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Parishioners at an Albuquerque, N.M., church where a young man went on a stabbing spree during closing hymns Sunday morning have described to reporters and police a chaotic and disturbing scene.Witnesses told authorities that the assailant, identified by police as 24-year-old Lawrence Capener, leaped over pews and lunged at members of the choir with a sharp object at the end of morning mass at St....
A judge declined to set bond Monday for a Mississippi martial arts instructor charged with sending poisoned letters to President Barack Obama and other government officials.Prosecutors said they believed James Everett Dutschke was dangerous and a flight risk, according to NBC affiliate WTVA.Dutschke was arrested Saturday morning at his home in Tupelo and charged with attempted use of a biological ...
Mine workers, retirees, their families, faith leaders and allies are rallying in Saint Louis, Mo., as bankruptcy court hearings begin in the case of Patriot Coal, which was set up by Peabody Energy and Arch Coal, the United Mine Workers (UMWA) argue, purposely to fail in order to shed health care benefits for retirees from Peabody and Arch. UMWA also argues that the Patriot bankruptcy filing is a way to impose severe cutbacks on pay, working conditions and benefits for active miners.
The police are asking for the public's help finding a 25-year-old woman who apparently was abducted while working at a gas station in western Michigan on Friday night.Jessica Heeringa has been missing since she disappeared while working the late shift at an Exxon station in Norton Shores, a town of about 22,000 on Lake Michigan, WOODTV.com reported. Norton Shores Police Chief Daniel Shaw told the ...
Economic forecasters exist to make astrologers look good. Most had forecast growth of at least 3 percent (on an annualized basis) in the first quarter. But we learned this morning (in the Commerce Department’s report) it grew only 2.5 percent.
Sheriff’s deputies stood guard at schools and bus stops Monday and officers fanned out across a Northern California town hunting a man suspected of breaking into a home and stabbing an 8-year-old girl to death.The attack on Leila Fowler, a third-grader who friends said had a heart-melting smile, shattered the relative calm in Valley Springs, a town on the slope of the Sierra Nevada range that neig...
