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School faces new questions in Colorado massacre

Dan Elliott
wsoctv.com
Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:41 UTC
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In this March 12, 2013 file photo, James Holmes, left, and defense attorney Tamara Brady appear in district court in Centennial, Colo. for his arraignment.
New questions confronted the University of Colorado, Denver on Friday amid disclosures that a psychiatrist who treated theater shooting suspect James Holmes had warned campus police a month before the deadly assault that Holmes was dangerous and had homicidal thoughts.

Court documents made public Thursday revealed Dr. Lynne Fenton also told a campus police officer in June that the shooting suspect had threatened and intimidated her.

Fenton's blunt warning came more than a month before the July 20 attack at a movie theater that killed 12 and injured 70. Holmes had been a student in the university's Ph.D. neuroscience program but withdrew about six weeks before the shootings after failing a key examination.

Campus police officer Lynn Whitten told investigators after the shooting that Fenton had contacted her. Whitten said Fenton was following her legal requirement to report threats to authorities, according one of the documents, a search warrant affidavit.
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United captain diverts flight, family escorted from plane by cops and met by FBI after complaining about in-flight film

Mike Krumboltz
Yahoo News
Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:05 UTC
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A family traveling from Denver to Baltimore on United claims that their flight was diverted by the captain because the parents requested that the in-flight movie, "Alex Cross," be turned off.

The parents, thus far unnamed, wrote a letter to The Atlantic about the incident. According to the letter, after the flight took off, the flight crew lowered the TV screens and began playing the PG-13-rated cop thriller starring Tyler Perry.

The parents, whose children are 4 and 8, believed the film to be too violent for their kids. "Alarmed by the opening scenes, we asked two flight attendants if they could turn off the monitor; both claimed it was not possible" and would be a nuisance to the people behind them.
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Pastor Rick Warren's son has committed suicide


LosAngeles.CBSlocal.com
Sat, 06 Apr 2013 09:10 UTC
Pastor Rick and Kay Warren's youngest son, Matthew, has committed suicide, Saddleback Valley Community Church announced Saturday.


    • The evangelical megachurch announced the death of the 27-year-old in a statement. He died Friday night.
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    'Anonymous' vows to wipe Israel off cyberspace


    Press TV
    Sun, 07 Apr 2013 06:45 UTC
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    Israeli websites have come under massive cyber attacks in solidarity with Palestinians following a warning by the hacker group Anonymous that threatened to 'erase' Israel from the internet.

    Websites including the sites owned by the Bank of Israel, Tax Authority, and the Central Bureau of Statistics came under cyber attacks on Saturday night.

    Anonymous has vowed to "erase" Israel from the internet by disabling Israeli websites during an operation called 'Op-Israel.'

    "You have NOT stopped your endless human right violations. You have NOT stopped illegal settlements. You have NOT respected the ceasefire. You have shown that you do NOT respect international law," Anonymous said in a statement referring to the Israeli regime.

    "This is why on April 7, elite cyber-squadrons from around the world have decided to unite in solidarity with the Palestinian people against Israel as one entity to disrupt and erase Israel from cyberspace," the Anonymous statement added, listing 1,300 Israeli websites as targets.

    The Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Sunday that the hackers also attacked almost 19,000 Israeli Facebook accounts.

    The first 'Op-Israel' was launched by Anonymous during the eight-day Israeli war on the Gaza Strip in November 2012.

    Some 700 Israeli websites came under repeated cyber attacks.
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    Anger as French psychiatrist is found guilty after patient hacks man to death

    Angelique Chrisafis
    The Guardian
    Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:52 UTC
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    Daniele Canarelli, who had been treating Joel Gaillard for four years.
    Daniele Canarelli gets a year's suspended sentence for manslaughter after failing to recognise danger posed by patient.

    French psychiatrists' unions have reacted angrily after a doctor was found guilty of manslaughter because her patient hacked an elderly man to death.

    In the first case of its kind in France, Daniele Canarelli, 58, a psychiatrist based at the Edouard-Toulouse hospital in Marseille, was sentenced to one year's suspended prison sentence as judges said she had committed the "grave error" of failing to recognise the public danger posed by Joel Gaillard, her patient of four years.

    Gaillard, 43, had escaped from a hospital consultation with Canarelli in February 2004 and 20 days later he used an axe to kill the 80-year-old partner of his grandmother in Gap in the Alps region. Gaillard, who suffered from a kind of paranoid schizophrenia, had been seeing the consultant for four years and had already been forcibly committed to a secure hospital on several occasions for a series of increasingly dangerous incidents.
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    USDA proposes meat labels that some say provide too much information

    Evan Bleier
    Opposing Views
    Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:47 UTC
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    In a move that some find unappetizing, the U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to change the way meats that are sold at many retailers, including grocery stores, are labeled.

    Under the new plan, meat labels would have to include information like where the animal was born, raised and slaughtered.

    Countries that export a large amount of beef to the U.S., such as Mexico and Canada, claim that the proposed rules reek of protectionism, while the USDA says the new labels will promote transparency.

    Critics of the measure say that consumers don't want to know the sorts of details that the new labels will contain. "Do consumers really want the word 'Slaughtered' on their meat?" asked foreign trade expert Bill Watson. "No. The consumer information argument is pure baloney, meant to hide what would otherwise be ridiculously obvious protectionism."
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    Heart - Black

    Rochester University pressured to fire professor Steven Landsburg over rape comments

    Eric W. Dolan
    Raw Story
    Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:35 UTC
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    A professor at the University of Rochester who asked why an attacker shouldn't "reap the benefits" of an unconscious woman is now the target of a campaign to get him fired.

    In a March 20 blog post, economics professor Steven Landsburg questioned why raping someone who was unconscious should be illegal if the act caused no direct physical harm. The question was posed along with two other hypothetical questions about pornography and environmentalism.

    Landsburg noted the Steubenville rape victim "was not even aware that she'd been sexually assaulted until she learned about it from the Internet some days later," and added that as long as someone was unaware of the assault, "why shouldn't the rest of the world (or more specifically my attackers) be allowed to reap the benefits?"
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    Dollar

    Kaspersky lab discovers Bitcoin-mining malware that targets Skype users


    RedOrbit
    Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:26 UTC
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    A new spam message campaign being transmitted via Skype contains malware capable of using an infected computer to mine for Bitcoins, researchers from multi-national security software firm Kaspersky Lab have discovered.

    Bitcoins, which Lucian Constantin of IDG News Service describes as "a decentralized digital currency" that has seen its popularity soar since the beginning of the year, are generated according to special algorithms on a computer using their CPU and GPU resources - Bitcoin mining, as it has been dubbed.

    The digital currency is currently trading for more than $130 per unit, "making it an attractive investment for legitimate currency traders, but also cybercriminals," Constantin added.

    Hackers have been using botnets and are starting to develop malware capable of generating Bitcoins, and a new campaign was detected by Kaspersky Lab security personnel on Thursday. This new method targets Skype users, using messages like "this is my favorite picture of you" to trick them into clicking on a rogue bit.ly URL.
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    Heart - Black

    A look at different versions of Meredith Kercher's death

    Colleen Barry
    Associated Press
    Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:07 UTC
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    This Friday Nov. 2, 2007 file photo shows Amanda Knox, left, and Raffaele Sollecito, looking on outside the rented house where 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher was found dead Friday, in Perugia, Italy. Italy's highest criminal court has overturned the acquittal of Amanda Knox and of her former Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, in the slaying of her British roommate and ordered a new trial. The Court of Cassation ruled Tuesday, March 26, 2013 that an appeals court in Florence must re-hear the case against the American and her Italian-ex-boyfriend for the murder of 21-year-old Meredith Kercher
    British exchange student Meredith Kercher, 21, was found dead, half-naked and in a pool of blood in the apartment she shared with Amanda Knox and two Italian roommates in the Italian university town of Perugia on Nov. 2, 2007. She died of a stab wound to the neck.

    A Perugia court convicted Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito of Kercher's murder on Dec. 4, 2009, and sentenced Knox to 26 years and Sollecito to 25 years. An appellate court overturned their convictions on Oct. 3, 2011, and Knox returned to Seattle a free woman.

    On Tuesday, Italy's high court ordered a new trial for Knox and Sollecito, overturning their acquittals.

    Here's a look at the various versions of events the night of Nov. 1, 2007 in Perugia.
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    Bizarro Earth

    Naked man braves flooded river and crocodiles to win some bourbon


    news.com.au
    Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:57 UTC
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    This man stripped off, jumped on a log and braved the crocodile-infested waters of the Daly River so he could win a bet.
    A fisherman has risked his life for what he considered a good cause - booze.

    He won two cases of bourbon for jumping on to a log racing down a flooded, crocodile-infested river - in the nude, The Northern Territory News reports.

    The tiler, who didn't want to be named, rode the makeshift raft for about three minutes before clambering back into a boat.

    "I'd enjoyed a few beers and it seemed a good idea at the time," he said.

    Witness Billy Innes said his mate thought nothing of the dangers of drowning or being eaten by a saltwater crocodile, which inhabit the river in large numbers.
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