himself a victim of a shooting as a child, WKYC reported. Grief counselors have also been made available to students as they come to terms with all that has happened today. Chardon is a city of about 5,100 residents. The full letter TJ Lane posted to Facebook The following was reportedly posted by T.J. Lane on his Facebook page on December 20, 2011: “In a time long since, a time of r…
…y for Clive Davis’ party. The singer’s assistant left Whitney Houston to run an errand at department store Neiman Marcus. When the assistant returned to Whitney Houston’s room around 3:35 p.m. on Saturday February 11, the singer was lying face down in the bathtub in approximately 13-inches of water. Whitney Houston case report She was pulled out of the tub by her assistant and b…
…l anywhere between Virginia and southern New England on Monday. The prospect of merging with a wintry storm coming from the west during a full moon has many fearing dangerous high tides. Sandy is some 520 miles (835 km) across. It is also very slow, moving north-east at just 15 mph, and could linger over as many as 12 states for 24-36 hours, bringing up to 25 cm of rain, 60 cm of snow, extreme sto…
…come to this floor and make people think everything is okay?” New Jersey Democratic Representative Bill Pascrell demanded of Republicans skeptical of the bill. The House passed the measure by a 354 to 67 vote, while the US Senate approved it on Friday afternoon by unanimous consent. The US Congress has passed an emergency aid package for victims of Superstorm Sandy, days after an outcry ov…
Children from Sandy Hook Elementary School, where a gunman killed 26 people last month, are to start the new term at what police say is the US’s “safest school”. Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown has been closed since Adam Lanza killed 20 pupils and six staff on December 14. Chalk Hill, a disused middle school in nearby Monroe, has been renovated by an 80-strong team and r…
…h “indescribable” pain. The two children named victims of the Newtown school massacre so far are two 6-year-old girls, Grace McDonnell and Ana Marquez-Greene In another chilling twist Lynn McDonnell, 45, a housewife, and Christopher, 49, a business executive, live in a $500,000 detached home in Sandy Hook, Connecticut that is just one street away from where alleged shooter Adam Lanza lived. From…
…acco, Firearms and Explosives has sent a team of eight agents to trace the firearm. Other schools in the Chardon area were locked down as the investigation began, reports say. Chardon, a town of about 5,000 residents, is located about 30 miles (48km) east of the city of Cleveland. US high schools and university campuses are no stranger to gun attacks, and many have well-drilled security and emerge…
ristopher Wallace, was shot four times during the drive-by which took place on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles in 1997. The hip-hop artist, who was listed on the autopsy as 6ft 1in tall and weighing 395 lbs, had been sitting in the passenger seat of a Chevy Suburban when the shooting occurred. However, while the rapper was hit four times, three of the shots proved not to be fatal. Christopher Wa…
d local authorities were already underway for residents who had failed to heed the mandatory evacuation issued over the weekend. Hurricane Sandy has already killed at least 66 people – including 51 in Haiti – in the Caribbean before pounding U.S. coastal areas with rain. But the New Jersey shore is expected to take the brunt of the massive weather front as Sandy hits near Atlantic City…
students from gunman Adam Lanza, the son of Nancy Lanza, who worked at the school. The other two teachers have been identified as principal Dawn Hochsprung, 47, and school psychologist Mary Sherlach, 56. Twenty-eight people died in the shooting rampage, including 20 young children between the ages of five and ten, alleged gunman Adam Lanza, who took his own life, and his mother, who was shot befo…
…raise gathering outside Sandy Hook Elementary school to celebrate God executing his judgement “Westboro Baptist Church is planning another attack of hateful words, protesting the funerals of the 20 children and 7 adults who died yesterday at Sandy Hook elementary school,” Taylor Starr and Kelly Shannon, the group’s Sandy Hook organizers, wrote in a posting, according to the Daily…
Dutch police have arrested a suspect following a threat, posted on the internet, to carry out a shooting at a school in the city of Leiden. The suspect has been identified as a former pupil of the British School, which has a site in neighboring Voorschoten. More than 20 schools were told to stay closed on Monday in Leiden in response to the threat posted on internet forum 4chan. The anonymous wri…
interventions.” The man shot at the door after police arrived, Claude Gueant said, injuring one officer in the knee and “lightly injuring” another. The man has thrown one gun, a Colt 45, from a window, Claude Gueant said, but it is believed he has other weapons. The minister said: “Our main concern is to catch him and to catch him under such conditions that he can be brough…
…will definitively determine exactly what amounts of substances and which drugs killed her. Whitney Houston, 48, was found in the bathtub of her guest room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on the eve of the 54th Grammy Awards, February 11, 2012. She was pronounced dead at about 4:00 p.m. that afternoon. …
…he problems, the agency quoted him as saying. The Pentagon report also criticizes a “lack of transparency” in China’s military modernization programme and defense spending. “In 2012, numerous computer systems around the world, including those owned by the US government, continued to be targeted for intrusions, some of which appear to be attributable directly to the Chinese…
“but poorly skilled” local militiamen and contract guards was “misplaced”, the report said. In a letter to Congress, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she accepted all 29 of the recommendations put forward in the report. Hillary Clinton outlined some steps the agency would take, including sending hundreds of US Marines guards to missions abroad and assigning a stat…
recession. Last week, an EU report forecast that Greece would end years of recession in 2014 with growth of 0.6%, in line with an earlier forecast by the IMF. Following what the IMF forecast will be a 4.6% contraction of the economy this year, the Fund warned that attempts to “artificially” stimulate growth should be resisted….
Lanza from his WCSU days recall that he was very quiet and struggled to mix with the other students although that was largely attributed at the time to him being younger than them. Adam Lanza earned a 3.26 grade point average while there, but WCSU after less than a year in 2009, he then attended a community college, but also left that school after a year. Eventually, he worked at a part-time job f…
…o minimize damage to infrastructure. Superstorm Sandy knocked out power to at least 6.2 million people across the US East, and large sections of Manhattan were plunged into darkness by the storm, with 250,000 customers without power as water pressed into the island from three sides, flooding rail yards, subway tracks, tunnels and roads. New York City’s 911 dispatchers were receiving 20,000 c…
people inside will stay in place in Manhattan on Friday. But Consolidated Edison, the power company serving New York, warned that some areas of the city would be blacked out until 11 November. Almost 45% of customers in New Jersey and some 15% in New York State remain without electricity. New York West Village resident Rosemarie Zurlo told Associated Press she was abandoning her flat temporarily…
…sport director Joseph Lhota said early Tuesday. Hours earlier, a power sub-station exploded in a burst of light captured by amateur photographers as a massive blackout left much of Manhattan, and some 500,000 homes across New York City, in darkness. The flood waters had begun to recede early Tuesday, but the Con Edison power company said it could take a week to completely restore power. Disaster e…
President Barack Obama is visiting the state of New Jersey, to survey the devastation two days after Hurricane Sandy made landfall nearby. With Republican Governor Chris Christie, he is to meet rescue workers and residents in Atlantic City. The massive cyclone killed at least 50 people across the north-eastern US and millions are still without power. Some businesses and services reopened after a…
Jeffrey Johnson has been identified as the gunman responsible of this morning Empire State Building shooting. Jeffrey Johnson, 53, a disgruntled employee, returned to his former workplace and fatally shot his ex-boss three times in the head, sparking early-morning chaos and multiple other injuries near the Empire State Building. But he was scuppered in his plans to escape after a construction wor…
n, privacy and security. Worldwide authorities made 1,789 requests for Google to remove content, up from 1,048 requests for the last six months of 2011. In the period from January to June, Turkey made 501 requests for content removal. These included 148 requests related to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk – the first president of Turkey, the current government, national identity and values. Others incl…
A newly unveiled report written for wartime British intelligence says Adolf Hitler developed a “messiah complex” towards the end of World War II. The report, written in 1942 by Cambridge academic Joseph MacCurdy, said Adolf Hitler was turning increasingly to “Jew-phobia” as defeat loomed. Social scientist Mark Abrams commissioned the report, which came to light as a result…
Laura Fernee claims she is too pretty to workLaura Fernee says her good looks are so powerful they are ruining her life – and have forced her to quit her job. Laura Fernee, 33, is a science graduate and she says her…
Eurovision 2013: Azerbaijan inquiry into "nul points" for RussiaAzerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev has ordered an inquiry into why his country gave Russia "nul points" at Eurovision Song Contest 2013. Voters and the official Azerbaijan…
Kate Middleton has a Marilyn Monroe dress blow up moment at William van Cutsem weddingKate Middleton was left red-faced after the gusts lifted up her polka-dot dress, drawing attention to her thighs. The Duchess of Cambridge was caught out by the wind as she…
Madeleine McCann case: British cleaners and Portuguese manual workers among new suspectsBritish cleaners and Portuguese manual workers are among new suspects in the Madeleine McCann investigation, according to recent reports in UK’s media. Scotland Yard…
EU bans refillable bottles and dipping bowls of olive oil at restaurant tablesStarting with 2014, the European Commission will ban the use of refillable bottles and dipping bowls of olive oil at restaurant tables. From 1 January 2014, restaurants may…
Rome: Thousands rally to oppose Italy's austerity measuresThousands of protesters, led by trade unionists, have rallied in Rome against the policies of Italy’s new coalition government. Wielding red flags and placards, they urged…
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