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Man accused of ax killing of wife with protection order
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A woman with a newly issued personal protection order was killed by her ax-wielding husband as their 2-year-old son slept inches away, police say.
Marie M. Irons, a 41-year-old Pontiac school administrator, received the protection order against her estranged husband, Christopher Howard, six days before her death Sunday.
I am afraid his mental state will cause him to harm me wrote Irons
Police in this Detroit suburb found Irons dead in her bed Sunday, her head nearly severed. |
What are we being driven to?
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"The people in government break the laws of God and man with apparent impunity, exercising authority they don't have under color of law. They infringe not only on the rights of the American people but the very common decency and respect we for the most part have towards and for all people. Some may disagree but how many of you actually believe that butchering people around the globe is the answer to creating world peace?" |
FL: DeBolt's arrest clouds Irish preparations
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"An officer of the Jacksonville police said Friday night that DeBolt had to be restrained in custody because 'he was combative at the back door of the jail.' DeBolt's mug shot shows swollen eyes and lacerations around his mouth, though the arrest report does not mention those injuries or any involvement in an altercation."
"The officer, who was not on duty at the time of DeBolt's arrest, added 'as far as we know, he was just a normal, disorderly intoxicated person and we had to do what we had to do.' "
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TX: Report: Law enforcement agencies frequently violate open records laws
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"Law enforcement agencies throughout East Texas frequently violate the Texas Public Information Act, often responding to requests for information with personal questions, requests for identification and lectures about privacy, a 14-county survey shows."
"County governments, meanwhile, fully cooperated with residents requesting basic public documents, according to the study conducted by the journalism department at The University of Texas at Tyler, the Longview News-Journal and The Tyler Courier-Times-Telegraph."
"The survey, conducted from May through September, showed county employees produced information immediately without question in 100 percent compliance of state open records laws." |
OK: Kingfisher museum breathes life back into 'Old West'
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"The Living History on the Chisholm Trail event makes its ninth yearly appearance on April 12, with attractions both inside and outside such as old- time homemaking crafts, presentations by historians, Old West shoot-outs, chuck-wagon cooking, American Indian camps, frontier soldier demonstrations and others representing the period of the great cattle drive that crossed Indian Territory." |
PA: NAACP calling for black representation in investigation
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"The NAACP is demanding that blacks be represented at all investigations -- including a coroner's inquest -- into the shooting death of a 12-year-old black boy during a state police chase Tuesday."
"Clinton Anderson, chapter president, said in the statement that the [NAACP] 'insists upon and demands' that at least three blacks serve on investigating bodies 'to insure [sic] that there is not just a token representation, but a fair representation.' " ... |
Danger: Free speech at work
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"If images of people being persecuted for 'thought crimes' strike you as the stuff of science fiction � or, at worst, something that happened when communism was at its height and jackboots were storming Europe � get ready for a wake-up call."
"It comes from Britain. There, in a predawn November raid, a task force from London's Metro Police Department raided 150 homes and arrested 60 people in a crackdown on hate crimes. According to the British Broadcasting Corp., many of them were arrested on 'suspicion of making racist threats and of homophobic harassment.' " |
NV: Another Cattle Rustling Imminent
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"Bob Abbey, State Director of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has announced through the media that he will be conducting another raid on the live stock of the Western Shoshone, Dann sisters, of Crescent Valley, Nevada. The Danns have ranched in the area for generations. The two sisters are in their late 70�s and early 80�s." ...
"Earlier this year, Bob Abbey brought in over 50, heavily armed rangers, sporting body armor and para-military attire and rustled over 200 head of the Dann cowherd. Cowmen and protestors concerned about due process of law helped to cut the raid short." ... |
KS: Stabbing victim had tried to rob couple
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"The man was stabbed on Saturday when masked robbers, armed with handguns, confronted a Raytown businessman and his wife..."
"The robbers may have followed the businessman home from work..."
"Once they were inside the couple's home, the robbers separated the man and his wife and put them in different areas of the home. The husband struggled with one of the robbers and stabbed him." |
New crimebusting technology on the scene
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"Trace the microscopic bumps and ridges that are burned and scraped into a criminal's discharged ammunition and you may have the key to unlocking a series of violent crimes."
"That's what one of Forensics Technology Inc.'s products [sic] does."
"The Montreal-based company's IBIS -- Integrated Ballistics Identification System -- decodes a gun's 'DNA' from bullets and cartridge casings." |
NY: With Killings on the Rise, Upstate Cities Look for Answers
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"One of the biggest contributors to Rochester's homicide problem may be its troubled school system, which has one of the highest dropout rates of any urban area in the state. In high-tech Rochester, even blue-collar jobs require education, Dr. Klofas said, so these young people can find almost no legal way to earn a living." |
AL: Game warden faces civil suit in killing
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"A wrongful death lawsuit is proceeding in Birmingham federal court against a game warden convicted of manslaughter in the shooting death of a motorist." ...
"A Limestone County Circuit Court jury in October found Raley guilty of manslaughter in Sharpley's death. Raley received a suspended 10-year sentence and probation, allowing him to avoid prison." |
OH: Restriction removed, ELO cop back on job
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"An East Liverpool police officer returned to work Friday after a hearing in domestic relations court that kept a protection order against him but was amended so he could resume carrying a gun."
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CA: California's Assault Weapons Ban does Indeed Violate the Constitution
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"In their decision, the Ninth Circuit acknowledged that the weapons California sought to regulate or ban are military type weapons. Since the word 'arming' in Clause 16 includes individual citizens providing their own military weapon, no State can pass a general statute that negates or interferes with this constitutional provision."
"This principle also applies to Congress. That body cannot pass any statute that alters or defeats a constitutional provision. A general federal assault weapons ban would constitute a revision of the Constitution because it would alter the arming provision enumerated in Clause 16. The Constitution can only be changed through the amendment process enumerated in Article V." |
NY: Teens Arrested in Gun Shop Burglary
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"The snowplow operator was cleaning the parking lot of the mall where the store is located on Central Avenue when he noticed the teens smashing out the front window of the store around 5:20am Sunday morning. He immediately called the Colonie Police. Upon arrival, the police noticed a car with its lights off exiting the adjoining parking lot. Police pulled the car over on Karner Road in Colonie. After an investigation police found 22 handguns underneath a parked car in the adjoining parking lot." |
Canada: Toronto's image tested by violence, racism charges
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"It was once called "Toronto the Good" for its law-abiding ways, but that image has faded recently as Canada's largest city battles a wave of gun violence centered on its Jamaican community and accusations police use racial profiling." ...
"Nevertheless, Toronto remains very safe by U.S. standards. According to government statistics, Toronto proper, with about 2.5 million people, had 59 homicides in 2001. Chicago proper, with 2.9 million people, had more than 600 last year."
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LA: Clerk Captures Robbery Suspect
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"Lake Charles Police say a 15-year-old girl walked into the Homsi's Deli on Broad Street, armed with a gun, and demanded money from the clerk."
"In the process of taking the money out of the register the clerk and the suspect fought."
"Police say the girl ran out of the store. Detectives say the store clerk chased the would-be robber down the street and held her until officers arrived." |
New Zealand: Dangerous escapee captured in violent clash
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"Jacob Scanlan was pepper sprayed by police after he threatened to shoot them when he was cornered on a Christchurch-bound bus about 7:20 am yesterday."
"Scanlan, 23, had been on the run since Friday afternoon, when he smashed his way out of the hospital, where he had been transferred while serving a five-year jail term for robbing Denny's Restaurant in Christchurch while armed with a baseball bat. Detectives warned that Scanlan was dangerous and should not be approached." |
CA: Anything but California
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"No matter what your political leanings, it is not a happy coincidence that California is at its Democratic zenith at precisely the moment when the federal government has reached a Republican peak." ...
"The very priorities that keep California such a Democratic stronghold -- a commitment to the environment, diversity, abortion rights and gun control -- are nonstarters in the nation's Capitol." |
NY: Muzzleloader shooters set their sights
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"Previously, New York State hunters could use scopes on front-loader guns only during the big-game shotgun season. Savvy gunners, knowing the effective accuracy of these rifle-barreled single shots - flintlocks, percussion and in-line models - have been sighting in their muzzleloaders for use during gun season with a scope and then removing the scope for the late season."
"Not this year."
"Shooters of Knight, Thompson Center and other popular commercial or custom-made muzzleloader guns can accurately sight in their favorite caliber and shoot that gun throughout shotgun and late muzzleloader season." |
Canada: Support growing for gun dissidents
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"Led by Jarvie's 70-year-old Jim Turnbull, president of the Canadian Unregistered Firearms Owners Association, a small troupe of gun owners plans to burn gun licenses and registration papers on Parliament Hill New Year's Day." ...
"The group plans to march onto the Parliamentary ground carrying guns, although each weapon will sport a trigger lock, Turnbull said."
"They expect to be arrested, he said." |
NJ: Citizen's Group Blasts New Jersey Legislation For Endangering Civilians While Exempting Police
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"Governor James McGreevy signed into law legislation that will
make New Jersey citizens guinea pigs for unproven technology. This
action will cost more New Jersey citizens' lives than it will ever
save."
"The so called 'Smart Gun' legislation will eventually restrict
New Jersey citizen's choice of firearms to only those unproven
'smart guns,' while at the same time exempting the police. We can
only wonder why the New Jersey Legislature has forced the civilian
population to be the beta testers for equipment that our lives may
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Darwin Awards look at dumb accidents
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"Nominee No. 1: (San Jose Mercury News): An unidentified man, using a shotgun like a club to break a former girlfriend's windshield, shot himself to death when the gun discharged, blowing a hole in his gut." ...
"Nominee No. 2: (Hickory Daily Record): Ken Charles Barger, 47, shot himself to death in Newton, N.C. Awakening to the sound of a ringing telephone beside his bed, he reached for the phone but instead grabbed a .38 Special revolver, which discharged when he drew it to his ear."
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Puerto Rico: Jail inmates escape in helicopter
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"A helicopter has swooped into a maximum security prison and carried away five convicts, authorities in Puerto Rico have said."
"The helicopter's pilot, who later landed at an airport without the convicts, told investigators he was kidnapped and forced to pick up the prisoners, police said." |
Zimbabwe: Budiriro man fires gun to frighten suspected robbers
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"Rutendo Makaha (23) and Chrispen Madzirasa (28) were not so lucky as their victim, Mr. Enock Samuriwo (28), who was armed with a revolver, is alleged to have fired a shot into the air, forcing the two to abandon their intention."
"In fear for their lives, the two immediately surrendered themselves to Samuriwo, who subsequently took them to Glen View police post where he made a report and handed the two suspects." |
UK: Gunman holding man captive as flat siege goes into sixth day
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"Police yesterday confirmed that a man was being held captive in a dramatic armed siege in east London that is fast becoming one of Britain's longest hostage crises."
"More than 50 officers, including armed police from Scotland Yard's SO19 firearms unit, spent a fifth day outside the first floor bedsit on Marvin Street in Hackney, as negotiators tried to persuade the hostage taker, a lone gunman in his early 30s, to come out." |
UK: Gun amnesty to last three months
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"Boxes are likely to be installed at all police stations for three months from April for people to dump weapons."
"It is hoped that the scheme will help to reduce increasing gun crime."
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Defense to get Malvo's police statements
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"A Fairfax County juvenile court judge ordered prosecutors Monday to turn over all statements 17-year-old John Lee Malvo made to investigators in Fairfax County about his alleged involvement in the sniper shootings."
"The decision was made at a hearing during which defense attorneys argued they should be allowed to see the statements in which Malvo allegedly admitted to being the triggerman in the October 14 fatal shooting of FBI analyst Linda Franklin outside a Home Depot store in Fairfax." |
AZ: Librarians Say Patriot Act Makes It Too Easy For Government To Snoop Over Your Shoulder
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"Some Tucson librarians have joined others around the country in calling for changes to new laws enacted as part of the USA Patriot Act. ...The intent was to give more tools to law enforcement to fight terrorism. But the librarians say the act makes it too easy for the government to snoop over your shoulder at the library. They say it has lowered the standards normally required to obtain information on your reading and Internet habits." |
Challenges lie in details of smallpox plan
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"The Homeland Security Act passed in 2002 does give physicians and other health care workers who administer the vaccine liability protection, but several organizations have expressed concern that this shield may not go far enough. For example, the doctor or nurse who gives the injection will be protected, but what about the patients who receive it?"
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Study: School random drug testing curbs use
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"Student-athletes subject to random drug testing at an Oregon high school were almost four times less likely to use drugs than their counterparts at a similar school who were not tested, a study shows."
"The one-year pilot study by researchers at Oregon Health & Sciences University compared Wahtonka High School in The Dalles, where all student-athletes were subject to random testing, and Warrenton High School, a demographically similar school near Astoria, where they were not." |
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