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U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 23, 2008 @ 8:09am neoform

SF Gate -- A bank teller pregnant with twins was shot in the abdomen during a robbery Tuesday morning, but both the teller and the fetuses survived the attack, authorities said. The masked gunman came into the Huntington Bank branch around 9:30 a.m., jumped over.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Sep 27, 2007 @ 9:35am neoform

Seattle Pi -- When deputies pulled her over, Valinda Otis told them she was pregnant and needed to use the bathroom. When they wouldn't let her go to a nearby restroom, she walked toward it, anyway, she said, and was quickly handcuffed and placed in a patrol car. Sh.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Sep 27, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

CNN -- Researchers who launched an experimental cyber attack caused a generator to self-destruct, alarming the government and electrical industry about what might happen if such an attack were carried out on a larger scale, CNN has learned. Sources familiar with.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 20, 2007 @ 1:49pm neoform

Time -- Reports that the Bush Administration will put Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the terrorism list can be read in one of two ways: it's either more bluster or, ominously, a wind-up for a strike on Iran. Officials I talk to in Washington vote for.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 5, 2007 @ 9:39am neoform

Boston Globe -- It was late Sunday when the tractor-trailer pulled up to Charlestown's Sullivan Square fire station, a routine stop for truck drivers who get lost trying to navigate the nearby rotary. Lieutenant Chris Corwin and Firefighter Daniel Donahoe gave the dri.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 4, 2007 @ 9:21am neoform

Boston Globe -- The plot as painted by law enforcement officials was cataclysmic: A home-grown Islamic terrorist had in mind detonating fuel storage tanks and pipelines and setting fire to John F. Kennedy International Airport, not to mention a substantial swath of Queen.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 22, 2007 @ 4:52pm neoform

CNN -- A woman who tried to steal a fetus by knocking her pregnant neighbor unconscious with a baseball bat and cutting her abdomen was sentenced Tuesday to 22 to 50 years in prison. Peggy Jo Conner, who could have been sentenced to up to 80 years, apologized.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 23, 2007 @ 11:28pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A man who spent 25 years in prison for rape was exonerated Monday as a judge threw out his convictions because DNA evidence showed he couldn't have committed the attack. An advocacy group said it was the 200th such case. Jerry Miller smiled and the cou.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Mar 10, 2007 @ 11:08pm neoform

Yahoo News -- For a moment, the man in the grainy video looks like a good Samaritan holding the door open for an elderly neighbor. Then he turns and delivers three sharp punches to the 101-year-old woman's head. "The next thing I knew, I had a big bang on the side o.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Feb 25, 2007 @ 10:32am neoform

Reuters -- Despite the Bush administration's insistence it has no plans to go to war with Iran, a Pentagon panel has been created to plan a bombing attack that could be implemented within 24 hours of getting the go-ahead from President George W. Bush, The New Yorker.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Feb 25, 2007 @ 10:03am neoform

Times Online -- SOME of America’s most senior military commanders are prepared to resign if the White House orders a military strike against Iran, according to highly placed defence and intelligence sources. Tension in the Gulf region has raised fears that an attack.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 16, 2007 @ 1:19am neoform

MSNBC -- The mayor and police chief assured Bosnian immigrants Thursday that authorities would not stand for any backlash against them after an Bosnian teenager shot five people to death in a crowded shopping mall and then died in a shootout with police. As man.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Feb 1, 2007 @ 3:12pm neoform

Mercury News -- Repeated vandalism at the Islamic Center of the East Bay over the past two years has some local Muslims concerned... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jan 26, 2007 @ 9:46am mrmdc

CNN -- Wildlife officials on Thursday credited a woman with saving her husband's life by clubbing a mountain lion that attacked him while the couple hiked in a California state park... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 3, 2007 @ 10:01am neoform

CNN -- Evangelical broadcaster Pat Robertson said Tuesday that God has told him that a terrorist attack on the United States would cause a "mass killing" late in 2007... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 21, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- The younger of two brothers who survived a Christmas Day tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo was charged Tuesday with five felony counts accusing him of shoplifting video game equipment from Target stores in the East Bay, authorities said. Paul Dhali.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jan 11, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- Personal property seized from the victims of a tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo may contain evidence that they taunted the animal, provoking it to escape its pen, the city attorney's office argued in court documents. City officials believe that cell.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jan 4, 2008 @ 8:46am neoform

SF Gate -- It's cold, rainy and windy in the Sunset District today - not a good day to go to the zoo. But a small crowd of curious residents and tourists gathered at the gates this morning as the San Francisco Zoo reopened, nine days after an escaped tiger killed.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Wed Sep 12, 2007 @ 11:45pm neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- Six years after 9/11, the American public have still not been provided with a full and truthful account of the single greatest terror attack in US history. What they got was a turkey. The 9/11 Commission was hamstrung by official obstruction. It never.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Aug 5, 2007 @ 9:21am neoform

FOX News -- A man who died in a dog attack at the home of actor Ving Rhames was identified Saturday as Jacob Adams, 40, of Los Angeles. Los Angeles County coroner's officials, who released the man's identity, said the exact cause of death was unknown pending an au.. Read More