or sound, the bespectacled guy with the wispy beard and floppy Uncle Sam and Dr. Seuss hats. For decades he breathed life into his shiny brass instrument, outside city sports venues. On Oct. 25, police say, McMichael, 53, was near a bus stop [...]
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
From full article at CNN.com: Four teenagers have been charged in connection with the incident early Sunday morning along an isolated dirt road in Mont Vernon, a town of about 2,000. In a news release Tuesday, the New Hampshire Department of Justice identified the victim as 42-year-old Kimberly Cates. The medical examiner determined that she [...]
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
From full article at CNN.com: Yale University graduate student Annie Le, whose body was found in the basement wall of an off-campus medical research building, was strangled, a spokesman for the Connecticut medical examiner’s office said Wednesday. The cause of death was “traumatic asphyxia due to neck compression,” the spokesman said. The office would not [...]
Saturday, September 5, 2009
From full article at Las Vegas Now: Christian, a University of Tennessee student, and Newsom were on a date Jan. 6, 2007, when her sport utility vehicle was carjacked at gunpoint by several people in Knoxville. The attackers blindfolded and bound the couple and took them to a rundown rental house. Police concluded Newsom was [...]
Saturday, September 5, 2009
From full article at NY Times: The men, the authorities say, had already strangled Dr. Petit’s wife, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, 48, and in short order would also kill the couple’s two daughters, Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11. The elder suspect, Steven J. Hayes, 44, had poured gasoline on the girls and their mother, according to a [...]
Saturday, September 5, 2009
From full article at KIRO TV: According to Seattle police, they have arrested a suspect in the stabbing death of 31-year-old Shannon Harps in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood on New Year’s Eve. Shannon Harps, an organizer with the Sierra Club, was killed outside her apartment building on Capitol Hill. Seattle police announced Friday that they [...]
Saturday, September 5, 2009
From full article at WSB TV: Authorities have said they believe Emerson was kidnapped in Union County and killed in Dawson County. Her body was found nearly 50 miles from where she vanished during a New Year’s Day hike near Blood Mountain in Union County. An autopsy report says Emerson was beaten to death and [...]
Friday, September 4, 2009
From full article at Seattle PI: A mother and daughter slain this week while hiking a popular trail in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest were shot, a Snohomish County Sheriff’s spokesman said Thursday. Deputy Rich Niebusch provided few other details about the killings of Mary Cooper, 56, a librarian at Decatur AEII Elementary School, and [...]
Friday, September 4, 2009
From full article at CNN: A Florida jury has recommended the death penalty for a plumber who kidnapped, raped and murdered a police detective’s daughter. Michael King, 38, showed no reaction Friday afternoon as the jury’s 12-0 decision was announced in Sarasota. Jurors deliberated for nearly three hours. King was convicted a week ago of [...]
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