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Illinois Police Say Teen Held Captive 2 Years Escapes

Google
Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:00 UTC

© The Associated Press/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, J.B. Forbes
Members of the Madison County tactical response team take a two-year-old child to a waiting ambulance Thursday evening, Aug. 23, 2012 in Washington Park, Ill.

Washington Park, Illinois - A teenage girl reported missing more than two years ago escaped from a home in southwestern Illinois where she said she was held captive and repeatedly sexually assaulted, police said Thursday.

Police in Washington Park, a village next to East St. Louis, said the girl reported that she was raped by her captor, got pregnant and had a baby.

In April 2010, St. Louis, Mo., police listed the girl as a missing or runaway juvenile. She was 15 when she disappeared.

She escaped from the home in Washington Park earlier this week and went to police, saying her child was still in the house.

About two dozen members of a SWAT team wearing helmets and body armor swarmed the home Thursday afternoon with their assault rifles drawn. They recovered the child and arrested a 24-year-old man.

Crosses chopped down: 'Anti-church hysteria' spreads across Russia

RT
Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:00 UTC

Still from the video by Arkhangelsk eparchy

Several Orthodox Christian crosses have been chopped down in different parts of Russia. The incidents come after the Femen movement attacked a cross in Kiev to protest the sentence of the punk band Pussy Riot, who received two years in prison.

The incidents occurred overnight. Crosses have been taken down in the Chelyabinsk region, Urals and Archangelsk region, northern Russia.

By the time police arrived at the scenes the vandals had already left. Authorities have launched an investigation into both cases.

The Arkhangelsk cross was erected in the memory of the victims of political repressions, said a local priest, Hegumen Feodosy.

He also said that in recent years the monastery, situated across the street from the cross, has seen two arson attacks and a number of other acts of vandalism.

Seven-Year-Old Connecticut Boy Accidentally Shoots 52-Year-Old Neighbor In Chest

CBS News New York
Sat, 25 Aug 2012 11:24 UTC

Prospect, Connecticut - Connecticut police said that a seven-year-old boy accidentally shot his adult neighbor in the chest using the man's own handgun.

The homeowner, identified as Joseph Delucia, was taken to St. Mary's Hospital in Waterbury for treatment. Police said that his gunshot wound is non-life threatening and his condition appears to be stable.

Authorities did not immediately release information on how the boy got hold of the gun and circumstances related to the shooting at the Summit Road home.

State police continue to investigate the incident.

Source: The Associated Press

2 Injured after Small Plane Crash-Lands in California

Boston.com
Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:00 UTC

© The Associated Press/Mike Meadows
Los Angeles firefighter paramedics assist an injured passenger after his plane crashed Saturday Aug. 25, 2012 near Whiteman Airport in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles - Authorities say a small plane has crash-landed in a business district in Southern California's San Fernando Valley, striking two cars and injuring the two people on board.

Nobody on the ground was hurt.

Los Angeles Police Officer Norma Eisenman says the plane went down just before noon Saturday in the Pacoima area, not far from Whiteman Airport.

Fire Department spokesman Erik Scott says one person on board was seriously hurt and the other suffered moderate injuries.

Scott says the plane went down between two buildings in a business district. Two vehicles and an awning on one building were damaged.

There was no fire, but fuel leaked from the crashed plane.

Investigators weren't immediately sure whether the plane had originated at Whiteman Airport.

Source: The Associated Press

Grizzly mauls hiker to death at Denali National Park

Miguel Llanos
NBC News
Sat, 25 Aug 2012 15:53 UTC

A backpacker hiking inside Denali National Park was killed by a grizzly bear after a violent struggle, the park said in a statement Saturday. The death was the first fatal bear mauling inside the huge park in Alaska.

Rangers discovered the body after three day-hikers found a backpack, as well as torn clothing and blood, along the Toklat River on Friday afternoon, the park stated.

The rangers arrived at the site Friday night but were unable to immediately recover the remains due to the presence of at least one bear in the area and the approaching darkness.

All hiking in the area was banned until further notice.

The park estimates that some 12 grizzlies have been residing in the area this summer.

Besides recovering the remains, park rangers were also trying to locate the predatory bear.

Denali in June saw the tragic deaths of four Japanese climbers swept up by an avalanche on Mount McKinley.

Rajasthan Panchayat Bans Use of Mobile by Girls

IANS
Sat, 25 Aug 2012 15:57 UTC

Jaipur - After girls in a village in Uttar Pradesh were banned from using mobile phones about a month ago, now a village panchayat in Rajasthan has prohibited minor girls from carrying mobiles and has directed them to cover their heads when going out of home.

The village council has also ordered minor boys not to play music on their mobile phones.

The restrictions have been imposed in Kishorpura village near Udaipurwati town of Jhunjhunu district, some 200 km from Jaipur.

"The panchayat recently held a general meeting in which village elders expressed the view that mobile phones were spoiling girls," Kishorpura sarpanch (council head) Bimla Meena said.

Following the meeting, the elders decided to impose a ban on the use of mobile phones by minor girls from the village.

"The minor girls have been asked not to use and carry mobile phones. They have also been directed to wear proper clothes. They will have to keep their heads covered with stole. It would make them look decent," Meena added.

Police shoot man who held hostage at Lakewood credit union

KING5 News
Sat, 25 Aug 2012 15:48 UTC

Police shot a man who showed up with a hostage and a weapon at the Washington State Employees Credit Union in Lakewood.

Police say this was a domestic situation, but it's not known if the domestic dispute was with an employee of the credit union or a customer.

Police had the opportunity to take a shot to protect the hostage. The man was shot and was taken to a local hospital.

Nobody else was hurt.

It's not known how many people were inside the credit union at 9540 Bridgeport Way SW [Lakewood, WA]. Police planned to bus them to the police department.

First Man on Moon Neil Armstrong Dead at 82

Sandra Maler
Yahoo! News
Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:00 UTC

© Reuters/Molly Riley
Neil Armstrong, commander of Apollo 11 and the first man on the moon, laughs during testimony before a House Science, Space and Technology committee hearing on "NASA Human Spaceflight Past, Present and Future: Where Do We Go From Here?" in Washington September 22, 2011.

Former U.S. astronaut, Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, has died at the age of 82, U.S. media reported on Saturday.

Armstrong underwent a heart-bypass surgery earlier this month, just two days after his birthday on August 5, to relieve blocked coronary arteries.

As commander of the Apollo 11 mission, Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969. As he stepped on the moon's dusty surface, Armstrong said: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

The Apollo 11 moon mission turned out to be Armstrong's last space flight. The following year he was appointed to a desk job, being named NASA's deputy associate administrator for aeronautics in the office of advanced research and technology.

He left NASA a year later to become a professor of engineering at the University of Cincinnati.

The former astronaut lived in the Cincinnati area with his wife, Carol.

Source: Reuters

Twin Cities: Black Copters? Those Are Special Ops Training Missions

Mara H. Gottfried
TwinCities
Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:01 UTC

If you hear or see low-flying black helicopters in St. Paul or Minneapolis, police are telling the public not to be alarmed -- they're part of training missions.

"It's going to be an unusual occurrence, and we don't want people to overwhelm our 911 center with concerned callers," said Sgt. William Palmer, Minneapolis police spokesman.

U.S. Special Operations Command has been in the two cities for "routine urban-environment training," both police departments said in news releases. Portions of the training include St. Paul police.

Most of the training, which has been coordinated with property owners where it's happening, will be out of public view. The training began Sunday, Aug. 19, and continues through Sept. 1.

Starting this Sunday, it may become more visible when "helicopters begin supporting the training," the releases said.

People in St. Paul and Minneapolis might see or hear military transport helicopters -- Black Hawks and smaller Hughes 500s -- between 7 p.m. and midnight.

Police aren't releasing exact training times or locations for safety reasons.

Vancouver, Washington homeowner shoots and kills intruder

Evan Sernoffsky
KING5 News
Sat, 25 Aug 2012 13:12 UTC

A homeowner shot and killed an intruder after the man apparently gained entry through an unsecured door and forced his way into a bedroom, deputies said.

Shortly after 2 a.m. Saturday, a Washington State Patrol Trooper was processing a suspected DUI driver half a block from the residence near the 3700 block of Northeast 54th Avenue.

The trooper saw a man stumbling down the sidewalk mumbling incoherently. While troopers were looking for the man, they got a 911 call from the homeowner about the intruder, said Sgt. Kevin Allais with the Clark County Sheriff's Office.

The mumbling man police were looking for matched the description of the 42-year-old intruder who was shot and killed.

Deputies did not release any names and were investigating.

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Society's Child

Illinois Police Say Teen Held Captive 2 Years Escapes

Crosses chopped down: 'Anti-church hysteria' spreads across Russia

Seven-Year-Old Connecticut Boy Accidentally Shoots 52-Year-Old Neighbor In Chest

2 Injured after Small Plane Crash-Lands in California

Grizzly mauls hiker to death at Denali National Park

Rajasthan Panchayat Bans Use of Mobile by Girls

Police shoot man who held hostage at Lakewood credit union

First Man on Moon Neil Armstrong Dead at 82

Twin Cities: Black Copters? Those Are Special Ops Training Missions

Vancouver, Washington homeowner shoots and kills intruder

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