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Prison officials at the Ohio Correctional Reception Center discovered Castro's body hanging in his cell at 9:20 pm Tuesday local time (01:20 GMT Wednesday). After various attempts to revive him his body was transferred to The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead an hour later.
"Inmate Ariel Castro was found hanging in his cell this evening at 9:20 pm at the Correctional Reception Center in Orient. He was housed in protective custody which means he was in a cell by himself and rounds are required every 30 minutes at staggered intervals," JoEllen Smith of the Ohio Department of Corrections said in a statement.
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According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), 8,233 women died in disputes over dowry payments given by the bride's family to the groom's family at the time of marriage in 2012 - that works out to be one death per hour.
The report comes as the world's attention remains on women's rights issues in India after a number of high-profile rape cases shocked the nation and the globe.
Thousands of Indian women die every year because the groom's family deemed the dowry amount to be inadequate. Many of the women are doused with gasoline and burned to death. According to AFP, dowry demands continue even years after the marriage ceremony.
The number of deaths has been steadily growing, rising from 8,093 in 2007 to 8,618 in 2011.
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1. an atheist,
2. an agnostic, or
3. a deist?
Well, the author's name is on Wikipedia's list of agnostics. Also, on its list of deists. Hmm. Now go looking for a list of famous atheists, and yup.
So what did Twain believe? Depends on whom you ask. In other words, it's complicated - but not to Colorado pastor Kevin Swanson. Swanson has gotten it into his head that Twain was one of the wickedest men who ever lived, on account of the fact that America's greatest humorist frequently made fun of religious phonies with observations like this one:
"In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."
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In this image provided by Donard Sonoda, an unidentified man stops to assist driver Jerrin Ching (not seen) after a surfboard smashed through the front windshield of his car on a freeway in Honolulu, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2013. Witnesses said they saw the surfboard fall from an overpass and hit Ching's car as he was driving in the far left lane. Ching suffered only minor scratches in the incident.
In this image provided by Donard Sonoda, an unidentified man stops to assist driver Jerrin Ching (not seen) after a surfboard smashed through the front windshield of his car on a freeway in Honolulu, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2013. Witnesses said they saw the surfboard fall from an overpass and hit Ching's car as he was driving in the far left lane. Ching suffered only minor scratches in the incident.
Jerrin Ching was driving on the H-1 freeway Sunday morning when the red surfboard came out of nowhere and pierced through the glass, he told KHON- TV.
"I'm just thankful to be here," he said. "After it hit, I was like what just happened?"
A child who was thought to be no older than 8-years-old shot a SWAT officer with his service weapon at a literacy fair in California last week while he was showing off tactical equipment to kids.
Lodi Police Chief Mark Helms told KMAX that the incident took place at the "2013 Literacy Fair: Little Buckaroos Reading Roundup" on Aug. 24.
Helms said that SWAT Officer Robert Rench was in a SWAT vehicle demonstrating equipment to children when a boy, between 6 and 8 years old, walked up behind him and fired his holstered Glock .40 caliber service weapon into his leg.
"According to the witnesses, [the child] was able to walk up to the officer, and was able to manipulate his handgun while it was in the holster, causing it discharge," Lodi Police Lt. Sierra Brucia explained to KXTV. "And then the round actually fired down the officer's leg and into the pavement."
Brucia said that an internal investigation was focusing on Rench's thigh holster, which may have made it easier for the child to access the weapon.
Lodi Police Chief Mark Helms told KMAX that the incident took place at the "2013 Literacy Fair: Little Buckaroos Reading Roundup" on Aug. 24.
Helms said that SWAT Officer Robert Rench was in a SWAT vehicle demonstrating equipment to children when a boy, between 6 and 8 years old, walked up behind him and fired his holstered Glock .40 caliber service weapon into his leg.
"According to the witnesses, [the child] was able to walk up to the officer, and was able to manipulate his handgun while it was in the holster, causing it discharge," Lodi Police Lt. Sierra Brucia explained to KXTV. "And then the round actually fired down the officer's leg and into the pavement."
Brucia said that an internal investigation was focusing on Rench's thigh holster, which may have made it easier for the child to access the weapon.
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On his Monday Pray in Jesus Name Internet show, Chaplain Gordon James "Chaps" Klingenschmitt expressed outrage that the New Mexico Supreme Court had unanimously ruled against a Christian photographer for discriminating against a same sex couple.
"Well, this is not the first place and it may not be, sadly, the last place that Christians are punished by law for exercising their religious conscience objections," he warned.
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Thomas had by his own admission taken alcohol, Ecstasy and cocaine on the night when he broke into the Greater Manchester, U.K. home of his victim. The woman had taken a sleeping pill and only woke up when Thomas had already penetrated her from behind.
Prosecutor Harry Pepper told the BBC, "She froze and no words were exchanged. He pulled up his shorts and left."
Judge Mark Brown called the attack "dreadful" and sentenced Thomas to five years and four months for the crime.
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"They said they asked for ID," Wilson told the Daily News. "But I didn't hear them."
When the teens didn't respond, one of the officers put Wilson in a chokehold, while his female partner threw Chapman to the ground. Once the pair were restrained, police allegedly removed their hijabs, or Muslim headscarves.
Wilson told the Daily News that she implored the officers to stop: "I kept saying, 'I'm 14! What are you doing? We're not bad kids.'"
Comment: Let's see, we have a global 'cultural' zombie craze, McNuggets and other fast food that is rumored to contain human flesh, and people eating other people...
McZombies, anyone?!