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U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 27, 2007 @ 8:23am neoform

CNN -- The mother of a 17-year-old boy killed by a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo said the attack has forever ruined Christmas for her, while police reportedly are investigating whether one of the victims taunted the deadly jungle cat. Sources close to the inves.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat May 26, 2007 @ 10:25am neoform

Washington Post -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency has sold trailers to victims of the 2005 hurricanes at prices that range from $1 to $20,000, under inconsistent policies that prompted a temporary ban on all trailer sales, according to a new government report. D.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat May 19, 2007 @ 11:43am neoform

FOX News -- Several civil lawsuits have arisen from allegations of sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic church, but few have gone to trial. Most were settled out of court. In what victims' lawyers called a powerful message to the church, a jury on Friday found the n.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 25, 2007 @ 4:02pm neoform

FOX News -- Computer files, cell phone records and e-mails have yielded no evidence about what triggered Seung-Hui Cho's massacre at Virginia Tech last week or whether he singled out any of his 32 victims. In an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press, State P.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 23, 2007 @ 11:21am neoform

ABC News -- Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho was as mysterious in death as he was in life, leaving behind few clues for medical examiners. Dr. William Massello, the assistant state medical examiner based in Roanoke, said Sunday that Cho died from a self-inflicted g.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Apr 19, 2007 @ 11:24pm neoform

Al Jazeera -- On Thursday relatives of Cho's victims who had been scheduled to appear on NBC cancelled their interviews to protest against the broadcasting of the videos. Police investigating the shootings in Blacksburg, Virginia, also criticised the airing of the.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 18, 2007 @ 4:19pm neoform

CNN -- Had they lived, they might have gone on to change the world as teachers, military officers or engineers -- but the killer who cut so many lives short at Virginia Tech snatched all that away. Mourners remembered the 32 victims of Monday's killings durin.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 12, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

MSNBC -- The heat wave that gripped the East Coast over the weekend and into Tuesday claimed the lives of 17 people, and most of the victims were elderly. The Philadelphia medical examiner's office said eight people there died of heat-related causes in the four.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 25, 2008 @ 8:22am neoform

SF Gate -- A 37-year-old chiropractor accused of drugging two women in Antioch and sexually assaulting one of them surrendered Thursday, a day after he called one of the victims in an apparent attempt to intimidate her, police said. Accompanied by his attorneys,.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 11, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- Most families of victims of the mass shootings at Virginia Tech have agreed to an $11 million state settlement that will compensate families who lost loved ones, pay survivors' medical costs and avoid a court battle over whether anyone besides the gunman.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 7, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

MSNBC -- The business cards handed to men at a North Woodbridge grocery store didn't say much. Just a first name, a cellphone number and the phrase Casa de Carne, or House of Meat. But their simplicity made clear the illicit purpose: sex. Authorities say the.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 20, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- Two women and two girls have been arrested in a string of purse-snatch robberies on the west side of San Francisco over the holiday weekend in which the assailants laughed as they attacked victims with pepper spray, police said. Ebony Espinoza, 24, of.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Feb 7, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- Rescue crews have been searching for victims of tornadoes that tore across five US states killing at least 55 people and injuring hundreds more. Dozens of twisters hit Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, Alabama and Mississippi at the end of the Super Tuesd.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 5, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- Investigators sifting through the charred debris of a house fire in Napa where four people died Monday determined that a Christmas tree was in the living room where the blaze started. Aurora Castanon, 58, and her grandsons Matthew Castanon, 11, and Gio.. 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 Thu Dec 27, 2007 @ 8:23am neoform

SF Gate -- San Francisco police are investigating the possibility that one of the victims in the fatal tiger mauling on Christmas Day climbed over a waist-high fence and then dangled a leg or other body part over the edge of a moat that kept the big cat away from th.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 6, 2007 @ 8:28am neoform

BBC News -- The sons of "missing" canoeist John Darwin say they feel like they have been "the victims of a large scam". In a statement, Anthony and Mark Darwin asked how their mother Anne could have let them believe their father was dead for five years. Mr Darw.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Sep 11, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- Presidential politics and the health of ground zero workers loom over the former World Trade Center site this September 11 perhaps more than at any other anniversary of the attacks. The firefighters who helped rescue New Yorkers on September 11 -- and lat.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Aug 8, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

USA Today -- Church bells tolled in downtown Minneapolis as residents observed a moment of silence for the victims of last week's bridge collapse. At 6:05 p.m. Tuesday — the exact time of the bridge collapse six days earlier — crowds gathered at two parks near.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Aug 7, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

FOX News -- After five exhausting days searching for victims of an interstate bridge collapse, rescue coordinators are turning to the U.S. Navy divers considered the best. Local dive teams have yet to recover the eight people missing and believed dead in last Wedn.. Read More