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Stormtrooper

SWAT raid in Kalamazoo traumatizes family during futile search for drugs


Newschannel 3
Tue, 06 May 2014 02:23 UTC
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A SWAT team raids a Kalamazoo family home looking for drugs, but turns up empty handed.

It happened last Thursday at a house on Southworth Terrace.

Two young children were home at the time.

Their parents tell us, police made a mistake, and now they're left to cope with the trauma.

The family tells Newschannel 3 the man police were looking for, was renting the home nearly a year before they moved in, and they're upset police didn't do their homework before busting through their door.

"I thought it was somebody either trying to rob us, or hurt us," said Jeremy Handley.
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Attention

I inhaled a pin into my lung

Annie McCarthy
The Guardian
Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:00 UTC
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© David Yeo/GuardianAnnie McCarthy: 'In the hours leading up to the operation, reality kicked in and I began to feel really nervous.'
'I spent the rest of the day assuming the pin I'd swallowed would eventually find its way out. I was so blasé, I went out that night and forgot all about it'

I was working in the wardrobe department on a television series in Sydney. The pressure was intense, but it was exciting.

Around halfway through the shoot, I was making an intricate Victorian costume for one of the lead actresses. I remember the pale green taffeta of the gown as I sat at the sewing machine, struggling with all the pleats and ribbons that had to look perfect for the screen. As always, the most convenient place to put the pin I was using was in my mouth. Somehow, one minute it was clenched between my teeth and the next it was gone.
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Sherlock

Search on for 87-year-old Georgia woman after husband found beheaded in lakeside home

Sasha Goldstein
Daily News
Thu, 08 May 2014 05:42 UTC
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Shirley Dermond is missing and police are worried she may be harmed after she was possibly abducted from her rural home in a ritzy lakeside neighborhood in Georgia
Russell Dermond, 88, was found headless in the garage of his upscale, lakeside home outside Eatonton, Ga., about 75 miles southeast of Atlanta. His wife of nearly seven decades, Shirley Dermond, is missing and authorities are concerned for her safety after finding the gruesome scene.

A desperate search is on for a missing woman after her 88-year-old husband was found decapitated inside the garage of their rural lakeside Georgia home.

Shirley Dermond, 87, was likely abducted from her 3,300-square-foot home in the Great Waters community outside Eatonton, Ga., where Russell Dermond's headless body was found Tuesday after friends hadn't heard from the "sweet as can be" couple in days.
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Heart - Black

North Carolina boy, 14, arrested in rape, murder of 11-year-old girl in home

Nina Golgowski
Daily News
Wed, 07 May 2014 05:30 UTC
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© FBAuthorities in North Carolina have arrested a boy in the murder of 11-year-old McKenzie Mae Sessoms, who was found unresponsive in her home in September
Sampson County Sheriff officials announced the arrest in McKenzie Semmons' 2013 murder Wednesday, with the boy's grandfather telling a local TV station that the suspect is just 14 years old.

Eight months after an 11-year-old girl was found dead in her North Carolina home, authorities have announced the arrest of a boy in her rape and murder.

Sampson County Sheriff officials Wednesday announced the arrest in McKenzie Semmons' 2013 murder, with the boy's grandfather telling WTVD that the suspect is just 14 years old.
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Pistol

Missouri woman, 75, guilty of killing ex-husband nearly 40 years ago


Daily News
Thu, 08 May 2014 05:18 UTC
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© Associated Press/Miranda GrubbsAlice Uden listens to the judge during jury selection at the Laramie County District Court on Tuesday, April 29, 2014. Uden was found guilty of second-degree murder on Thursday
Alice Uden testified she shot and killed her husband in the head sometime in late 1974 or early 1975, just as he was about to attack her 2-year-old daughter. The man's body was found last year in Wyoming and Uden was arrested for the murder in Missouri.

A 75-year-old Missouri woman accused of killing her husband in Wyoming almost 40 years ago was found guilty of second-degree murder Thursday in a case that hinged on whether jurors believed her claim she was defending their 2-year-old daughter.

Alice Uden faces 20 years to life in prison during sentencing, which will be scheduled later.
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Sheriff

70 year old man shot by police for grabbing his cane during a traffic stop


Free Thought Project
Fri, 09 May 2014 00:00 UTC
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An innocent 70 year old man is in critical condition after being shot at several times by a York County Sheriff's Deputy.

Bobby Canipe went to reach for his cane during a traffic stop. Deputy Terrence Knox thought he was reaching for a rifle, apparently couldn't verbally warn the man, or fire a warning shot, and out of fear for his life fired several shots at the man and hitting him.

Apparently shooting a 70 year old man, reaching for a cane in the back of a pickup truck, is appropriate use of force as Knox felt an imminent threat to his life.

Knox is on paid vacation pending an investigation.

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Stormtrooper

Parents, NEVER let your kids talk to the police

William Norman Grigg
LewRockwell.com
Wed, 07 May 2014 02:30 UTC
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Don Joughin comforts his eleven-month-old son after the infant was doused in pepper spray by one of Portland’s “Finest.”
"When they put the handcuffs on I thought, 'Wait a minute, this has got to be a joke,'" recalled Latoya Harris, describing the arrest of her 9-year-old daughter last May. "The look on my daughter's face went from humiliation and fear, to a look of sheer panic."

At the time, the girl was wearing a bathing suit and a towel, still damp from running through a neighborhood sprinkler. She was taken away in handcuffs by officers David McCarthy and Matthew Huspek, fingerprinted, photographed, but never charged with a crime. She was held at police headquarters for an hour before her frantic mother - who didn't have a car - could retrieve the girl from her captors.

The stated purpose of the visit was to investigate a playground fight that had taken place a few days earlier. The actual purpose of the arrest was probably to serve some depraved impulse on the part of the officers to assert their supposed authority over an intimidated but uncooperative child.
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Cut

Brazillian vigilantes hack off man's penis after suspecting him of raping three-year-old girl

Chris Richards
Mirror Online
Thu, 08 May 2014 02:13 UTC
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Vigilantes hacked off a man's penis after suspecting him of raping a three-year-old girl.

Francisco de Souza de Castro, 66, was targeted in a brutal revenge attack in Severinia, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Three of his fingers were also sliced off.

Castro was rushed to Santa Casa de Misericordia Hospital, in nearby Barretos, where doctors unsuccessfully tried to re-attach his phallus.

They also failed to re-graft his digits onto his hand.

Estadao reports that Castro allegedly raped the infant, on the rural ranch where he worked.

Her mother reportedly spotted signs of the alleged attack when her daughter returned home later that night.
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Life Preserver

The rate of maternal deaths rising in the U.S. more than most countries in the world

Tara Culp-Ressler
ThinkProgress
Tue, 06 May 2014 10:21 UTC
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Deaths related to pregnancy and childbearing have increased in the United States over the past decade, putting maternal mortality at nearly its highest rate in a quarter century, according to a new study published in the Lancet. The U.S. is one of just eight countries where maternal deaths increased between 2003 and 2013; the other nations in this dubious category include Afghanistan, El Salvador, Belize, and South Sudan.

According to the researchers, for every 100,000 births in the U.S. last year, about 18.5 women died. That doesn't stack up very well with the mortality rates in other nations. A woman giving birth in America is more than twice as likely to die as a woman in Saudi Arabia or China, and three times as likely to die as a woman in the United Kingdom.

It's also evidence that this issue is getting worse. Back in 1990, the United States' maternal mortality rate was 12.4 women per 100,000 births. In 2003, it was 17.6.
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Teenager killed after unidentified plainclothes officers restrain, pepper-spray him, and shove sharp object down his throat


Opposing Views
Wed, 07 May 2014 18:13 UTC
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The mother of a 17-year-old boy has filed a federal lawsuit against the Huntsville Police Department claiming that officers killed the boy by tackling him to the ground, breaking his ribs, pepper-spraying him, and shoving a sharp object down his throat.

In March, the boy's mother, Nancy Smith, filed the claim for assault and battery, wrongful death and excessive force.

The young man, whose first name is not mentioned in the lawsuit, was allegedly set up in a drug bust. When plainclothes officers - who did not identify themselves as officers - approached Smith, he fled.

An officer caught Smith and threw him to the ground, where he was cuffed, forcibly restrained and pepper-sprayed.

As described in the lawsuit, police were under the impression that the teenager had swallowed a bag of drugs. An officer who had no medical training proceeded to shove a "sharp oblong object" down Smith's throat to locate the bag.
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