1 dead , 2 wounded

After a shooting in St. Louis one man is dead and two others are hospitalized. Police officers were called to a house on a Thursday afternoon where they had found a dead man. One of the men were found injured in the street about two blocks from the house. The other man had been found in a small market four blocks away from the house. The police said the man that died lived with his girlfriend and her son. The two were not home at the time. Two people had kicked in the door and witnesses said they heard gunfires.

The man had died at the scene. One of the robbers were wounded in the leg and the other in his chest. Police do not yet know whether the shooter had been among the victims but he said that the police are not putting together a manhunt. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-20126738/1-dead-2-wounded-in-st-louis-area-shooting/?tag=cbsnewsMainColumnArea

7 killed in minivan

A minivan full of family were killed in their car when they hit a deer on an Indiana highway. They slowed down or even stopped right before a semitrailer slammed into them from behind. Not one person in the minivan were wearing seatbelts when the crash took place that Thursday night on Indiana Toll road. The infant that was in a car seat had not been buckled in either.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=141784317
Police said that the minivan had Illinois license plates and they were Ecuadoran immigrants who were currently living in Chicago. A man and a women were taken by helicopter that night in critical condition. One other man was in stable condition said Polive officer
Smith. The semitrailor was going about 65 miles when it hit the families minivan before they struck the deer.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/dead-semi-truck-slams-minivan-ind-14831537

Turkey Survivor

13-year-old boy was trapped for five days under fallen debris. Farhat Tokay was pulled out of the debri from rescuer Azerbaijan early Friday. Tokay is the latest survivor to have emerge from the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that had leveled buildings and killed nearly 570 people. He had used his sneakers as a pillow to sleep. Tokay had used a tiny gap to determine wheather it was day or night. Tokay said that he was very hungry the first day, but the hunger pains had soon disappeared. When Tokay was pulled from the hole he didn't even have a scratch on him. http://news.yahoo.com/turkey-survivor-emerges-quake-rubble-003535070.html The rescue team had sent the family and his other relatives away from the rescue site to get some rest on early Friday. The family had been told there was no chance of finding him alive. Later on the family was called back with news that the rescue team had reached their son.

College Student Dies after Workout

At the University of Rhode Island a student has died after his baseball workout. Joseph Paul Ciancola died Thursday after he had suffered a unspecified medical emergency during his baseball preseason workout on Monday. 20- year old Ciancola died at the Rhode Island Hospital. The cause of death is currently unknown. But according to source Ciancola was treated for maligant hyperthermia when his body temp. had reached 105.9 degrees. http://www.mhaus.org/
The condition causes a sharp rise in body temperature and severe muscle pains. Symptoms of Malignant Hyperthermia includes bleeding , dark brown urine , and muscle ache with out reason. Maligant Hyperthermia is an inherited muscle disorder. It is triggered when certain types of anesthesia. It may cause fast acting life- threathening. http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/10/28/college-student-dies-after-baseball-workout/?test=latestnews

Ohio Animals Escape Zoo

A town in Ohio is on lockdown after dozens of dangerous wild animals escaped a private zoo. Police said there are about 48 animals which inculde - Grizzly , Black Bears , Wolves, and sereral species of large cats. The animals were kept in cages out side of 62-year old Terry Thompsons house. Thompson had been released from federal prison three weeks earlier after he served a year term for firearm charges. Federal agents raided the farm in June 2008. They seized more than 100 guns. Thompson was had also previously been fined with letting his animals wander. A nearby cattle farmer Kate Riley said Thompson would sometimes come and take her dead cattle and feed it to his lions. She also told Columbus Dispatch newspaper that he would have claw marks all over him and that his wife had recently left him and moved out.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/wild-animals-escape-ohio-private-zoo-loose-14767621

  Officials closed school areas and have ordered that residents take extreme caution. Locals were also ordered to stay indoors and off areas around the farm where the owner was found dead near several open cages. http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20111019/world/massive-hunt-for-dozens-of-escaped-zoo-animals-in-ohio.389845

12-year old murder Brothers

Cristian Fernandez 12-years-old is being charged as an adult in the murder of his brother. He is the youngest person to be charged with murder as an adult in Jacksonville's history. If he is convicted he could spend the rest of his life in prison. Fernandez is being charged with first-degree murder. Police say that the crime was premeditated and that Fernandez intentionally killed his two- year old brother. Fernandez had violently shoved him into a bookshelf twice, causing his skull to fracture and cause massive internal bleeding. Medical examiner said David's death was a homicide, and was caused by blunt-force trauma. Mother, Briannela Susana was not home at the time of the incident. 

The police say that David was laying in his bed unconscious, thats when Cristian called his mother, who then came home. Susana,25, is being charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child and felony child abuse. She will remain in jail on a $1 million bond and if she is convicted she will face up to 30 years in prison. A doctor from St. Luke's said that if the child had been treated sooner he may have survived.  Fernandez's public defender said that all the blames belongs to his mother and that he doesn't deserve to me prosecuted as an adult. Fernandez's next court date will be October 31 , and his mother is to stand trail on Feb.27 

.http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/cristian-fernandez

Pepper Spraying at Middle School

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   Administrators of Lafayette-Winona Middle School in Norfolk,Va are investigating the school security guard's use of pepper spray during a food fight. It happend during a lunch period on Tuesday in the school's cafeteria. Elizabeth Mather public school spokesperson said that the offiver used pepper spray to break up the fight. Mather reported that 37 students complain of physical symptoms from the pepper. The students had been examined by the school's nurse and their parents were contacted. After the incident five parents had contacted the school.

One student Derrell Hairston 12-years old said "It was terrible in there". Hairston mother Tyheshia said "He stayed up all night coughing and gagging". Lafayette's school superintendent Dr. Richard Bentley said " I'd be upset absolutely I don't blame the parents for being upset I understand that". Accoding to school security officer policy, the security must give warning before the use of pepper spray and only when lesser forms of force don't work. Derrell Hairston also reported that the guards did not give warning they just started spraying. The school is still investigating all of the facts on what happened during lunch that day. http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_news/norfolk/school-security-guard-uses-pepper-spray

Student Found Dead In Pond

College sophomore who was reported missing last week in central Arkansas was found dead in a pond south of Little Rock on Monday. 20-year old Patricia Guardado's body was discovered on Sunday afternoon in a few feet of water of Sweet Home, Arkansas.

A dive team on Monday searched the water where her body was found near a cemetery less than ten miles south of little rock. As of right now no suspects are being named.The cause of death was not immediately released. The police wouldn't comment on whether Guardado had been assaulted, if she knew her assailant, or even how long she had been in the pond.Guardado was last seen leaving her parents home at around 8:45 a.m., on Wednesday. Guardado had a nine a.m. calculus classat the Univerity of Arkansas at Little Rock, where she studied international business. She was reported missing that night when she didn't arrive to her classes. Her car was found in a parking lot near the school. Police are looking for evidence in the car, but police will not say if there was anyone else in the car. http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/10/18/2581557/ark-college-students-anxious-after.html

William McQuain

On Tuesday morning in the wooded area of the country, Montgomery County Police Chief Thomas Manger found the body of who he believes is 11-year old William McQuain. Police have been searching on different trails and parks in northern Montgomery County based on the information they received. Police began searching for McQuain after Jane McQuain was found dead last week in the bedroom of her condominium. McQuain estranged husband, Curtis Maurice Lopez, was arrested in North Carolina and charged with her death. McQuain's ex-boyfriend told The Associated Press last week that she had recently told him that she feared for her saftey and was worried that Lopez might hurt her. Lopez had served more than a dozen years in prison in Pa before going on parole in 2000. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44946146/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

The "Dungeon"

Missing Florida girl was found safe in Philadelphia in the wake of the arrest of three people who were allegedly holding mentally disable adults captive in a basement. The 15-year-old was reported to be missing from her home in West Palm Beach, Florida on July 4. The girl had last been seen with Gregory Thomas Jr,. Thomas's father was arrested over the weekend in the connection with the basement captive case. The police gave reporters access to the basement "dungeon" of the apartment where they were holding four mentally disabled adults captive.

The victims, were a women and three men. They were found in a crawlspace that had smelt like urine and was to shallow for the adults to stand in. In the crawlspace was a mattresses and blankets, but there was no food expect for a container of orange juice. The adults had also shared their space with three dogs. The adults were found all very weak and malnourished. One of the adults had been chained to a boiler. The victims ages were from 29 to 41. Police identifed the victims as Derwin McLemire,41, from North Carolina, Herberrt Knowles, 40 from Virginia and Tamara Breeden, 29 and Edwin Sanabria,31 both from Philaelphia.They had the mental capacity of 10-year olds, they also had some physical disabilities.They were being held for thier Social Sercity Checks.

(Linda Ann Weston a.ka. The RingLeader)

51 year old Weston was charged with kidnapping, false imprisonment and other offenses, with a bail set at $2.5 million. Also a man named Eddie "the Reverend Ed"(50 years old) was arrested and was said to be Weston's boyfriend. 47-year old Gregory Thomas Sr. was arrested with them.
Westom was described as the ringleader of the group. Weston faces charges of kidnapping and conspiracy.
http://news.yahoo.com/4th-arrest-made-philadelphia-basement-case-133025922.html

Kidnapping in Jersey

55 year old Emil Donaberger was arrested Tuesday in  New Jersey. Donaberger is being charged with the kidnapping of a ten year old boy. The police say that Donaberger stole a green Plymouth Voyager. The police located the vehcile at a store in Claryville. Locals had told police that Donaberger and the boy were spotted together. After serching the woods with K9 units and helicopters the police found Donaberger and the boy in the woods together.

http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20111014/NEWS/111019897
They were found in the town of Denning on Red Hill Road. According to the police the boy is healthly and good condition. He didnt show any signs of abuse and had apparently left willingly with Donaberger. The boy was staying in the woods in a tent with Donabeger since monday. Liberty state police say that Donaberger was previously married to the boy's mother and they were still living in the same home together. Also he is comsidered to be the boy's father figure. Donaberger was sent to Ulster Country jail with no bail.

Underwear Bomber

http://video.foxnews.com/v/1214955526001/latest-on-underwear-bomber-trial
Nigerian man plead guilty on Wednesday to trying to bomb a Detroit-bound airline. He said that the United States should be warned. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab plead guilty to putting explosives in is underwear. He tried to blow up flight 253 on December 25 , 2009. Abdulmutallab told the Detroit courtroom's that the bomb "was a blessed weapons to save the lives of innocent Muslims". Abdulmutallab said " i intended to wreck a U.S aircraft wreckage of Muslims lands and properties". Abdulmutallab ended up in the hospital from bad burns from the burn when it ended not working. Later on that day Abdulmutallab told FBI that he was working for Al Qaeda in Yemen. He has eight charges against him inculding attempted murder on a aircraft and act of terriosim.

http://video.foxnews.com/v/1212903754001/trial-for-alleged-underwear-bomber-starts

Steve Jobs Dies

Steve Jobs, who is said to be the master mind behind Apple's iPhone, iPod, iPad, and iTunes has died at the age of 56. Steve Jobs is the Chairman of the Board of Apple, which he co-founded in 1976.

Job's had fought a form of pancreatic cancer and also had a liver transplant. Jobs continued to battle severe health problems over recent years. In 2004, Jobs had beat an unusual form of pancreatic cancer, and in 2009 he was forced to get a liver transplant. In 2004 he announced that he was stepping down as apple's chief executive. http://news.yahoo.com/steve-jobs-dies--apple-chief-created-personal-computer--ipad--ipod--iphone.html

Amanda Knox Returns Home

Amanda Knox is heading home from Perugia, Italy to Settle as a free women.Knox was convicted on October 28 , 2008 for the murder and sexual assault of Meredith Kercher. Kercher was a 21-year old British student who shared a apartment with Knox in Perugia. Knox's boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito was also accused for the murder of Kercher. Knox and her family were on a flight with British Airways which had landed in Seattle at eight o'clock.  She is finally able to return home after for the murder she was convicted of four years ago. Knox was originally sentenced to 26 years in prison. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44777225/ns/us_news-life/t/back-home-amanda-knox-touches-down-seattle/?ocid=ansmsnbc11



 

On monday the jury overturned Amanda's 2009 murder conviction, which cleared her in the stabbing to death of Meredith Kercher.