…ator’s plan to introduce a bill on the first day of the next Congress. Barack Obama would also consider curbs on high-capacity ammunition and loopholes, Jay Carney said. Gunman Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six adults in Friday’s attack. Barack Obama has previously stated his support for the reintroduction of an assault weapons ban, which lapsed in 2004. But he has not backed a spe…
…spoken to Mitt Romney, Chris Christie said: “No. We exchanged emails last night. We haven’t spoken on the phone yet.” Chris Christie, who is up for re-election in New Jersey next year and is a likely 2016 presidential candidate, is partly blamed by some senior Mitt Romney aides for the Republican nominee’s defeat. They believe that his outspoken commendations of Barack Obama helped create a…
One Goh has been named by police as the man believed to have shot dead seven people and injured three others at Oikos University in Oakland, California. Oakland police chief Howard Jordan said the gunman had opened fire in a classroom at Oikos University. The 43-year-old suspect, a former student at the college, surrendered at a supermarket in nearby Alameda city. Oikos University is a private re…
I try to talk to, he’s very quiet and he doesn’t really talk to anyone. Dispatcher: Was he picking students randomly? Student: Yeah, he just pulled out a gun and started firing upon, like 500 kids, all in the lunchroom. Dispatcher: So he just pulled out the gun and started shooting students in the cafeteria? Student: Yes. At random.” The eerie calls come as thousands of resident…
…e “it” girl at school. Kate Upton’ school friends remember a flat-chested teenager who was “nerdy looking” Wearing a white oxford shirt paired with a khaki kilt as her school uniform, Kate Upton, now 20, was required to go to church services everyday and her favorite pastime was riding horses. But while nearly every man on this planet would love to date her today, Kate Upton surprisingly didn’t h…
…dictate students’ behavior online has been a controversial subject, even in the courts. In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled that administrators could punish a student who raised a “Bong hits 4 Jesus” banner across the street from his school, saying the banner created a “substantial disruption” within the school. The 7th Circuit sided with two high school students who we…
spite Cuba’s well-rehearsed hurricane preparations. Most victims were killed by falling trees or collapsing buildings. “The hurricane was very big. I have never seen anything like it in my 54 years,” said Santiago resident Reinaldo Rivas. Elsewhere, 20 deaths were reported in Haiti – where much of the infrastructure remains in a poor condition following a massive earthquake…
…Orleans in 2005. Politicians from New York and New Jersey, the areas hardest-hit by Sandy, had complained that it took just 10 days for Congress to approve $50 billion in aid after Katrina. More than 60 days have passed since Sandy made landfall on the US eastern seaboard. Lawmakers remained angered by the delay even during debate on Friday. “How dare you come to this floor and make people…
rts by the National Guard and 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 S…
; Flinchum said. “We have not had any further reported sightings. We have not had any reports of anyone suspicious or anyone that fits this description.” The man was described by police as 6” tall, light brown hair and was wearing a blue and white striped shirt, gray shorts and brown sandals. He did not have facial hair or glasses. In addition, police said that the campers told them th…
t confirmed this. Police said the suspect had acted with “calculation and deliberation”, adding that he had been stockpiling ammunition for months. Over the course of eight weeks he bought 6,300 rounds of ammunition: 3,000 for a .233 semi-automatic AR-15 rifle, 3,000 for two .40 Glock 22 pistols and 300 cartridges for a pump-action shotgun. James Holmes bought the four weapons legally….
ave a combined fortune of over $1 billion. Nancy Shevell, 51, is the third wife of Sir Paul McCartney. The New York millionairess started dating Paul McCartney in November 2007 and it was announced on 6 May 2011 that the two had become engaged. Nancy Shevell and Linda McCartney, Paul’s first wife, were pals. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in her 30s, around the time Linda was losing her batt…
Blair. General David Petraeus also made an appearance, but it was in 2010 and long after she had left school. Jill Kelley has become the central figure in the scandal which has caused David Petraeus, 60, to step down as head of the CIA and forced General John Allen to stand down from his post leading US troops in Afghanistan. General John Allen, who is married, sent her between 20,000 to 30,000 e…
Patrick Lott, an assistant middle school principal and Catholic high school volunteer, was accused of secretly filming teenage boys as they showered at school. Patrick Lott, 54, of Somerville, New Jersey was arrested after videos of nude teenagers were allegedly found in his home. Somerset County police raided Patrick Lott’s house earlier this month and seized computer files and digital recording…
ything could happen. I feel the mayor should do something about that. The children should be our first priority, no matter what else is going on in the city.” Zak, a former Cleveland police officer of 30 years, believes the community is feeling the effects of the city’s cuts in the police force. “The first thing a city should do is protect its citizens,” he said. Although police cannot be on the s…
…ng a 1981 intake of transfers to New York’s Columbia University that was at the time branded one of the worst ever. The president, who moved from Occidental Community College in Los Angeles, was among 67 students whose average combined math and verbal score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test is a 1,100, according to a report obtained by Breitbart News. By comparison, George W. Bush – who earned a his…
…usually for such a largely Christian people, had converted to Islam. As far as he knew Misha was based in a mosque that was a short drive from Cambridge and that he was new to Islam. A leader from the 50,000 strong Armenian community in Boston however cast doubt on the claim. The Rev Gregory Haroutunian said he be “stunned” if anyone in the area would have had such hatred for America. Ruslan Tsarn…
Kelly Brook sizzles in a new set of adverts for deodorant brand Axe, which sees her living the good life in a space station. Kelly Brook, 33, features in two new adverts which see her relaxing in outer space and working on her tan. In one advert Kelly Brook wears a gold bikini that shows off her curves as she works on her tan. Using the sun and its hot ball of glowing gases to improve her hue she…
The body of Adam Lanza, the man who killed 27 people – including 20 children and his own mother – at Sandy Hook Elementary School, has been claimed for burial. Adam Lanza shot himself in the head inside Sandy Hook Elementary School, ending a bloody shooting tragedy that has gripped Newtown, Connecticut. Multiple reports said that Adam Lanza’s body was claimed several days ago by a person wh…
…a move. Senator Dianne Feinstein said she might put forward the assault weapons proposal, similar to a previous one she sponsored that expired in 2004, as an amendment to the bill. But she would need 60 votes from the 100-member Senate to succeed, a margin analysts say the amendment would be unlikely to reach. “I very much regret it,” Dianne Feinstein said. “I tried my best.R…
…r him 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. He dropped out of a German language class and withdrew from a computer science class, but earned an A in a computer class, A-minus in American history and B in m…
ratt Piers Morgan has responded, repeatedly, on his Twitter account. “If I do get deported from America for wanting fewer gun murders, are there any other countries that will have me?” the 47-year-old joked after the 25,000-signature threshold was past. He added: “Wanting America to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines isn’t anti-constitutional – it’s…
Friday afternoon a gunman opened fire on a Brooklyn street while students were let out of Brownsville’ school, killing pregnant mother Zurana Horton and injuring other two people. Zurana Horton, 34, was killed while defending her children and others that were leaving school when the shooting started. Reports say Zurana Horton was pregnant when she was shot though it has not been reported how far…
In Somerville, Massachusetts, the Kennedy Elementary School principal has caused outrage by banning Halloween, Thanksgiving and Columbus Day, saying they are insensitive. Anne Foley, the principal of an elementary school in Somerville, sent an email to teachers warning them about celebrating Thanksgiving. The Kennedy School principal wrote: “When we were young we might have been able to claim ign…
A teacher at Batesburg-Leesville Primary School, South Carolina, has been accused by first graders parents of picking out students in her class to rub her feet. The teacher, who has not been named, was disciplined, but still has her job teaching six and seven-year-olds, leaving the community troubled. The allegations came out when one of the teacher’s students told her grandmother she didn&…
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