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13 year old Brazilian believed to have murdered family in Amityville Horror copycat slaughter

John Hall
The Independent, UK
Wed, 07 Aug 2013 16:02 UTC
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A 13-year-old Brazilian boy killed his parents, grandmother and great aunt before spending a full day at school and then taking his own life.

Marcelo Pesseghini is thought to have killed his military officer parents in their bedroom using a police issue .40 calibre pistol. The boy's father, 40-year-old Luiz, was found dead in his bed, while his 30-year-old mother Andreia was discovered on her knees on the bedroom floor.

Marcelo Pesseghini's grandmother, 65-year-old Benedita de Oliveira Bovo, and his great aunt, 55-year-old Bernadete Oliveira da Silva, were also found dead in their beds, but in a separate part of the same building. All four victims had suffered gunshot wounds to the head.

Police believe that after killing his family, Marcelo Pesseghini caught a lift to school with a friend and spent a full day in lessons.
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Price of vegetables in UAE up nearly 17% in Ramadan


Gulf News
Tue, 06 Aug 2013 14:17 UTC
Statistics show fruits have risen by 14.4%, fish and seafood 8.4% compared to this time last month.

Abu Dhabi: Food prices have increased by 4.4 per cent in the fourth week of Ramadan compared to the first week of last month, reflecting a rise in the price of fruits by 14.4 per cent, vegetables by 16.7 per cent, and fish and seafood by 8.4 per cent.

Statistics Centre-Abu Dhabi yesterday issued its fourth weekly report on food prices in the month of Ramadan, noting the changes in food prices with the preceding week and the same week in the previous month.

The report is instrumental to the monitoring of food prices by government authorities to ensure there is a sufficient supply of various goods during Ramadan and to protect the consumer. The index is compiled on the basis of a basket consisting of two main groups and 11 sub-groups.

The largest rise was observed in the fruits category in Al Ain, where prices went up 25 per cent, compared with 12.2 per cent in Abu Dhabi and 9.9 per cent in Al Gharbia. Prices in the vegetables group recorded an overall rise of 16.7 per cent. A breakdown of the increase by region reveals a rise in the group's prices by 16.9 per cent in Abu Dhabi and 18.7 per cent in Al Gharbia and Al Ain.
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Flashback 'I'm not a liar' - Tawana Brawley stands by her account of kidnap, rape by 6 white men in 1987


New York Daily News
Wed, 03 Dec 1997 08:26 UTC
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A defiant Tawana Brawley broke a decade of silence last night and declared, "I am not a liar."

The 25-year-old woman, whose claims of being kidnapped and raped by six white men in 1987 were later deemed a hoax by a grand jury, did not waver from her original story. "If I did that, it would be like saying it didn't happen. And it did," Brawley said. "For 10 years, they've been lying to you. . . . You should know that the hoax was pulled on you."

The audience packed into Bethany Baptist Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, reacted with thunderous applause. Former Dutchess County Assistant District Attorney Steven Pagones, who's now suing Brawley's three former advisers for defamation, had a different response. "She stood there for 10 or 15 minutes and said a lot about nothing," said Pagones when reached at his Fishkill home. "She didn't give any facts."

Brawley never mentioned Pagones specifically last night, but she referred to his offer earlier in the day to drop the judgment against her if she would tell her story under oath in the suit against her advisers. Pagones won a default judgment against Brawley in 1991 after she failed to answer repeated subpoenas. "A hundred-seventy million dollars, I think, and they would drop the suit against me. . . . They offered to drop the lawsuit against me if I spoke out against Alton," Brawley said, gesturing to disbarred attorney Alton Maddox. "That would never happen. There is not enough money on this planet."
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Spider infestation delays five flights out of Kansas City International

Amy Hawley
KSHB
Mon, 05 Aug 2013 02:02 UTC
Olathe - The FAA believes it now knows how many flights at KCI were delayed abruptly on Saturday afternoon due to spiders.

There may have been as many as five flights delayed about 15 minutes after air traffic controllers were bombarded with an infestation of spiders.

Three employees were bitten by the spiders last week at the Air Traffic Control Center in Olathe, Kan., which controls the air space around Kansas City.

On Saturday, air traffic controllers had to evacuate and moved to another area of the building.

Exterminators found a spider's nest egg that had likely hatched.

"You're talking in some spider cases up to 400 and in large breeds, you're talking 1000's from one mom," CJ Workman with Schendel Pest Control said.

The FAA has not said what kind of spider it was but said no travelers were ever in danger.
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Man charged with blowing up family dog

Lisa Balick
KOIN 6
Tue, 06 Aug 2013 11:03 UTC
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© KOIN 6 News/Courtesy photo of CabellaChristopher Dillingham is accused of blowing up his family's dog, named Cabella.

Stevenson, Washington - A father with children in the house who was preparing for "the Rapture" blew up his family's Labrador Retriever because the devil was inside the dog, court documents showed.

Christopher Dillingham,45, allegedly attached an explosive device to his dog and detonated it around 4 a.m. Sunday outside their home.

Skamania County Sheriff Dave Brown, who lives nearby, said the explosion woke him up.

"It sounded like a high-power rifle outside my window," he said.

A slew of 911 calls sent deputies to Dillingham's home. They found the remains of the dog strewn about the yard and arrested Dillingham on the spot.

Documents obtained by KOIN 6 News show Dillingham told Skamania County deputies "the world is going to end" because of a nuclear strike and he was preparing. Officers found a broken window and household belongings thrown outside when they arrived.

When they asked him why he was throwing items out of his house and onto his lawn, he said he believed "the souls of demons" were inside the metal objects in the house, the documents said.
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Turkish Prime Ministry inspection board cites 'telekinesis' as possible cause of mysterious suicides


Hürriyet Daily News
Tue, 06 Aug 2013 22:01 UTC
Aselsan
© Company photo/Hürriyet Daily News ASELSAN is one of country’s leading military electronics companies, with multiple defense and technology awards in its history.
The suspicious suicides of four engineers working at the Turkish corporation ASELSAN could have been caused by telekinesis, according to a report by the Turkish Prime Ministry Inspection Board.

The report, presented to the Ankara Public Prosecutor in accordance with the ongoing investigation over the 2006-2007 suicides, claimed the victims could have been directed toward the suicides by way of telekinesis, citing the work done by neuropsychology expert Nevzat Tarhan.

Hüseyin Başbilen, an engineer at Turkey's military research and development enterprise, Aselsan, was found dead in his car on Aug. 7, 2006. A court ruled in 2009 that he committed suicide. Two other engineers working at Aselsan died shortly after Başbilen.

Halim Ünal was shot in the head with one bullet on Jan. 17, 2007, while Evrim Yançeken fell from the balcony of his sixth-floor apartment nine days later. Burhanettin Volkan allegedly killed himself in 2009.
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Large snake discovered in Leicester garden pond, UK


Leicester Mercury
Mon, 05 Aug 2013 16:05 UTC
A large snake has been discovered trapped in netting in a back garden pond.

Christine McAdam was in her garden in Aylestone, Leicester, on Friday afternoon when she spotted something in the netting that covers her pond.

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Christine McAdam holds the snake she found in netting over her garden pond in Aylestone, Leicester
She said: "I noticed something caught up in the mesh in my pond and I looked closer and it was a big snake.

"It's about two foot long and it's certainly not a grass snake or anything you would expect to find in this country.

"I've never seen anything close up like this before and I was scared it would bite me."

Christine, 58, enlisted the help of neighbour Rick Wright to cut the net and release the snake.

She has been trying to get hold of the RSPCA to take the snake off her hands.

She said: "I've been phoning and getting a message that says if you find a fox or snake or anything, just let it go.

"But I don't think I should with this one. It's so big.

"It's in a plastic box at the bottom of my garden for the moment.

"I'm keeping it out of the sun."
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14-Foot Brumese python found in Florida shed; Giant snake was eating local cats

Donovan Longo
Latin Times
Tue, 06 Aug 2013 15:43 UTC
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© Creative CommonsThe Burmese Python is one of the six largest snakes in the world, native to a large variation of tropic and subtropic areas of Southern- and Southeast Asia
Imagine walking into your shed on a balmy Florida afternoon and discovering an enormous snake eating a cat's skull. Sounds like the opening scene for SyFy's next disaster movie right? WRONG! This is a real story with a real 100 lbs. snake. Ok, now that you are genuinely shocked, let's discuss what happened.

A 14-foot Burmese python was found by a man while he was performing home repairs in Hialeah, Florida. Officials immediately responded to the home and when they entered the shed to assess the snake situation the python was eating a cat's skull. The Miami-Dade Venom Unit also discovered that there was a large amount of molted skin in the shed, leading them to the conclusion that the massive snake had made the shed his makeshift home. "It was very nicely holed up in a shed, it's been there a while," Lt. Lisa Wood, of the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Venom Unit, said of the reptile.The discovered python had also solved the mystery of why there had been a large number of disappearances of local cats and rabbits. "Speaking with the neighbors, apparently there's a couple of rabbits and a cat missing from the neighborhood recently so the snake may be to blame for that," Wood added.
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Ammonia blowout in Ukraine kills 5, injures 20


RIA Novosti
Tue, 06 Aug 2013 13:05 UTC
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© Photo StirolStirol Factory
At least five people were killed and 20 injured when billows of ammonia gas erupted from a fertilizer factory in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk Region, local authorities said Tuesday.

The accident occurred that afternoon during maintenance works at the factory, run by mineral fertilizer manufacturer Stirol. According to the company, the leak was caused by a depressurization of a liquid-ammonia pipeline.

Comment: Apparently, it's not the first time something like this has happened. On 26th of May, 2013 there was a fire in the same ammonia factory:


More interesting, however, is the fact that one of the largest ever industrial accidents in the U.S. happened at an ammonia facility on the 18th of April in West, Texas.

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Freed child rapist Daniel Galvan Vina arrested in Spain


BBC News
Mon, 05 Aug 2013 05:36 UTC
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© AFPMoroccans protested against the pardon
A Spanish child rapist freed from a 30-year-sentence in Morocco last week has been arrested in Spain, officials say.

Daniel Galvan Vina, who had been freed as part of a broader royal pardon, was detained in Murcia, police said.

Moroccan officials said his release was a mistake, and King Mohammed had been unaware of the nature of his crimes. The king has since sacked the head of prisons and rescinded the pardon.

Galvan, was convicted of raping 11 children, aged between four and 15.

He was sentenced to 30 years in prison in September 2011.
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