Murder leaves message on the wall.

May 27, 2009 by s8329266

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May 15, 2009 by s8329266

When Pearl Jam — the Seattle, Washington-based grunge rock band — was in Atlanta late last month, bass guitar player Jeff Ament and a band employee were mugged outside a recording studio

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May 13, 2009 by s8329266

he contentious debate over so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” took center stage on Capitol Hill on Wednesday as a former FBI agent involved in the questioning of terror suspects testified that such techniques — including waterboarding — are ineffective.Ali Soufan, an FBI special agent from 1997 to 2005, told members of a key Senate Judiciary subcommittee that such “techniques, from an operational perspective, are ineffective, slow and unreliable, and harmful to our efforts to defeat al Qaeda.”

Manny Ramirez

May 7, 2009 by s8329266

Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Manny Ramirez has tested positive for a banned performance-enhancing substance, incurring an immediate 50-game ban, SI.com reports. Ramirez’s case serves as the highest-profile reminder yet that the use of such drugs in the testing area may have been reduced but not eradicated

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May 4, 2009 by s8329266

Troy Ryan Bellar, 34, used a high-powered rifle with a scope to shoot his 31-year-old wife, Wendy, when she tried to leave their home, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.

Two of the couple’s children — 5-month-old Zack and 7-year-old Ryan — also were killed, but a 13-year-old got away, with the father chasing and firing after him.

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May 1, 2009 by s8329266

It’s a seemingly average interaction, but Hendley is not your average bartender. As he pours wine in the United States, he’s also helping to save thousands of lives on the other side of the world — and he’s tapped into his regulars to help.

DNA leads to suspect in 1970s Los Angeles serial killings

April 30, 2009 by s8329266

 man charged this month with killing two Los Angeles women more than three decades ago may be linked to as many as 30 unsolved murders and “numerous sexual assaults.”

April 22, 2009 by s8329266

A KVIA-TV reporter and cameraman were arrested on charges of interfering with police. CNN’s Rick Sanchez reports.

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April 8, 2009 by s8329266

It began as horseplay, with two teenage stepbrothers chasing each other with blow guns and darts. But it soon escalated when one of the boys grabbed a knife.

The older teen, Michael Barton, 17, was dead by the time he reached the hospital. The younger boy, Quantel Lotts, 14, would eventually become one of Missouri’s youngest lifers.

Lotts was sentenced in Missouri’s St. Francois County Circuit Court in 2002 to life in prison without parole for first-degree murder in his stepbrother’s stabbing death.

It made no difference that at the time of the deadly scuffle, Lotts was barely old enough to watch PG-13 movie and too young to drive, vote or buy beer.

January 14, 2009 by s8329266

A Navy helicopter whipped the waves as the U.S. Coast Guard closed in on the suspected drug traffickers abandoning their homemade submarine off the coast of Ecuador.