Bad day for NYC commuters: Trains collide, plane 'belly flops' a landing
Posted by: Herbert Dyer, Jr.
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 21:58:49 -0700 | disasters-news
A New York City commuter train traveling from New York to suburban Connecticut Friday derailed and collided with a train headed in the opposite direction, as reported by all New York City media outlets and the Los Angeles Times. Railroad...
Many injured in devastating train collision in Conn., FBI probe underway
Posted by: VeronicaS
Fairfield :: CT :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 21:58:49 -0700 | disasters-news
As much as 70 people were reportedly sent to the hospital after two commuter trains collided Friday evening in Connecticut. CNN is reporting that as of Saturday morning, eight of those injured remain hospitalized, with three in critical condition. The...
Train collision in Connecticut leaves 60 people injured
Posted by: Samantha86
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 21:58:49 -0700 | disasters-news
A terrible train collision in Connecticut has left 60 people injured, five of whom are critical. The train derailed and hit another one approaching from the opposite direction. The Metro-North commuter train derailed and hit a second train in Fairfield,...
Boom in Luxury Towers Is Warping New York Real Estate Market
Source: The New York Times
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 21:31:21 -0700 | disasters-news
Only 10 floors have been completed in what is intended to be the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere a slender, 84-story tower on Park Avenue at 56th Street in Manhattan. But the top penthouse is already under contract...
Bullet Kills Girl, 14, Riding M.T.A. Bus in Queens
Source: The New York Times
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 21:31:11 -0700 | disasters-news
May 18, 2013 A 14-year-old girl was shot in the head and killed on Saturday evening as she rode a Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus in Queens, the police said. A police spokesman said it appeared the gunman was outside the...
Guantanamo inmates cost U.S. $900,000 each per year
Source: United Press International
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 17:18:02 -0700 | disasters-news
The 166 detainees remaining in Guantanamo cost U.S. taxpayers about $900,000 a year each, officials say. The annual cost of the detention center at the naval base in Cuba is $150 million, CNN reported. That makes it far more expensive...
Jeddah fire kills 5-year...
Source: Arab News
Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia | updated 2013-05-18 16:12:35 -0700 | disasters-news
Arab News Sunday 19 May 2013 Last Update 19 May 2013 1:48 am A 5-year-old girl died in a house fire in the Waziriya district of southern Jeddah, but her older sibling survived...Saeed Sarhan said the operations department received notification...
London jewel thief, wife dead in murder-suicide
Source: United Press International
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 14:54:34 -0700 | disasters-news
A notorious jewel thief and his wife were found dead in their upscale London apartment in an apparent murder-suicide, police said. Police went to the apartment in a Bloomsbury townhouse Wednesday afternoon, The Daily Telegraph reported.
US chides Russia for missile shipment to Syria
Posted by: arkar
Damascus :: Syria | updated 2013-05-18 20:30:21 -0700 | disasters-news
The Syrian civil war, which has raged on for nearly two years now, has had quite a dividing effect on the international community. While the majority of Western nations support the struggle of the Syrian opposition, others are allied with...
Afghan police head shot dead out-of-doors home.
Posted by: mashfaq90
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-18 21:43:03 -0700 | disasters-news
MOTORCYCLE-RIDING gunmen have shot dead a policemanman head who led an anti-Taliban campaign in western Afghanistan in front of his dwelling, an authorized states. Abdul Ghani was departing his driveway in his vehicle when the two raced up and opened...
North Korea blazes three short-range missiles into to the east waters.
Posted by: mashfaq90
Pyŏngyang :: North Korea | updated 2013-05-18 15:32:33 -0700 | disasters-news
North Korea discharged three short-range directed missiles into its eastern waters on Saturday, in a move that could destabilise diplomatic efforts to alleviate stress on the peninsula. The North discharged two missiles on Saturday morning and another in the after...
A teacher in Baton Rouge accused of solicting lewd images from students
Posted by: George Vieto
Baton Rouge :: LA :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 19:37:00 -0700 | disasters-news
Baton Rouge Louisiana. This story is a real shocker. Baton Rouge Police have opened a criminal investigation that a teacher at Kenilworth Science and Technology Charter School has been asking the female students to send him cellphone images of their...
Dalton Smith- Masked Home Intruder that killed Hofstra University Student Andrea Rebello
Posted by: LourdesKriete
Nassau :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 21:50:26 -0700 | disasters-news
Daily Entertainment Newsyour daily dose of gossipThe man that forced his way inside the home of the young Hofstra University student Andrea Rebello has been identified as Dalton Smith, who shot Rebello right in front of her twin sister. Smith...
Raped disabled girl may be pregnant.
Posted by: mashfaq90
Jaipur :: India | updated 2013-05-18 20:43:48 -0700 | disasters-news
According to initial health checks conducted on the young women, who were supposedly sexually exploited and mistreated at a residential school run by an NGO, one of them is supposed to be with child. However, medical practitioners are awaiting the...
Gay man shot dead in Village after gunman shouted homophobic slurs: authorities
Posted by: skooter
Cebu :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-18 20:34:03 -0700 | disasters-news
Skooter reports 05/19/13 Early today in Greenwich Village, a gay man was gunned down by an armed extremist who hurled homophobic slurs at him, and claimed to be the Newtown, Conn. killer prior to the murder, police said today. On...
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