Sacto 911: Sacramento police honor employees at annual awards ceremony
Source: Sacramento Bee
Sacramento :: KY :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 15:07:49 -0700 | disasters-news
This blog sacbee.com Web May 23, 2013 The Sacramento Police Department hosted an awards ceremony today to recognize more than two dozen of its employees and volunteers. The annual event is designed to honor "those that work tirelessly to keep...
Travel: Touring the Philippines' World War II legacy
Source: San Jose Mercury News
Mariveles :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-23 15:01:49 -0700 | disasters-news
The school day at Balanga Elementary on the Bataan Peninsula was winding down, and children poured from the classrooms into the stifling afternoon heat. Behind their classrooms, they played around the statues of grim-faced U.S. and Japanese officers.
Syria's outgoing opposition chief proposes safe exit for Assad
Posted by: StephenManual
Damascus :: Syria | updated 2013-05-23 14:58:53 -0700 | disasters-news
Syria remains a source of concern for many in the international community and world powers have also been striving hard to restore peace and stability in the violence-wracked country. To present an alternative to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s outgoing...
Andrea Mitchell: 'More Than Any of Its Predecessors,' Obama Administration Has Targeted Journalists
Source: Newsbusters
Say'ūn :: Yemen | updated 2013-05-23 14:52:49 -0700 | disasters-news
Andrea Mitchell on Thursday lashed out at the Obama administration, complaining that " more than any of its predecessors in recent years [they have], gone after journalists." The usually Obama-friendly journalist complained that the White House "has not" challenged journalists...
Officials: Man killed by FBI implicated self in 2011 triple-murder
Source: Fox
Kissimmee :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 14:42:50 -0700 | disasters-news
Published May 23, 2013 FoxNews.com A Chechen immigrant who was shot to death Wednesday by authorities in Florida -- while being questioned about his ties to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects -- implicated himself in an unsolved 2011...
What to do about radical Islam
Source: Aardvark Daily
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-23 14:36:57 -0700 | disasters-news
As regular readers will know (and be tired of hearing by now), the work on my SAA system has come along *very* nicely and I'm now at the point of throwing a new (far more compact) version of the "sense"...
Body of missing 10 year old found in a park in Minnesota
Posted by: George Vieto
St Paul :: MN :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 14:53:06 -0700 | disasters-news
St. Paul Minnesota. Search crews recovered the deceased body of a 10 year old boy named Mohamed Fofand who was among four children from a St. Louis Minnesota Elementary School who fell down 30 feet at Lilydale Regional Park after...
Report: Dwight Howard would consider joining Warriors
Source: San Jose Mercury News
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 14:15:25 -0700 | disasters-news
Howard, whose 17.1 points and league-leading 12.4 rebounds per game with the Lakers were his lowest totals in six years, has Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, the Warriors and Lakers on his list of desired locations, according to a source familiar with...
Blind Dissident Chen Guangcheng Given Award, and a Warning
Source: Epoch Times
Oxford :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-23 13:58:06 -0700 | disasters-news
Chen told the crowd of roughly 200 that the West lacked courage in dealing with the Chinese Communist Party. (Li Jingxing/The Epoch Times)
Mooswa brothers not guilty of attempted murder, convicted on lesser charge
Source: Star Phoenix
Saskatoon :: Canada | updated 2013-05-23 13:56:36 -0700 | disasters-news
Two brothers accused of attempted murder have been found not guilty on that most serious charge in connection with a Preston Avenue house party that turned violent in 2012. Jeremy and Javin Mooswa were instead found guilty of assault causing...
Obama defends drone strikes against militants
Posted by: StephenManual
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 14:46:52 -0700 | disasters-news
The United States has been using the unmanned drone strikes in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and some other African countries to eliminate the potential terrorists and militants. Obama administration has always said the drone strikes are being carried out in self-defense...
The Society For Information Display Applauds Winners Of Display Industry Awards, Best In Show And I-...
Source: PR Newswire
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 13:35:18 -0700 | disasters-news
A more comprehensive description of the award winners is included in the Display Week 2013 Show Issue of Information Display magazine, or on the Display Week website. The winners of the Display Week Best in Show Awards were also announced...
Vermont Declares War On Patent Trolls; Passes New Law And Sues Notorious Patent Troll
Source: Tech Dirt
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 13:17:56 -0700 | disasters-news
But, now the state appears to be declaring war on patent trolls. A new anti-patent trolling law has been quietly enacted , H.299 , which targets patent trolls. Or, as it says "bad faith assertions of patent infringement." It does...
Israeli double amputee is cycling toward 2016 games
Source: j.
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 13:17:51 -0700 | disasters-news
Follow j. on and Israeli Pascale Bercovitch is training hard for the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. photo/jta-courtesy of pascale bercovitch During the intervening years, she worked as a journalist and documentarian, producing Three-Hund-redths of a Second, an award-winning...
Report: Town police chief, sergeant drunk in car
Source: SF Gate
White Pigeon :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 13:17:36 -0700 | disasters-news
Mich. (AP) Authorities say a southwestern Michigan police chief and sergeant were drunk after the car they were driving in rolled off a Branch County road last month. TV reports ( http://bit.ly/11dyqfF ) that White Pigeon Police Chief Lynn Baker...
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