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Bombing probe focuses on 2011 warnings, 2012 Chechnya trip
With one suspect dead and the other captured and in hospital wounded, the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings turned Saturday to questions about the men’s motives and to the significance of a trip one of the bombers took to Chechnya. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed early Friday after a shootout with police in Watertown, [...]
Boston in lockdown
1 bombing suspect killed, 1 on run Tensions remained high Friday as thousands of police officers searched for the fugitive suspect wanted in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings, after another suspect died overnight following a violent standoff with police. The City of Boston and several surrounding suburbs are under a “shelter in place” request, [...]
Bombs dirty and deadly
The bombs that ripped through the crowd at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 170, were fashioned out of pressure cookers and packed with metal shards, nails and ball bearings to inflict maximum carnage, a person briefed on the investigation said Tuesday. The details on the apparently crude but deadly explosives [...]
At least two dead in Boston Marathon explosions
Police Confirm Third Blast At least two are dead and dozens injured after twin blasts rocked the Boston Marathon this afternoon. A third explosion nearby at the JFK Library is being treated as related. Chaos erupted as paramedics treated the injured at the scene, some reportedly missing limbs. Competitors, race volunteers and spectators were [...]
Newtown: What to Tell the Children?
By Rebecca Mead – The New Yorker (Dec. 17, 2012). Every morning, my seven-year-old son and I ride the subway to his school, a public elementary in Brooklyn. There are posters on the station walls, many of them advertising movies and TV shows and video games, and often my son has questions about these posters. [...]
Rob Ford says he’s sorry, but pledges to fight
A contrite Rob Ford finally apologized Tuesday to those who don’t like the way he handled his conflict of interest situation, but said he would fight to stay on as mayor. Ford also said his appeal of a judge’s decision to boot him from office should not be construed as criticism of the courts, although [...]
Diploma Goes Up in Smoke
Court asks Appleby College to reconsider denial of diploma to student Tony Van Alphen A lot of hard school work literally went up in smoke and out the window for student Gautam Setia at prestigious Appleby College in Oakville on the last night of his final year. The 101-year-old private college, whose motto is “reflecting [...]
Canada is Dangerous: Iran
By Paul Koring Tehran has officially warned its citizens and expatriates that Canada is a dangerous place in the latest swipe as both government’s trade accusations. So many Iranians live in Canada’s largest city that it’s often called ‘Tehranto’ among the moneyed elites in the Islamic Republic and thousands among the Iranian diaspora travel back [...]
Pussy Riot Band Jailed
Anti-Putin punk band members sentenced to 2 years in prison Three members of the Russian all-girl punk group Pussy Riot have been found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred and were sentenced to two years each behind bars for their performance inside a Moscow cathedral that criticized President Vladimir Putin. Judge Marina Syrova handed [...]
Sikh temple gunman an army vet with racist links
‘He did not speak, he just began shooting,’ witness says after 7 die in Wisconsin violence The gunman who killed six people over the weekend inside a Sikh temple near Milwaukee and was later shot dead by police was a 40-year-old army veteran, officials said today, and a civil rights group identified him as a [...]
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Yngwie Who?
April 30, 2013 17:04 -
New City. New bartending gig. New patrons. Same nightly antics.
April 21, 2013 15:04 -
Bombing probe focuses on 2011 warnings, 2012 Chechnya trip
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Boston in lockdown
April 19, 2013 15:04 -
Bombs dirty and deadly
April 16, 2013 21:04
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