Could Seven Dead Monks Upset President Nicolas Sarkozy’s Bold Plans To Remake France’s Legal System?

When the severed heads of seven French Trappist monks were found in a remote mountainous region of Algeria in May 1996, it was natural to assume the murders were the latest gruesome act by jihadists in their long-running and bloody campaign against the Algerian government.

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Bus headed to NBA All-Star game strikes LAPD patrol car

A charter bus carrying passengers to the NBA All-Star game clipped a La police patrol vehicle Sunday morning, police mentioned. Nobody was injured in the crash, but the officer’s patrol automobile sustained minor harm, stated La Police Lt. Jim Gavin. Gavin stated the officer was driving towards the All-Star sport at Staples Center to present […]

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Man arrested on suspicion of killing ex-girlfriend’s dog, dumping it in trash

Man arrested on suspicion of killing ex-girlfriend’s dog, dumping it in trash Rommel Marzan, an engineer with the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District, said he had accidentally fallen on the small Maltese. A municipal water district engineer was arrested on suspicion of animal cruelty after he allegedly killed a former girlfriend’s dog and dumped the […]

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Abused No More

There’s something especially loathsome about torturing helpless creatures for fun and profit. And evidence of torture is what investigators found on July 8, when federal and local authorities working in teams across eight states staged the largest raid in history against the underground dogfighting racket.

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Documents: ‘Balloon boy’ dad had hoax in mind, wife says

The wife of a Colorado father at the center of the “balloon boy” saga told authorities that the giant helium balloon was specifically created for a hoax to draw media attention, according to court documents released Friday. Mayumi Heene told Larimer County investigators that she and her husband, Richard Heene, knew that their 6-year-old son Falcon was hiding at their Fort Collins home the entire time, even as police and military scrambled to search for the boy, according to the documents.

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Airliner crew flies 150 miles past airport

A Northwest Airlines flight from San Diego, California, overshot the Minneapolis, Minnesota, airport by about 150 miles Wednesday evening, and federal investigators are looking into whether the pilots had become distracted, as they claimed, or perhaps fell asleep.

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