Jodi Arias asks for life term as jury deliberates her fate (Video)
Posted by: VeronicaS
Phoenix :: AZ :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 04:42:01 -0700 | disasters-news
Almost immediately after her May 8 guilty verdict, convicted murderer Jodi Arias gave an interview where she claimed to prefer the death penalty to life in prison. But apparently Ms. Arias had a change of heart and no longer views...
Judge approves marathon bombing suspect's request to see prison records
Posted by: Nathan Salant
Boston :: MA :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 05:31:33 -0700 | disasters-news
Suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has won a court order allowing him to review records kept on him during the past month, while he has been in federal custody. A federal magistrate judge in Boston agreed Monday that Tsarnaev's...
Nearly 40 percent of Syrians in need of humanitarian aid
Posted by: Robert Myles
Damascus :: Syria | updated 2013-05-22 05:31:03 -0700 | disasters-news
The number of Syrians in need of humanitarian aid has reached 8.3 million, or 38 percent of the country's population, the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) stated, labeling the situation in Syria a “humanitarian catastrophe.”...
Tsarnaev brothers highlight shifting movements within Chechnya, expert says
Posted by: Mirjana Pantic
Moscow :: Russia | updated 2013-05-22 05:28:58 -0700 | disasters-news
Searching for a motive behind the attack on the Boston Marathon in April that killed three people and injured more than 260 others, the media has speculated that the answer may lie in the alleged perpetrators’ Chechen origins. The Russian...
Moore Oklahoma elementary school has no tornado shelter, Who's to blame?
Posted by: richwebnews
Moore :: OK :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 05:18:52 -0700 | disasters-news
When deadly Oklahoma tornado chewed through Moore city in Cleveland County on Monday afternoon, dozens of young children in an elementary school left scampering around with nowhere to hide. Plaza Towers Elementary was directly in the path of the two-mile...
Massive sinkhole kills five in south China town of Shenzhen
Posted by: willsteven
Shenzhen :: China | updated 2013-05-22 03:03:21 -0700 | disasters-news
FIVE people have died after a 10-metre wide sinkhole opened up at the gates of an industrial estate in Shenzhen, the southern Chinese boom town neighbouring Hong Kong. The Shenzhen Longgang locality government said on its verified page on Sina...
Notre Dame Cathedral suicide by French writer Dominique Venner a 'gay marriage protest'
Posted by: willsteven
Paris :: France | updated 2013-05-22 05:51:53 -0700 | disasters-news
A MAN has shot himself dead in front of the altar of Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral, apparently in protest against France allowing gay marriage. Policeman verified the man's persona as Dominique Venner, 78, an essayist and activist connected with France's...
An audacious plan at the Western Wall
Source: Washington Post
Mission :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 03:55:34 -0700 | disasters-news
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish young man watches people during prayers at the Western Wall. Israel plans to double the prayer space at the wall, a move aimed at appeasing American Jews and accommodating liberal Judaism. In a city where three major...
Force corruption bill probe tops £4m
Source: BBC
New York :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 00:27:02 -0700 | disasters-news
Cleveland Police Operation Sacristy probe bill tops £4m Chief Constable Jacqui Cheer said the case involved "sifting through a lot of information" Investigations into alleged corruption at Cleveland Police have now cost more than £4m, the BBC has learned.
L.A. County D.A. plans to retry former Bell City Council members
Source: Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 22:31:25 -0700 | disasters-news
The Los Angeles County district attorney's office plans to retry the case against Bell council members accused of misappropriating public funds by overpaying themselves for sitting on city boards and authorities that rarely met, according to defense attorneys connected with...
Chicago Communities Wary of Chicago School Closures
Source: The New York Times
Chicago :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 22:19:19 -0700 | disasters-news
Chicago School Closings May Leave Some Communities Without Old Lifelines Peter Hoffman for The New York Times Tzia Ford, 9, at Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School, on the West Side of Chicago. It is one of 53 underutilized public schools...
Mysterious respiratory illness strikes 7 in Alabama; 2 dead
Posted by: shahzad313
Montgomery :: AL :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 04:16:38 -0700 | disasters-news
REPORT BY: SHAHZAD DATE: MAY22-2013 Two people were killed and five others were hospitalized in a mysterious cluster of respiratory diseases in Southeast Alabama, health officials said. Victims, all adults had symptoms, including fever, cough, and shortness of breath, but...
Pedestrian dies after being struck by school bus in Mass.
Posted by: Hafsasikander
Boston :: MA :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 04:03:20 -0700 | disasters-news
Massachusetts State Police are investigating a crash on Tuesday that killed a 24-year-old pedestrian, who was struck by a school bus on Interstate 290 in Worcester, Mass.Police said The name of the victim will be released Wednesday once the proper...
Double shooting investigated in Boston
Posted by: Hafsasikander
Boston :: MA :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 04:24:06 -0700 | disasters-news
Two people have been shot in the Dorchester section of Boston. According to Boston police, two people were shot on Mt. Ida Rd. but the crime scene extends to Bowdoin Street in Boston. Both were transported to Boston Medical Center....
Video: Pope Francis Did Not Perform Exorcism, Says Vatican
Posted by: RaulDeSouza
Rome :: Italy | updated 2013-05-22 04:18:39 -0700 | disasters-news
The Vatican has denied all claims that Pope Francis performed an exorcism after this Sunday mass after the possible encounter was shown on the TV channel owned by the Italian Bishops'. The footage shows a man, in a wheelchair, opening...
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