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Ambulance

Bus crashes in Bangladesh, killing at least 16

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A bus packed with Muslim pilgrims plunged off a bridge into a muddy ditch early Monday in Bangladesh, killing at least 16 people, police said.

The bodies recovered from the bus included children, said local police officer Ranjit Kumar Barua. Rescuers took another 15 people who were injured to a hospital, and the rest of the occupants were not hurt.

Cheeseburger

Horse meat found in British supermarkets 'may be donkey'

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French meat food industrial factory, working on the production chain of beef steaks. A Europe-wide food fraud scandal over horsemeat sold as beef deepened as Romania announced an inquiry into the origin of the meat and suspicions of criminal activity mounted.
A law banning horses from Romanian roads may be responsible for the surge in the fraudulent sale of horse meat on the European beef market, a French politician said today.

Horse-drawn carts were a common form of transport for centuries in Romania, but hundreds of thousands of the animals are feared to have been sent to the abattoir after the change in road rules.

The law, which was passed six years ago but only enforced recently, also banned carts drawn by donkeys, leading to speculation among food-industry officials in France that some of the "horse meat" which has turned up on supermarket shelves in Britain, France and Sweden may, in fact, turn out to be donkey meat. "Horses have been banned from Romanian roads and millions of animals have been sent to the slaughterhouse," said Jose Bove, a veteran campaigner for small farmers who is now vice-president of the European Parliament agriculture committee.

After a couple of days in which the horse meat affair was seen as a largely British problem, the scandal began to be taken seriously by French politicians and newspapers over the weekend.

Sherlock

Pablo Neruda's remains to be exhumed for investigation

Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda
The remains of famous Chilean poet Pablo Neruda are to be exhumed as part of an inquest into his 1973 death.

Chilean judge Mario Carroza has ordered the exhumation although the family of Nobel Prize-winning poet maintains that he died of prostate cancer at the age of 69.

Neruda died nearly two weeks after his close friend President Salvador Allende was overthrown in a military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet.

In 2011, Chile opened a probe into allegations that Communist Neruda might have been poisoned. The investigation was launched after Neruda's former driver Manuel Araya Osorio claimed that the poet had been injected with poison in a clinic by Pinochet's agents.

Osorio has claimed that Neruda was ordered killed by Pinochet so that he could not travel to Mexico where he was expected to form an anti-Pinochet front.

Flashlight

Christopher Dorner manhunt: possible sighting of fugitive ex-cop leads to store evacuation


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A Northridge, Calif., home improvement store was evacuated tonight because of a possible sighting of suspected cop-killer Christopher Dorner, just hours after police announced a $1 million reward for information leading to his arrest.

As helicopters hovered overhead and a command center was established, police searched the Lowe's store and eventually told shoppers they could leave, but could not take their cars out of the parking lot.

LAPD spokesman Gus Villanueva said the major response to the possible sighting was a precaution, but couldn't say whether Dorner was in the area.

The announcement of the $1 million reward today came as authorities in Big Bear, Calif., scaled back their search for Dorner, the disgruntled ex-cop who is suspected in three revenge killings.

"This is the largest local reward ever offered, to our knowledge," Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said at a news conference today. "This is an act of domestic terrorism. This is a man who has targeted those that we entrust to protect the public. His actions cannot go unanswered."

The money for the reward was pooled by businesses, government, local law enforcement leaders and individual donors, Beck said.

Magic Wand

Second family accuses Disneyland of racism after Donald Duck refuses to hug their son

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© ABC10Humiliating: The White family says this is the only picture Razzi, 5, took at Disneyland after Donald Duck spurned him for white children
The second family in as little as a week has come forward with allegations that a Disneyland character snubbed them because they were black.

The White family said they took their son, Ryder, to Disneyland to celebrate his birthday in December.

The day was going well until Razzi White, 5, walked up to a performer in a Donald Duck costume at the park's Main Street.

'He was sitting there with his arms open, saying, 'Donald, Donald!' said mother Nastasia White.

Nastasia claims that rather than play with her son, Donald deliberately walked away from him to play with a white baby in a stroller.

The Whites said they waited patiently for their turn - long enough that even the baby's parents urged Donald to play with Razzi - but Donald ignored them.

Nastasia asked for picture, but says Donald instead went to a young white girl on a bench on hugged her.

Hearts

Support growing for former Los Angeles officer accused of killing spree

The ex-cop accused of three revenge killings left behind a long manifesto outlining all of his grievances and observations.

That manifesto has given investigators some clues, but they still don't know where is Christopher Dorner.

Law enforcement spent four hours searching his mom's Orange County home. They took out 10 grocery bags filled with evidence.

Dorner lost his job with the Los Angeles Police Department in 2008. His manifesto vows revenge for that; and, surprisingly, thousands of people actually support him.

It's hard to believe but there are those out there who sympathize with the man targeting police officers.

One Facebook page is proclaiming Dorner for president. "We propose electing a man who could no longer sit idly by and watch as malicious tyrants abuse the innocent."


The description on "We Are All Chris Dorner" chillingly says, "Yes, this is war."

Nearly 3,000 people like the page "I Support Christopher Jordan Dorner."

CBS13 posted a simple question: Why? Why support a man wanted for at least three killings and the author of a murderous manifesto promising to target cops?

One sympathizer wrote us, "Because something needs to be done about the long known corruption of not only the LAPD, but several agencies."

Pistol

Christopher Dorner's manifesto & LAPD's recent actions raise lots of disturbing questions

All eyes are on Christopher Dorner the fired LAPD officer who is the subject on a massive manhunt that involves more than 1000 cops up and down the state of California and in Nevada. He's accused of gunning down three people including Monica Quan, a popular basketball coach and the daughter of a former LAPD captain and her fiance Keith Lawrence who is described as mentor to many and recently graduated from a police academy. ..

Dorner's also accused of shooting 3 police officers killing one in Riverside California...In an 11 page manifesto that he posted on-line, Dorner lays out the reasons he's on the rampage and why he's down to take out his fellow officers and their family members. He feels they are racist, unfair and done him dirty by tarnishing his name and reputation. In this manifesto which is an epic read, he describes in great detail a department that is corrupt and more violent than the streets he was assigned to patrol...No matter how this turns out all of us should be asking a whole lot of questions and not resting until we get solid answers..You can read an uncensored copy of that manifesto HERE

Bizarro Earth

UK inequality rises sharply in 15 years - report

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The UK's super-rich, the top 1% of earners, now pocket 10 pence in every pound, while the bottom half have seen their share of the nation's wealth drop in the last 15 years. Middle earners have also seen their earning power stagnate.

Inequality in the UK has increased sharply in the last decade and a half, according to a study by the think tank, the Resolution Foundation, 'Squeezed Britain 2013', which is to be published next week.

According to Resolution's analysis the top 1% on earners have seen their share of the nation's wealth jump from 7% in the mid-1990s to 10% today, meaning that the top 1% of earners now pocket 10p in every pound of income paid in Britain. The bottom 50% have seen their share of the pie drop from 19% to 18%, it was reported in the Observer.

Although there was a slight reduction in top earning between 2009 and 2011, the research concludes this is most likely because the highest paid employees have brought their earnings forward to benefit from reduced income tax rates, which come into force this April. The Chancellor, George Osborne, is lowering the top tax rate for all earnings over £150,000 from 50p to 45p.

Sheriff

Cop punches victim (U.S. soldier) for complaining it took them 45 minutes to respond to his call

The ABC7 News I-Team has uncovered a new complaint of excessive force against Vallejo police - the incident, caught on camera. The department is already reeling after a violent year, including six people shot and killed by officers.

The more I dig, the more questions I have. This story began when a package arrived in the mail from someone inside the department. It was a DVD, a police report, and a letter complaining about a "cowboy attitude" by officers and command staff.

Imagine you're a police officer on patrol. It's a warm summer day when the call comes in - a 22-year-old complaining his roommates beat him up and kicked him out of the apartment.


Telephone

Charlie Sheen to alleged Los Angeles cop killer: 'Call me'

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Anger Management star Charlie Sheen released an online video Saturday urging an ex-cop accused of three killings to call him, after the actor was named in the man's chilling online manifesto.

Police are hunting for Christopher Dorner, a 33-year-old disgruntled former LA Police Department officer who threatened to go on a murder spree against police and their families to avenge his sacking five years ago.

In a rambling online statement - in which Dorner threatened "unconventional and asymmetrical warfare" against the LAPD - he at one point describes Sheen as "effin' awesome."