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 Rapper DMX was arrested at his home after being caught on
camera racing down a Phoenix-area freeway at upwards of 114 miles per hour (183
kph) in January, Arizona
state police said on Wednesday, according to Reuters.
According to police, stationary cameras caught DMX, whose
real name is Earl Simmons, in triple digits around 8:24...
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 A decision taken by Georgia
legislators to allow licensed Georgia
gun owners to carry their firearms in public places has led to an inquiry on
whether people are permitted to take their firearms with them in the nation’s
busiest airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International.
The airport’s director, Benjamin R. DeCosta, said...
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 The owner of an Internet-based firearms store that sold a
gun to Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho says he is now offering a discount
for students who want to carry guns on campus to protect themselves,
ABCNews.com reported. The same company, TGSCOM Inc., was involved in another
scandal, as it sold two 9mm Glock magazines to Steven...
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 Wal-Mart, the nation’s larger seller of firearms, announced
Monday that it would adopt a much stricter gun policy. This means it will
toughen the rules for gun sales and it will create an internal log of which
guns they sell that are later used in crimes.
J.P. Suarez, the chief compliance officer for Wal-Mart
Stores Inc.,...
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Five people died and 20 have been hospitalized with severe
burns, 17 of them in medically induced coma after the explosion and fire at the
Imperial Sugar refinery, near Savannah,
Georgia, which occurred
Thursday night, the Associated Press reports.
The twenty workers were hospitalized Saturday in Augusta, Georgia,
and seventeen...
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 Recent researche regarding suicidal death among teens and
pre-teens shows that the mortality rate has increased dramatically over the years.
Compared to the 1990-2003 period when suicide rates dropped
28.5 percent, 2004-present show increases of over 8 percent. This is the
largest spike in 15 years.
Reports also say that...
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 Brazilian police cracked down on drug dealers in poor neighbourhoods of Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, at least 18 being killed in the ensuing gunbattles.Brazilian authorities decided it was time to root out drug trafficking in one of the country’s largest cities, putting on an impressive display of force, as a number of 1,300 security...
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 After the capture of alleged Quds Force and Lebanese Hezbollah members in Iraq, the US army accused Iran on Monday of training and arming militants for terrorist operations in Iraq.According to a military spokesman, the operatives were detained in different parts of the war-torn country, among them being a known Hezbollah leader, Ali...
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 A group of Palestinians attacked Israeli soldiers late Monday at a crossing point in the northern end of Gaza, one person being killed and six injured in the ensuing gunbattle, Israeli army sources informed.According to a witness, four men who waited among the other Palestinians to pass through the Erez crossing Monday afternoon,...
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 The NFL suspended without pay Chicago Bears defensive tackle Tank Johnson yesterday for the first eight games of the 2007 season due to a violation of the league's conduct policy. If Johnson avoids legal trouble and attends counseling, Commissioner Roger Goodell might let him get away with a six games suspension. An eight-game suspension...
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Yemeni police have uncovered a second al-Qaeda-linked terrorist cell in the south-east of the country, just days after security forces raided an al-Qaeda hideout in the area, the official Saba news agency reported Friday.
The agency quoted a security source as saying that police arrested one member of the group after they raided a...
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Communist rebels Monday ransacked a police station in an eastern Philippine town and seized several firearms, an army brigade commander said.
No casualties were reported in the raid on the police station, which was located inside the municipal hall compound of the town Panukulan in Quezon province, 105 kilometres east of...
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A 38-year-old Filipino broadcast journalist
was in critical condition after being shot by unidentified gunmen in
the southern Philippines, police said Tuesday. Dennis Cuesta
was on his way to a mall with a colleague when two suspects aboard a
motorcycle opened fire at him in General Santos City, 1,065 kilometres
south of Manila,...
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 Al-Qaeda's top commander in Afghanistan has claimed responsibility for
the assassination of Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, the
Asia Times Online reported Friday.
In a telephone conversation with the news site, Mustafa Abu
al-Yazid, who emerged in May as the chief of al-Qaeda's operations in
Afghanistan, claimed to have...
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 Top Bollywood action hero Sanjay Dutt was released on bail Monday, on a Supreme Court decision. The Mumbai court that convicted him had allegedly not yet provided him with a copy of his sentence, according to his lawyer, Surender Singh. This technicality allowed for him to be released until he is given a copy of his sentence.Dutt was...
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 Top Bollywood action hero Sanjay Dutt was jailed for six years for illegally possessing firearms obtained through underworld gangsters connected with the 1993 terrorist bombings in Mumbai which killed 257 people. Dutt already served 18 months in jail following his arrest in 1993 and was expected to receive a more lenient sentence.Judge...
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 The Indian police said Friday’s blast at a Medina mosque was a terrorist act, carefully planned.The southern city of Hyderabad was rocked Friday by a powerful explosion that killed eleven people and injured more than a hundred. A explosive device was planted at a Medina mosque and went of during the prayers. After the blast hundreds of...
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A former Japanese gangster held a woman hostage for nearly 24 hours in his home after shooting a policeman dead and wounding his own son, daughter and another police officer. The woman was reportedly the ex-wife of the gunman, Michiko Mori, who was still in the house in Nagakute, a residential suburb of the central city of Nagoya,...
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A former Japanese gangster held a woman hostage for nearly 24 hours in his home after shooting a policeman dead and wounding his own son, daughter and another police officer. The woman was reportedly the ex-wife of the gunman, Michiko Mori, who was still in the house in Nagakute, a residential suburb of the central city of Nagoya,...
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 Rapper DMX was arrested again early Friday on suspicion of animal abuse and drug possession. A SWAT team with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office raided his home to serve arrest and search warrants and indicted him on felony drug possession and misdemeanor animal cruelty charges.According to sheriff’s spokesman Capt. Paul Chagolla, the...
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 Rapper Clifford Harris, known as T.I. pleaded guilty to
three charges of illegal weapons possession at a hearing in Atlanta on Thursday. The 27-year-old star was
arrested in October last year by agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives who found three machine guns and two silencers in the
rapper’s...
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 It is indeed very cool to be shortlisted at different
ceremonies and receive awards. What is even cooler is to miss the ceremony and
to be thought too busy and important to attend them, and people will think
higher of you.
And this is the sole reason rapper TI got arrested and
charged with weapon offenses just a few hours before...
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 The chunky-textured, white substance found in rapper DMX’ home last week is still unidentified but drugs were ruled out, police said. "We're still looking at what type of powder that is," Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Tuesday. "But we did seize a useable quantity of marijuana. He does have a drug situation...
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One of the founding members of the rock band Creed, singer and songwriter Scott Flippen Stapp, is accused by his wife, Miss New York USA 2004, Jaclyn Nesheiwat Stapp, that he flung a glass bottle of Orangina at her face during an alleged incident Sunday morning. She was not injured, nor was anyone else.TMZ has obtained the police report...
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 The fifth woman to testify against music producer Phil Spector brought unexpected amusement to the law court as she reminisced about an Elmer Fudd-like episode with Spector.
Kathy Sullivan was a waitress at the time she met Spector. She told the Los Angeles hearing of an incident that occurred sometime in 1997 or 1998. She and her...
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The European Union's executive body on Friday agreed to publish the list of objects which passengers are banned from carrying on board aircraft, ahead of an expected ruling from the European Court on the issue.
The European Commission has decided to publish the list, and it will appear in the EU's official journal "in a matter of...
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 The death of an innocent Brazilian man shot by marksmen of Scotland
Yard's ant-terrorism squad in the summer of 2005 resulted from "very
serious but avoidable mistakes," an independent report said Thursday.
Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot seven times in the head by
anti-terrorist officers who mistook him for a...
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 It looks like nothing can stop the anti-globalization activists to manifest their disagreement to the Group of Eight summit and a day after security forces broke up their protest with tear-gas and water-jets, the protesters moved on water Thursday.A few inflatable boats with Greenpeace members on board tried to land near the Kempinski...
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 The British police officers who shot Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes will get away unpunished. They shot him seven times in the head on July 22, 2005, shortly after the attack on July 7 when four suicide bombers killed 52 victims in London.The Independent Police Complaints Commission said 11 “frontline firearms and...
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 Xbox 360 and PS3 owners will enjoy some heavy controller-fighting next year, as SEGA recently announced the sequel to the critically acclaimed Xbox and PC game Condemned: Criminal Origins.The popular survival-horror title will ship in early 2008 (no specific date has been mentioned) in North America and Europe.According to SEGA, the...
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 Study: HPV Levels Similar in Women and Men
The human papilloma is a papilloma virus which infects the skin and mucous membranes of humans. 130 HPV types have been discovered until now and some of them can cause...
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