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Srebrenica, Bosnia Herzegovina (CNN)Outrage erupted at Saturday's commemoration of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia, as a shouting crowd threw bottles and rocks at Serbia's Prime Minister, forcing him to flee.
It was a heated moment in an otherwise solemn event where world dignitaries and thousands of others gathered in Bosnia-Herzegovina to remember the largest single atrocity in Europe since World War II -- the slaughter of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys by a Bosnian Serb army 20 years ago.
Visiting Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic tried to join other politicians paying respects at the Srebrenica graveyard, where more than 100 newly found remains were to be buried with 6,000 other massacre victims.
As he walked to the site, people hissed and yelled, unprepared to accept an official from a country that once directed the Bosnian Serbs militants.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/11/europe/bosnia-srebrenica-massacre-commemoration/

Ukraine became gripped by unrest when President Viktor Yanukovych refused to sign an association agreement with the European Union on 21 November 2013. An organized political movement known as 'Euromaidan' demanded closer ties with the European Union, and the ousting of Yanukovych. This movement was ultimately successful, culminating in the February 2014 revolution, which removed Yanukovych and his government.[56] However, some people in largely Russophone eastern and southern Ukraine, the traditional bases of support for Yanukovych and his Party of the Regions, did not approve of the revolution, and began to protest in favour of closer ties with Russia. Various demonstrations were held in Crimea in favour of leaving Ukraine and accession to the Russian Federation, leading to the 2014 Crimean crisis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_pro-Russian_unrest_in_Ukraine

Stolen lives, that is how families refer to the death of their loved ones at the hands of criminals who were present in the country illegally when these men and women’s lives were stopped short. The Stolen Lives Quilt organization gathers these families and friends and on the National Remembrance Day to speak out not only for remembrance, but also to speak against lack of government enforcement in immigration policies.
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2014/11/07/killed-by-illegal-aliens-victim-families-gather-in-day-of-remembrance/

3.9 million Syrians have fled as refugees to neighboring countries, creating humanitarian and economic hardship across Syria's borders. Turkey has taken in 1.7 million, Lebanon 1.2 million, Jordan 625,000, and Iraq 245,000.

The Arab Spring (Arabic: الربيع العربي‎, ar-rabīˁ al-ˁarabī) was a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests (both non-violent and violent), riots, and civil wars in the Arab world that began on 18 December 2010 in Tunisia with the Tunisian Revolution, and spread throughout the countries of the Arab League and its surroundings. While the wave of initial revolutions and protests faded by mid-2012, some started to refer to the succeeding and still ongoing large-scale discourse conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa as the Arab Winter. The most radical discourse from Arab Spring into the still ongoing civil wars took place in Syria as early as the second half of 2011.
By the end of February 2012, rulers had been forced from power in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen; civil uprisings had erupted in Bahrain and Syria; major protests had broken out in Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, and Sudan; and minor protests had occurred in Mauritania, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Western Sahara, and Palestine. Weapons and Tuareg fighters returning from the Libyan Civil War stoked a simmering conflict in Mali which has been described as "fallout" from the Arab Spring in North Africa.
The protests shared some techniques of civil resistance in sustained campaigns involving strikes, demonstrations, marches, and rallies, as well as the effective use of social media to organize, communicate, and raise awareness in the face of state attempts at repression and Internet censorship, most notably used by the youth members of the Arab population.
Many Arab Spring demonstrations were met with violent responses from authorities, as well as from pro-government militias and counter-demonstrators. These attacks were answered with violence from protestors in some cases. A major slogan of the demonstrators in the Arab world is Ash-sha`b yurid isqat an-nizam "the people want to bring down the regime".
Some observers have drawn comparisons between the Arab Spring movements and the Revolutions of 1989: "Autumn of Nations"

Civilians killed: 16,725–19,013 (2001–2013)

As many as 30 Americans took part in the operation, which aimed to free 17 Kurdish fighters known as Peshmerga at a prison facility held by Islamic State near the town of Hawija, U.S. officials said.

When they reached the prison, they found many more prisoners than they had expected. But they didn't find the Peshmerga fighters they originally intended to rescue, raising questions of the quality of the intelligence that led the force there in the first place.

Of the 70 people rescued, American officials said 20 were members of Iraqi security forces including Sunni Arabs, as well as a number of other unidentified civilians.

The U.S. backed the Kurdish force by providing assistance including helicopters, intelligence, advice, and logistics. The American commandos used at least five helicopters in the raid, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.

The prison, almost 150 miles north of Baghdad, was located in the former home of an Iraqi judge that had been seized by Islamic State, said Najmaldin Karim, the governor of Kirkuk province where the town of Hawija is located. The building also served as headquarters for the extremist group, he said.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/american-killed-in-raid-to-rescue-kurdish-fighters-in-iraq-1445523452

N'DJAMENA Five suicide bombers killed 33 people in Chad and wounded 51 more in a coordinated attack, a local government official said.
Witnesses reported multiple blasts that appeared to target the market in Baga Sola, directly across Lake Chad from Nigeria, and a camp housing refugees who have fled from terrorists.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/10/us-nigeria-violence-chad-idUSKCN0S40OJ20151010

Two powerful bombs exploded near the main train station in Ankara on Saturday morning, targeting a peace rally and causing carnage, killing at least 86 people and injuring 186 others in the deadliest attack in the Turkish capital in recent memory.
The explosion, which caused chaos and bloodshed, took place during a peace march involving, among others, the pro-Kurdish HDP, or People's Democratic Party.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/10/middleeast/turkey-ankara-bomb-blast/

Three people, including an officer, were shot in Sunset, Louisiana, this afternoon, according to Louisiana state police.

According to the Associated Press, the shooting happened around 4:45 p.m. in the town, about 145 miles northeast of New Orleans.

Officials described the officer as "responsive," but did not have further details about his condition, the AP said.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/shot-louisiana-including-police-officer/story?id=33343868

Two members of a local TV station's news team were fatally shot Wednesday during a live TV broadcast near Roanoke, Va., setting off a manhunt that apparently has ended in the suspect's death, WDBJ7-TV said.
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe told WTOP radio the suspect was a "disgruntled" WDBJ employee and that authorities expect to have him in custody soon. WDBJ later reported that the suspect killed himself.
The station said the shooting took place at about 6:45 a.m., at Smith Mountain Lake, a resort about 35 miles from Roanoke. Killed were WDBJ7 cameraman Adam Ward, 27, and reporter Parker, 24. A woman being interviewed on live TV was wounded.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/08/26/reports-two-dead-virginia-shooting-live-tv/32391633/

Last Updated Aug 24, 2015 6:33 AM EDT

PARIS -- French President Francois Hollande presented three young Americans with the prestigious Legion of Honor on Monday for their quick reaction to an attack on a train that likely saved many lives.

The three Americans -- two service men and a civilian -- plus a Briton and a Frenchman helped overpower a lone gunman on an Amsterdam to Paris high-speed train Friday.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/american-heroes-legion-of-honor-paris-french-president-hollande-train-attack/

The 44-year-old veteran trooper was shot Sunday after he stopped to help Daigle, whose pickup was stuck in a ditch, according to Col. Michael Edmonson, the police force's superintendent. Vincent died of his injuries Monday.

"As an organization, we are heartbroken over this senseless and tragic death," Edmonson said. "Our thoughts and prayers are with his surviving wife, Katherine, and his son (9-year-old) Ethan as well as his entire extended family," including two brothers who are also in law enforcement: Terrell Vincent, who's also a trooper, and Keith Vincent, who's chief of police in Iowa, Louisiana.

According to police, the suspect allegedly told Vincent, "You're going to die soon," before opening fire. Edmonson said the gunshot "messed up (Vincent's) neurological output," leaving the trooper in critical condition.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/24/us/louisiana-trooper-shot/

France train shooting: Three hurt and man arrested
The incident happened on the high-speed Thalys service near Arras, and the assailant was arrested at its station.
Two of the victims, said to be an American and a Briton, were seriously injured - one had a gunshot wound, the other a knife wound, reports said.
The reports said the man arrested was of North African origin.
One of his weapons was said to be a Kalashnikov.
Le Monde said the man also had an automatic pistol and had so far refused to talk to police.
The two passengers who restrained the man were believed to be American.
French actor Jean-Hugues Anglade was also lightly wounded when breaking glass to sound the alarm.
Images shared on social media appeared to show a man being restrained on the station platform in Arras.
"The situation is under control, the travellers are safe. The train stopped and the emergency services are on site," the Thalys official Twitter account tweeted.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve was heading to Arras in the wake of the attack, his ministry said.
Interior ministry spokesman Pierre Henry Brandet added: "Talking about a terrorist motive would be premature at the moment."
However, anti-terrorist officers have taken over the investigation.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34023361

A bomb attack took place on 17 August 2015 outside the Erawan Shrine at the Ratchaprasong intersection in Pathum Wan District, Bangkok, Thailand. Twenty-five people were killed and 123 were injured. Police are hunting a suspect, the man could be of "mixed origin", who left a backpack at the scene shortly before the explosion. Thailand's chief of police said the attack was carried out by a network and issued a sketch of the suspect. Police are also saying that two other people seen on images captured by closed-circuit television were being treated as suspects.

In February 2014, two bombs exploded on the Ratchaprasong Skywalk outside the nearby Siam Paragon shopping mall, injuring two people. The attack was believed to have been politically motivated. In April 2015, a car bomb exploded in Ko Samui injuring seven.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Bangkok_bombing

Seoul (AFP) - South Korea on Monday accused North Korea of planting landmines that maimed two soldiers on border patrol, sending military tensions on the Korean peninsula soaring as it threatened to make Pyongyang pay a "harsh price".
The Defence Ministry said it believed three landmines exploded in the incident last Tuesday, hitting a patrol in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) -- a buffer zone stretching two kilometres on either side of the actual frontier line dividing the two Koreas.

"We are certain they were North Korean landmines planted with an intention to kill by our enemies who sneaked across the military border," ministry spokesman Kim Min-Seok told reporters.

One soldier underwent a double leg amputation, while the other had one leg removed.

In a statement, the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff said its military would make North Korea "pay a harsh price proportionate for the provocation it made."

- 'Wanton violation' -

Describing the attack as a "baseless act" and "wanton violation" of non-aggression accords, the statement urged the North to apologise for the attack and punish those responsible.

The Defence Ministry declined to comment on what was meant by the term "harsh price" or to speculate on the options being considered for a response.

http://news.yahoo.com/korea-blames-north-mine-blast-threatens-harsh-response-014418416.html

Kunduz (Afghanistan) (AFP) - A Taliban attack killed up to 29 people in northern Afghanistan, officials said Sunday, after a wave of lethal bombings in the capital as the insurgency escalates following a bitter power transition.
The Afghan interior ministry said all those killed Saturday evening in the Khanabad district of Kunduz province were civilians, although local officials called them anti-Taliban militiamen.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which comes after a barrage of bombings in Kabul killed at least 51 people on Friday, the deadliest day for the capital in years.
"The incident took place (when) a suicide bomber detonated his suicide vest in Khanabad district," the interior ministry said, strongly condemning the "heinous act".
"The suicide attack... resulted in martyrdom of 21 civilians and wounding of 10 others."
But Abdul Wadood Wahidi, spokesman for the governor of Kunduz, said 22 militiamen -- including four of their commanders -- were killed by an improvised explosive device.
Another senior provincial official and a Khanabad district official said a total of 29 militiamen were killed.
Kunduz is a volatile province where the Taliban have launched a major offensive and recently came close to overrunning Kunduz city, in the most alarming threat to any provincial capital since the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan.
The insurgency has been rapidly spreading across the north from its traditional southern and eastern strongholds, with Afghan forces increasingly battling the militants on their own.
US-led NATO forces ended their combat mission in Afghanistan in December last year, although a 13,000-strong residual force remains for training and counter-terrorism operations.
- Faltering peace talks -
The bombings on Friday in Kabul struck near an army complex, a police academy and a US special forces base, killing at least 51 people, officials said.
http://news.yahoo.com/afghan-bomb-kills-least-21-officials-083156234.html

A man with a history of domestic violence climbed through an open window of his former Houston, Texas, home and shot an entire family of eight people including six children in the head, authorities said.

Each of the victims was handcuffed before they died, Harris County Assistant District Attorney Celeste Byrom revealed at a Sunday court hearing for homicide suspect David Ray Conley.

"We do not — cannot — fully comprehend the motivation of an individual that would take the lives of so many innocent people. Especially the lives of the youngest," Harris County Chief Deputy Tim Cannon said Sunday.

The slain adults were identified as Valerie Jackson, 40, and her husband, Dwayne Jackson, 50. The children are Nathaniel Conley, 13, Honesty Jackson, 11, Dwayne Jackson Jr., 10, Caleb Jackson, 9, Trinity Jackson, 7, and the youngest being Jonah Jackson, 6.

Court records reveal a tumultuous past between Conley and Jackson that eventually ended with Jackson changing the locks on the family’s Houston home when Conley moved out.
Authorities believe Conley targeted the children’s mother over their snuffed relationship.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/children-adults-shot-dead-texas-home-report-article-1.2319619

A suburban Dallas police officer shot and killed an unarmed 19-year-old college football player during a struggle after the teen crashed a car through the front window of a car dealership, authorities said on Friday.

The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the man as Christian Taylor, of Arlington. Taylor was a sophomore at San Angelo State University.

Officers responded to a burglary call about 1 a.m. Friday in Arlington when they discovered someone had driven a vehicle through a front window of the Classic Buick GMC, according to a statement from the Arlington Police Department. The statement said police approached the suspect and a struggle ensued. At some point during the struggle, an officer shot Taylor.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/08/08/1-year-old-college-football-player-killed-in-texas-police-shooting/

DENVER (AP) — The mustard-colored muck that spilled into a river from a shuttered Colorado gold mine contains heavy metals including lead and arsenic, but it's too early to know whether they pose a health risk, federal environmental officials said Friday.
The spill also contained cadmium, aluminum, copper and calcium, the EPA said. The concentrations were not yet known.
At least two of the heavy metals can be lethal for humans in long-term exposure. Arsenic at high levels can cause blindness, paralysis and cancer. Lead poisoning can create muscle and vision problems for adults, harm development in fetuses and lead to kidney disease, developmental problems and sometimes death in children, the agency said.
An EPA-supervised cleanup crew accidentally unleashed 1 million gallons of the wastewater from the mine on Wednesday, and it flowed into the Animas river through a tributary. The EPA warned people to stay out of the river, which is popular with boaters and anglers, and to keep domestic animals from drinking from it.

No drinking-water contamination was reported. At least seven water utilities shut down their intake valves ahead of the plume to keep it out of their systems.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/a-mustard-colored-muck-poured-out-of-a-shuttered-gold-mine-in-colorado-2015-8#ixzz3jHgmMOYs

The death of a U.S. teen living in Paraguay that was originally ruled a suicide is now being investigated as a murder after an autopsy confirmed that the boy did not take his own life.

Alex Villamayor, the 16-year-old son of a former Paraguayan congressman, Luis Villamayor, was found dead on the terrace of a farm where he was staying with friends over the weekend. The teen had been shot once in the head. His body was discovered on June 27 on the luscious farm, located in the southern province of Encarnacion.
The teenager spent his life ushering between the South American nation and the U.S., where he had relatives.
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2015/08/05/death-us-teen-in-paraguay-first-ruled-suicide-now-being-investigated-as-murder/

A factory explosion killed 75 people Saturday in China, according to state-run news agency Xinhua.

The blast occurred at 7:37 a.m. Saturday (7.37 p.m. Friday, Eastern time) in the city of Kunshan in the eastern province of Jiangsu. Along with the dead, the explosion also injured 180 people, Xinhua said, citing officials.

Officials have called the explosion a "work safety accident," the state media organization reported. Flames may have ignited "metal dust" in the Kunshan Zhongrong Metal factory, a wheel-hub-polishing facility, according to initial investigations. The factory is a supplier of U.S. car maker General Motors, according to state TV news.

Those injured in the explosion were transferred to hospitals in the nearby cities of Shanghai, Suzhou, Wuxi and Nantong. Most of the victims were suffering from burns, Xinhua reported local health authorities as saying.

Chinese President Xi Jinping called for "all-out efforts" to treat the survivors. Residents in the city of Nantong have been lining up to donate blood to aid the victims' recovery.

Xi also said that he would order a full investigation into the tragedy and ensure that those responsible for the accident were held fully accountable. He has assigned state councilor Wang Yong to lead the investigation, Xinhua reported.

Two senior executives at the Taiwan-invested company have been placed in police custody.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/02/world/asia/china-factory-explosion/

Bobbi Kristina Brown (March 4, 1993 – July 26, 2015) was an American reality television and media personality, singer, and heiress. She was the daughter of singers Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston, and her parents' fame kept Bobbi Kristina in the public eye, including her appearances on the reality show Being Bobby Brown. Brown was 14 when her parents divorced and Houston gained custody. When Houston died in February 2012, Brown was named as the sole beneficiary of her mother's estate.
That October, Brown caused controversy within both of her parents' families when she announced her engagement to Nick Gordon, a man she previously considered her "big brother". When the couple announced they were married, Bobby Brown's lawyer released a statement disputing the report.
Bobbi Kristina Brown was found unresponsive in a bathtub on January 31, 2015; she was kept in a medically induced coma prior to being moved into hospice care. She died on July 26, 2015, at age 22.

(CNN)Perry Cohen and Austin Stephanos have been boating for so long that they're just as comfortable at sea as they are on land.

That's the hope their families and friends say they're holding onto as Coast Guard crews search for the 14-year-olds, who went missing on a fishing trip off the Florida coast Friday.

"We just keep on praying, man," said Joe Namath, a renowned former NFL quarterback and neighbor of the teens. He told reporters Sunday that he was helping with the search, according to CNN affiliate WPTV. "It's hard, it's so hard, but we've got to believe in their wherewithal."
After nearly two days of searching, the Coast Guard said Sunday that teams had spotted the 19-foot boat in which the teens had been traveling. The capsized vessel was discovered 67 nautical miles off Florida's Ponce de Leon Inlet, the Coast Guard said.

The missing boys haven't been found. But officials say the search is far from over.

Coast Guard crews will search through the night, Petty Officer 1st Class Stephen Lehmann told reporters.

"This is still considered an active search and rescue case, and we maintain our perpetual optimism that we're going to find somebody," he said.

The capsized boat has given search teams a new launching point to refocus their efforts, he said. Using models of speed and currents, Lehmann said the search area is now about 33,500 square miles, roughly the size of Maine.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/26/us/florida-missing-teens-boat/

Police in Oklahoma answered a 911 call and found a bloodbath inside a home.
Killed were two adults and three children. A girl was critically injured. Two suspects --16- and 18-year-old brothers, both related to the victims -- ran out the door as police arrived, officials said. They were soon tracked down with the help of a police dog.
It was not immediately clear what charges the teens may face or what spurred the gruesome crime.
The episode has shaken citizens in Broken Arrow, a Tulsa suburb of about 100,000 people that typically has one or two homicides a year, not five in one day.
"Unfortunately, it is a family that was destroyed over a crime, and we have to remember those victims as well as those officers and initial responders."
Authorities got their first hint of trouble about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Yet that didn't mean they knew what to expect. The 911 call came from an open line, Cooper explained to CNN, meaning it went through but there was no conversation with the dispatcher.
Two officers arrived, knocked but no answer, and so forced their way in.
The officers saw a wounded 13-year-old girl and pulled her out to safety. Then they took out two more victims.
The officers risked their lives in the process, said Calhoun, not knowing where the killers were.
Two adults and three juveniles were dead, while two more people -- the 13-year-old girl and a 2-year-old girl, who was unharmed -- were alive.
Several blade-type weapons were found in the house, including a small hatchet, Calhoun said, "which would tell you that the scene was pretty gory."

Police identified two of the victims on Thursday: David Bever, 52, and April Bever, 44. The other victims were a 5-year-old female, a 7-year-old male and a 12-year-old male, Calhoun said. "It appears that the two suspects fled out the door sometime during arrival of law enforcement."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/23/us/oklahoma-violence/

The man who opened fire in a Louisiana movie theater Thursday night, killing two patrons before turning the gun on himself when police blocked his escape, was a “drifter” from Alabama who had a collection of disguises in his motel room and a trick license plate on his 20-year-old Lincoln Continental, police said Friday.

Lafayette Police identified John Russel Houser, 59 as the gunman who fired into a crowd of 100 people at the Grand 16 Theater during a screening of Amy Schumer’s “Trainwreck.” The gunfire killed Jillian Johnson, 33, a well-known local businesswoman and Mayci Breaux, 21, an employee at a fashionable woman’s boutique. Nine others were injured in the shooting, including reportedly Breaux's boyfriend.
“He’s kind of a drifter,”
Details about the gunman quickly emerged from the press conference and online postings believed to be Houser's, painting a picture of a troubled and erratic man who had described his occupation as “hustling.”

Craft said Houser was from Phenix, Alabama, but had been staying at a motel in Lafayette.
Police recovered disguises, including wigs and glasses, during a search of the room. His 1995 Lincoln Continental "with switched license tags" was parked next to the movie theater exit, Craft said.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/07/24/gunman-reportedly-opens-fire-at-la-movie-theater/

Country singer Daron Norwood was found dead in his apartment on Wednesday afternoon (July 22). He was 49.
Norwood lived in Hereford, Texas, and, according to the Associated Press, was last seen on Tuesday night (July 21) with friends. The next day, his landlord stopped by to check on him and, after letting himself into Norwood’s apartment, found the artist’s body in a bedroom.
Hereford police spokesperson Capt. Kirsten Williams says that Norwood’s body showed no signs of trauma, and foul play is not suspected in his death. His official cause of death, however, is pending.
Norwood released his eponymous debut album in 1994, and his sophomore record, Ready, Willing and Able, dropped in 1995, both via Giant Records. His hit songs included “If It Wasn’t for Her I Wouldn’t Have You” and “Cowboys Don’t Cry,” both of which landed in the Top 30 on the country charts.
However, Norwood left the country music business in 1995 due to his battle with severe alcoholism.
“I loved Jack Daniels, and Jack Daniels hated me,” said Norwood of his alcoholic tendencies after allegedly sobering up in 1998. “I was so far down that I should have died. I was averaging 20 to 25 shots of Jack Daniels a night. I was at the bottom.”
Still, his troubles continued: In 2008, Norwood was arrested for allegedly battering his wife, and, in 2009, he showed signs of a mental condition after scaring students during an assembly at Panhandle High School in Texas. At the assembly, Norwood was supposed to speak on the dangers of drugs and alcohol but instead, according to reports, spent nearly two hours shouting at students and faculty, running around the gym, using inappropriate language and more.
“The situation in Panhandle is very damaging to my soul,” Norwood said. “It cost me. It cost me with God, because I made him a promise I’d do my best for him.”
Norwood last released an album, I Still Believe, in 2012.
The Boot extends our condolences to Norwood’s loved ones during this difficult time.

http://theboot.com/daron-norwood-dead-dies/

The shooting on Thursday was the latest in series of assaults which began with a suicide bombing in Suruc on Monday. Thirty-two people died and more than 100 were wounded in the attack. Authorities identified a 20-year-old Turk who had links to "Islamic State" (IS) as a suspect in the bombing, after his identity card was reportedly found at the site.
Two days later, the militant wing of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) claimed responsibility for the deaths of two policemen in Ceylanpinar, close to the Syrian border.
The People's Defence Forces (HPG) said shortly after that the policemen's murders were a "punishment action" against the two officers, who they claim helped the "Islamic State" (IS) terrorist group in carrying out Monday's suicide attack.
Both police, Feyyaz Ozsahra and Okan Acarwere, were members of Turkey's anti-terrorism and riot police.
In light of Monday's bombing, Turkey has stepped up security on the Syrian border, something the US and other NATO allies have long urged Ankara to do.
The sudden increase in violence this week has put the country's government under greater scrutiny than ever. Critics claim that Turkey underestimated that the struggle between Syria's version of the PKK, the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), and IS could spill over into Turkey.
Turkish terrorism experts are warning of further attacks within the country as the fear of IS cells grows.
http://www.dw.com/en/policeman-killed-amid-growing-violence-in-turkey/a-18604053

A Turkish policeman has been shot dead and another wounded in the Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakir, just one day after the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) claimed the murder of two officers in revenge for the Suruc suicide bombing.
The two were patrolling the Sehitilik district when they were notified about a car accident. When they arrived at the scene, they were ambushed by the gunmen.
The latest attack is likely to intensify fears that the decades-long conflict between the Turkish state and the Kurdish separatist party may be about to erupt again, after months of significant progress on a peace process.
The suicide bombing in the south-eastern town of Suruc killed 32 young aid workers and socialists who were preparing a summer aid mission for the war-torn Syrian town of Kobane, just over the border.
The alleged bomber had been identified as a 20-year-old Turkish student called Seyh Abdurrahman Alagoz, from Adiyaman, in south-eastern Turkey.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said "Daesh", the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State (Isis), was responsible for the attack and the young assailant had links with the jihadist group.
But the PKK, which is blacklisted by Turkey and the EU, accused the Turkish moderate Islamist AK Party government of tolerating or even supporting IS.
"A punitive action was carried out... in revenge for the massacre in Suruc," the People's Defence Forces (HPG), the PKK's armed wing, said in a statement on its website, accusing the two policemen in Ceylanpinar of cooperating with IS.
The attackers were described as "Apoist team of self-sacrifice", using the nickname for the jailed leader of the PKK, Abdullah "Apo" Ocalan.
Turkey has been accused of failing to control its 911km (566mi) border with Syria.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/turkey-pkk-kill-third-policeman-suruc-suicide-bombing-revenge-ambush-diyarbakir-1512253

As the death toll in Thursday's massacre of Marine and Navy personnel by a radical Islamist in Chattanooga, Tenn., climbed to five Saturday, it was revealed that the jihadist once secured a job at a U.S. nuclear plant but was let go when he reportedly failed a drug test.

The Navy announced Saturday that Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Randall Smith, 24, had died from his injuries. Smith was one of three people injured when Kuwaiti-born Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez opened fire at two military recruitment centers, also killing four Marines. Abdulazeez was later shot and killed by police.

Smith was shot three times at the Navy Operational Support Center (NOSC) by Abdulazeez. He was struck in the right arm, back and stomach, family members told the Salina Journal, according to the Chattanoogan.

He underwent several surgeries and died around 2:17 a.m. Saturday. Smith grew up in Paulding, Ohio and leaves behind a wife and three young daughters.

Henry’s body was found at around 10:00 a.m. on the morning of July 14, about 30 minutes after he was last seen alive. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is allegedly investigating the case, but, knowing the history of Neshoba County, Henry’s supporters (justifiably) aren’t satisfied with just that.
Henry’s body was flown to Florida for an independent autopsy paid for by anonymous donors. His friends, long-time civil rights activists John Steele and Diane Nash, co-founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), are helping Henry’s family with their independent probe.
Henry, a member of the Choctaw tribe and a lifelong community activist, coached stickball and had been a candidate for the Choctaw Tribal Council from Bogue Chitto the week before his arrest on July 9 for failure to pay a fine.
“At a time when the nation is focused on the terrible circumstances of the brutal death of Sandra Bland, it is critical to expose the many ways in which Black Americans, Native Americans and other minorities are being arrested for minor charges and end up dead in jail cells,” McDonald said in a statement.
Though it often flies under the radar, Native-Americans are killed by police at a higher rate than any other demographic in this country.
Indianz reports:
According to the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, Native Americans ages 25-35, 35-44 and 20-24 represent four of the top five groups most likely to be killed in law enforcement incidents. They accounted for 1.9 percent of victims in police killings even though they represent less than 1 percent of the entire population.”The racial group most likely to be killed by law enforcement is Native Americans, followed by African Americans, Latinos, Whites, and Asian Americans,” the August 2014 report stated.
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Sandra Bland's death ruled suicide by hanging. The charge she faced was assault on a public servant. Yet this only happened after she was pulled over for allegedly failing to use her turn signal on July 10.

What started as a seemingly normal conversation got testy after Texas state Trooper Brian Encinia asked Bland to put out her cigarette.

Sandra Bland left friend voicemail from jail
She asks why, at which point the officer tells Bland to get out of the car. She refuses, and dashcam video shows the officer reaching in, threatening Bland with a Taser: "I will light you up!"

In his arrest warrant affidavit, Encinia wrote that Bland became "combative and uncooperative" and that she was placed in handcuffs "for officer safety."
Bland's family doesn't think the traffic stop over a turn signal should have escalated to an arrest.

"I simply feel like the officer was picking on her, and I believe that is petty," her sister Sharon Cooper told CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront."

LaVaughn Mosley, who says Bland left him a voicemail after her arrest indicating she was "at a loss for words" but not hinting about suicide, said it is all a shame -- especially her death.

"Here is a young black female who was on her way to being successful," Mosley said. "I don't know what happened in that jailhouse, but obviously something went terribly wrong."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/23/us/sandra-bland-arrest-death-main/

After initially backing away from reports that the July 4 beating of a white man by a black mob was racially motivated, Cincinnati Police Chief Jeffrey Blackwell is now pushing for hate crime charges to be filed.
As we reported earlier this week, 27-year-old Christopher McKnight was brutally attacked in Fountain Square after a hip-hop concert by a group of black teens who choked and punched the victim, leaving him hospitalized with serious internal injuries.
The incident led to a mini-riot during which police officers and bystanders were also assaulted by the mob.
A police report initially stated that the incident was being treated as an “anti-white” racial attack, but Capt. Mike Neville subsequently backed offthat explanation, asserting that the beating was not racially motivated.
This caused a firestorm of controversy across social media and the Internet, with many citing the case as another example of how black on white violence is being downplayed and ignored by authorities.
However, “Cincinnati Police Chief Jeffrey Blackwell has reconsidered and is asking Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters to pursue hate crime charges,” reports the Cincinnati Enquirer.
“In many cases, a hate/bias relationship between the offender(s) and suspect(s) may not be easily apparent at the time of, or even shortly after the commission of the offense,” police spokeswoman Tiffaney Hardy said in a press release. “Often, hate/bias elements become evident only after thorough investigation and review of the available evidence.”
Authorities also noted how “public comment and outrage” concerning the incident was a key factor in the consideration of hate crime charges.
http://www.infowars.com/police-chief-pushes-for-hate-crime-charges-in-black-mob-beating-of-white-man/

Shootings over the Fourth of July weekend left 10 people dead and 55 others wounded, a toll lower than last year but one marked by an intense stretch of gun violence over eight hours on one of the nights.

Among those killed was 7-year-old Amari Brown, shot in the chest as he watched fireworks near his father's home in Humboldt Park late Saturday night. Police say they believe the attack was aimed at the father, whom they described as a ranking gang member.

Also gunned down was 17-year-old Vonzell Banks, who was shot as he played basketball Friday at a park named for Hadiya Pendleton, a high school student fatally shot in 2013 near President Barack Obama's Chicago home.

The wounded included a 16-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl shot shortly after midnight Sunday as they walked in Old Town, and a 19-year-old man shot around 10 p.m. Saturday as two groups fought near Navy Pier after the fireworks display there.

The violence peaked from dusk Saturday until dawn Sunday, when 30 people were shot across Chicago -- nearly half the total for the entire weekend, measured from 3 p.m. Thursday until just before dawn Monday.

Last Fourth of July, 82 people were shot, 16 of them fatally, over 84 hours. Five of those shot were wounded by police. There were no police-involved shootings this year.

The shootings this Fourth of July were primarily scattered across the South and West sides.

Englewood -- the police district with more shootings than any other in the city so far this year -- did not have a single person shot over the holiday weekend.


A number of other neighborhoods saw several shootings: Little Village, four people shot; Back of the Yards, six shot; and the Austin neighborhood, eight people shot.

Two North Side neighborhoods -- Old Irving Park and Albany Park -- each had shootings in which three people were wounded. One man died in the Albany Park shooting.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago-violence-20150706-story.html

Steinle was walking with her father and a family friend on Pier 14 in the city's South Beach neighborhood Wednesday evening when she was shot in the back, said her mother, Liz Sullivan.
The gunshot pierced her aorta, Sullivan said, and Jim Steinle, the victim's father, tried to give her CPR as she lay wounded on the ground.
"She said, 'Dad, help me, help me," Sullivan said when reached by phone. "She was so young. This is just like a bad dream."
Around 6:05 p.m. Wednesday, officers and firefighters responded to reports of the shooting and began giving her first aid at the scene. Steinle was taken to San Francisco General Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, police said.
Officers detained Sanchez at the corner of The Embarcadero and Townsend Street at 7:15 p.m., after several witnesses identified him as the shooter, police Sgt. Michael Andraychak said Thursday at a news conference.
Officers later arrested him on suspicion of killing Steinle, Andraychak said. Sanchez was not carrying a gun when taken into custody, police said.
A San Francisco police officer patrols Pier 14 on a motorcycle near where a gunman robbed several newscasters of their cameras early Thursday, July 2, 2015, in San Francisco . News crews from two San Francisco Bay Area television stations were robbed at gunpoint and a cameraman was pistol whipped during live broadcasts on Thursday. The robbery and assault occurred at about 6 a.m. along the city's waterfront. Several camera crews were broadcasting live reports for local morning shows about a killing that occurred nearby Wednesday night.
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A suicide bomber blew himself up at a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in Kuwait city during Friday prayers, killing 10+ people, the governor of Kuwait City said.
daesh claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted on social media and said it targeted a "temple of the rejectionists" - a term it usually uses to refer to Shi'ite Muslims, whom it regards as heretics.
It was the first suicide bombing attack on a Shi'ite mosque in the small Gulf Arab oil exporter, where Sunnis and Shi'ites live side by side with little apparent friction.
daesh on Tuesday urged its followers to step up attacks during the Ramadan fasting month against Christians, Shi'ites and Sunni Muslims fighting with a U.S.-led coalition against the ultra-radical group.
Kuwaiti parliament member Khalil al-Salih said worshippers were kneeling in prayer when a suicide bomber walked into the Imam al-Sadeq Mosque side and blew himself up, destroying walls and the ceiling.
"It was obvious from the suicide bomber's body that he was young. He walked into the prayer hall during sujood (kneeling in prayer), he looked ...in his 20s, I saw him with my own eyes," he told Reuters.
"The ceiling and wall got destroyed," he said, adding that more than 2,000 people from the Shi'ite Ja'afari sect were praying at the mosque.
Kuwaiti television showed footage of the emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah, visiting the damaged mosque in the eastern Sawaber district.
Islamic State has recently twice targeted Shi'ite mosques in neighboring Saudi Arabia and carried out attacks against members of the sect's Zaydi branch in Yemen.
Kuwait's Minister of Justice, Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Yaqoub Al-Sanea condemned the "terrorist attack" which he said "threatens our security, and aims to fracture the country's unity"
"Kuwait will remain an oasis of security for all groups of Kuwaiti society and all sects. The government is taking many procedures to protect prayers & mosques."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/26/us-kuwait-blast-idUSKBN0P618L20150626

One person has been beheaded and two people injured in a terrorist attack at a gas factory near Lyon in southeastern France, French President Francois Hollande said Friday.
The suspect's contacts with Muslim fundamentalists, and reports that Islamist flags or writings were found at the scene, point to an Islamist extremist motive.
The shocking incident comes on the same day as both Tunisia and Kuwait were hit by terrorist attacks, the latter an apparent blast at a Shiite mosque claimed by ISIS.
In a televised address from a summit in Brussels, Belgium, Hollande called the French incident a "pure terrorist attack."
Hollande said a body had been found, along with a severed head with a message. A suspect has been arrested and identified, he said.
The victim of what Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve described as a "barbarous" attack has not yet been publicly identified. U.S. firm Air Products & Chemicals, which owns the factory, said all its employees were accounted for.
Cazeneuve, speaking at the scene of the attack, said the suspect, who was from the Lyon area, was "somebody who was in touch with (Muslim fundamentalist) Salafists."
An intelligence report was opened on the man in 2006 because of suspected radicalization, he said, but this was not renewed in 2008.
"He has been under surveillance, but he was not known as being involved in any terrorist act," Cazeneuve said. French authorities are "investigating any other people that could be accomplices," he added.
"The dangerous elements were neutralized immediately after the crime was committed," he said.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/26/europe/france-attack/

At least 27 people, mostly foreigners, have been killed in an attack on a beach near two tourist hotels in the Tunisian resort town of Sousse, according to the interior ministry.
Officials say one gunman has been shot dead and another is being pursued.
Sousse is a popular tourist destination.
Tunisia has been on high alert since March when militants killed 22 people, mainly foreign tourists, in an attack on a museum in the capital Tunis.
The interior ministry told the BBC "a terrorist attack" was ongoing. Officials say six people have been injured in the attack.
A British man on holiday told the BBC that he heard the attack on a neighbouring hotel. From his room, he saw a man with a pistol but did not know whether this was an attacker or a member of the security forces.
The holidaymaker said he and other guests had been told to take shelter in the hotel's staff quarters and have been told to wait for the all-clear.
One image circulating on social media appeared to show a man lying face down in the sand with what looks like blood around his head.
The Islamic State militant group had called on its followers to increase attacks during the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, but no-one has yet said they were behind this attack.

(CNN)Terrorists killed at least 27 people in an attack Friday on a beachfront Tunisian hotel, Tunisian officials said, according to the state-run TAP news agency.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-33287978
Tunisia's interior minister reported 27 dead -- at least some of whom were guests at the Hotel Riu Imperial Marhaba in Sousse, TAP reported.
Still, those figures are preliminary. In fact, an operation was still underway Friday afternoon after Tunisian security forces exchanged gunfire with the attackers.
Hotel Riu Imperial Marhaba is described as an all-inclusive hotel with views of Port El Kantaoui. It contains indoor and outdoor pools, including one for children, as well as buffet-style and theme restaurants.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/26/africa/tunisia-terror-attack/

A fire that damaged a predominantly black church in middle Georgia has been ruled arson, authorities say.

The fire was reported at God's Power Church of Christ in Macon early Tuesday morning. Macon-Bibb County Fire Sgt. Ben Gleaton told local media outlets that investigators determined the fire was intentionally set but didn't say what led to that conclusion.

Gleaton says there's no evidence indicating that the fire was a hate crime.

Authorities have said electronics and other equipment also had been stolen from the building in two burglaries.

Firefighters in Charlotte, North Carolina, have said a blaze at a black church Wednesday also was intentionally set. The church's pastor said he forgives whoever is responsible and wants to move forward.

WBTV in Charlotte (http://bit.ly/1JmoKvf) quotes the Rev. Mannix Kinsey of Briar Creek Road Baptist Church as saying that he was afraid at first the church would be destroyed, but adding that the damage wasn't as bad as he thought it could be.

The fire damaged a wing of the building that houses education programs.

The two fires come roughly a week after nine churchgoers were fatally shot at a Charleston, South Carolina, black church.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/fire-black-georgia-church-arson-officials-32030469

The Charlotte Fire Department is investigating an early morning Wednesday fire at Briar Creek Road Baptist Church as arson, Senior Fire Investigator David Williams said.
A 911 emergency call from a resident in a nearby apartment complex received at 12:52 a.m. turned into a third alarm by 1:21 a.m., with a total of 14 engines and 75 firefighters on hand to quell the flames. Williams said it took around an hour to get the fire under control.
“The Baptist church on Briar Creek Road right before Central, it’s on fire,” the caller told dispatchers. “It’s really big.”
Firefighters realized when they arrived that it was a “monumental task,” Williams said.
Two firefighters were injured and treated for heat-related injuries. Williams said they don’t believe anyone was in the building at the time of the fire.
“When I got here I was even amazed to see that the flames were so high,” Mannix Kinsey, the pastor at Briar Creek Road Baptist Church, told WBTV. “I am thinking, ‘Oh my goodness, this church is going to be destroyed.’”
The church building sustained excessive damage to its back left wing, used as an education building. Williams said it is close to a total loss.
The rest of the property, including the sanctuary and gymnasium, has smoke damage. He said they estimate total damage is more than $250,000.
Kinsey’s wife, Rhonda, is the co-pastor. Both are African-American. About 100 people, most of them black, attend the church. It also shares the campus with two or three immigrant churches, including one whose members were born in Nepal.

Briar Creek Baptist began in 1951 as Commonwealth Baptist Church. And for the next three decades or so, it was a predominantly white church.

But, as the demographics of the neighborhood changed, so did the congregation. And about 13 years ago, the church called an African-American pastor, the Rev. Dennis Hall. When he left a few years ago, Briar Creek Baptist turned to Kinsey, then one of its leading members, to pastor the church.

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN)A woman and a child were killed Monday when Taliban militants staged an attack around the Afghan parliament as lawmakers were about to review a government nominee for defense minister.
A large car bomb exploded near the outer wall of the compound, sending up a thick plume of smoke. Six Taliban fighters then tried to storm inside, said police spokesman Ebadullah Karimi. Twenty-eight people were wounded in the attack.
Afghan security forces managed to fend off the attackers, who then moved into a nearby building, firing rockets and AK-47 machine guns. All six attackers were killed in the ensuing firefight, Karimi said.
Inside the parliament building, lawmakers were gathered in a meeting hall when the first explosion struck, Arif Rahmani, a member of parliament, told CNN.
The blast shattered glass and shook loose a thin layer of the ceiling that filled the hall with a cloud of dust, he said.
The members of parliament had assembled for a general meeting at which Mohammad Masoom Stanikzai, the government's nominee for defense minister, was to be introduced in order to present his plans and policies ahead of a confidence vote.
All the lawmakers were evacuated from the parliament building unharmed, Karimi said.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said on his Twitter account that the militant group chose to target the parliament on the day the defense minister was to be introduced to lawmakers.
The U.N. mission in Afghanistan condemned the attack, calling it "a clear and deliberate affront to democracy in Afghanistan."
The U.S. Embassy issued a statement saying the assault showed "blatant disrespect for democracy and the rule of law."
Monday's assault is the latest in a string of high-profile attacks by insurgents in the Afghan capital.
Recent targets have included hotels housing foreigners, like the Park Palace Guest House, where more than a dozen people were killed last month.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/22/asia/afghanistan-kabul-parliament-attack/

A 22-year veteran of the NOPD was shot and killed after a suspect he was transporting was able to get out of his handcuffs and get a hold of a gun.
The incident occurred around 9 a.m. near the intersection of Elysian Fields and North Claiborne. After the shooting, the car crashed. Officer Daryle Holloway, 46, was rushed to the hospital where he died.
A manhunt is on for the suspect, 33-year-old Travis Bois, who is now wanted for murder.
​”That prisoner was able to get his hands out of the handcuffs and was able to get a firearm and shot officer Darryl Holloway while he was driving,” said NOPD Chief Michael Harrison.
Harrison said Holloway leaves behind a family and that telling them of his death was “the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.”
​Harrison said Bois was able to get out of the handcuffs and make his way from the back seat, through an opening in a steel cage that separates the front and back seats. That is when he shot Holloway.
Harrison said Holloway continued to try to gain control of the situation, before the vehicle crashed.
The police car crashed after suspect Travis Bois was able to get ahold of a gun and shoot officer Daryle Holloway.
Read more: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/06/breaking-nola-police-officer-shot-dead-while-transporting-suspect/#ixzz3dk6a0Oz2
After a 24-hour manhunt the suspect was arrested and remains in custody.

Police are investigating a fatal shooting that took place at a block party on Detroit’s west side on Saturday night.
Detroit Police Chief James Craig is calling the shooting at a barbecue an “act of urban terrorism.”
Malique Jones , 19, was shot and killed and at least 12 others were injured in the shooting.
Jones was shot about a month ago in the same neighborhood.
“Some believe it was expected,” said Chief Craig of the shooting. “Apparently the victim expected … the message to the two outstanding suspects – we will find you – someone is going to talk.”
Another man was critically injured and eight others, five men and three women, were listed as seriously injured. The victims ranged in age from 21 to 46, he said.
Dolunt said the shooting happened at a neighborhood party that included a barbecue attended by families with some small children in strollers. The party was being held at a basketball court near Webb St. and Dexter Ave.
“Through the grace of God no children were shot,” he said.
Detroit Police Sergeant Cassandra Lewis told WWJ News radio 950 that the shots were fired around 8:45 p.m. in the area where an estimated 400 to 500 people were attending a party.
“No one is coming forward with information – which is very disheartening,” said Dolunt. “I woke up this morning and my wife says ‘there were seven people shot in Philadelphia too.’ What’s going on with people? They had this thing in South Carolina the other day, you’ve got to wonder what’s in people’s minds.”
Authorities suspect the dead man was targeted by the shooter, although Dolunt said that was preliminary.
Anyone with information should call Detroit Police at 313-596-1616.
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2015/06/20/10-people-shot-1-killed-at-block-party-on-detroits-west-side/

CINCINNATI, Ohio — A Cincinnati police officer has been shot and killed.
Police responding to a report of an erratic man armed with a firearm got into a shootout with him Friday that ended with the death of a 27-year veteran officer, a police chief said.
Chief Jeffrey Blackwell said 48-year-old officer Sonny Kim and the suspect died after the shooting in the Madisonville neighborhood.
“We lost one of our best today,” Blackwell said. “Our hearts are broken.”
Blackwell said multiple shots were fired between the suspect and officers responding to a 911 call.
“We’re not sure which officers involved actually fired rounds,” Blackwell said. “We’re not sure how many rounds were fired.”
Blackwell said he believes the suspect was on the street when officers arrived. The suspect wasn’t immediately identified.
The chief said the officer was wearing body armor.
City officers last week released details of a plan for dealing with Cincinnati’s surging gun violence this year.
The police chief said then that shootings were up 28 percent over last year.
http://wreg.com/2015/06/19/cincinatti-police-officer-killed-in-the-line-of-duty/

Mother Emanuel Church, South Carolina, a young adult opened fire: killing nine, including the pastor and state senator during a regular prayer meeting.

Police immediately branded the shooting spree, which began just after 9 p.m. Wednesday, a hate crime after the horrific incident which left six women and three men dead.

"This is an unspeakable and unfathomable act by somebody filled with hate and a deranged mind," Charleston Mayor Joseph Riley said in a Thursday morning press conference. The suspect was apprehended after a concerned citizen phone in a sighting on the highway.

At Morris Brown A.M.E. Church, just a few blocks from Emanuel, the mood of a packed house alternated between grief, hope and resilience. Calls of “enough is enough” echoed as the Rev. John Richard Bryant called for an end to gun violence.
“You look like a quilt, you look like patches,” Mr. Bryant said. “You all fit somewhere.”

The FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested a 21-year-old Staten Island man who allegedly repeatedly tried to stab an FBI agent with a kitchen knife Wednesday as officers attempted to search his home in connection with an ongoing ISIS-related investigation involving a Queens college student arrested over the weekend, according to court documents.
Fareed Mumuni was charged Wednesday with attempting to murder an FBI agent, though no serious injuries were reported in the scuffle, conspiring to provide material support to ISIS and trying to assist the terror group in carrying out an attack in the New York area, according to the complaint.

Early Tuesday, 13 people, most of them young Irish students here on the visa program, were crowded onto a fourth-floor balcony off Unit 405 for what neighbors described as a loud party when the balcony collapsed, sending people tumbling onto the street below.

Six people were killed; five were Irish and the sixth had dual Irish-American citizenship, according to the Irish Embassy. Three of the dead were men, three were women, and all were in their 20s. At least seven others suffered injuries, some serious.

Some say the supporting structure had extensive water damage making the structure weak, and recommended all balconies checked for safety against water rot.

4 teenagers out of 16 passengers have been seriously injured after two carriages on The Smiler rollercoaster at Alton Towers collided on a low section of track (one empty and stationary carriage); with those hurt still stuck on the ride, 25ft in the air, at a 45 degree angle. Lloyd Coller told Sky News: "I didn’t actually see it but I heard it. It sounded exactly like a car crash – just metal on metal." The Smiler had broken down three hours earlier following technical difficulties when he was on the ride.
"When we got stuck on The Smiler ... we were at the bottom of the first hill and they sent a train down behind us, which I thought was a bit strange," he said.
4 road ambulances, accompanied by senior paramedic managers, have also arrived on the scene to cope with the potential casualties. Ambulance staff and medics are ensuring the safe and timely evacuation of guests."There has been an incident on the Smiler this afternoon involving two carriages coming together on a low section of the track," the statement said.
According to the official website of The Smiler, the £18m ride is the world's first 14 looping rollercoaster.
It opened in May 2013 - and the ride was affected by two incidents within the space of just six months.
Two months after it opened, in July, a metal bolt fell off the ride - leaving a gap in the track. Some 48 people had to be rescued.
In November 2013, passengers sitting in the front seats of the ride were hit when several of the rollercoaster's wheels fell off.
This appears to be the seventh incident since The Smiler opened to the public which has led to the rollercoaster being closed for repairs, reviews or accidents.
The resort claims the ride features "a series of twisted psychological effects including optical illusions, blinding lights and near-misses designed to mess with your mind".
It can travel at top speeds of 53mph, and its highest drop is 98ft. In total, the 3,838ft ride lasts for nearly three minutes.

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2015/05/25/police-26-shootings-9-fatal-over-memorial-day-weekend-in-baltimore/

http://wgntv.com/2015/05/26/56-shot-12-killed-in-violent-memorial-day-weekend-in-chicago/

http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2015/05/flint_police_arrest_suspect_af.html

A Marine was killed when a military helicopter carrying 22 people went down Sunday at Bellows Air Force Base, Hawaii, the Marine Corps said.

The Marine Corps said in a brief statement that 22 people were aboard the MV-22 Osprey from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit when it had a "hard-landing mishap" during a training exercise. It gave no cause for the incident.

The Marines initially said 12 Marines were injured. After confirming the death, it said only that all 21 of the others had been taken to hospitals for assessment and treatment.

Witnesses told NBC station KHNL of Honolulu that the nearby beach was very busy when the chopper went down, with at least 3 aircraft doing rotations in the sky.

The witnesses watched the 3 aircraft swoop toward the ground — but only 2 came back up. Within seconds, black smoke could be seen, they said.

The 15th MEU is based at Camp Pendleton in San Diego. The Marines who were invloved in the incident Sunday arrived May 10 in Hawaii for a 7-month deployment, the service said Sunday night.

suicide bombing during midday prayer at a Shiite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia. The Saudi Health Ministry said at least 21 people had been killed and more than 120 others injured.
It appeared to be the first official claim of an attack inside the kingdom by the Islamic State, which has seized control of much of Syria and Iraq.
The attack was a sign that Saudi Arabia’s intervention in the sectarian conflict in Yemen may be escalating tensions at home. Members of the Shiite minority in Saudi Arabia, who make up about 15 percent of the population and live mainly in the Eastern Province, have long complained of insults and discrimination by Saudi Arabia’s Sunni majority and its clerical establishment.
During Saudi Arabia’s two-month air campaign against the Houthi movement in Yemen, which practices a form of Shiite Islam and receives backing from Saudi Arabia’s regional rival, Iran, imams at Sunni mosques and commentators in the Saudi news media have frequently rallied the public around the war by denouncing Shiites as dangerous infidels.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/23/world/middleeast/suicide-bombing-saudi-arabia-shiites-sunnis-yemen-mosque.html

The violence erupted shortly after noon at a busy shopping center along Interstate 35 after members of at least five rival gangs gathered at Twin Peaks restaurant for a meeting, police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanson said. Preliminary findings indicate a dispute broke out in a bathroom, escalated to include knives and firearms and eventually spilled into the restaurant parking lot, according to police. "I was amazed that we didn't have innocent civilians killed or injured," Swanson said.
The interior of the restaurant was littered with bullet casings, knives, a club, bodies and pools of blood, he said. Authorities were expected to work throughout the night to process the evidence at the scene about an hour and a half south of Dallas. About 150-200 bikers were inside during the shootout, and at least 100 were detained, authorities said. It wasn't immediately clear how many were arrested. Jay Patel, operating partner for the Waco franchise, said, "Our management team has had ongoing and positive communications with the police," and added that the restaurant was cooperating with the investigation.
But Swanton described the management as uncooperative with authorities in addressing concerns about the gangs and called Patel's statement a "fabrication."
Rick Van Warner, a spokesman for the Dallas-based corporate franchisor, said the company is reviewing the circumstances surrounding the shooting and is "seriously considering revoking" the Waco location's franchise agreement. McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara, whose office is involved in the investigation, said all nine who were killed were members of the Bandidos or Cossacks gangs.
In a 2014 gang threat assessment, the Texas Department of Public Safety classified the Bandidos as a "Tier 2" threat, the second highest, also include the Bloods, Crips and Aryan Brotherhood of Texas.
The Bandidos, formed in the 1960s, are involved in trafficking cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamines, according to the U.S DOJ which doesn't mention the Cossacks.

Ramadi is the capital of the Anbar Province and is one of the biggest cities in Iraq.

The arson task force spent Friday morning at the scene of a fire that killed three adults and one child in Northwest D.C. Thursday. We saw authorities going into and out of the house in the 3200 block of Woodland Drive, NW.
Police are asking that anyone who saw a blue 2008 Porsche with D.C. tags DK2418 after 10:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Thursday to contact them. The vehicle has been recovered, but police are attempting to account for its whereabouts prior to it being found.
Thursday, D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier called the fire "suspicious, "though there were no signs of forced entry at the home. An internal fire department report indicates 3 victims showed signs of blunt force trauma and had the smell of gasoline on them, reports WNEW.
Firefighters arriving on the scene of the fire Thursday saw smoke coming from the second floor of the home, according to fire officials. While crews worked to tame the fire in that area, firefighters searched the house and found four victims on the second floor of the home, fire officials said. The fire was in a dense residential neighborhood just behind the National Cathedral. D.C. Fire and EMS, D.C. Police, ATF agents and Secret Service officers all responded to the scene. Three adults and a child were found dead inside the home in Northwest D.C. on Thursday afternoon following reports of a fire
One of those victims had a bloody injury to the head and smelled of gasoline when they were removed from the home, according to reports
The house is owned by American Iron Works CEO Savvas Savopoulos who lives with his wife, two teen daughters, a son, 10, and two housekeepers
Mrs Savopoulos 'told a housekeeper not to come to work on Thursday because everyone was sick; when the worker called, she did not pick up'
Son, 10, did not got to school Thursday. The girls were at boarding school
The family Porsche was discovered 2 blocks away from the Vice President's residence, and investigators are asking for witnesses who saw it leave around 10.30am

Another One Bites the Dust” may be by Queen, but it might as well be U2’s theme song at this point.
Mere months after Bono broke his arm and an eye socket in a Central Park bike crash, the band’s guitarist The Edge took a nasty fall during a concert in Vancouver on Thursday night, reports BBC.
A fan who was at the Rogers Arena for the show posted a video of the tumble to Instagram. In the clip, the 53-year-old, whose real name is David Howell Evans, can be seen obliviously walking off the edge of the band’s uniquely shaped stage.
Fortunately for the guitarist, he only suffered a few scrapes and a bruised ego.
“Didn’t see the edge, I’m ok!” he said in a pun-y update posted to the group’s Instagram account.

In May 1983, Metallica traveled to NY to record Metal Up Your Ass. They ejected Mustaine from the band because of his drug and alcohol abuse, and violent behavior just before the recording sessions on 4-11-83. Exodus guitarist Kirk Hammett replaced Mustaine the same afternoon.
Because of conflicts with its record label and the distributors' refusal to release an album titled Metal Up Your Ass, the album was renamed Kill 'Em All.
On September 27, 1986, during the European leg of Metallica's Damage, Inc. Tour, members drew cards to determine which bunks on the tour bus they would sleep in. Burton won and chose to sleep in Hammett's bunk. At around sunrise near Dörarp, Sweden, the bus driver lost control and skidded, which caused the bus to overturn several times. Ulrich, Hammett, and Hetfield sustained no serious injuries; Burton was pinned under the bus and died.
In 1989, Metallica received its first Grammy Award nomination for ...And Justice for All. Metallica was the favorite to win but the award was given to Jethro Tull for "Crest of a Knave". The award was controversial with fans and the press:Jethro Tull had been advised by its manager not to attend the ceremony because he was expecting Metallica to win. They released on MTV the music video "One", performed in an abandoned warehouse remixed with the film Johnny Got His Gun. In October 1990, Metallica entered One on One Recording's studio in North Hollywood—The Black Album—was remixed three times, cost US$1 million, and ended three marriages. It debuted at number one in ten countries, selling 650,000 units in the U.S. during its first week.
April 1992, Metallica appeared at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert and performed a three-song set. Hetfield later performed "Stone Cold Crazy" with the remaining members of Queen and Tony Iommi. On 8-8-92, Hetfield suffered second and third degree burns to his arms, face, hands, and legs walking into a 12-foot flame during "Fade to Black". Hetfield's skin was "bubbling like on The Toxic Avenger".

Level 3 mass casualty incident in Philadelphia (Frankford Junction, Port Richmond neighborhood on the 2000 block of Wheatsheaf Lane) Tuesday night at about 9:28pm, enroute to New York from Washington D.C., Amtrak Northeast Regional 188 carrying 238 commuters and five crew members derailed: 7-car train: the engine completely separated from the rest of the train, 2 cars upright, 3 cars on their side, 1 car upside down and decimated.
Amtrak's Northeast Corridor is 363 miles of track that connects Washington to Boston and is the busiest railroad in North America. Each day it carries more than three times as many riders between Washington and New York City as planes do.
"All the power cables that run parallel to the track caved in," Daniel Wetrin said. "There were cut cables hanging around."
Many passengers, including former Congressman Patrick Murphy, praised the scores of firefighters and police who arrived within minutes.
"Thank you so much to all the first responders-there w/in minutes," Murphy tweeted. "Thank you, thank you, thank you."

A US Marines helicopter that crashed into a mountainside in Nepal was completely destroyed and there were no survivors among the eight on board, Nepal’s top defence official said on Friday.
Three charred bodies were found in the wreckage of the UH-1Y Huey that went missing on Tuesday while on a mission to deliver aid to victims of two earthquakes, Defence Secretary Ishwori Prasad Paudyal told Reuters.
Nepal mobilised 600 soldiers to search for the Huey, which had six Marines and two Nepali soldiers on board when it went missing after the crew was heard over the radio saying that the aircraft was experiencing a fuel problem.
Two more U.S. Hueys, two MV-22B Osprey tilt-rotor planes and Nepali and Indian choppers had been involved in the search for the helicopter, which was part of a joint task force sent in by the United States to provide assistance at Nepal’s request.

On Wednesday, two officers spotted the man in Midtown. He could be the hammer attacker, but they wanted to speak with him to be sure. The man, identified by the police as David Baril, saw them, too.
He stopped at the corner of Eighth Avenue and 37th Street, and as the officers closed in, he pulled a hammer, red with the dried blood of previous attacks, police officials said. He began swinging wildly at one of the officers, Lauren O’Rourke, 27, striking her as she backpedaled, the police said.
The scene on Eighth Avenue between 37th and 39th Streets in Midtown, near where an officer shot a hammer-wielding man.
As they spilled into the intersection and a beam of late-morning sunlight, her partner, Officer Geraldo Casaigne, drew his gun and fired four times, hitting Mr. Baril in the right arm, the torso and the “head area,” officials said. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital Center, where he was in critical condition on Wednesday evening.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/14/nyregion/officer-shoots-man-in-midtown-manhattan.html?_r=0

“He was very suspicious,” witness Edward Tucker told The Post of seeing the man before the ­attack. “He had a red bag, like a tool bag, right next to him.”
Modal TriggerCops found a box of Newport cigarettes next to the bench where the suspect had been sitting.
The suspect — David Baril — has been arrested eight times for varies offenses, including assaulting a cop and jumping over the counter at a KFC restaurant and punching an employee.
Therman Frazier, 53, a telemarketer in Herald Square, said the city isn’t doing enough to keep people safe.
“You’ve got people out here on drugs, or the wrong drugs, who aren’t in their right minds.”
The suspect, David Baril was captured Wednesday, May 13, 2015; A silver hammer with a black handle similar to the one described in the series of attacks Monday was recovered at the scene.

Phone call home during beginning of riot on Sunday was made from a personal phone, not a prison phone.

DUNDALK, Md. (WJZ) — A Dundalk man (Richard Fletcher) is viciously beaten in front of his own home. The whole thing was caught on tape. Now, seven people are under arrest, but it hasn’t eased fears in the community.
All but one of those seven suspects are teenagers. They face a range of charges, including attempted murder.
Disturbing cell phone video shows 61-year-old Rick Fletcher punched and kicked repeatedly as he drops face first to the ground. Broken eye sockets, a broken nose, busted ribs and a brain bleed left him in the hospital for days.
“He wasn’t trying to intervene in their disagreement. He just wanted them to stop fighting and move away from his car,” said Cpl. Wachter.
“A lot of the residents are still afraid. They’re very afraid,” said Georgia Bartrum, Harbor View Neighborhood Association.
Neighbors say students walking to a bus stop have wreaked havoc on their community for years.
Fletcher only went outside after seeing two girls fighting on top of his car.
“It’s really sad because all you want to do is enjoy your home. You should never live in fear,” said Bartrum.
Community members are now pleading with local lawmakers for help. An MTA bus route has already been changed to try and prevent the students from walking down those streets.
Fletcher is out of the hospital, but neighbors say he has a long road to recovery.
This man was not breaking the law, yet he was almost beaten to death by civilians.
That is called Anarchy, and it is very wrong in every way.

Comey said the attack was politically and ideologically driven, with two separate motivations: the suspect, Zale Thompson, appeared to be seeking “inspiration from foreign terrorist sources like ISIL (ISIS), but there is also evidence he was focused on black separatist ideology.”
Comey pointed out most recently Thompson had spent a lot of time online reviewing ISIL beheading videos and similar radical jihadist propaganda, and that “there is no doubt that played a role.” Earlier this month, NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton also labeled the hatchet attack a self-radicalized terrorist incident.

DALLAS (AP) — When an outspoken opponent of radical Islam sought to mock Muhammad in Texas, home to one of the nation's largest Islamic communities, local Muslims were encouraged to ignore her, and they did.

No one protested when Pamela Geller's cartoon contest attracted about 200 people to suburban Dallas Sunday, even though some Muslims in Texas were already feeling aggrieved and fearful over growing anti-Islamic sentiment in the state.

Then, two men with attack rifles drove in from Arizona and opened fire on officers guarding the conference center in Garland. Both were shot dead, an officer was shot in the leg, and from the other side of the world, the Islamic State group made an unproven claim of responsibility.

http://news.yahoo.com/texas-muslims-edge-amid-protests-contest-attack-224811847.html

The suspect shot at the officers and wounded police dog Baco. The officers returned fire, and the suspect retreated inside a vehicle in the Walmart parking lot, 1940 Turner Road SE.

A bomb exploded Monday on a van carrying U.N. employees in northern Somalia, killing at least seven people and wounding several others, police and U.N. officials said. Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack.
UNICEF said in a statement that four of its employees were reportedly killed in the bombing of their van, which was painted white and had UN painted on the side in blue letters. Four others were seriously injured, the U.N. children's agency said.

This incident happened just after a youtube board fight. It was not the Taliban that was responsible. It was daesh.

The shooting of Walter Scott occurred on April 4, 2015, in North Charleston, South Carolina, following a daytime traffic stop for a non-functioning brake light. Scott, a black man, was fatally shot by Michael Slager, a white North Charleston police officer. Slager was charged with murder after a video surfaced contradicting his earlier police report. The video showed him shooting the unarmed Scott from behind while Scott was fleeing.

The case was independently investigated by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED). The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the U.S. Attorney in South Carolina, and the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division are conducting their own investigations. On June 8, a grand jury indicted Slager on a charge of murder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Walter_Scott

Silver car was left running

Goldsboro NC

Silver hill road; Anderson abducted his girlfriend at gunpoint from the 1800 block of 3rd Street NE and then drove the victim to the rear of his apartment complex in Suitland, Maryland.

A Colorado woman whose unborn baby was cut from her womb by a stranger with a kitchen knife

A man is in a critical condition after being attacked with what is believed to have been a hammer in the Perth suburb of Yangebup.
Police were called to a domestic dispute at a block of units in Argonaut Crescent around midnight and found the 34-year-old man with head injuries.
He underwent surgery and remains in a critical condition in Royal Perth Hospital's intensive care unit.
His 29-year-old female partner has been arrested.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-23/man-critical-after-hammer-attack-at-yangebup-perth-units/6340262

In February 2015, in response to the buffer zone the Egyptian government placed along the Gaza–Egypt border, ISIL members beheaded 10 men they believed were spies for Mossad and the Egyptian Army.

Part of Charlie Hebdo attacks

54 anti-Muslim incidents were reported in France in one week after the shootings, compared to 110 complaints in the 9 first months of 2014. These included 21 reports of shootings and blank grenade throwing at Islamic buildings including mosques, and 33 cases of threats and insults.

54 anti-Muslim incidents were reported in France in one week after the shootings, compared to 110 complaints in the 9 first months of 2014. These included 21 reports of shootings and blank grenade throwing at Islamic buildings including mosques, and 33 cases of threats and insults.

54 anti-Muslim incidents were reported in France in one week after the shootings, compared to 110 complaints in the 9 first months of 2014. These included 21 reports of shootings and blank grenade throwing at Islamic buildings including mosques, and 33 cases of threats and insults.

A Peshmerga officer named Hujam Surchi was beheaded days before Kenji Goto

Japanese journalist Kenji Goto (後藤 健二 Gotō Kenji?, 1967 – 30 January 2015) was brought in to interpret, and Goto secured Haruna Yukawa's release. Both Yukawa and Goto went back to Japan, but Yukawa soon returned to Syria, where he disappeared after July 2014. In October 2014, Goto returned to Syria; he was soon captured.

Haruna Yukawa (湯川 遥菜 Yukawa Haruna?), born Masayuki Yukawa (湯川 正行 Yukawa Masayuki?, April 1972 – c. January 2015), was a Japanese national reported to be beheaded in January 2015. He aspired to become a private military contractor providing protection to Japanese companies in areas of conflict. In April 2014, he was in Syria where he was captured by the Free Syrian Army

Alleged beheading of deserters: In December 2014, after some recent military setbacks, terrorists were reported to have beheaded about 100 foreign fighters who tried to leave Raqqa. A military police had been established in Raqqa to look for fighters who failed to report.

Murder. Guduraš spent most of 10 December 2014 at her boutique Leopard in Bijeljina and left for Belgrade at about 6 PM. On 11 December at about 11 PM, her new boyfriend Zoran Makivić reported her missing after finding it strange that she wasn't answering her phone and hadn't been on Facebook in over a day. Initially it was assumed that her abusive ex-boyfriend Dragan Perić from Bijeljina had something to do with her disappearance. Perić reportedly threatened Guduraš by saying she "would end up like Ksenija Pajčin," a singer who had been murdered by her ex-boyfriend in 2010, and that he would commit suicide. They had been in a relationship from 2013 until November 2014, when Guduraš walked in on Perić kissing male hair stylist Aleksandar Kapriš. Another incident occurred the week before she went missing when Perić attacked her at the hotel Hollywood in Sarajevo.
On 16 December 2014, a crashed Volkswagen Golf with Bosnian license plates was found in a canal in Sremska Mitrovica. Guduraš's body was found inside and it is believed that she swerved off the road on 10 December and crashed into the canal. The car was not seen for six days due to the area being densely overgrown with shrubbery. In the days following her death several of her friends said they believe she "foresaw" her own death. Singer Miki Mećava, who had done a talk show with her on 3 December and slept over at the same hotel in Sarajevo, said that she was afraid of being murdered. She would not leave the hotel to go to restaurants with a group of friends because she was afraid that someone would murder her. Not long before her death, she relocated to Belgrade and had her own apartment there.

Murdered by being burned to death inside and out.
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2015/02/who_burned_to_death_jessica_ch.html

http://www.11alive.com/story/news/crime/2015/02/10/jessica-chambers-torched-teen/23173827/

A third teen is in custody after a man was viciously beaten in a fatal hammer attack on a south St. Louis street, police said.
Zemir Begic was in his car on Itaska St. Sunday at 1:15 a.m. when several young people began damaging it. When Begic got out to confront the vandals, he was attacked.
Begic, 32, a Bosnian native who moved to St. Louis this year, suffered injuries to his head, abdomen, face and mouth in the violent assault and was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital, police said.
"He didn't deserve this," wife Arijana Mujkanovic told KDSK. She said Begic saved her life, pushing her out of harm's way.
Police arrested three out of four suspects in connection to the murder. Two teens, ages 15-16, were apprehended in the attack and have been charged with first-degree murder. It is not yet clear whether they will face charges as juveniles or adults.

U2 frontman Bono has undergone five hours of surgery after breaking his arm in six places and suffering a broken eye socket falling off his bike in New York. X-rays and CT scans showed that Bono had suffered numerous serious injuries, including a “facial fracture involving the orbit of his eye” and three separate fractures of his left shoulder blade. The fracture of the left humerus bone in his upper arm was said to be particularly serious, as it broke in six places and pierced the skin, requiring five hours of surgery. Lorich said Bono was “taken emergently [sic] to the operating room … where the elbow was washed out and debrided, a nerve trapped in the break was moved and the bone was repaired with three metal plates and 18 screws.” On Monday Bono then underwent further surgery to fix a broken little finger. Bono had just returned to New York after recording Band Aid 30 in London on Saturday. It is unclear whether his injuries will affect U2’s plans for a 2015 tour following the release of their album Songs of Innocence.

Peter Edward Kassig (February 19, 1988 – c. November 16, 2014), also known by the name Abdul-Rahman Kassig which he assumed in captivity, was 26 years old at the time he was beheaded. On November 16, 2014, in the same video that depicted Peter Kassig's death also included the beheading of 21 Syrian soldiers.

Bono and four friends cheated death yesterday when a rear door of their private jet fell off mid-flight.
The Irish rock star was on board the Learjet 60 D-CGEO making the two-hour afternoon trip from Dublin to Berlin.
He was the only member of U2 on the plane, as bandmates Larry Mullen, the Edge and Adam Clayton were due to fly separately late last night.
The group were lined up to accept an award at the Bambi International Music awards in Berlin, but Bono flew out early to attend a diplomatic function with the German minister of economic cooperation and development, Gerd Mueller.
But when Bono and his crew reached the German coast, flying at about 8,000ft, the tailgate of the plane became detached.
A source close to the singer told the Irish Daily Mail: ‘He was extremely lucky, the plane could have gone down. About an hour into the journey they heard a big thud coming from the rear of the plane.
‘They were startled for a bit but they continued on and made the descent into Berlin airport. When they landed they were horrified to learn that the compartment at the rear of the plane had completely detached.
‘The entire door along with Bono and his companions’ luggage had fallen out mid-air. They don’t know if the door and the contents landed over water or land but they were extremely lucky. They were at an altitude where anything could have happened and they are all feeling very lucky to be alive.’
Aviation authorities in Germany have launched an official probe into the incident as it began its descent into Berlin's Schoenefeld Airport.
His £50million Learjet 60 was preparing for landing when at 12.27pm on Wednesday an 80 x 100 cm chunk of its door was ripped off.
The door was outside the pressurised area of the cabin so there was no loss of pressure and no need to don oxygen masks.
It's understood no MAYDAY was sent off as the plane landed minutes later.
Bono is due to fly to the US later this week where he will appear with U2 on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show.
A spokesman for the band had no comment.

Busch was born in LasVegas, NV. Busch has a documented history of verbally abusing members of his team and the media. Busch revealed that he has been working with a sports psychologist for two months, to work on "personal issues" according to interviews during the 2011 NASCAR Championship week. Busch is also an avid baseball fan and stated the goal of visiting every ballpark nationwide. His favorite baseball team is the Chicago Cubs.
On Friday, November 7, 2014, it was reported that Busch was under investigation for domestic assault for an incident on September 26, 2014 in Dover, Delaware. The incident in question involved Busch's ex-girlfriend, Patricia Driscoll inside a motorhome at Dover International Speedway. On February 16, 2015, Busch was given a no-contact order by a Dover judge. Busch was indefinitely suspended by NASCAR February 20, 2015. On March 5, 2015 the Delaware attorney general's office decided that there was not enough evidence to bring criminal charges for domestic violence. NASCAR however did not lift the suspension choosing to continue a reinstatement program agreed upon by Busch. The official statement from NASCAR read "He has accepted the terms and conditions of a reinstatement program and is actively participating in the program. Busch's eligibility for reinstatement will continue to be governed by that program and the NASCAR rule book, though the elimination of the possibility of criminal charges certainly removes a significant impediment to his reinstatement." Personal feuds and controversies/conflicts in the sport are too numerous to mention. Busch became engaged to girlfriend Eva Bryan while attending the 2005 Hungarian Grand Prix. On July 27, 2006, three years to the day of them meeting on a blind date, they were married in Virginia. The footage was taped and later aired on national television. Busch announced on June 30, 2011, "Those in the NASCAR community have been aware for some time now that we are no longer together and we are legally separated".

Medical records pertaining to about 40,000 patients over nearly two decades were stolen from a doctor's office in New Jersey earlier this week, authorities say.
Police say Nisar Quraishi, a general practitioner with more than 40 years of experience and offices in Jersey City and Manhattan, reported Tuesday that someone had cut through latches on a storage locker at his Jersey City office on Chopin Court and stolen the documents. The stolen boxes had personal information, including social security numbers and home addresses, of about 40,000 patients he had treated and may still be treating, he told police.Now thieves steal records out of medical office and insurance company computer records. It is recommended to get Lifelock.com for your personal protection

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and his family said that on September 7, 2014, Raad al-Azzawi (or translated Azzaoui), 37, a TV Salaheddin cameraman from the village of Samra, east of Tikrit in Iraq was seized and on October 11 publicly beheaded. According to RSF al-Azzawi was taken because he refused to work for terrorists. They also kidnapped and killed, possibility also by beheading, al-Azzawi's brother and several other civilians.

A security official in Baiji said three men were beheaded on October 10, 2014

Alan Henning (August 15, 1967 – c. October 3, 2014) was a British humanitarian aid worker. Henning was the fourth Western hostage killed, and was captured during the occupation of the Syrian city of Al-Dana in December 2013, where he was helping with humanitarian relief.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on October 1 that 10 individuals had been beheaded near Kobane, Syria – two male and three female Kurdish fighters, four Syrian Arab rebels and a male Kurdish civilian. "I don't know why they were arrested or beheaded. They want to scare people," according to Rami Abdulrahman.

Hervé Gourdel (September 12, 1959 – c. September 24, 2014) was a French citizen and mountaineering guide.[40] Gourdel was kidnapped on September 21, 2014, while hiking in the Djurdjura National Park in Algeria.

On September 24, 2014, a man attacked two female employees at the Vaughan Foods food processing plant in Moore, Oklahoma, United States, with a knife. Colleen Hufford was beheaded, while another employee, Traci Johnson, was stabbed and critically injured. The suspect, identified as 30-year-old Alton Nolen, who was fired from the plant prior to the attack, was then shot and wounded by Vaughn Foods Chief Operating Officer Mark Vaughan. Alton Nolen was charged with first-degree murder and assault and battery with a deadly weapon, and may also face federal charges as well. The attack came to national attention due to its gruesome nature, which followed a recent series of beheadings carried out by ISIL.

On September 20, 2014, local officials in Ghazni Province Afghanistan reported that masked insurgents from different regions of the country led by camouflaged men wearing black masks had captured several villages, set at least 60 homes on fire, killed more than 100 people and beheaded fifteen family members of local police officers.

Deputy Police Chief General Asadullah Ensafi reported that Taliban ambushes stopped reinforcements from the Afghan National Army and provincial police from reaching the area. Afghan commandos inserted by helicopter were able to reinforce units already defending the area and the "immediate threat to district's center had been nullified."

David Haines (May 9, 1970 – c. September 13, 2014) was abducted in March 2013 by ISIL while working in Syria for the humanitarian aid group Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development assessing the Atmeh refugee camp near the Turkish border and the Syrian province of Idlib.

“Songs of Innocence” features 11 new songs from the band and is their most personal work to date, charting their earliest influences from 70s rock and punk rock to early 80s electronica and soul and giving insight into how and why the band came together and the relationships in and around them, their family and friendships. Recorded in New York, London, Los Angeles and Dublin the album is produced by Danger Mouse, along with Paul Epworth, Ryan Tedder, Declan Gaffney and Flood.
Apple is gifting “Songs of Innocence” to iTunes Store account holders.* Customers who sign up for an iTunes Store account in the next five weeks will get the album as a gift. “Songs of Innocence” is also available to stream via iTunes Radio℠ and will be available on Beats Music℠.

Sub-board: U2 apple iTunes one-click Delete album release tool September 15, 2014

Lebanese Army soldier Abbas Medlej is believed to have been beheaded following an attempted escape from his captors.

Steven Joel Sotloff (May 11, 1983 – c. September 2, 2014) was an Israeli-American[25] journalist for Time magazine and The Jerusalem Post, although the Post disavowed any relationship once Sotloff's life was threatened. In 2013, he was kidnapped in Aleppo, Syria, and was held captive.

Shut down O'Hare Airport completely, Just before he set the fire, Howard posted a Facebook message referencing a mirror
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-flights-grounded-at-midway-ohare-as-fire-crews-called-to-radar-facility-20140926-story.html#page=1

Lebanese Army Sergeant Ali al-Sayyed (July 15, 1985 – c. August 28, 2014) was beheaded following his capture during the Battle of Arsal.

ROME - Pope Francis was grieving the loss of three family members on Tuesday following a traffic accident in Argentina. A Vatican spokesman confirmed to NBC News that the pope's niece and two great-nephews had died. Father Federico Lombardi said "the pope has been informed and he is painfully sorry," adding that the pontiff had asked for prayers.

Police in Cordoba told NBC News that a call came in just after midnight about an accident involving a cargo truck and a Chevy Spin. The Chevy driver - Francis' 35-year-old nephew, Emanuel Bergoglio - was in intensive care in an induced coma after suffering a variety of injuries including liver trauma and a fractured femur, according to police. Bergoglio's wife, 36-year-old Carmona Valeria, and their eight-month-old son Jose died at the scene. Bergoglio's two-year-old, Antonio, later died at the hospital, police added. The news - which was first reported by Agence France-Presse - came a day after the 77-year-old pope suggest he could one day follow in Benedict XVI's footsteps and resign the papacy and joked that he might die soon. When asked about his immense popularity on Monday, Francis replied: "This will last a short time, two or three years, and then to the house of the Father."
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/three-pope-francis-family-members-die-argentina-car-crash-n183866

Nascar driver Tony Stewart will not face criminal charges for hitting and killing Kevin Ward Jr. with his car during a dirt-track race in the US.
The driver struck and killed his fellow sprint car racer who had climbed from his vehicle in an attempt to confront Stewart during a race in upstate New York on Saturday night.
Ontario County Sheriff Philip Povero said his department's investigation is not criminal and that Stewart was "fully cooperative" and appeared "very upset" over what had happened.
A video of the crash at Canandaigua Motorsports Park showed driver Kevin Ward Jr., wearing a black helmet and firesuit on a dimly lit track, walking toward Stewart's car before being hit and hurtled 50 feet. Povero said the driver was pronounced dead Saturday night at a Canandaigua hospital. Stewart was unhurt.
A witness said it appeared Ward was trying to confront Stewart, the three-time Nascar Sprint Cup Champion. The video showed Ward standing to the right of Stewart's familiar No. 14 car, which seemed to kick out from the rear and hit him.
"The next thing I could see, I didn't see (the other driver) anymore," witness Michael Messerly said. "It just seemed like he was suddenly gone."

Murder. Williams committed suicide on August 11, 2014 in his home in unincorporated Paradise Cay, California at the age of 63. In the initial report released on August 12, the Marin County Sheriff's Office deputy coroner stated Williams had hanged himself with a belt and died from asphyxiation. It was revealed following his death that Williams had been suffering from severe depression, and had been sleeping in a different room from his wife due to restlessness and anxiety caused by his Parkinson's. The final autopsy report, released in November 2014, affirmed that Williams had committed suicide as initially described; neither alcohol nor illegal drugs were involved, while any prescription drugs present in Williams' body were at "therapeutic" levels. The report also noted that Williams had been suffering "a recent increase in paranoia." An examination of his brain tissue revealed the presence of "diffuse Lewy body dementia." Williams' doctors reportedly believe that Lewy body dementia "was the critical factor" that led to his suicide. His body was cremated and his ashes were spread in San Francisco Bay on August 21.

Suárez, the Uruguayan striker,is a biter. For the 3rdX in his career, Suárez is facing potential punishment for appearing to sink his teeth into an opponent during Uruguay’sWorld Cup 1-0 victory over Italy on Tuesday. Late in the 2nd half, Suárez bumped into Giorgio Chiellini, an Italian defender, while jockeying for position in the penalty area and then dropped his head into Chiellini’s shoulder and they both fell to the ground. Then, only moments later, Uruguay scored the only goal of the game, benefiting from an earlier red card, for a cleat-first challenge to the leg, that left Italy a man down after the 59th minute. Suárez denied biting him, despite photographs of Chiellini’s shoulder circulating publicly and seeming to indicate otherwise. “I had contact with his shoulder, nothing more,” he said.
Chiellini said, “Suárez is a sneak, and he gets away with it because FIFA wants their stars to play in the World Cup.”
Óscar Tabárez, the Uruguayan coach, also said he had not seen the incident (nor any video or photographs of it afterward), but he leapt to Suárez’s defense anyway, vehemently attacking journalists for, in his opinion, unfairly targeting Suárez.
Tabárez added: “This is a football World Cup, not about morality, cheap morality.”
Suárez’s first biting incident came in 2010, when he was playing for the Dutch club Ajax. In that instance, he was suspended for seven games for biting an opponent on the neck, prompting a Dutch newspaper to call him the Cannibal of Ajax.
In April 2013, Suárez was caught on video — but, again, not by the referee — biting Branislav Ivanovic of Chelsea. This time, Suárez was barred for 10 games, though he argued the customary three-match suspension for violent conduct was sufficient. When it handed down its sanction, the three-member disciplinary panel made a point to criticize Suárez for not appreciating the “seriousness” of his actions. The official Twitter account of McDonald’s Uruguay wrote to Suárez, “If you feel hungry, come take a bite of a Big Mac.”

James McNair (May 9, 1952 – June 7, 2014), known by his stage names Jimmy Mack and Uncle Jimmy Mack, was an American comedian and writer.
McNair left the construction industry to pursue comedy, an effort that was grueling and paid little; but did put him in touch with other aspiring entertainers at, among other places, the Uptown Comedy Club in Harlem where he would meet Tracy Morgan. When Morgan later joined the cast of Saturday Night Live, McNair would often write sketches and material for the show in a freelance capacity.[4] He was traveling with the comedy troupe the night of his death to aid with the writing for Morgan's "Turn it Funny" comedy stand-up tour. Royale Watkins, a fellow comedian and contemporary of both McNair and Morgan, said in an interview, "There may be guys like Tracy who get the fame and notoriety, but you have people like Jimmy Mack who have kind of energized and fueled cats like Tracy and kept them going on the road."
On June 7, 2014, McNair was killed at the age of 62 in a six-vehicle accident in New Jersey. McNair was a passenger in a limousine traveling northbound, north of Trenton, New Jersey, on the New Jersey Turnpike just after 1:00 AM EDT, when the limo bus was struck from behind by a Walmart-operated tractor-trailer, causing a chain reaction crash. The group was returning from a show at the Dover Downs Hotel & Casino in Dover, Delaware. Three others, Ardie Fuqua, Jeffrey Millea, and actor/comedian Tracy Morgan, were injured in the crash. On July 10, 2014, Morgan and the other two passengers filed a lawsuit against Walmart, alleging the driver of the firm's tractor-trailer had not slept for 24 hours before the crash. On March 20, 2015, it was reported that McNair's children were awarded a $10M settlement from Walmart.

admitted to killing younger sister by stabbing 50+ times in a rage because she felt unappreciated

May 31, 2014 Waukesha, Wisconsin two 12-year-old girls stab another girl 19 times in the woods.Who is slender man? The online myth 'the girls believed':
The Slender Man is a fictional character prevalent on the internet after originating as a meme in 2009.
Unnerving: The Slender Man with one of his 'chosen victims' as depicted in a popular online meme
Unnerving: The Slender Man with one of his chosen victims as depicted in a popular online meme
The mythical creature is often depicted as an unnaturally tall, thin figure with a blank, featureless face, wearing a black suit.
The character is said to have long, tentacle-like arms, which can be extended to capture prey.
It is said to stalk, abduct and traumatize children and, depending on interpretations of the myth, can cause memory loss, insomnia and paranoia.
It is also said to be able to create distortions in photographs and teleport.
It is understood to have originated in a Photoshop contest on the Something Awful Forums in 2009.
It then went viral with numerous works of fan art and short scary stories published online known as 'creepypasta'.
The character has developed its own life online, with two feature-length films funded in part by Kickstarter appearing in 2012.
The meme that appears most is that of a tall malevolent figure, who silently stalks down his prey.
Over the past six or so years, the Slender Man meme has mutated liked all good scary stories into one that haunts the minds of those who become obsessed with it.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2957709/Inside-notebook-Slender-Man-stabbing-suspect-12-list-supplies-attempted-killing-mutilated-Barbies-message-said-love-killing-people.html

Raymell Mourice "Ray" Rice (born 1-22-87) is a professional American football running back who is currently a free agent. He played college football for Rutgers and was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the second round of the 2008 NFL Draft. He is ranked as the Ravens' 2nd all-time leading rusher behind Jamal Lewis (7,801) with 6,180 yards, and is also second in rushing attempts (1,430) and rushing touchdowns (37), and third in combined touchdowns (43).
Rice was arrested and subsequently indicted for third-degree aggravated assault on March 27, 2014, relating to an incident where he punched his then-fiancée (now wife) in the face. The blow knocked her unconscious. The incident became a prominent controversy after TMZ released a video of the encounter, which led to an NFL policy change regarding how it handles domestic violence cases. Rice's contract was terminated by the Ravens on 9-8-14, following the release of an additional video of the incident. He was subsequently suspended indefinitely by the league, but later appealed in Federal Court, and won.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Rice
On 2-15-14, Rice and his then fiancée (now wife) Janay Palmer were arrested and charged with assault after a physical altercation at the Revel Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Rice and Palmer were both highly intoxicated during the incident. Celebrity news website TMZ posted a video of Rice dragging Palmer out of an elevator after apparently knocking her out.
On 3-27-14, a grand jury indicted Rice on third-degree aggravated assault, with a possible jail sentence of three to five years and a fine of up to $15,000. Rice married Palmer six weeks after the incident. Rice was suspended for the first two games of the 2014 NFL season. The criminal charges were later dropped after Rice agreed to undergo court-supervised counseling. In a news conference announcing longer suspension lengths for future domestic violence incidents, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said that he "didn't get it right" in deciding Rice's punishment.

Scott was a model in Paris before styling movie stars Madonna and Julia Roberts. In 2006, she launched the first of her fashion collections. She started dating Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger in 2001. Following a period of depression, Scott hanged herself at her apartment in Chelsea, Manhattan. The cause of death: suicide by hanging. Scott's creations were seen often on the red carpet. Sarah Jessica Parker, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Penélope Cruz and Amy Adams have all worn Scott's dresses to the Academy Awards. First Lady Michelle Obama favors L'Wren Scott's designs, especially embellished cardigan sweaters. Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, Naomi Campbell, Marion Cotillard, Reese Witherspoon, Christina Hendricks, Jennifer Lopez, Sandra Bullock and Uma Thurman. In 2005 she took Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen under her designer wing. L'Wren Scott collaborated with Mick Jagger the designs for his costumes for the Rolling Stones tours. The range included a gorilla coat covered in ostrich feathers, a green jacket that Scott dubbed "Glamouflage," a black jacked adorned with butterflies, an embroidered gold jacked inspired by Gustav Klimt. After a long period of depression, Scott was found dead by her assistant at her apartment in Chelsea, Manhattan on March 17, 2014. The police reported that no note was found and there was no sign of foul play. The NYC Chief Medical Examiner determined Scott's manner and cause of death to be suicide by hanging. Upon learning of her death Mick Jagger wrote on his website and on his official Facebook page: "I am still struggling to understand how my lover and best friend could end her life in this tragic way. We spent many wonderful years together and had made a great life for ourselves. She had great presence and her talent was much admired, not least by me. I have been touched by the tributes that people have paid to her, and also the personal messages of support that I have received. I will never forget her." Scott's family members have divided opinions regarding MJ's relationship with their sister

In December 2013, al-Azzawi's TV station was attacked with suicide bombs, killing 5 journalists, after accusing the station of "distorting the image of Iraq's Sunni community." These actions are part of a widespread organized effort to control the press through violence. At about the same time, AP reported that terrorists beheaded a number of journalists in Syria.

starred in the National Geographic Channel series, Expedition Great White. He also founded the charity Reach Out Worldwide (ROWW), an organization providing relief efforts for areas affected by natural disasters.
Approx 3:30 p.m. PST, Walker and Roger Rodas, 38, left an event for Walker's charity Reach Out Worldwide for victims of Typhoon Haiyan in Rodas's red 2005 Porsche Carrera GT. The car crashed into a concrete lamppost and two trees on Hercules Street, in a 45 miles per hour speed zone near Kelly Johnson Parkway in Valencia, Santa Clarita, California, after which the vehicle burst into flames. The crash was caught on film by a security camera.
Authorities determined that Rodas was driving the car, while Walker was the passenger. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department declared both victims dead at the scene. Rodas died of multiple traumatic injuries, while Walker died from the combined effects of traumatic and thermal injuries, according to the Los Angeles county coroner's office. Both of their bodies were burned beyond recognition.
The curve where Walker and Rodas were killed is a popular spot for drifting cars. The coroner's report stated that the 2005 Porsche Carrera GT was traveling at a speed possibly as high as 100 miles per hour before the crash. The coroner's report further stated that no alcohol or other drugs were found in the systems of either man. There were no hints of technical problems with the car and neither a damaged surface of the street nor parts on the street played a role in the accident. Police investigated as to whether drag racing played a role, but were unable to find evidence of a second car's involvement. A piece of the car was stolen off the tow truck as the wreckage was towed away on a flatbed. Two men, Jameson Brooks Witty and Anthony Janow, were arrested for grand theft. Walker's autopsy showed "scant soot" in his trachea, leading investigators to believe he died before the car was engulfed in fire, where Rodas was killed on impact by head, neck, and chest trauma.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/11/mass-shooting-detroit_n_4250706.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/nevada-middle-school-shooter-left-2-suicide-notes-cops-article-1.1791820

A top official in the world’s most notorious church flees a secret compound and, presumed dead, escapes to a new life on the Texas coast. When he and his new wife are discovered, they’re so hounded by church enforcers that they haul the church to court for a restraining order. And now, inside a quaint historic courthouse in a Texas town, the church and all its big-time legal firepower must defend itself before a rural judge.

That’s the real-life story as Mark and Monique Rathbun tell it, and her lawsuit filed in Comal County last month spells it out in even more compelling detail. Before a dozen or more lawyers for the Church of Scientology and others she’s accused of stalking her, Monique Rathbun took the witness stand Thursday and described being stalked from one home to the next, harassed at work and followed overseas.

Les Strieber, a San Antonio lawyer representing the church, began building a defense based on religious freedom, suggesting Mark and Monique Rathbun are heretics who’ve been practicing Scientology outside the bounds of the church—and in violation of the church’s trademarks—and intoning that this “stalking” is constitutionally protected religious speech. With a little courtroom righteousness worthy of Matthew McConaughey, Strieber delivered one of the day’s great lines: “Your honor, I am not a Scientologist. But I am a disciple of the First Amendment.”
http://www.texasobserver.org/scientology-defectors-privacy-fight-sparks-epic-showdown-comal-county-court/

The Boston Marathon bombings and subsequent, related shootings were a series of attacks and incidents which began on April 15, 2013, when two pressure cooker bombs exploded during the Boston Marathon at 2:49 pm EDT, killing 3 people and injuring an estimated 264 others. The bombs exploded about 12 seconds and 210 yards (190 m) apart, near the finish line on Boylston Street.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) took over the investigation and, on April 18, released photographs and a surveillance video of two suspects. The suspects were identified later that day as Chechen brothers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Shortly after the FBI released the images, the suspects killed an MIT policeman, carjacked an SUV, and initiated an exchange of gunfire with the police in Watertown, Massachusetts. During the firefight, an MBTA police officer was injured but survived with severe blood loss. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was shot several times in the firefight and his brother subsequently ran him over with the stolen SUV in his escape. Tamerlan was pronounced dead at the scene.

The New York Times' James Risen reported that Snowden's decision to leak NSA documents "developed gradually, dating back at least to his time working as a technician in the Geneva station of the CIA." Snowden first made contact with Glenn Greenwald, a journalist working at The Guardian, in late 2012. He contacted Greenwald anonymously as "Cincinnatus" and said he had "sensitive documents" that he would like to share. Greenwald found the measures that the source asked him to take to secure their communications, such as encrypting email, too annoying to employ. Snowden then contacted documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras in January 2013. According to Poitras, Snowden chose to contact her after seeing her New York Times documentary about NSA whistleblower William Binney.
The Post declined to guarantee publication within 72 hours of all 41 PowerPoint slides that Snowden had leaked exposing the PRISM electronic data mining program, and to publish online an encrypted code allowing Snowden to later prove that he was the source.
Snowden wrote, "I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end." Snowden also told Gellman that until the articles were published, the journalists working with him would also be at mortal risk from the United States Intelligence Community "if they think you are the single point of failure that could stop this disclosure and make them the sole owner of this information."
In May 2013, Snowden was permitted temporary leave from his position at the NSA in Hawaii, on the pretext of receiving treatment for his epilepsy. In mid-May, Snowden gave an electronic interview to Poitras and Jacob Appelbaum which was published weeks later by Der Spiegel.
After disclosing the copied documents, Snowden promised that nothing would stop subsequent disclosures. 6/2013, he said, "All I can say right now is the US government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped."

Murder/suicide. In August 2004, McCready was arrested in Tennessee for using a fake prescription to buy the painkiller OxyContin. In May 2005, McCready was stopped by Nashville police for speeding and then arrested and charged with driving under the influence and driving with a suspended license. That July, she was charged in Arizona with identity theft, unlawful use of transportation, unlawful imprisonment, and hindering prosecution. In July 2007, McCready was arrested in her hometown, Fort Myers, Florida. She was charged with battery and resisting arrest for an apparent scuffle with her mother. The following week, she was taken into custody at the Nashville International Airport for violating probation. On February 17, 2013, McCready's neighbors called the Sheriff's Office of Cleburne County, Arkansas, reporting gunshots. McCready was found dead on her front porch from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. This is the same place where David Wilson, her former boyfriend and the father of her youngest son, had fatally shot himself one month prior. She was 37 years old. She also fatally shot the pet dog that had belonged to Wilson. Her two children were in foster care and were not home at the time of her death.
All these are typical suggestions used in mental manipulation techniques. Also, every so often someone tries to re-create Marilyn Monroe. madonna is a failed copy, mindy was fighting against being made a copy. There was only one, and should be only one marilyn.

Because it was a high-casualty fire caused by illegal indoor usage of outdoor pyrotechnics, the disaster bore similarities to the 2003 Station nightclub fire in West Warwick, Rhode Island in the United States; the 2004 República Cromañón nightclub fire in Buenos Aires, Argentina; the 2008 Wuwang Club fire in Shenzen, China; the 2009 Santika Club fire in Watthana, Bangkok, Thailand (cause is disputed); and the 2009 Lame Horse fire in Perm, Russia.
The exact cause of the fire was not immediately known but it was later found by the investigation and the accounts of victims that an illegal firework device ignited the acoustic foam on the ceiling.[7][22]

Two co-owners of the nightclub and two members of the band were arrested and questioned by police. One of the owners of the nightclub tried to commit suicide while still being treated at the hospital; however one of the police officers guarding his room noticed the attempt and intervened.
On 30 January, the nightclub's owner deflected blame to "the whole country", as well as to architects and inspectors who were commissioned with ensuring the building's safety, according to his lawyer. By that time, the death toll was at least 235. The next day, officials inspected and closed more than 58 nightlife spots around the country as part of a crackdown on unsafe public spaces.
On 2 April, two nightclub owners and two band members were charged with manslaughter.
Organisers postponed a ceremony on 28 January in Brasília that marked 500 days to the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

Michael Dunn

Sub-boards: CIA contractor Glen Doherty, CIA contractor Tyrone S. Woods, U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith, U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2012/aug/10/wisconsin-sikhs-leave-bullet-hole-mark-mass-shooti/84787/
http://www.colorlines.com/articles/fbi-track-hate-crimes-against-sikh-hindu-and-arab-americans

"The Joker made me do it"

On May 30, 2012, just before 11:00 a.m., Stawicki walked into Café Racer in the University District of Seattle, Washington. The staff there recognized him from being thrown out, police said, and reminded him of that. Stawicki lingered for a bit, and then walked near the door. He pulled one of his two pistols, both .45-caliber handguns, and shot his first victim in the back of the head. The man's body blocked the door, taking away an escape route. One man fought Stawicki, throwing a bar stool at him and using another bar stool to fight him. The distraction allowed two or three people to escape through the door the shooter had blocked. Stawicki then went near the bar and shot the others execution-style, police say. As he left, Stawicki took a hat from one of the victims. Stawicki killed four patrons and wounded the café's chef. Half an hour later, he killed another woman in a parking lot next to Town Hall Seattle on First Hill while carjacking her SUV. Later that afternoon, he committed suicide on a sidewalk in West Seattle as police closed in.[5] The perpetrator previously owned six handguns (three 9mm handguns and three .45-caliber handguns), including the Para-Ordnance pistol he used in the shootings. As a result of the shootings, several schools, including Roosevelt High School and Nathan Eckstein Middle School, were put on lock-down for student safety.
During the February 2008 case, police officers were called to the Magnolia home of Stawicki and his then-girlfriend to find the victim with a bloody nose and crying. She told police that he had struck her and destroyed several of her belongings, and that in recent months, he had begun breaking things and flying into rages, according to the police report.[3] Stawicki's father, Walt Stawicki, described his son as very private person who was "disgruntled" and had been a frequent customer of the coffee shop where his rampage began.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Seattle_cafe_shooting_spree

The shooting happened at approximately 10:30 am Pacific Daylight Time on Monday, April 2, 2012, when a gunman opened fire with a .45-caliber semi-automatic handgun with four fully loaded 10-round magazines on the university's campus, located at the Airport Business park in East Oakland, near the Oakland International Airport. The suspected gunman, 43-year-old One L. Goh, stood up in a nursing classroom while class was in session, ordered classmates to line up against the wall, and fired at them. The gunman was reported to have said "Get in line ... I'm going to kill you all!" before opening fire, according to a witness.[6] Seven were reported dead, and three others injured. The attacker continued to fire shots as he fled the campus, driving away in a car belonging to one of the victims. Hours later, he surrendered to authorities at a Safeway supermarket in the nearby South Shore area of Alameda, about five miles away from the scene of the shooting.
Along with the California State University, Fullerton massacre, this was the third-deadliest university shooting in United States history, after the Virginia Tech massacre and the University of Texas Clock Tower shooting and the seventh-deadliest U.S. school massacre overall. It is also considered the deadliest mass killing in the city's history.

Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American singer, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, Guinness World Records cited her as the most awarded female act of all time. Houston is the only artist to chart seven consecutive No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits. Houston's first acting role was as the star of the feature film The Bodyguard (1992). The film's original soundtrack won the 1994 Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Its lead single, "I Will Always Love You", became the best-selling single by a woman in music history. With the album, Houston became the first act (solo or group, male or female) to sell more than a million copies of an album within a single week period under Nielsen SoundScan system. On February 11, 2012, Houston was found dead in her guest room at the Beverly Hilton, in Beverly Hills, California. The official coroner's report showed that she had accidentally drowned in the bathtub, with heart disease and cocaine use listed as contributing factors.[11] News of her death coincided with the 2012 Grammy Awards and featured prominently in American and international media.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_Houston

"Gunwalking", or "letting guns walk", was a tactic of the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), which ran a series of sting operations between 2006 and 2011 in the Tucson and Phoenix area where the ATF "purposely allowed licensed firearms dealers to sell weapons to illegal straw buyers, hoping to track the guns to Mexican drug cartel leaders and arrest them." These operations were done under the umbrella of Project Gunrunner, a project intended to stem the flow of firearms into Mexico by interdicting straw purchasers and gun traffickers within the United States. The Jacob Chambers Case began in October 2009 and eventually became known in February 2010 as "Operation Fast and Furious" after agents discovered Chambers and the other suspects under investigation belonged to a car club.
The stated goal of allowing these purchases was to continue to track the firearms as they were transferred to higher-level traffickers and key figures in Mexican cartels, with the expectation that this would lead to their arrests and the dismantling of the cartels however no means were employed to track either the firearms or the traffickers once they left the United States. The tactic was questioned during the operations by a number of people, including ATF field agents and cooperating licensed gun dealers. During Operation Fast and Furious, the largest "gunwalking" probe, the ATF monitored the sale of about 2,000 firearms, of which only 710 were recovered as of February 2012. A number of straw purchasers have been arrested and indicted; however, as of October 2011, none of the targeted high-level cartel figures had been arrested.
Guns tracked by the ATF have been found at crime scenes on both sides of the Mexico–United States border, and the scene where United States Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed December 2010. The "gunwalking" operations became public in the aftermath of Terry's murder.Dissenting ATF agents came forward to Congress in response.

Winehouse's bodyguard said that he arrived at her residence three days before her death and felt she was somewhat intoxicated. He observed moderate drinking over the next few days. He observed her "laughing, listening to music and watching TV at 2 am the day of her death". According to the bodyguard, at 10 am he observed her lying on her bed and tried unsuccessfully to rouse her. This did not raise much suspicion because she usually slept late after a night out. According to the bodyguard, shortly after 3 pm, he checked on her again and observed her lying in the same position as before, leading to a further check, in which he concluded that she was not breathing and had no pulse. He said he subsequently called emergency services.
At 3:54 pm BST on 23 July 2011, two ambulances were called to Winehouse's home in Camden, London. Winehouse was pronounced dead at the scene.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin dispatched two planes equipped to transport burn trauma victims. President Dmitry Medvedev sent many high-level government officials to Perm to aid the victims, manage the incident, and start the criminal investigation, commenting that those who started the blaze "have neither brains, nor conscience". Medvedev declared December 7, 2009 a national day of mourning.
Investigators say the fireworks that started the blaze were outdoor pyrotechnics, prohibited for use indoors.
Rumors have circulated that the incident was a terrorist plot, but the Russian Prosecutor's Investigative Committee spokesman, Vladimir Markin, declared that the fire was caused by unsanctioned use of fireworks indoors.
The fire was the deadliest in Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The previous high death toll for a fire was in March 2007, at a Krasnodar assisted living home, which claimed 63 lives.
Because it was a high-casualty fire caused by illegal indoor usage of outdoor fireworks, the 2003 disaster bore similarities to the 2004 República Cromañón nightclub fire in Buenos Aires, Argentina; the 2008 Wuwang Club fire in Shenzhen, China; the 2009 Santika Club fire in Watthana, Bangkok, Thailand (cause is disputed); the 2003 Station Nightclub fire in Rhode Island USA; and the 2013 Kiss nightclub fire in Santa Maria, Brazil.

Panhandle, Texas - A school assembly gone wrong has the town of Panhandle buzzing about what students of all grades were reportedly subjected to for two hours.


The buzz word among Panhandle students right now is "crazy." That is how they describe a school assembly on Tuesday that was meant to motivate them to stay off drugs, but instead left them a little scared.

A senior says Daron Norwood "wasn't ready at all and he just was saying all this crazy stuff and we just freaked out and he told us to bow our heads and he was yelling at us and stuff. It was kinda crazy."
"Basically, he spent five minutes on drugs in an hour and 45 minute assembly."
The rest of the time was filled with a jumbled mix of Norwood shooting hoops, running around the gym, playing music, and shouting at students.

Another student says "it was really random. He would stop and start talking for like 5 seconds, then play music again. It was just really weird": it apparently included a story about Norwood's grandfather "screwing whores." After a while, students say they started to get scared.

A third student, a senior, says she was concerned "when he started yelling at the kids, the principal, and the coaches, it kinda scared me for a minute. I thought, if someone pushes him any further, what's gonna happen?"

A teacher finally pulled the fire alarm to get students out of the gym. After that, police officers were also called to the school, and the chief says Norwood was cooperative but slow in packing up and leaving. They attribute his bizarre speech to some kind of mental problem.

School officials told us they are embarrassed and sorry for what happened, said Norwood came highly recommended and even spoke there six years ago and did a good job.

Another area school had Norwood speak last week; Adrian's high school principal also told us he did an excellent job.

Region 16 (which encompasses all 26 Panhandle counties) says area schools will be warned.
http://www.newswest9.com/Global/story.asp?S=11153007

66 people were killed and another 222 injured when fire swept through the nightclub during the New Year's celebration as a band called "Burn", was playing. The fire broke out at 12:35 am. and citizens of thirteen countries were among the injured.
No official cause has been announced. Suggested causes include outdoor fireworks that set the roof on fire, sparklers lighted inside the nightclub. and an electrical explosion. One witness stated there were no pyrotechnics in the club, while another reported seeing flames on the roof.
Video recordings of the indoor stage event, including the countdown to midnight, show that only ordinary holiday sparklers were used. Moreover, the fire became visible indoors approximately 10 minutes after midnight. This strongly suggests the fire originated inside the ceiling space or on the roof, allowing it to grow in intensity while going unnoticed for some time.
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva visited the site and said, "The question is why they let someone take fireworks inside the pub and light them up."
Two parallel investigations were launched, one by the police and one by the Ministry of Justice. The police blamed the lead singer of "Burn" for setting off fireworks on stage, and the club owner for recklessness and for illegally admitting people under the age of 19. The Ministry of Justice investigation discovered the nightclub was officially registered as a private residence and therefore had never received a fire safety inspection. It was also located in a zone where nightclubs are prohibited and the city architect's signature approving the club's design had been forged. Between 2004 and 2006, police had filed 47 charges against the club's owners for illegal operation. After that, however, no charges were filed. Suspicions of corruption were raised when one of the co-owners was identified as a senior police officer. When the Ministry of Justice investigation was turned over to the police, sources close to the Minister reported he was furious.

A fire broke out just before midnight on September 21 at the packed "King of the Dancers Club" (S: 舞王俱乐部, P: Wǔ Wáng Jùlèbù) according to an official with the Shenzhen Work Safety Bureau.[1] The fire was started by a floorshow stunt involving fireworks that ignited the ceiling, plunging the club into darkness and causing the club-goers to panic and stampede towards the exits. The windows were boarded up and there was only one exit with a lit exit sign.
There were 308 people present in the club. Most of the deaths were caused by the crush of the stampede. Among the casualties were 5 people from Hong Kong, a 40-year old man who worked in mainland China and four 18-year olds; the latter group was celebrating a birthday of one of their peers.
The nightclub was operating without a building license and was not built according to building codes, because of government corruption.
Because it was a high-casualty fire caused by illegal indoor usage of outdoor fireworks, the 2008 disaster bore similarities to the 2004 República Cromañón nightclub fire in Buenos Aires, Argentina; the 2003 The Station Nightclub fire; the 2009 Santika Club fire in Watthana, Bangkok, Thailand (cause is disputed); the 2009 Lame Horse fire in Perm, Russia; and the 2013 Kiss nightclub fire in Santa Maria, Brazil.

Murdered. "Mr. Heath Ledger died as the result of acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine." At about 2:45 pm (EST), on 22 January 2008, Ledger was found unconscious in his bed by his housekeeper, Teresa Solomon, and his masseuse, Diana Wolozin, in his fourth-floor loft apartment at 421 Broome Street in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan.
According to the police, Wolozin, who had arrived early for a 3:00 pm appointment with Ledger, called Ledger's friend, actress Mary-Kate Olsen, for help. Olsen, who was in California, directed a New York City private security guard to go to the scene. At 3:26 pm, "less than 15 minutes after she first saw him in bed and only a few moments after the first call to Ms. Olsen", Wolozin telephoned 9-1-1 "to say that Mr. Ledger was not breathing". At the urging of the 9-1-1 operator, Wolozin administered CPR, which was unsuccessful in reviving him.
Paramedics and emergency medical technicians arrived seven minutes later, at 3:33 pm ("at almost exactly the same moment as a private security guard summoned by Ms. Olsen") but were also unable to revive him. At 3:36 pm, Ledger was pronounced dead, and his body was removed from the apartment. Ledger died on 22 January 2008 from an accidental intoxication from prescription drugs. A few months before his death, Ledger had finished filming his performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight. His death occurred during editing of The Dark Knight and in the midst of filming his last role as Tony in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

The Virginia Tech shooting (also known as the Virginia Tech massacre) was a school shooting that took place on April 16, 2007, on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. Seung-Hui Cho, a senior at Virginia Tech, shot and killed 32 people and wounded 17 others in two separate attacks (another six people were injured escaping from classroom windows), approximately two hours apart, before committing suicide.

On February 8, 2007, Smith was found dead in room 607 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. Tasma Brighthaupt, a friend of Smith who was a trained emergency nurse, performed CPR for 15 minutes until her husband, Maurice "Big Moe" Brighthaupt, Smith's friend and bodyguard, took over CPR. He had driven back to the hotel after being notified by his wife of Smith's condition. According to Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger, at 1:38 p.m. (EST) Maurice Brighthaupt, who was also a trained paramedic, called the hotel front desk from her sixth-floor room. The front desk in turn called security, who then called 911. At 1:45 p.m. (EST) the bodyguard administered CPR until paramedics arrived and Smith was rushed to Memorial Regional Hospital at 2:10 p.m. (EST) and pronounced dead on arrival at 2:49 p.m. (EST)
A phone call was released to the public on February 13, 2007, involving Seminole police and the local 911 operators, saying:
We need assistance to Room 607 at the Hard Rock. It's in reference to a white female. She's not breathing and not responsive... actually, it's Anna Nicole Smith.
After a 7week investigation led by Broward County Medical Examiner and Forensic Pathologist Dr. Joshua Perper in combination with the Seminole police and several independent forensic pathologists and toxicologists, Dr. Perper announced that Smith died of combined drug intoxication with the sleeping medication chloral hydrate as the major component. her death was ruled a drug overdose of the sedative chloral hydrate that became increasingly lethal when combined with other prescription drugs in her system,specifically 4 benzodiazepines: Klonopin(Clonazepam), Ativan(Lorazepam), Serax(Oxazepam), and Valium(Diazepam). Furthermore, she had taken Benadryl(Diphenhydramine)and Topamax(Topiramate), an anticonvulsant AMPA/Kainate antagonist, which likely contributed to the sedative effect of chloral hydrate and the benzodiazepines.The benzodiazepines combination with a high dose of chloral hydrate led to her overdose.

Sub-board: Daniel Wayne Smith (January 22, 1986 – September 10, 2006)

On New Year's Day, in 2007, Denver Broncos' young, promising cornerback Darrent Williams was shot after getting in his Hummer limousine after hitting up a night club. The murderer was sentenced to life in prison for first-degree murder and the entire organization mourned over the loss of their talented, opportunistic, young defender.
Fast forward four years—and a ton of controversy—later and, finally, we have a good idea of what the hell happened that night.
According to Sports Illustrated, those bullets, which carried in them the fate of Darrent Williams, were intended for then-Broncos' wide receiver Brandon Marshall.
To recap (shallowly), Little Willie (Williams' murderer) and his gang—who dealt cocaine in the eastern area of Denver—had found their attention to be focused on then-rookie Brandon Marshall, who had made quite the scene outside of the night club, after a bouncer (at first) refused to allow Marshall entrance into the club.
After some hours go by on that New Year's Eve, Marshall found himself trying to alleviate the trouble that the gang members had tried to create.
At the end, the problems that Little Willie and his gang had were with Brandon Marshall, not Darrent Williams. An error saved Marshall's life—and took that of Darrent Williams.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/661539-bullets-that-killed-broncos-darrent-williams-intended-for-brandon-marshall

Valentín Elizalde Valencia (1 February 1979 – 25 November 2006) was a Mexican banda music singer gunned down in an ambush. Known by the nickname "El Gallo de Oro" (The Golden Rooster), his biggest Banda hits included "Vete Ya," "Ebrio de Amor", " Vete Con Él", "Vuelve Cariñito", "Cómo Me Duele", "Vencedor", " Mi Virgencita", and "Soy Así". Some of his songs were narcocorridos eulogizing Mexican drug lords like Vicente Carrillo Fuentes. He was allegedly murdered at the age of 27 by a member of the drug trafficking gang Los Zetas, which at that time served as the armed wing of the Gulf Cartel. Elizalde was born in the city of Navojoa, Sonora. He then moved to Guadalajara, Jalisco and later to Guasave, Sinaloa where he, his father (also a singer), Everardo "Lalo" Elizalde, nicknamed "El Gallo" (The Rooster), and brothers resided for a few years. His father died in a car accident on the so-called "Curva de la muerte" (Curve of Death) in the city of Villa Juárez, Sonora. On 25 November 2006, Elizalde’s vehicle was gunned down shortly after leaving a concert in Reynosa, Tamaulipas. Elizalde was killed, along with his chauffeur and his assistant. It is widely believed that Elizalde was killed due to his concert performance of “A Mis Enemigos”, which contains lyrics believed to antagonize drug trafficking gang Los Zetas. Raúl Hernández Barrón, alleged murderer of Elizalde and member of Los Zetas, was arrested on 22 March 2008, in Coatzintla, Veracruz.

Natalee disappeared on May 30, 2005, while on a high school graduation trip to Aruba. Holloway, an 18-year-old American, lived in Mountain Brook, Alabama, USA, at the time of her vanishing, and graduated from Mountain Brook High School on May 24, 2005, shortly before the trip. Her disappearance caused a media sensation in the United States.
Holloway was scheduled to fly home on May 30, but failed to appear for her flight. She was last seen alive by her classmates outside Carlos'n Charlie's, a Caribbean chain restaurant and nightclub in Oranjestad, in a car with locals Joran van der Sloot and brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe. When questioned, the three men said they dropped Holloway off at her hotel and denied knowing what became of her. Upon further investigation by authorities, Van der Sloot was arrested twice on suspicion of involvement in her disappearance and the Kalpoes were each arrested three times. Due to lack of evidence the three men were released without charge each time.
With the help of hundreds of volunteers, Aruban investigators conducted an extensive search for Holloway. Special Agents from the FBI, fifty Dutch soldiers and three specially equipped Dutch Air Force F-16 aircraft participated in the search. In addition to the ground search, divers searched the ocean floor for Holloway's body. It was never found. On December 18, 2007, Aruban prosecutors announced that the case would be closed without any charges made against the former suspects. The Aruban prosecutor's office reopened the case on February 1, 2008, after receiving video footage of Joran van der Sloot, under the influence of marijuana, saying that Holloway died on the morning of May 30, 2005, and that he disposed of her body. Van der Sloot later denied that what he said was true, and in an interview with Greta Van Susteren (the contents of which he later retracted) said that he sold Holloway into slavery.

Sub-boards: First "Save Disney" campaign (1984), Second "Save Disney" campaign (2003–05), Roy Edward Disney, KCSG (January 10, 1930 – December 16, 2009)

American guitarist and songwriter best known as a founding member of two bands, Pantera and Damageplan. On December 8, 2004, Abbott was shot onstage while performing with Damageplan at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus, Ohio. Using a 9 mm Beretta 92FS pistol, Nathan Gale shot Abbott three times in the head, killing him instantly. Some in attendance initially believed the shooting was part of the act, but as Gale continued shooting, the audience quickly came to the realization that the event was not staged. Having fired a total of fifteen shots, Gale killed a total of four people while wounding seven others. Jeff "Mayhem" Thompson, the band's head of security, was killed tackling Gale, as was Alrosa Villa employee Erin Halk. Audience member Nathan Bray was killed while trying to perform CPR on Abbott and Thompson. It was rumored that one crowd member leapt in front of the gunman, saving the lives of several band members. Damageplan drum technician, John "Kat" Brooks, was shot three times as he attempted to get the gun away from Gale, but was overpowered and taken hostage in a headlock position. Tour manager Chris Paluska was also injured.
Seven police officers came in the front entrance and moved toward the stage. Officer James Niggemeyer came in through the back door, behind the stage. Gale only saw the officers in front of the stage; he did not see Officer Niggemeyer, who was armed with a 12 gauge Remington 870 shotgun. He approached Gale from the opposite side of the stage to avoid hitting the hostage and fired a single shot just as Gale looked towards Niggemeyer, striking Gale in the face with eight of the nine buckshot pellets, killing him instantly. Gale was found to have had 35 rounds of ammunition remaining. For the record (not that it matters): Nathan Gale was a white male.

The Station nightclub fire was the fourth-deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history, killing 100 people. The fire began at 11:07 PM EST, on Thursday, February 20, 2003, at The Station, a glam metal and rock and roll-themed nightclub located at 211 Cowesett Avenue in West Warwick, Rhode Island.
The fire was caused by pyrotechnics set off by the tour manager of the evening's headlining band, Jack Russell's Great White, which ignited flammable sound insulation foam in the walls and ceilings surrounding the stage. A fast-moving fire engulfed the club in 5½ minutes. In addition to the 100 fatalities, 230 people were injured and another 132 escaped uninjured. Video footage of the fire shows its ignition, rapid growth, the billowing smoke that quickly made escape impossible, and the exit blockage that further hindered evacuation.
Because it was a high-casualty fire caused by illegal indoor usage of outdoor fireworks, the 2003 disaster bore similarities to the 2004 República Cromañón nightclub fire in Buenos Aires, Argentina; the 2008 Wuwang Club fire in Shenzhen, China; the 2009 Santika Club fire in Watthana, Bangkok, Thailand (cause is disputed); the 2009 Lame Horse fire in Perm, Russia; and the 2013 Kiss nightclub fire in Santa Maria, Brazil.
The fire started just seconds into the band's opening song, "Desert Moon," when pyrotechnics set off by tour manager Daniel Biechele ignited flammable acoustic foam on both sides of the drummer's alcove at the back of the stage. The pyrotechnics were gerbs, cylindrical devices that produce a controlled spray of sparks. Biechele used three gerbs set to spray sparks 15 feet (4.6 m) for 15 seconds.
Through attorneys, club owners said they did not give permission to the band to use pyrotechnics. Band members claimed they had permission.

also known as Amerithrax from its Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) case name, occurred over the course of several weeks beginning on Tuesday, September 18, 2001, one week after the September 11 attacks. Letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices and two Democratic U.S. Senators, killing five people and infecting 17 others. According to the FBI, the ensuing investigation became "one of the largest and most complex in the history of law enforcement".

Sub-boards: K9 Sirius Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Fire Marshal Ronald P. Bucca New York City Fire Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Assistant Deputy Commissioner William Pohlmann New York State Office of Tax Enforcement - Revenue Crimes Bureau, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Bureau Chief Charles Mills New York State Office of Tax Enforcement - Petroleum, Alcohol and Tobacco Bureau, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Captain Kathy Mazza Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Captain William Thompson New York State Office of Court Administration, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Chief James Romito Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Senior Court Officer Thomas Jurgens New York State Office of Court Administration, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Senior Court Officer Mitchel Scott Wallace New York State Office of Court Administration, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Detective Claude Richards New York City Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Detective Joseph Vigiano New York City Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Director of Public Safety Fred V. Morrone Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Inspector Anthony Infante Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Investigator Clyde Frazier New York State Office of Tax Enforcement - Revenue Crimes Bureau, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Investigator Salvatore Papasso New York State Office of Tax Enforcement - Revenue Crimes Bureau, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Investigator Richard Moore New York State Office of Tax Enforcement - Revenue Crimes Bureau, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Lieutenant Robert Cirri Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Master Special Officer Craig J. Miller United States Department of the Treasury - United States Secret Service Special Services Division, US EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer George Howard Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Christopher Amoroso Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Maurice Barry Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Liam Callahan Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Clinton Davis Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Donald Foreman Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Gregg Froehner Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Thomas Gorman Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Uhuru Gonja Houston Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Stephen Huczko, Jr. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Paul Jurgens Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Paul Laszczynski Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer David P. LeMagne Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer John Lennon Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer John Levi Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer James Lynch Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Donald McIntyre Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Walter McNeil Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Joseph Navas Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer James Nelson Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Alfonse Niedermeyer Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer James Parham Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Bruce Reynolds Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Antonio Rodrigues Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Richard Rodriguez Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer John Skala Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Walwyn Stuart Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Kenneth Tietjen Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Nathaniel Webb Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Michael Wholey Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Glen Pettit New York City Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Mark Ellis New York City Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Ramon Suarez New York City Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer James Leahy New York City Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Moira Smith New York City Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Robert Fazio New York City Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer John Perry New York City Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Walter Weaver New York City Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Vincent Danz New York City Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Jerome M. Dominguez New York City Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer John D'Allara New York City Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Thomas Langone New York City Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Ronald Kloepfer New York City Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Santos Valentin New York City Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Stephen Driscoll New York City Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Paul Talty New York City Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Brian McDonnell New York City Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Police Officer Dominick Pezzulo Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Sergeant Robert Kaulfers Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Sergeant Rodney Gillis New York City Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Sergeant Michael Curtin New York City Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Sergeant John Coughlin New York City Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Sergeant Timothy Roy New York City Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Special Agent Leonard Hatton United States Department of Justice - Federal Bureau of Investigation, US EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack, Refuge Manager Richard Jerry Guadagno United States Department of the Interior - Fish and Wildlife Service - Division of Refuge Law Enforcement, US EOW: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Cause of Death: Terrorist attack

was an American intern at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington, D.C., who disappeared in May 2001. She was presumed murdered after her skeletal remains were found in Rock Creek Park in May 2002. The case attracted attention from the American news media for years.

Gozalo negotiated the broadcast of the first concert with Azul Televisión. The filming of subsequent performances was halted by the Kirovsky brothers, owners of Magenta Records. The brothers sent a cease and desist order to the channel, claiming that Magenta owned Bueno's personality rights. The sold-out event, originally scheduled for eight performances, was extended to a total of thirteen sold-out concerts. In addition to the show, Bueno was also performing 225-30 concerts per week, including nightclubs, television and other concerts. Due to the effort that the appearances required, Bueno starting drinking beer to excess. His stress was also increased by multiple death threats, including a gang shooting near his house in Córdoba. He also received a bullet with his name engraved on it, according to recollections by Joaquín Levinton, lead singer of the band Turf. Affected by his lifestyle and by disputes with Magenta Records, Bueno announced his impending retirement on April 11, 2000. He detailed that he would finish his scheduled concerts, including a Christmas tour throughout the United States. In the early hours of June 24, Bueno was driving back to Buenos Aires in a Ford Explorer SUV with his ex-wife, Patricia Pacheco; his son, Ramiro; Fernando Olmedo; musician Jorge Moreno; and radio host Alberto Pereyra.[13] According to eyewitness accounts, after stopping at a toll booth in the Hudson area of the Buenos Aires - La Plata Highway at between 0330 and 0345, Bueno's path was blocked by a white Chevrolet K5 Blazer four-wheel drive with tinted windows. In anger, Bueno started chasing the Blazer. He tried to pass it by closing onto it with the front of his SUV. After brushing the side of the Blazer, he lost control of his Explorer and crashed against a highway barrier. The SUV tumbled 1,300 ft and the driver's door and left back door opened. Bueno and Olmedo were thrown from the car. Bueno died instantaneously, and Olmedo died forty minutes later. The other passengers survived with minor injuries.

George Harrison,[nb 1] MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) On 30 December 1999, 36-year-old Michael Abram broke into the Harrisons' Friar Park home and attacked Harrison with a kitchen knife, puncturing a lung and causing head injuries before Olivia Harrison incapacitated the assailant by striking him repeatedly with a poker and a lamp. Following the attack, Harrison was hospitalised with more than forty stab wounds. He released a statement soon after regarding his assailant: "[he] wasn't a burglar, and he certainly wasn't auditioning for the Traveling Wilburys."

Murder. In 1995 he launched George magazine, using his political and celebrity clout to publicize it. Kennedy died in the crash of a small plane he was piloting, along with his wife Carolyn Bessette, and her elder sister Lauren, on their way to a family wedding on Martha's Vineyard. On July 16, 1999, Kennedy piloted a Piper Saratoga II HP carrying his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, to attend the wedding of his cousin, Rory Kennedy at Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. He had purchased the plane on April 28, 1999, from Air Bound Aviation.[62] Carolyn and Lauren were in the second row of seats.[63] Kennedy had checked in with the FAA tower at the Martha's Vineyard Airport, but when the plane failed to arrive, the three were reported missing.[64]

Officials were not optimistic about finding survivors after debris from the aircraft were recovered in the Atlantic Ocean, as well as a black suitcase that belonged to Bessette.[65] President Clinton gave his support to the Kennedy family during the search for the three.[65]

On July 18, a Coast Guard admiral declared an end to hope that Kennedy, his wife and her sister could be found alive. On July 19, the fragments of Kennedy's plane were found by the NOAA vessel Rude using side-scan sonar. The next day, navy divers were allowed to descend into the 52 °F (11 °C) water. The divers found part of the shattered plane strewn over a broad area of seabed 120 feet (37 m) below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. The search ended in the late afternoon of July 21, when the three bodies were recovered from the ocean floor by Navy divers, and taken by motorcade to the county medical examiner's office. The discovery was made from high-resolution images of the ocean bottom. Divers found Carolyn and Lauren's bodies near the twisted and broken fuselage while Kennedy's body was still strapped into the pilot's seat. Admiral Admiral Richard M. Larrabee of the Coast Guard said that all three bodies were "near and under" the fuselage, still strapped in.

Murder. Hutchence's relationship with UK television presenter Paula Yates began while she was divorcing musician and Live Aid organiser Bob Geldof. Hutchence and Yates had a daughter in 1996.
On the morning of 22 November 1997, Hutchence was found dead in his hotel room in Sydney. His death was reported by the New South Wales Coroner to be the result of suicide. In 2000, Yates died of a heroin overdose. The couple's daughter was placed in Geldof's custody with her half-sisters. The final leg of their 20th anniversary tour was to be in Australia in November and December. However, on the morning of 22 November 1997, Hutchence, aged 37, was found dead in Rm 524 at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Double Bay, Sydney.
On 6 February 1998, after an autopsy and coronial inquest, New South Wales State Coroner, Derrick Hand, presented his report which ruled that Hutchence's death was a suicide while depressed and under the influence of alcohol and other drugs. Hutchence's body was discovered by a hotel maid at 11:50 am. Police reported that, "He was in a kneeling position facing the door. He had used his snake skin belt to tie a knot on the automatic door closure at the top of the door, and had strained his head forward into the loop so hard that the buckle had broken" After Hutchence's death, Geldof and Yates each gave police statements on the phone calls they exchanged with Hutchence that morning but did not volunteer their phone records. Yates contended that Geldof had repeatedly said "Don't forget, I am above the law" referring to his influence since Live Aid. Geldof's police statements and evidence to the coroner indicated that he patiently listened to Hutchence who was "hectoring and abusive and threatening". The occupant in the room next to Rm 524 heard a loud male voice and swearing at about 5 am; the coroner was satisfied that this was Hutchence arguing with Geldof. On 27 November, Hutchence's coffin was carried out of St. Andrew's Cathedral by members of the band and his younger brother Rhett. "Never Tear Us Apart"

American singer-songwriter, actor, activist and humanitarian. As the son of an Air Force officer, Denver was constantly moved from state to state and country to country. It was in Tucson, Arizona, that his grandmother gave him his first acoustic guitar, a gift that would prove an icebreaker when meeting other students at the many new schools in which he was placed. After settling with his family in Fort Worth, Texas, Denver ran away to California for a short time. He returned to Texas and graduated from high school, but soon returned to California on a more permanent basis. He began performing at Leadbetter's night club in West Los Angeles but had a major career breakthrough when he was selected to replace the departing Chad Mitchell of The Chad Mitchell Trio. He remained with that organization until 1968 when he struck out on his own. From 1969 through 1975, Denver was the top-selling recording artist, appearing on both country and pop charts alike. His peak year was 1975, during which he was awarded the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year in addition to being selected as the American Guild of Variety Artists' Singing Star of the Year. During this period, he tried his hand at acting, appearing as Deputy Dewey Cobb in a 1973 episode of McCloud (1970) and hosting Day of the Bighorn (1974), an ecologically-minded television special. His most memorable role came in 1977 when he starred opposite George Burns in the hit comedy, Oh, God! (1977). Following this, his record sales began to decline, and he made fewer movies and television specials. He became something of a political activist, with his main focus being on environmental issues. He was killed on Sunday, October 12, 1997, when the plane he was piloting crashed into Monterey Bay.

Murder. On 31 August 1997, Diana was fatally injured in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris, which also caused the deaths of her companion Dodi Fayed and the driver, Henri Paul, acting security manager of the Hôtel Ritz Paris. The initial French judicial investigation concluded the accident was caused by Henri Paul's drunken loss of control. In February 1998, Mohamed Al-Fayed, owner of the Paris Ritz, for whom Paul had worked, publicly maintained that the crash had been planned, accusing MI6 as well as the Duke of Edinburgh. An inquest in London starting in 2004 and continued in 2007–08 attributed the accident to grossly negligent driving by Henri Paul and to the pursuing paparazzi. On 7 April 2008, the jury returned a verdict of 'unlawful killing'. The day following the final verdict of the inquest, Al-Fayed announced he would end his 10-year campaign to establish that it was murder rather than an accident, stating that he did so for the sake of the princess's children.

Atlanta, Georgia, Summer Olympics

On 15 May 1991, he gained notoriety following an argument with NME journalist Steve Lamacq, who questioned the band's authenticity and values, keen to ensure the punk ethic was not abused, after a gig at the Norwich Arts Centre. Lamacq asked of Edwards' seriousness towards his art, and Edwards responded by carving the words "4 Real" into his forearm with a razor blade he was carrying. The injury required eighteen stitches.
Edwards suffered severe bouts of depression in his adult life, and was open about it in interviews: "If you're hopelessly depressed like I was, then dressing up is just the ultimate escape. When I was young I just wanted to be noticed. Nothing could excite me except attention so I'd dress up as much as I could. Outrage and boredom just go hand in hand."
"Gets to a point where you really can't operate any more as a human being – you can't get out of bed, you can't...make yourself a cup of coffee without something going badly wrong or your body's too weak to walk."
He also self-harmed, mainly through stubbing cigarettes on his body, and cutting himself: "When I cut myself I feel so much better. All the little things that might have been annoying me suddenly seem so trivial because I'm concentrating on the pain. I'm not a person who can scream and shout so this is my only outlet. It's all done very logically." After the release of the band's third album The Holy Bible, he checked into The Priory psychiatric hospital, missing out on some of the promotional work for the album and forcing the band to appear as a three piece at the Reading Festival and T in the Park. Edwards disappeared on 1 February 1995, on the day when he and James Dean Bradfield were due to fly to the US on a promotional tour. In the two weeks before his disappearance, Edwards withdrew £200 a day from his bank account, which totalled £2800 by the day of the scheduled flight. He checked out of the Embassy Hotel in Bayswater Road, London, at seven in the morning, and then drove to his apartment in Cardiff, Wales.

The Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide (Bosnian: Genocid u Srebrenici), was the genocidal killing, in July 1995, of more than 8,000 Muslim Bosniaks, mainly men and boys, in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War.
The killing was perpetrated by units of the Bosnian Serb Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) under the command of General Ratko Mladić. The Secretary-General of the United Nations described the mass murder as the worst crime on European soil since the Second World War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre

On the evening of June 12, 1994, at the age of 35, Brown was murdered at her home in Los Angeles, California, along with her friend, restaurant waiter Ronald Lyle Goldman. Brown had been stabbed multiple times in the head and neck and had defensive wounds on her hands. The wound through her neck was gaping, through which the larynx could be seen, and vertebra C3 was also incised. O. J. Simpson was arrested, and found not guilty in a controversial criminal trial. He was later found liable for the deaths in a civil suit brought by the two victims' families.
Brown and Simpson were married on February 2, 1985, five years after his retirement from professional football. The couple had two children, Sydney Brooke Simpson (born October 17, 1985) and Justin Ryan Simpson (born August 6, 1988). The marriage lasted seven years, during which Simpson pleaded no contest to spousal abuse in 1989. Brown filed for divorce on February 25, 1992 citing "irreconcilable differences".
In September 2007, Simpson was arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada, and charged with numerous felonies, including armed robbery and kidnapping. In 2008, he was found guilty and sentenced to 33 years' imprisonment, with a minimum of nine years without parole. He is serving his sentence at the Lovelock Correctional Center in Lovelock, Nevada.
Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman were murdered on June 12, 1994. Simpson was charged with their deaths and subsequently acquitted of all criminal charges in a controversial criminal trial. In the unanimous jury findings of a civil court case in February 1997, Simpson was found liable for the wrongful death of Ronald Goldman and stabbing of Nicole Brown.

Simpson stayed in Robert Kardashian's house during the days following the murders. Kardashian was the man seen carrying Simpson's garment bag the day that Simpson flew back from Chicago. Prosecutors speculated that the bag may have contained Simpson's bloody clothes or the murder weapon.

March 3-4 Love awoke to find that Cobain had overdosed on a combination of champagne and Rohypnol. Cobain was immediately rushed to the hospital, and spent the rest of the day unconscious. After five days in the hospital, Cobain was released and returned to Seattle. On March 18, 1994, Love phoned the Seattle police informing them that Cobain was suicidal and had locked himself in a room with a gun. Police arrived and confiscated several guns and a bottle of pills from Cobain, who insisted that he was not suicidal and had locked himself in the room to hide from Love. When questioned by police, Love said that Cobain had never mentioned that he was suicidal and that she had not seen him with a gun.
Love arranged an intervention regarding Cobain's drug use on March 25, 1994. The ten people involved included musician friends, record company executives, and Dylan Carlson. The intervention was initially unsuccessful, with an angry Cobain insulting and heaping scorn on its participants and eventually locking himself in the upstairs bedroom. However, by the end of the day, Cobain had agreed to undergo a detox program. Cobain arrived at the Exodus Recovery Center in Los Angeles, California on March 30, 1994. The staff at the facility were unaware of Cobain's history of depression and prior attempts at suicide. He spent the day talking to counselors about his drug abuse and personal problems, happily playing with his daughter Frances. The following night climbed over a six-foot-high fence to leave the facility. On April 8, 1994, Cobain's body was discovered at his Lake Washington Blvd home by an electrician named Gary Smith who had arrived to install a security system. Apart from a minor amount of blood coming out of Cobain's ear, the electrician reported seeing no visible signs of trauma, and initially believed that Cobain was asleep until he saw the shotgun pointing at his chin. A high concentration of heroin and traces of diazepam were also found in his body. Cobain's body had been lying there for 3 days.

On the evening of October 30, 1993, Phoenix was to perform with his close friend Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers onstage at The Viper Room, a Hollywood nightclub partly owned at the time by actor Johnny Depp.
As part of the settlement of a lawsuit involving the disappearance of co-owner Anthony Fox in 2001, Depp relinquished his ownership of the Viper Room in 2004. Until early 2008, the club was owned by Darin Feinstein, Bevan Cooney, and Blackhawk Capital Partners, Inc. The club is currently partly owned by Harry Morton,[9] President and CEO of Pink Taco, the son of Hard Rock Cafe co-founder Peter Morton and Darin Feinstein. Morton plans to turn the gritty Sunset Strip club into a global franchise by opening several live music venues throughout the world, all of which will bear the name "The Viper Room".
During the early morning hours of October 31, 1993, Phoenix collapsed outside and convulsed for over five minutes. When the news filtered through the club, Flea left the stage and rushed outside. By that time, paramedics had arrived on the scene and found Phoenix turning dark blue, in full cardiac arrest and in a flatline state. They administered medication in an attempt to restart his heart. He was rushed to the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, accompanied by Flea, via an ambulance. Further attempts to resuscitate Phoenix were unsuccessful. He was pronounced dead at 1:51 am. PST on the morning of October 31, 1993, at the age of 23.

In September 1986, she and three friends formed the punk rock band The Gits. In 1989, the band relocated to Seattle, Washington. Mia found a job a local bar and the four bandmembers moved into an abandoned house they called "The Rathouse." As the Gits were making a name for themselves in the local music scene, they often played shows with their friends' band, 7 Year Bitch. In 1992, the band released its debut album Frenching the Bully. Their reputation progressively increased within the grunge scene in Seattle, before the band began work on their second and final album Enter: The Conquering Chicken, released in 1993.Unfortunately, before the group could finish and release their second album "Enter: The Conquering Chicken, Zapata," the band was shocked by the death of Lead Singer Mia Zapata.
Zapata straddled the line between wealth and poverty. Her father describes it as "Mia [living] in two different worlds. She lived on two different sides of the street—the straight side on one, with parochial schools, an affluent family and tennis clubs. But when she crossed the street, material things didn't mean anything to her." Her music often led to a rejection of financial comfort, but regardless of status, Valerie Agnew describes Mia as "commanding respect and interest immediately".
Zapata was well connected to her community. Peter Sheehy recalls "Mia [being] the hub of several social circles; [she was] a magnetic personality who drew all sorts of people together who otherwise might never have met" During her funeral her father became lost and recalls many people carrying yellow roses: the admission ticket to Zapata's funeral.
She was beaten, possibly raped and definitely strangled in the Central District of Seattle. An employee at the Comet Tavern remembered her wearing her headset as she left just before 3am, it is believed she was listening to music and was a not aware an attacker was approaching.

Waco Branch Davidians Cult group led by David Koresh

three separate prison gangs—the Aryan Brotherhood, the Black Gangster Disciples, and the Sunni Muslims Partnered on Easter Sunday, April 11-22, 1993 for an 11 day prison riot that began over the Muslims being forced to immunize against their religious beliefs

The Luby's shooting was a mass shooting that took place on October 16, 1991, at a restaurant in Killeen, Texas. The perpetrator, George Hennard, crashed his pickup truck through the front of a Luby's Cafeteria, and immediately shot and killed 23 people, and wounded 27 others - one mortally - before shooting and killing himself. It is known as third deadliest mass shooting in the US history after Virginia Tech massacre and Sandy Hook elementary school killing spree. It remains the deadliest non-school shooting in America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luby%27s_shooting

Murder. On August 27, 1990, Vaughan had just performed with Eric Clapton at Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wisconsin. All of the musicians boarded four helicopters bound for Chicago, which were waiting on a nearby golf course. According to a witness, there was haze and fog with patches of low clouds. Despite the conditions, the pilots were instructed to fly over a 1000-foot ski hill. Vaughan, along with three members of Eric Clapton's entourage (agent Bobby Brooks, bodyguard Nigel Browne, and assistant tour manager Colin Smythe), boarded the third of the four helicopters—a Bell 206B Jet Ranger—flying to Meigs Field. At about 12:50 am (CDT), the helicopter departed from an elevation of about 850 feet, veered to the left and crashed into the hill, approximately fifty feet from the summit.[180] All on board, including the pilot, Jeff Brown, were killed instantly. In Clapton: The Autobiography, Clapton explains that, contrary to rumors, his seat was not given to Vaughan but as indicated above, three members of Clapton's entourage were on board with Vaughan at the time of the crash.
At 4:30 am, Civil Air Patrol was notified of the accident, eventually locating the crash site almost three hours later. Both Clapton and Jimmie Vaughan were asked to identify the bodies; a Coptic cross necklace, worn by Vaughan, was given to Jimmie Vaughan.

He was the drummer in Echo & the Bunnymen, and performed on their first five albums. De Freitas was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, and educated by the Benedictines at Downside School in Somerset, south-west England. His father, Denis, was a copyright lawyer. He joined the Bunnymen in 1979, replacing a drum machine.
In 1985, de Freitas temporarily absconded from the band. He spent several months drinking in New Orleans, while attempting to form a new group, The Sex Gods. By 1987 he returned to the Bunnymen to record their fifth album, though only as a part-time member.
He died in a motorcycle accident in 1989 at the age of 27, on his way to Liverpool from London. He was riding a 900cc Ducati motorcycle on the A51 road in Longdon Green, Staffordshire and was in collision with a motor vehicle at approximately 16:00. His ashes are buried in Goring-on-Thames.
His sisters Rose and Rachel were founding members of the band The Heart Throbs. His brother Frank is the bass player of The Woodentops.

Shortly before his death, Bashlachev had difficulties with writer's block, rarely writing new songs and tending to avoid performing old ones. His last song, entitled "Cherry", was written in August 1987. Also, he had become more isolated as his depression and alcoholism grew more severe.

On February 17, 1988, Bashlachev died after falling from the window of the ninth floor of an apartment on Kuznetsova Avenue in Leningrad. The most likely cause of his death was suicide, however there is uncertainty in that claim.[why?] He was buried at the Kovalevskoye Cemetery in the Leningrad Oblast.

Bashlachev's son, Yegor, was born to his girlfriend a few months after his death.

By 1986, Basquiat had left the Annina Nosei gallery, and was showing at the Mary Boone gallery in SoHo. On February 10, 1985, he appeared on the cover of The New York Times Magazine in a feature titled "New Art, New Money: The Marketing of an American Artist".[38] He was a successful artist in this period, but his growing heroin addiction began to interfere with his personal relationships.

When Andy Warhol died on February 22, 1987, Basquiat became increasingly isolated, and his heroin addiction and depression grew more severe.[16] Despite an attempt at sobriety during a trip to Maui, Hawaii, he died on August 12, 1988, of a heroin overdose at his art studio on Great Jones Street in Manhattan's NoHo neighborhood. He was 27.

Basquiat was interred in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery, where Jeffrey Deitch made a speech at the graveside. Among those speaking at Basquiat’s memorial held at Saint Peter's Church on November 3, 1988, were Ingrid Sischy who, as the editor of Artforum in the 1980s, got to know the artist well and commissioned a number of articles that introduced his work to the wider world.;[40] Suzanne Mallouk recited sections of A. R. Penck' Poem for Basquiat and Fab 5 Freddy read a poem by Langston Hughes.[41] The 300 guests included the musicians John Lurie and Arto Lindsay; the artist Keith Haring; the poet David Shapiro; Glenn O'Brien, a writer; Fred Brathwaite, an actor and artist, and members of the band Gray, which Basquiat led in the late 1970s.[42] In memory of the late artist, Keith Haring created Pile of Crowns for Jean-Michel Basquiat

On January 28, 1986, the shuttle broke apart 73 seconds after launch. Space Shuttle Challenger (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-099) was the second orbiter of NASA's space shuttle program to be put into service following Columbia. The shuttle was built by Rockwell International's Space Transportation Systems Division in Downey, California. Its maiden flight, STS-6, started on April 4, 1983. It launched and landed nine times before breaking apart 73 seconds into its tenth mission, STS-51-L, on January 28, 1986, resulting in the death of all seven crew members. It was the first of two shuttles to be destroyed in flight. The accident led to a two-and-a-half year grounding of the shuttle fleet; flights resumed in 1988 with STS-26 flown by Discovery. Challenger itself was replaced by Endeavour which was built using structural spares ordered by NASA as part of the construction contracts for Discovery and Atlantis. Endeavour was launched for the first time in May 1992.

Murder. Boon and Mike Watt formed Minutemen in January 1980, with the drummer George Hurley from their previous band, The Reactionaries. Their best known album was Double Nickels on the Dime.
Boon was killed in a van accident in the Arizona desert on Interstate 10. Because he had been sick with fever, Boon was lying down in the rear of the van without a seatbelt when the van ran off the road. Boon was thrown out the back door of the van and died instantly from a broken neck. Watt and Hurley formed the band fIREHOSE. The live album Ballot Result was released in 1987, two years after Boon's death.
Boon is responsible for the writing and composition of the Minutemen's most anthemic songs (in contrast to Watt's stream of consciousness lyrics), including "This Ain't No Picnic", "Corona", "The Price of Paradise," and "Courage." A lifelong artist, Boon also created drawings or paintings for the Minutemen releases Joy, The Punch Line, The Politics of Time, Project: Mersh and 3-Way Tie (For Last).
Watt has dedicated every record he has worked on be it Firehose, solo, or otherwise to D. Boon's memory. A song on Watt's semi-autobiographical 1997 album Contemplating the Engine Room, "The Boilerman", is about D. Boon; on the recording itself, guitarist Nels Cline plays one of Boon's last Telecaster guitars, which Watt is in possession of. Watt also mentions his fallen friend in Firehose's "Disciples of the 3-Way" (Mr. Machinery Operator) and his own "Burstedman" (The Secondman's Middle Stand).
Boon has been paid tribute by American alternative band Stigmata-A-Go-Go with the song "D. Boon", from their 1994 album It's All True, Uncle Tupelo with a different song "D. Boon" from their 1991 album Still Feel Gone, and Centro-matic's song "D.Boon-Free (A Ninth Grade Crime)" off "The Static Vs. The Strings Vol. 1". His story is also told in the doc "We Jam Econo". A rock death that has for wasted potential Lennon and Hendrix for company, finishing with: "After seven fairly amazing years he was just getting started."

The San Ysidro McDonald's massacre was a mass shooting that occurred in and around a McDonald's restaurant in the San Diego neighborhood of San Ysidro on July 18, 1984. The perpetrator, 41-year-old James Huberty, shot and killed 21 people and injured 19 others, before being fatally shot by a SWAT team sniper.
The shooting remained the deadliest mass murder committed in America until the 1991 Luby's shooting, and remains the deadliest shooting rampage in which the perpetrator was killed by police as opposed to suicide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Ysidro_McDonald%27s_massacre

Anorexia is a serious psychological disorder. It is a condition that goes well beyond out-of-control dieting. The person with anorexia, most often a girl or young woman, initially begins dieting to lose weight. Over time, the weight loss becomes a sign of mastery and control. Carpenter suffered from anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder which was little known at the time. She died in 1983 at age 32 from heart failure caused by complications related to her illness.

On March 5, 1982, after showing up at his hotel for a scheduled workout, his trainer, Bill Wallace found Belushi dead in his room, Bungalow 3 at the Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California.[14] He was 33 years old. The cause of death was an overdose of cocaine and heroin, a drug combination also known as a speedball. In the early morning hours on the day of his death, he was visited separately by friends Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, each of whom left the premises, leaving Belushi in the company of assorted others, including Catherine Evelyn Smith. His death was investigated by forensic pathologist Dr. Ryan Norris, among others, and, while the findings were disputed, it was officially ruled a drug-related accident.
Two months later, Smith admitted in an interview with the National Enquirer that she had been with Belushi the night of his death and had given him the fatal speedball shot. After the appearance of the article "I Killed Belushi" in the Enquirer edition of June 29, 1982, the case was reopened. Smith was extradited from Toronto, Ontario, arrested and charged with first-degree murder. A plea bargain reduced the charge to involuntary manslaughter, and she served fifteen months in prison.

John Warnock Hinckley, Jr. (born May 29, 1955), attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan in Washington, D.C., on March 30, 1981, as the culmination of an effort to impress actress Jodie Foster. Reported to have been driven by an obsessional fixation on her, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity, and has remained under institutional psychiatric care since then. He has gained progressively longer visits to the home of his parents. Public outcry over the verdict led to the Insanity Defense Reform Act of 1984, which altered the rules for consideration of mental illness of defendants in federal criminal court proceedings in the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hinckley_Jr.

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The group's original lineup consisted of brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and their friend Al Jardine. Emerging at the vanguard of the "California Sound", the band's early music gained international popularity for their distinct vocal harmonies and lyrics reflecting a southern California youth culture of surfing, cars, and romance. Influenced by jazz-based vocal groups, 1950s rock and roll, and doo-wop, Brian led the band to experiment with several genres ranging from pop ballads to psychedelic and baroque while devising novel approaches to music production and arranging. While initially managed by the Wilsons' father Murry, Brian's creative ambitions and sophisticated songwriting abilities dominated the group's musical direction.
Released in 1966, the Pet Sounds album and the "Good Vibrations" single featured an intricate and multi-layered sound that represented a departure from the simple surf rock of the Beach Boys' early years. Soon after the dissolution of Smile, Brian gradually ceded control to the rest of the band, reducing his input due to mental health and substance abuse issues. Though the more democratic incarnation of the Beach Boys recorded a string of albums in various musical styles that garnered international critical success, the group struggled to reclaim their commercial momentum in America. Since the 1980s, much-publicized legal wrangling over royalties, songwriting credits and use of the band's name transpired. Dennis drowned in 1983 and Carl died of lung cancer in 1998. After Carl's death, many live configurations of the band fronted by Mike Love and Bruce Johnston continued to tour into the 2000s while other members pursued solo projects. For the band's 50th anniversary, the surviving co-founders briefly reunited for a new studio album and world tour.
The Beach Boys are often touted "America's Band", and AllMusic stated that their "unerring ability…made them America's first, best rock band."

Sub-boards: Brian Wilson (Born June 20, 1942), Dennis Carl Wilson (December 4, 1944 – December 28, 1983)

This incident came on the heels of the Iranian Revolution, in which the Shah of Iran had been overthrown and replaced by Ayatollah Khomeini. US private business interference: Two months before the riot, American information technology company Electronic Data Systems (EDS) had been operating in Iran, installing computer systems for the government. Once the revolution started, EDS executives Bill Gaylord and Paul Chiapparone were arrested on corruption charges. The founder of EDS happened to be future US presidential candidate Ross Perot.

Murder. After moving in, Moon began a prescribed course of Heminevrin (clomethiazole, a sedative) to alleviate his alcohol withdrawal symptoms. He wanted to get sober, but due to his fear of psychiatric hospitals he wanted to do it at home. Clomethiazole is discouraged for unsupervised detoxification because of its addictive potential, its tendency to induce tolerance and its risk of death when mixed with alcohol. The pills were prescribed by Geoffrey Dymond, a physician who was unaware of Moon's lifestyle. Dymond prescribed a bottle of 100 pills, instructing him to take one pill when he felt a craving for alcohol but not more than three pills per day.
By September 1978 Moon was having difficulty playing the drums, according to roadie Dave "Cy" Langston. After seeing Moon in the studio trying to overdub drums for The Kids Are Alright, he said: "After two or three hours, he got more and more sluggish, he could barely hold a drum stick." On 6 September Moon and Walter-Lax were guests of Paul and Linda McCartney at a preview of the film, The Buddy Holly Story. After dining with the McCartneys at Peppermint Park in Covent Garden, Moon and Walter-Lax returned to their flat. He watched a film (The Abominable Dr. Phibes), and asked Walter-Lax to cook him steak and eggs. When she objected, Moon replied "If you don't like it, you can f* off!" These were his last words. Moon then took 32 clomethiazole tablets. When Walter-Lax checked on him the following afternoon, she discovered he was dead.

Murder. The accident came just three days after the release of Street Survivors. The original cover sleeve for Street Survivors had featured a photograph of the band, particularly Steve Gaines, engulfed in flames. Following a performance at the Greenville Memorial Auditorium in Greenville, South Carolina, on October 20, 1977 the band boarded a chartered Convair CV-300 to Baton Rouge, Louisiana where they were scheduled to appear at LSU the following night. Due to a faulty engine, the airplane ran low on fuel and the pilots were diverted to the McComb-Pike County Airport. After running out of fuel they attempted an emergency landing before crashing in a heavily forested area five miles northeast of Gillsburg, Mississippi. Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines, assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary, and co-pilot William Gray were killed on impact; the other band members (Collins, Rossington, Wilkeson, Powell, Pyle, and Hawkins), tour manager Ron Eckerman, and road crew suffered serious injuries.

Murder. He was becoming increasingly unwell by Oct. 1973. Twice he overdosed on barbiturates, spending three days in a coma in his hotel suite after the first incident. By end of 1973, he was hospitalized, semicomatose from the effects of Demerol addiction. According to his main physician, Dr. George C. Nichopoulos, Presley "felt that by getting [drugs] from a doctor, he wasn't the common everyday junkie getting something off the street." Elvis had staged more live shows each year, and 1973 saw 168 concerts. Despite his failing health, in 1974 he went back on tour.
Presley's condition declined precipitously in September. Keyboardist Tony Brown remembers the singer's arrival at a University of Maryland concert: "He fell out of the limousine, to his knees. People jumped to help, and he pushed them away like, 'Don't help me.' He walked on stage and held onto the mike for the first thirty minutes like it was a post. Guitarist John Wilkinson recalled, "He was all gut. He was slurring. It was obvious he was drugged. It was obvious there was something terribly wrong with his body. It was so bad the words to the songs were barely intelligible; later in his dressing room draped over a chair, unable to move. Presley continued to play to sellout crowds. On July 13, 1976, Vernon Presley fired 3 "Memphis Mafia" bodyguards Red West, Sonny West, and David Hebler.The book Elvis: What Happened?, cowritten by the three bodyguards fired the previous year, was published on August 1. It was the first exposé to detail Presley's years of drug misuse. He was devastated by the book and tried unsuccessfully to halt its release by offering money to the publishers. Polypharmacy was the primary cause of death; one reported "fourteen drugs in Elvis' system, ten in significant quantity."Dr. Nichopoulos, was exonerated of criminal liability for the singer's death, the facts were startling: "In the first eight months of 1977 alone, he had [prescribed] more than 10,000 doses of sedatives, amphetamines and narcotics: all in Elvis's name."

On 3 May 1977, Köllen died from carbon monoxide poisoning at the age of 27 while listening to some of the studio tracks in his car's cassette player while running the engine in his garage. A little while after his death, German group Birth Control wrote and recorded a song as a tribute to Helmut Köllen entitled We All Thought We Knew You, which was featured on their 1977 album Increase. His debut solo album You Won't See Me was issued posthumously by Harvest in Germany in October 1977. It is dedicated to Köllen's parents.

The daughter of diplomats, she was born in Madrid, spent her childhood in several countries (Spain, The United Kingdom, The United States, Jordan, Portugal) and was raised by an American nun. She attained a bachelor's degree in law in Spain before deciding to dedicate herself to music and composition. Her ironic and lyrical songs, sung in a tiny voice, contributed to the existentialist and feminist movements of Spanish canción protesta (protest songs) of the 1960s and 1970s.
During her musical career as Cecilia, she released 3 LPs and 9 singles that were very well received by Spanish public. Cecilia was influenced by The Beatles, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan and Joan Baez as she said in several press interviews. She performed and recorded songs of these artists. Her first single as "Cecilia" featured the song "Reuníos" asking to The Beatles to get back together as a group. The front cover of her first album Cecilia shows Evangelina wearing a boxing glove, a clear reference to Paul Simon´s song "The boxer". On August 2, 1976, Cecilia and the musicians of her band drove back to Madrid after a concert in Vigo, Galicia. Early in the morning, they were involved an accident near Benavente. She, along with musician Jose Luis González, died. She was buried in the Madrilenian Cementerio de la Almudena.

On July 15, 1976, twenty-six children and their bus driver were kidnapped in Chowchilla, California by armed men blocking the highway around 4 p.m. Some details of the crime corresponded to details in "The Day the Children Vanished", a story written by Hugh Pentecost and published in Alfred Hitchcock's Daring Detectives (1969). A copy of this book was in the Chowchilla public library, and police theorized it had been the kidnappers' inspiration.
All three were sentenced to life in prison. Richard Schoenfeld was released in 2012. James Schoenfeld was granted parole in 2015 without a parole date being set. Frederick Woods remains in prison; his next possible parole hearing will be in the fall of 2015.
Frank Edward "Ed" Ray (February 26, 1921 – May 17, 2012) received a California School Employees Association citation for outstanding community service. Before he died in 2012, he was visited by many of the schoolchildren whom he had helped save.
A study found that the kidnapped children suffered from panic attacks, nightmares involving kidnappings and death, and personality changes; many developed fears of such things as "cars, the dark, the wind, the kitchen, mice, dogs and hippies," and one shot a Japanese tourist with a BB gun when the tourist's car broke down in front of his home. Many of the children continued to report symptoms of trauma at least 25 years after the kidnapping, including substance abuse and depression, and a number have been imprisoned for "doing something controlling to somebody else."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Chowchilla_kidnapping

The gunman, 37-year-old Edward Charles Allaway, was a custodian at the university's library. Armed with a semi-automatic rifle he purchased at a Buena Park Kmart, Allaway killed seven people and wounded two others in the library's first-floor lobby and at the building's Instructional Media Center (IMC), located in the basement. Allaway had a history of violence and mental illness. He was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic and found insane by a judge after being convicted by a jury. He is imprisoned at Patton State Hospital under medical treatment.

On July 2, Ike and Tina Turner traveled to Dallas to perform at the Dallas Statler Hilton. On the airplane, the two became embroiled in an altercation, which led to a physical fight in their limousine. The duo presented different accounts as to what went on that day. Ike accused Tina of being negligent to help Ike with a nose bleed. Tina stated that Ike was annoyed that Tina was eating chocolates while wearing an all-white outfit, causing Ike to slap her. The couple agreed, however, that Ike had been up for five days straight on a cocaine binge. Following Ike's slap, Tina recalled fighting him back, scratching him and kicking him. Ike Turner alleged to a musician associate friend that the two "went around like prizefighters for awhile". Both Ike and Tina were bleeding by the time they arrived at the hotel. Tina escaped from the back of the hotel, she later hid at several friends' homes for a time. On July 27, 1976, Tina Turner filed for divorce on the grounds of irreconcilable differences. By late 1977, Tina decided to stop her pursuit of any financial earnings including an apartment complex in Anaheim and another apartment, stating to her lawyer that her freedom "was more important". Tina also agreed to retain only the use of her stage name. The divorce proceedings ended in November 1977 and was finalized March 1978. She also agreed to pay a significant IRS lien.
Tina experienced a lot of career struggles and setbacks following the split-up but managed to succeed, using the concert successes from her opening gigs with Rod Stewart and The Rolling Stones and several performances at New York's Ritz Theatre to parlay a singles-only, then three-album deal with Capitol Records. The release and subsequent success of Private Dancer resulted in what Ebony magazine later called "an amazing comeback".
Tina's post-comeback career consisted of top-selling albums and record breaking concert tours.Tina made Guinness World Record for largest paying audience (1988) and selling most solo singer concert tickets (2000).

Born in Christchurch, New Zealand, Thain was part of the rock trio The New Nadir, and with the drummer Peter Dawkins, he travelled from New Zealand to London, and once jammed with Jimi Hendrix before the trio split in 1969.

Thain joined the Keef Hartley Band and, in 1971, they toured with Uriah Heep; they asked him to join them (replacing Mark Clarke) in February 1972, and he stayed in the band until February 1975. He played on four studio albums: Demons & Wizards, The Magician's Birthday, Sweet Freedom and Wonderworld as well as their live album, entitled Uriah Heep Live.

During his last tour with Uriah Heep, Thain suffered an electric shock at the Moody Coliseum in Dallas, Texas on 15 September 1974, and was seriously injured.[1] Due to his drug addiction he was not able to perform properly, and was fired by the band in early 1975 and replaced by former King Crimson bassist/vocalist, John Wetton. Thain died of respiratory failure due to a heroin overdose, on 8 December 1975, aged 27,[2] at his flat in Norwood Green in London.

During the Warner Bros. Records era from 1973–75, Badfinger became embroiled in many internal, financial, and managerial problems and their music was stifled. By 1975, with no income and the band's business manager uncommunicative, Ham became despondent and he hanged himself in the garage of his Surrey home. Ham was aged 27 at the time; his suicide fell just three days shy of his 28th birthday. He left behind a pregnant girlfriend, who gave birth to their daughter one month after his death. His suicide note had the statement, "I will not be allowed to love and trust everybody. This is better." It also included an accusatory blast toward Badfinger's business manager, Stan Polley: "P.S. Stan Polley is a soulless bastard. I will take him with me." News of Ham's death was not widely disseminated at the time, as no public comment was made by The Beatles, Apple Corps Ltd, or Warner Bros. Records.

The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and also known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War (1946–54) and was fought between North Vietnam—supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies—and the government of South Vietnam—supported by the United States, Philippines and other anti-communist allies. The Viet Cong (also known as the National Liberation Front, or NLF), a South Vietnamese communist common front aided by the North, fought a guerrilla war against anti-communist forces in the region. The People's Army of Vietnam (also known as the North Vietnamese Army) engaged in a more conventional war, at times committing large units to battle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War

On Thursday, September 20, 1973, during Croce's Life and Times tour and the day before his ABC single "I Got a Name" was released, Croce, Muehleisen, and five others were killed when their chartered Beechcraft E18S crashed while taking off from the Natchitoches Regional Airport in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Others who died in the crash were charter pilot Robert N. Elliott, comedian George Stevens, manager and booking agent Kenneth D. Cortose, and road manager Dennis Rast.[19][20] Croce had just completed a concert at Northwestern State University's Prather Coliseum in Natchitoches and was flying to Sherman, Texas, for a concert at Austin College. The plane crashed an hour after the end of the concert.

An investigation showed that the plane crashed on takeoff after clipping a pecan tree at the end of the runway. The plane failed to gain enough altitude to clear the tree and did not maneuver to avoid it, even though it was the only tree for hundreds of yards. It was reported as dark, but with clear sky, calm winds, and over five miles of visibility with haze. The report from the NTSB[21] listed the probable cause as the pilot's failure to see and avoid obstructions due to pilot physical impairment and fog obstructing vision. The 57-year-old charter pilot suffered from severe coronary artery disease and had run three miles to the airport from a motel. He had an ATP Certificate, 14,290 hours total flight time and 2,190 hours in the Beech 18 type.[21] A later investigation placed sole blame for the accident on pilot error due to his downwind takeoff into a "black hole"—severe darkness limiting use of visual references.

Murdered. Morrison developed an alcohol dependency. He died at the age of 27 in Paris, allegedly of a heroin overdose. No autopsy was performed, and the exact cause of Morrison's death is still disputed. Jim Morrison's grave is located at Père Lachaise cemetery in eastern Paris.

American professional boxer known for his toughness, punching power and intimidating appearance. He became World Heavyweight Champion in 1962. Liston lost the title in 1964 to Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay).The Ring magazine ranked Liston as the 7th greatest heavyweight of all-time in 1998 and the 15th greatest puncher of all-time in 2003.
Liston was found dead by his wife, Geraldine, in their Las Vegas home on January 5, 1971. On returning home from a 2-week trip, Geraldine had smelled a foul odor emanating from the main bedroom and on entering saw Sonny slumped up against the bed, a broken foot bench on the floor.
Sergeant Dennis Caputo of the Clark County Sheriff's Department was one of the first officers on the scene. Caputo found a quarter-ounce of heroin in a balloon in the kitchen and a half-ounce of marijuana in Liston's pants pocket, but no syringes or needles. Some found it suspicious that authorities could not locate any drug paraphernalia that Liston presumably would have needed to inject the fatal dose, such as a spoon to cook the heroin or a tourniquet to wrap around his arm.
The date of death listed on his death certificate is 12-30-70, which police estimated by judging the number of milk bottles and newspapers at the front door.
Coroner Mark Herman said small traces of heroin byproducts were found in Liston's system.
Officially, Liston died of lung congestion and heart failure.
Many people who knew Liston insisted that he was afraid of needles and never would have used heroin. "He had a deadly fear of needles," said Davey Pearl, a boxing referee and friend of Liston's."There was nothing Sonny feared more than a needle. I know!" said Liston's Philadelphia dentist, Dr. Nick Ragni. "He was afraid of needles," echoed Father Edward Murphy. "He would do everything to avoid taking shots." According to Liston's trainer, Willie Reddish, Liston cancelled a tour to Africa in 1963 because he refused to get the required inoculations. Liston's wife also reported that he avoided needles.

Murder. On Sunday producer Paul Rothchild became concerned when Joplin failed to show up for a recording session. Full Tilt Boogie's road manager, John Cooke, drove to the Landmark Motor Hotel in Hollywood where Joplin was staying. Upon entering Joplin's room (#105), he found her dead on the floor beside her bed. The official cause of death was an overdose of heroin, possibly compounded by alcohol. Cooke believes that Joplin had accidentally been given heroin that was much more potent than normal, as several of her dealer's other customers also overdosed that week.
Peggy Caserta and Seth Morgan had both failed to meet Joplin the Friday immediately prior to her death, October 2. She had been expecting both of them to keep her company that night. According to the book Going Down With Janis, Joplin was saddened that neither of her friends visited her at the Landmark Motor Hotel as they had promised. During the 24 hours Joplin lived after this disappointment, Caserta did not phone her to explain why she had failed to show up. (Caserta admitted to waiting until late Saturday night to dial the Landmark switchboard, only to learn that Joplin had instructed the desk clerk to get rid of all her incoming phone callers after midnight.) Morgan did speak to Joplin on the telephone within 24 hours of her death, but it is not known whether he admitted to her that he had broken his promise.
Author Megan Terry claimed that Joplin was the female version of Elvis Presley in her ability to captivate an audience. When Peggy's book came out, her dealer, the same one who'd given Janis her last fix, didn't like it that he was referred to and was out to get Peggy. He couldn't find her, so he went for her lover(Kim Chappell). When they realized who I was, they felt that my death would also hit Peggy, and so they stabbed me." Despite being "stabbed three times in the chest, puncturing both lungs," Chappell eventually recovered.

Murdered. To determine the cause of death, coroner Gavin Thurston ordered a post-mortem examination on Hendrix's body, which was performed on September 21 by Professor Robert Donald Teare, a forensic pathologist.[274] Thurston completed the inquest on September 28, and concluded that Hendrix aspirated his own vomit and died of asphyxia while intoxicated with barbiturates. Citing "insufficient evidence of the circumstances", he declared an open verdict. Dannemann later revealed that Hendrix had taken nine of her prescribed Vesparax sleeping tablets, 18 times the recommended dosage.

co-founder, leader, and primary composer for the American blues band Canned Heat. He played guitar, harmonica, sang, and wrote several songs for the band. Wilson was born and grew up in the Boston suburb of Arlington, Massachusetts. On September 3, 1970 Wilson was found dead on a hillside behind band mate Bob Hite's Topanga Canyon house. He was 27 years old. An autopsy identified his manner and cause of death as accidental acute barbiturate intoxication. Wilson reportedly had attempted suicide a few months earlier, attempting to drive his car off a freeway in Los Angeles. He was briefly hospitalized for significant depression, and was released after a few weeks. Although his death is sometimes reported as a suicide, this is not clearly established and he left no note. Wilson's death came just two weeks before the death of Jimi Hendrix and four weeks before the death of Janis Joplin. Along with his talent and intellect, Wilson had a reputation for social awkwardness and introversion which may have contributed to his depression. Retrospectively, some close to Wilson believe he may have been on the autism spectrum.

Frances Elena Farmer (September 19, 1913 – August 1, 1970) was an American actress and television host. She is perhaps better known for sensationalized accounts of her life, especially her involuntary commitment to a mental hospital. Farmer was the subject of two films, one television special, three books, and numerous songs and magazine articles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Farmer

"Helter Skelter," a song referring to a carnival slide, had a deeper meaning for Manson: It suggested to him that a race war between whites and black would soon erupt, and he hoped the murders would help to precipitate it. Nine were killed, including starlet Sharon Tate and her unborn child.

American actress, sex symbol, and model. During the 1960s she played small television roles before appearing in several movies. She also appeared regularly in fashion magazines as a model and cover girl.
In 1968, in London Tate married Roman Polanski, her director and co-star in The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967). She was eight-and-a-half months pregnant with the couple's son, when she was brutally murdered in her home, along with four others, by a group known as the Manson Family on August 9, 1969. Tate's last completed film, 12+1 (co-starring Orson Welles), was released in 1969 after her death, with the actress receiving top-billing.

A decade after the murders, Tate's mother, Doris, in response to the growing cult status of the killers and the possibility that any of them might be granted parole, organized a public campaign against what she considered shortcomings in the state's corrections system. It resulted in amendments to the California criminal law in 1982 that allowed crime victims and their families to make victim impact statements during sentencing and at parole hearings. Doris Tate was the first person to make such an impact statement under the new law when she spoke at the parole hearing of Charles "Tex" Watson, one of her daughter's killers. She believed changes in the law had afforded her daughter dignity that had been denied her before and that she had been able to "help transform Sharon's legacy from murder victim to a symbol of victims' rights".

Sub-board: Roman Polanski (born Rajmund Roman Thierry Polański; b.18 August 1933)

Murder. Brian Jones was the founder and original bandleader of the Rolling Stones. His innovative use of traditional or folk instruments was integral to the changing sound of the band.He developed a serious drug problem and his role in the band steadily diminished. He was asked to leave the Rolling Stones in June 1969.
Original Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman said of Jones, "He formed the band. He chose the members. He named the band. He chose the music we played. He got us gigs. Very influential, very important, and then slowly lost it highly intelligent and just kind of wasted it and blew it all away." Jones was discovered motionless at the bottom of his swimming pool. Anna Wohlin was convinced Jones was alive when he was taken out of the pool insisting he still had a pulse. When the doctors arrived it was too late and he was pronounced dead. The coroner's report stated "death by misadventure" and noted his liver and heart were heavily enlarged by drug and alcohol abuse. Jones was buried 10 feet (3.0 m) deep in Cheltenham Cemetery. His hair was bleached white, and was placed in an air-tight metal casket. Watts and Wyman were the only Rolling Stones who attended the funeral.
When asked if he felt guilty about Jones's death Mick Jagger told Rolling Stone in 1995: "No, I don't really. I do feel that I behaved in a very childish way, but we were very young, and in some ways we picked on him. But, unfortunately, he made himself a target for it; he was very, very jealous, very difficult, very manipulative, and if you do that in this kind of a group of people you get back as good as you give, to be honest. I wasn't understanding enough about his drug addiction. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you." Associates of the Stones claiming to have information that he was murdered surface every 5 years. A neighbor saw a large bonfire on Jones' estate in which documentation was being burned on the morning of his death

Murder. Kennedy scored a major victory in winning the California primary. He addressed his supporters shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, in a ballroom at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Leaving the ballroom, he went through the hotel kitchen after being told it was a shortcut, despite being advised to avoid the kitchen by his bodyguard, FBI agent Bill Barry. In a crowded kitchen passageway, Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian, opened fire with a .22-caliber revolver. Kennedy was hit three times and five other people also were wounded.
George Plimpton, former decathlete Rafer Johnson, and former professional football player Rosey Grier are credited with wrestling Sirhan Sirhan to the ground after Sirhan shot the Senator. Following the shooting, Kennedy was first rushed to Los Angeles's Central Receiving Hospital and then to the city's Good Samaritan Hospital where he died early the next morning. Sirhan said that he felt betrayed by Kennedy's support for Israel in the June 1967 Six-Day War, which had begun exactly one year before the assassination.

Murdered. On March 29, 1968, King went to Memphis, Tennessee, in support of the black sanitary public works employees, represented by AFSCME Local 1733, who had been on strike since March 12 for higher wages and better treatment. In one incident, black street repairmen received pay for two hours when they were sent home because of bad weather, but white employees were paid for the full day.
On April 3, King addressed a rally and delivered his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" address at Mason Temple, the world headquarters of the Church of God in Christ. King's flight to Memphis had been delayed by a bomb threat against his plane. King was booked in room 306 at the Lorraine Motel, owned by Walter Bailey, in Memphis.
Then, at 6:01 p.m., April 4, 1968, a shot rang out as King stood on the motel's second-floor balcony. The bullet entered through his right cheek, smashing his jaw, then traveled down his spinal cord before lodging in his shoulder. Abernathy heard the shot from inside the motel room and ran to the balcony to find King on the floor. Jackson stated after the shooting that he cradled King's head as King lay on the balcony, but this account was disputed by other colleagues of King's; Jackson later changed his statement to say that he had "reached out" for King.

commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.
The CIA executed him in October, 1967. In addition the 2007 documentary My Enemy's Enemy, directed by Kevin Macdonald, alleges that Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, a.k.a. "The Butcher of Lyon", advised and possibly helped the CIA orchestrate Guevara's eventual capture.
In 1966 a disguised Guevara had arrived in Bolivia to organize the overthrow of its military dictatorship and its replacement with a Communist government. According to the film, the CIA used Barbie for his knowledge of counter-guerrilla warfare.

Epstein was an English music entrepreneur, best known for managing the Beatles.The Beatles' early success has been attributed to Epstein's management style,and the band trusted him without hesitation.In addition to handling the Beatles' business affairs,Epstein often stepped in to mediate personal disputes within the group.The Beatles' unquestioning loyalty to Epstein would later prove detrimental,as the band rarely read contracts before signing them.Shortly after the song"Please Please Me" rose to the top of the charts in 1963,Epstein advised the creation of Northern Songs,a publishing company that would control the copyrights of all Lennon-McCartney compositions recorded between 1963 and 1973. Music publisher Dick James and his partner Charles Silver owned 51% of the company, Lennon and McCartney each owned 20%, and Epstein owned 9%.By 1969, Lennon and McCartney had lost control of all publishing rights to ATV Music Publishing. Still, Epstein's death in 1967 marked the beginning of the group's downfall and had a profound effect on each individual Beatle. In 1997, Paul McCartney said, "If anyone was the Fifth Beatle,it was Brian." Epstein died of an overdose of Carbitral,a form of barbiturate or sleeping pill in his locked bedroom, on 27 August 1967.He was discovered after his butler had knocked on the door, and then hearing no response, asked the housekeeper to call the police. Epstein was found on a single bed in his pajamas with various correspondence spread over a second single bed.At the statutory inquest his death was officially ruled an accident;caused by a gradual buildup of Carbitral in his system,combined with alcohol.It was revealed that he had taken 6 Carbitral pills in order to sleep,which was probably normal for him,but in combination with alcohol they reduced his tolerance to lethal levels.

Charles Joseph Whitman (June 24, 1941 – August 1, 1966) was an American engineering student at the University of Texas and former U.S. Marine. Whitman committed mass murder on August 1, 1966.

In the early morning hours of August 1, Whitman murdered his wife and mother in their homes. Later that day, he brought a number of guns, including rifles, a shotgun, and handguns, to the campus of the University of Texas at Austin where, over an approximate 90 to 95 minute period, he killed 16 people and wounded 32 others in a mass shooting in and around the Tower. Whitman shot and killed three people inside the university's tower and eleven others after firing at random from the 28th-floor observation deck of the Main Building. Whitman was shot and killed by Austin police officer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman

This is not the first time that an activist has turned up dead after a stay in the Neshoba County Jail.
On June 21, during the Freedom Summer of 1964, three civil-rights activists—James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner— were booked into the Neshoba County Jail on minor (and bogus) charges. The trio soon vanished and their bodies were discovered in a dam 44 days after they went missing.
The jail has since been moved, but its legacy remains firmly rooted in 1964 and Mississippi is still burning.
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Murder. President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30 pm Central Standard Time on Friday November 22, 1963, while on a political trip to Texas to smooth over frictions in the Democratic Party between liberals Ralph Yarborough and Don Yarborough (no relation) and conservative John Connally. Traveling in a presidential motorcade through downtown Dallas, he was shot once in the throat, and once in the head.
Kennedy was taken to Parkland Hospital for emergency medical treatment, but pronounced dead at 1:00 pm.

The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on Sunday, September 15, 1963, when four members of the Ku Klux Klan planted a minimum of 15 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the front steps of the church.

Described by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as "one of the most vicious and tragic crimes ever perpetrated against humanity," the explosion at the church killed four girls and injured 22 others.

Although the FBI had concluded in 1965 that the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing had been committed by four known Ku Klux Klansmen and segregationists: Thomas Edwin Blanton, Jr.; Herman Frank Cash; Robert Edward Chambliss; and Bobby Frank Cherry, no prosecutions ensued until 1977, when Robert Chambliss was tried and convicted of the first degree murder of one of the victims, 11-year-old Carol Denise McNair. Thomas Blanton and Bobby Cherry were each convicted of four counts of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2001 and 2002 respectively, whereas Herman Cash, who died in 1994, was never charged with his alleged involvement in the bombing.

The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing marked a turning point in the United States 1960s Civil Rights Movement and contributed to support for passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing

Murder. On August 5, 1962, at 4:25 a.m., LAPD sergeant Jack Clemmons received a call from Dr. Ralph Greenson, Monroe's psychiatrist, saying that Monroe was found dead at her home at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California. She was 36 years old. At the subsequent autopsy, 8 mg/dL of chloral hydrate and 4.5 mg/dL of Nembutal were found in her system, and Dr. Thomas Noguchi (known as the "coroner to the stars") of the Los Angeles County Coroners office recorded cause of death as "acute barbiturate poisoning", resulting from a "probable suicide". Many theories, including murder, circulated about the circumstances of her death and the timeline after the body was found. Some conspiracy theories involved John and Robert Kennedy, while other theories suggested CIA or Mafia complicity. It was reported that President Kennedy was the last person Monroe called.
Monroe was interred on August 8, 1962, in a crypt at Corridor of Memories No. 24, at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. Joe DiMaggio took control of the funeral arrangements, which consisted of only 31 close family and friends, excluding Hollywood's elite.

The Day the Music Died, an expression coined by Don McLean in his song "American Pie", is a reference to the deaths of rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, on February 3, 1959. Pilot Roger Peterson was also killed.

After terminating his partnership with The Crickets, Holly assembled a new band consisting of Waylon Jennings, Tommy Allsup, and Carl Bunch to play on the "Winter Dance Party" tour across the Midwest. Rising artists Valens and Richardson joined the tour as well.

The distance between venues and the conditions aboard the poorly equipped tour buses adversely affected the performers, with cases of flu and even frostbite. After stopping at Clear Lake to perform, and frustrated by such conditions, Holly decided to charter a plane to reach their next venue in Moorhead, Minnesota. Richardson, who was affected by the flu, swapped places with Jennings, taking the latter's place on the plane, while Allsup lost his seat to Valens on a coin toss.

Soon after take-off, late at night and in poor, wintry weather conditions, the pilot lost control of the airplane, a small Beechcraft Bonanza, which subsequently crashed into a cornfield, leaving no survivors.

The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States was the forced relocation and incarceration during World War II of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast in camps in the interior of the country. Sixty-two percent of the internees were United States citizens. The U.S. government ordered the removal of Japanese Americans in 1942, shortly after Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans

World War II (WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War (after the recent Great War), was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, though related conflicts began earlier.

Sub-boards: The International Military Tribunal in the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg opened on November 19, 1945, Nazi War Crimes

The kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the eldest son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was one of the most highly publicized crimes of the 20th century. The 20-month-old toddler was abducted from his family home in East Amwell, New Jersey, on the evening of March 1, 1932. Over two months later, on May 12, 1932, his body was discovered a short distance from the Lindberghs' home in neighboring Hopewell Township. A medical examination determined that the cause of death was a massive skull fracture.
After an investigation that lasted more than two years, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested and charged with the crime. In a trial that was held from January 2 to February 13, 1935, Hauptmann was found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death. He was executed by electric chair at the New Jersey State Prison on April 3, 1936. Hauptmann proclaimed his innocence to the end.
Newspaper writer H. L. Mencken called the kidnapping and subsequent trial "the biggest story since the Resurrection". The crime spurred Congress to pass the Federal Kidnapping Act, commonly called the "Lindbergh Law", which made transporting a kidnapping victim across state lines a federal crime.