A GOVERNMENT agency is launching an inquiry into doctors’ reports that up to 50 babies a year are born alive after botched National Health Service abortions...
“They can be born breathing and crying at 19 weeks’ gestation,” he said. “I am not anti-abortion, but as far as I am concerned this is sub-standard medicine.”
A police officer who was fired after showing up for work under the influence of alcohol shot a gun at police during a five-hour standoff...Greaves suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the knee...
Greaves...faces two counts of felony reckless endangerment.
When the parents of 14 year-old Alycia Brown of La Crosse Wisconsin found out their daughter was sexually active, ; they put her on birth control, choosing the popular hormonal patch instead of the Pill. When on May 7, 2004, Alycia died suddenly of blood clots in her lower pelvis Michael and Lorie Brown decided to sue the deadly drug's manufacturer in the hopes of having it taken off the market.
Thieves are sawing down aluminum light poles. Some 130 have vanished from Baltimore's streets in the last several weeks, authorities say, presumably sold for scrap metal. But so far the case of the pilfered poles has stumped the police and left many local residents wondering just how someone manages to make off with what would seem to be a conspicuous street fixture...The police have no suspects...
A construction worker is recovering in stable condition after a nail gun fired a shot to his temple.
A 33-year-old Falls Township man, who barricaded himself in his apartment and held off authorities for seven hours after allegedly shooting an officer with a nail gun was arraigned yesterday, police said.
Authorities uncovered over a 100 nails inside the door frame...
A man accused of killing his estranged wife with a nail gun last month was arrested after spending five weeks in a hospital for nail gun wounds to his own chest and abdomen.
A gun battle between rival prison gangs in an overcrowded western Mexico penitentiary injured eight inmates, authorities said Saturday.
After San Francisco voters banned guns in the most recent election, city officials say they are struggling to keep up with the massive amount of guns being voluntarily turned over by gang members and other criminals.
Although Congress had prohibited both the possession and transfer of automatic firearms, as Judge Alito noted in his opinion, only the provision that banned possession, not transfer, was before his court in Rybar.
That kind of power has drawn a customer base of gun enthusiasts, Hollywood actors..."It's like, what does a 55-year-old man do with a Corvette? You drive it around and enjoy it," said Barrett, 51, whose customers include doctors, lawyers, movie makers and actors. "I know all the current actors who are Barrett rifle shooters, some Academy Award-winning people. But they don't publicize it. They love to play with them and have fun. Shooting is very fun."
Finally---I've said this before, and will say it again---the ATF is not immune to Congressional pressures and concerns, and at the end of the day the Congress can go a long way towards reforming ATF if it wants to. The "if it wants to" requires people who are willing to be part of the solution and not part of the problem. Be part of the solution by continuing to express your concerns to your Congressinal representatives.
It is bad enough that said bastard is camping in the left hand lane, but to add insult to injury the Metro is overtaking the other two cars in the right hand lane at the stately pace of just over a foot per minute.
An Open Letter: Is This CITGO Corporate Policy?
Your website claims “We’re Your Neighbor.”
Your “Community Involvement” page tells us “At CITGO, we take ‘community’ seriously. Lending a hand to those in need is important to us.”
Yet, according to the Associated Press, when a paying customer asked a Gary, IN, station counter clerk to dial “911” after getting robbed at knifepoint, he refused. And your manager confirmed this is standard practice.
Is it?
What is CITGO going to do about this?
And why, with all the competition out there, should the public do business with a company that shows such callous and cowardly disregard for the welfare of its customers?
Your reply, or lack of one, will be publicized. How much depends on the swiftness and acceptability of your reaction.
A high school math teacher was arrested after she brought an unloaded revolver onto school grounds in her vehicle...Barbara A. Rhoads, a math teacher at Pender High School, was charged Tuesday with felony possession of a weapon on educational property...A telephone tipster told Principal Robbie Cauley about the gun in Rhoads' vehicle...She acknowledged she had a handgun in her locked vehicle and gave consent for a search...
Easton police have launched an internal investigation after a sergeant left his loaded department-issued handgun in a bathroom at the Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon in Palmer Township.
The missing gun is the latest in a string of incidents that have plagued the department this year. City officials are looking for a new police chief, and a state grand jury is investigating the fatal shooting of officer Jesse Sollman at police headquarters in March.
A source said Thomas Smith and another officer were disciplined last year when a shotgun Smith was handed went off during a domestic disturbance call. No one was hurt.
Some gun locks handed out for free by the San Mateo Police Department as part of a gun safety program may be defective...According to the lock supplier, malfunctioning locks are missing a ball bearing needed to secure the device's cable in the padlock.
Hundreds, possibly thousands of people are shot by police every year in Brazil, a BBC investigation has found.
Time was, the turkey was considered a game bird. The Pilgrims at Plymouth feasted on them. Generations later, Ben Franklin considered it such a useful fowl that he nominated it for the national bird.Attacks by roving flocks of wild turkeys are on the increase around suburban Boston--AP
Three female Michigan State University professors studied the magazine "Traditional Bowhunter," and concluded that hunting is a form of sexual violence with animals substituted for women. They describe hunting as, "erotic heterosexual predation, sadomasochism, restraint for aggressive sexual energy, and allied with the abuse of women."Whatever.
The number of inmates escaping from Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department custody has doubled over the last two years, and prosecutors are alarmed that sheriff's officials have no formal policy to notify them when an inmate gets away.
But the cruel wretch said, "Then I will eat all Noman's comrades before Noman himself, and will keep Noman for the last. This is the present that I will make him."
--From "The Odyssey" by Homer [Translated by Samuel Butler]
Sbeta, a native of Libya, gets help from Poncho the Goat, a loyal ram who several times a day leads a small group of kid goats through a narrow alley to the slaughterhouse door. Poncho leaves the animals inside and trots back to a cozy corral while a worker slits the throats of his former charges. Their skinned carcasses are then placed in cold storage.
To disarm is the ultimate gesture of peace and a true moment of reckoning. [More]Tookie, co-founder of the Crips, is on death row awaiting a December "moment of reckoning" for the brutal shotgun executions of four people he was robbing. Ironic--now that it's his turn, he doesn't want to die.
The man who was critically wounded during Sunday's shooting rampage at Tacoma Mall drew a pistol and confronted the gunman before he was cut down by gunfire, his family said Tuesday.
Toll collectors at San Francisco's landmark Golden Gate Bridge have been issued body armor to guard against armed bandits.
Owners of firearms are set for a rude awakening early next year.
According to the Central Firearm's Register those who fail to comply with the act on the control of firearms will be arrested, their weapons confiscated and they'll have to appear in court.
Statistics have shown that are more than 500,000 firearms licences countrywide need to be renewed before December 31.
The licences of stolen guns need not be renewed.
Chris Tietgens ...has a room full of firearms as part of his personal collection.
The Leominster resident has firearms that date back to the early-1800s, firearms German soldiers used in World War II, original Winchester rifles and a pocket-pistol made in Fitchburg in the early-1900s.
An inmate was stomped to death after he cut in front of two gang members in a dinner line...The attackers spent 10 to 15 minutes beating and stomping the victim's head...Sheriff Lee Baca ...said through a spokesman... that the department will begin segregating gang members charged with murder from other prisoners
Metro transit officials undercount serious crime at the region's 86 rail stations, leaving dozens of assaults, robberies and other major incidents off the official tally they report to the system's board of directors and the public.
Russell Rosa...was showing a friend a .41 caliber Ruger pistol...and pulled the hammer back to check if the gun was loaded...
Panic gripped passengers at Jammu railway station this morning when the rifle of a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper went off accidentally.
According to the reports, CRPF trooper Daleep Kumar’s gun went of [sic] accidentally at Jammu railway station this morning and emptied his magazine.
The Republican-controlled Congress helped itself to a $3,100 pay raise on Friday, then postponed work on bills to curb spending on social programs and cut taxes in favor of a two-week vacation.
Your search - "National ammo day" - did not match any documents.
U.S. Border Patrol agents were backed down this week by armed men, dressed in what appeared to be Mexican military uniforms and carrying military weapons, who seized a captured dump truck filled with marijuana from the U.S. agents and dragged it across the border into Mexico with a bulldozer.
Not every day passes without confrontation, however. He recounted several gunfights with the "coyotes", including one occasion when he and his business partner came under fire at dusk as they barbecued steaks.
"They started the war when they started shooting at us."
A Quincy police officer lost his department-issued gun apparently after driving away without realizing he had placed the weapon on the roof of his car, officials said.
The Columbia police SWAT team is missing one of its guns, and the department is still trying to track down both the weapon and the person who took it.
Police are looking for a man who stole the gun of a Jefferson County sheriff deputy Friday afternoon.
A search that was launched after a bullet was discovered in a jail's metal shop uncovered more than a dozen homemade weapons, officials said.
Those arrests are then followed by vigorous prosecution, Green said. His office has adopted a "no plea" policy, in which prosecutors won't accept any plea agreements that don't result in state prison sentences for people who carry guns.
Congress approved the District's 2006 budget yesterday, including more than $100 million in federal aid...But what made city leaders happiest was what didn't make it into the measure: a series of proposals that would have weakened or repealed the city's handgun ban.
Four former UPS workers have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to sell stolen handguns in what federal officials are calling one of the largest gun-trafficking schemes in the state's history.
The high-top sneakers cost $215 at a San Diego boutique, but the designer is giving them away to migrants before they cross to this side of the U.S.-Mexico border.
NOTICE TO MIGRANTS: IMPORTANT SAFETY WARNING ABOUT BRINCO SHOES
You may have heard about the Brinco shoes being given away to border crossers. If you receive a pair of these shoes, do not wear them. You will be putting yourself and your family at risk and missing an opportunity to enrich yourself.
Rich North Americans are paying $215 for a pair of these shoes. If a coyote sees you with them, and he has you alone in the wilderness, what do you think the chances are he will let you keep them? He might kill or injure you to take them so that he can sell them to an American buyer. Even if he does not hurt you, you may be left in the middle of the desert with no shoes.
The designer who created these shoes only made 1,000 pair. That means they will become a collector's item, and their value will increase. Look for the shoes to start turning up on internet trading sites like ebay, and look for the price to increase among rich Americans wishing to appear fashionable.
The smart thing to do if you are fortunate enough to receive a pair of Brincos is to stash them away for a time until you can determine a buyer and a price you are willing to sell them for. How many pair of shoes can you buy for the current price of $215? As the demand increases, how much will the price increase?
If you ignore this advice and wear the shoes anyway, be aware of another option should you be injured or killed by someone trying to take them from you. You or your survivors should seek out a lawyer and sue for damages, because Judi Werthein and her rich backers knew--or should have known--that introducing objects of value amidst impoverished people would create a dangerous situation where property is coveted and protections do not exist. You will have been directly harmed due to their negligence and irresponsibility.
So remember: Sell or sue. Do not wear.
Hollywood star JOHNNY DEPP is so shocked by the riots raging through France, he's considering abandoning his home in the country
English professor John Daly replied: "Real freedom will come when soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors"...Daly's e-mail also claimed that "capitalism has killed many more" people than communism...
Tested in Russia, the two-stage GK-1 voice analyzer requires that passengers don headphones at a console and answer "yes" or "no" into a microphone to questions about whether they are planning something illicit.
An off-duty Arlington County police officer wielding a handgun and threatening to commit suicide was shot and wounded by a Prince William County police officer...
The House overwhelmingly passed a resolution Thursday that asks the Legislature to consider a bill that would let people keep their guns during times of civil disorder.
HCR39 was approved on a 78-1 vote.
"Normalcy in Camden will continue to be threatened as long as illegal guns continue to flow into the city" from Philadelphia, said Bryan Miller, executive director of Ceasefire N.J.
When David Ludwig went to speak with the Bordens Sunday morning, he carried a gun. He brought it from home.
In Lancaster County, as in much of the midstate, a kid's as likely to find a gun as a quart of milk.
To me, that's the problem.
Before the players left the barbecue, a fight broke out between Bears center Olin Kreutz and offensive tackle Fred Miller, who broke his jaw. At the same time, Miller allegedly slugged Kreutz with a 5-pound weight, which required Kreutz to get 13 stitches in his head.
The Minister for Defence, Willie O'Dea, has said he did not intend to offend anyone by pointing a gun at a camera and smiling for the media while posing for photographs yesterday.I'd say this definitely qualifies for Xavier's "Idiots With Guns" series...
LESS than two weeks after the killing of five civilians, including two school children in Kisumu, our policemen last Friday turned their guns on yet another rally crowd in Mombasa killing four people.
The common thread that runs through these twin tragedies is that those tasked with protection of Kenyans had cynically turned out to be their executioners.
America must also enhance the civil (that is, non-military) aspects of homeland security. These functions must be adequately funded and organized along appropriate lines of authority, responsibility, and accountability. The National Guard, successor to the militia, and acknowledged in the Second Amendment as the historic defender of the Republic, must be trained and equipped to assume, among its other responsibilities, a significant role in defending the homeland in the 21st century.
O! it is excellent
To have a giant`s strength; but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.
All other freedoms and rights of the people that are not detrimental to social order or public welfare shall be guaranteed under the Constitution.
The robbers tied up the employees at gunpoint before filling the mail bags with cash, then making their getaway.
Sheriff’s spokesman Tom Reedy said the officers were preparing for the training about 8:35 a.m. when Clark’s Glock pistol discharged.
But an ordinance that seeks to reduce the murder rate by disarming those owners who are not criminals makes about as much sense as fighting alcoholism by prohibiting beer sales to Mormons.
The purpose of the visit was to acquaint the students with the working of the police force, school authorities said.
While the policemen were showing their rifles to the students, a rifle accidentally went off, killing Kumar on the spot.
One of their key witnesses, Constable Brown testified that on the night of May 7, 2003, he saw SSP Adams planting a nine millimetre pistol and several spent shells inside a room at Kraal in which the four victims were shot.
As students walk their school halls, they will see a new poster on bulletin boards warning against bringing firearms onto school campuses...Callers to Crime Stoppers can remain anonymous and qualify for a $500 reward...
Don't be stupid, be a smarty, come and join the Nazi party!
THE LEGAL loophole that allowed the killer of Leeds police officer Ian Broadhurst to produce home-made bullets is set to be shut tight by MPs today after a tireless campaign in Yorkshire.
Taking its first official position on the use of stun guns, the Florida PTA is calling for the devices to be used only as an alternative to shooting a student with a gun...
Doug Forrester, in his first postelection interview, laid the blame for his loss in the governor's race last week directly at the feet of President Bush.
Forrester does have a gun-control plan. His proposal includes:
-- Banning the sale of .50 caliber weapons. State law currently prohibits the sale of .60 caliber weapons.
-- Stiffening penalties for illegal gun trafficking and sales, including extending racketeering laws to gun traffickers.
-- Banning ammunition sales to people who have committed crimes.
-- Requiring destruction of used law-enforcement firearms.
-- Requiring that stolen guns be reported within 72 hours.
A former New Orleans police officer who resigned from the force after being accused of abandoning his post during the Hurricane Katrina crisis was arrested while driving a stolen truck, authorities said...Bickham, who has family in Houston, could also face weapons charges: He had a pistol issued by the New Orleans department, McDuell said.
Under the new law, any individual against whom a PFA order has been issued may be ordered to surrender all firearms. The weapons may be sold to a consignment shop or turned over to the local sheriff or a third party for safekeeping...True said the bill had 138 co-sponsors in the state House, including legislators from both sides of the gun-control debate. Best of all, she said, was that while the National Rifle Association did not vocally support her bill, it did not object to it.
"That's just as good," she said.
Police in Casselberry, Fla., are searching for two men who stormed into a Pizza Hut and pistol-whipped a manager during a robbery of the business...During the robbery, employees of the restaurant locked themselves in a large walk-in freezer to escape the attackers... The store manager, who remained outside the freezer, met the demands of the two men and apparently gave them an undisclosed amount of money before he was pistol-whipped and beaten.
A pizza delivery driver who fatally shot a man he said brandished a gun and tried to rob him was fired from his job...Pizza Hut spokeswoman, Patty Sullivan, confirmed that company policy includes a ban on carrying weapons.
State Senator Juan Hinojosa won't be facing gun charges after he was arrested at an airport carrying a handgun.
Fountain pens are too dangerous for children under the age of 14, the British Standards Institution says.
After decades when young pupils were encouraged to master penmanship, the benefits of developing good handwriting are now seen to be outweighed by the risk of swallowing the cap.
In northern Virginia the police say they're looking for a woman who's been holding up banks while chatting on her phone... Investigators say they're not sure if she's actually talking to someone on the phone or just pretending. They also won't speculate on why she's chosen only Wachovia branches.
Should victims of gun violence be able to sue gun-based organizations in Wisconsin?
The new 50 Cent movie "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" has been pulled from a theater where a man was fatally shot... Shelton Flowers, 30, had just watched the rapper's movie Wednesday when he got into a confrontation with three men in the bathroom. A fight ensued and spilled out into the concessions area, where Flowers was shot, police said.
Urban areas such as Chicago have more restrictive laws for gun transportation. If the state government had been put in charge of such laws, it would have likely meant much looser regulations for these areas. The fact remains that people that are transporting guns in Chicago probably pose a greater nuisance to the public than people transporting guns in Mahomet. If people in Mahomet want to be able to drive around with pistols in their glove compartments, let them do it. But similar regulations would be foolish in Chicago. Local governments should be able to do what they need to do to protect their communities based on their circumstances and ways of life.
Races in Mahomet:
White Non-Hispanic (97.7%)
Hispanic (0.9%)
Two or more races (0.6%)
Races in Chicago:
Black (36.8%)
White Non-Hispanic (31.3%)
Hispanic (26.0%)
Other race (13.6%)
Two or more races (2.9%)
Chinese (1.1%)
Filipino (1.0%)
Asian Indian (0.9%)
American Indian (0.7%)
Other Asian (0.5%)
(Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races)
Hard to say because it's been 11 days since two African- American teenagers were killed, electrocuted during a police chase, which prompted all of this.Quick--somebody tell Minister Farrakhan and Rev. Sharpton!
MEASURE H (SF Gun Ban)
YES . . . . . . . . . . . . 89,696 - 57.91
NO. . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,185 - 42.09
Unless respect for the rights of D.C. residents to make their own laws -- and common sense about gun safety -- prevails on Capitol Hill, by week's end the city's sensible and broadly supported gun safety law will be history.
Teaching young people how to make good choices is the focus of the new program called EKG, or Educating Kids about Gun Violence.
"I bought a handgun. I sold the gun illegally. I sent the gun into a heated confrontation that ended in someone being killed. And I lied to the police about what happened," said Johnson, who was released from prison in September after serving 10 years of a 35-year sentence for murder.
Norton said the NRA can help make Project Safe Neighborhoods a success.
"The President is counting on your involvement in Project Safe Neighborhoods," she told NRA members. "We will get guns out of the hands of criminals," Norton said to a round of applause.
