By JEFF CARLTON
Associated Press October 5, 2006 FOREST HILL, Texas - A nearly 14-hour standoff between police and a man accused of shooting three people and taking a young boy hostage ended at dawn Thursday with the boy safe and the suspect in custody.
Police in the Fort Worth suburb of Forest Hill arrested Joe Dixon, 57, on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, Lt. Chris Hebert said. |
Associated Press
5 October 06 CULPEPER, Va. - A bomb threat shut down an entire school district Thursday, canceling classes for more than 7,200 students in eight public schools, as well as hundreds more in area religious schools and child care centers.
Culpeper Sheriff H. Lee Hart said the threat, which came on the heels of three deadly U.S. school attacks in the span of a week, was called into the county's communications center at about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday. |
Sydney Morning Herald
6 October 06 BART, Pennsylvania: All day they trudged across the dusty farm fields - white-bearded Amish patriarchs, women in black dresses and white bonnets, strapping young men with cropped hair and tanned arms.
They came in their metal-wheeled black buggies, drawn by lathered horses that built clouds of grey dust on the gravel byways, sombre but dutiful people on timeless missions of grief. |
By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
04 October 2006 Two more girls have died of the injuries they suffered in the school shootings in south-eastern Pennsylvania on Monday, bringing to five the number of children killed by Charles Carl Roberts when, apparently in a demented mix of grief and dark sexual guilt, he went on the rampage at a single-room Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines.
But even as the death toll rose from one of America's worst school shootings in recent years, one question was paramount: What drove Roberts, a 32-year-old dairy truck driver and by all the evidence a model father to his own three children, to embark on a carefully planned slaughter, before taking his own life? |
AP
03 October 2006 The US gunman who stormed a one-room Amish school in Pennsylvania was an ordinary man and a devoted father and showed few signs of trouble in the days before the attack, according to several people who knew him.
And today Marie Roberts, the wife of Charles Roberts, the 32-year-old man accused of shooting students at an Amish school, said in a statement: "The man who did this was not the Charlie I've been married to for almost 10 years. "My husband was loving, supportive and thoughtful - all the things you'd always want and more. "He was an exceptional father. He took the kids to soccer and games, played ball in the backyard and took our seven-year-old daughter shopping. He never said no when I asked him to change a diaper. "Our hearts are broken, our lives shattered and we grieve for the innocent lives that were lost. Above all, please pray. Pray for the families who lost children today. Please pray for our family and children." |
AP
Wed Oct 4, 2006 WASHINGTON - A woman was charged Wednesday with sexual assault after an altercation with a flight attendant on an airplane flying from Charlotte, N.C., to London, an official said.
Conan Bruce, a spokesman for the Federal Air Marshal Service in Washington, said the woman got into an argument with a male flight attendant aboard US Airways Flight 1494. "During the altercation, she grabbed his buttocks," Bruce said, adding that he based that information on police reports. When the airplane landed at Gatwick Airport, Sussex police charged the woman with disrupting a flight and sexual assault, Bruce said. |
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