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Houston Astros shortstop Jonathan Villar slides into second base and right into the rear-end of an opposing player. The Astros are the worst team in Major League Baseball with a record of 53-100. Unfortunately, this embarrassing play lines up perfectly with their embarrassing season.
LONDON (AP) — British police say a man who bought a copy of “Grand Theft Auto V” when it went on sale at midnight was attacked, stabbed and robbed of the game on his way home. The Metropolitan Police force said the 23-year-old man, who has not been named, was attacked near a supermarket in […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s poverty rate remained stuck at 15 percent last year despite America’s slowly reviving economy, a discouraging lack of improvement for the record 46.5 million poor and an unwelcome benchmark for President Barack Obama’s recovery plans. More than 1 in 7 Americans were living in poverty, not statistically different from the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A dozen people died in a shooting rampage Monday at the Washington Navy Yard. It was the deadliest attack at a domestic military installation since November 2009, when an Army psychiatrist killed 13 people and wounded 30 others at Fort Hood, Texas. Early Tuesday, the stories of some of those who died […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The former Navy reservist who killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard had been hearing voices and was undergoing treatment in the weeks before the shooting rampage, but was not stripped of his security clearance, officials said Tuesday. Aaron Alexis, a 34-year-old information technology employee with a defense contractor, used a […]
Despite multiple racist attacks — including a banana-throwing incident at a recent political rally — Italy’s first black is defending her adopted homeland, insisting the country is…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The deadly attack at the Washington Navy Yard was carried out by one of the military’s own: a defense contract employee and former Navy reservist who used a valid pass to get onto the installation and started firing inside a building, killing 12 people before he was slain in a gun battle […]
GIGLIO ISLAND, Italy (AP) — Engineers declared success on Tuesday as the Costa Concordia cruise ship was pulled completely upright during an unprecedented, 19-hour operation to wrench it from its side where it capsized last year off Tuscany. The remarkable project now allows for a renewed search for the two bodies that were never recovered […]
NFL wide receiver Josh Morgan‘s mom and god mother both work at the Navy Yard and were there Monday morning when Aaron Alexis decided to go on his shooting spree. Morgan, who plays for the Washington Washington Football Team, did not immediately hear from his mother, LaWanda Ware, telling reporters yesterday, “My godmother works in […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Navy man launched an attack Monday morning inside a building at the Washington Navy Yard, spraying gunfire on office workers in the cafeteria and in the hallway at the heavily secured installation, authorities said. Thirteen people were killed, including the gunman. Authorities said they were looking for a second possible […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — As many as three gunmen opened fire Monday inside the Washington Navy Yard, attacking office workers at a heavily guarded military facility in the heart of the nation’s capital. At least 12 people were killed. One of the gunmen was dead, and police were searching for two other men believed to have […]
WATERLOO, N.Y. (AP) — The more Cindy Karlsen learned about her husband, Karl, the more suspicious she became. There was the $700,000 life insurance payout he received after the 2008 death of his grown son, who was crushed when the pickup truck he was working under suddenly slipped off its jack. There was the $200,000 […]
