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Bomb found on British Columbia SkyTrain tracks

Kelly Sinoski and Mike Hager
Ottawa Citizen
Sat, 03 Nov 2012 00:00 UTC
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© Les Bazso , PNG
The bomb squad was called in and commuters on the eastbound SkyTrain were shuttled to buses after a transit emergency alert closed the Scott Road to Gateway Skytrain stations in Surrey on Friday, Nov. 2, 2012.
Canada, B.C. - Police forces across British Columbia's Lower Mainland were on high alert Friday night as transit police hunt a would-be bomber.

A bomb was spotted by a passenger on an elevated SkyTrain track in Surrey this afternoon, and later removed and exploded by an RCMP bomb squad. The confirmed bomb threat is believed to be the first ever involving SkyTrain infrastructure.

Transit police spokeswoman Anne Drennan said officers will conduct a full sweep of TransLink's complete rail network throughout the night, also checking bus loops, stations, and terminals.

"We want to make sure there is nothing else out there to cause the public and our passengers harm," Drennan said.

Transit police have asked all police forces in the different Lower Mainland jurisdictions served by SkyTrain to go on "high alert" helping to monitor for tracks for suspicious activity. Extra uniformed transit police officers are stationed throughout the TransLink system, and plain clothes transit police detectives are on the lookout for the bombing suspect, Drennan said.
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Police charge New York City nanny in stabbing death of kids


abc News
Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:00 UTC
Yoselyn Ortega

Nanny Yoselyn Ortega pictured with Lucia Krim.
New York City police say they've charged a nanny with murder in the stabbing deaths of two children last month.

Police finally could interview 50-year-old Yoselyn Ortega as she continues to recover from self-inflicted stab wounds. They charged her in her hospital bed Saturday night with two counts each of first- and second-degree murder.

Police say Ortega fatally stabbed 6-year-old Lucia Krim and her 2-year-old brother, Leo, on Oct. 25 in the children's Upper West Side apartment. She then stabbed herself.

A third sibling was with their mother when the killings happened. The mother returned home to discover her children dead and Ortega bleeding.

Ortega remains hospitalized under police guard.

Source: The Associated Press

Comment: Let's keep in mind the circumstances in which these children were murdered:

CNBC exec's children murdered, 1 day after CNBC reports $43 trillion bankster lawsuit

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Police helicopter crashes in Atlanta, 2 dead


Seattle pi
Sat, 03 Nov 2012 00:00 UTC
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An Atlanta police helicopter flying low on a search for a missing 9-year-old child crashed near a major city intersection overnight, killing the two officers aboard, authorities said.

Police spokesman Carlos Campos confirmed the deaths but said no one was hurt on the ground in an area just blocks from a busy east-west artery, Interstate 20, and in a neighborhood populated by fast food restaurants, stores, a major pharmacy and other outlets.

The helicopter carrying the searchers went down about 10:30 pm. Saturday in the city's northwestern reaches. Photographs broadcast on local television soon after the crash showed what appeared to be flaming debris on a roadway.

Campos told The Associated Press by telephone that authorities were trying to determine what events had led up to the crash, but he said a search was under way for the missing child at the time. Although Campos did not elaborate, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution later reported that a missing child was subsequently found unharmed.
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Several hurt during shooting at a Georgia fair

Russ Bynum
abc News
Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:00 UTC
Savannah, Georgia - A shooting erupted at a crowded fair in Savannah and at least six people were taken to a hospital. Police said they detained several people for questioning.

None of the wounded appeared to have life-threatening injuries, said Julian Miller, spokesman for Savannah Chatham-County police. Few other details were immediately available.

A large crowd had gathered at the Coastal Empire Fair, located on Savannah's suburban south side, when witnesses heard gunshots about an hour before the fair's 11:30 p.m. closing time.

"They had a huge crowd here," Miller said. "At about 10:30 (p.m.), officers working the fair heard gunshots and found an undetermined number of victims."
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52 Michigan men among those accused of sexually assaulting Boy Scouts

L.L. Brasier and Gina Damron
Detroit Free Press
Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:00 UTC
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The scoutmaster forced boys to take off their pants and underwear for spankings and "examinations" on their genitals.

He made them swim naked as he took photos. And at night, he fondled them in their sleeping bags.

When the Boy Scouts of America learned of the scoutmaster's activities in 1978, they ejected him from the organization -- but never contacted police or the parents of those boys in Clawson's Troop 1604.

A total of 52 men, including the Clawson scoutmaster, were accused of sexually assaulting Michigan Scouts between 1960 and 1985, according to documents newly released by the Boy Scouts of America and reviewed by the Free Press.

The files are part of a 2010 lawsuit filed by an Oregon man who was repeatedly assaulted by his scoutmaster. A jury awarded him $18.5 million.

The Michigan cases reflect what happened thousands of times nationwide during those years, records show. Many of the men were professionals -- clergy, teachers, certified counselors and laborers -- and most were listed as having religious affiliations.

They were scoutmasters, assistant scoutmasters, coaches of horseback riding or marksmanship and adult volunteers.

Scouting officials often tried to keep the assaults quiet and failed to notify police and parents, even in cases where the men admitted to the abuse. In some cases, officials appeared sympathetic to those accused, suggesting therapy rather than prosecution.
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Bulgarians take to Facebook to lambast bad, lazy, dangerous cops


RT
Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:00 UTC
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© Facebook
Taking it easy
Thousands of Bulgarians have joined a Facebook group collecting photos of local police breaking rules while on duty. The law enforcement agency is already subject to special monitoring by the EU for failing to tackle corruption and organized crime.

Created less than a week ago, the "Film the Police" group already has more than 8,000 members and hundreds of allegedly incriminating photos.

Most show policemen routinely taking up disabled parking spots, and asleep en masse in a patrol car during work time. Others supposed violations are more serious; a photo of a policeman at the wheel holding a large opened bottle of beer, or an officer on a motorcycle performing a dangerous stunt on the wrong side of the road. Some are accompanied by names and comments showing specific policemen demanding bribes, or calmly looking upon a group of apparent prostitutes on the curb.
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Phoenix

Gas pipeline inferno wreaks havoc in Moscow suburb


RT
Sat, 03 Nov 2012 00:00 UTC

A massive fire caused by a gas pipeline leak struck a Moscow suburb during the night, obliterating 17 buildings. Firemen only managed to bring the raging inferno under control three hours after it broke out.

Both gas and electricity were temporarily cut off from the Northeastern Moscow suburb of Sholkovskaya near the village of Almazovo after a gas pipe caught fire, reports RIA Novosti.

The flames of the ensuing inferno reached 10 meters in height and covered an area of approximately 600 square meters.

The fire caused significant damage to the surrounding area, destroying 17 country houses. Authorities said that no one was injured in the blaze.
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Sacramento veteran pollster fired over an e-mail protesting against U.N. observers

Ben Sosenko
CBS Sacramento
Fri, 02 Nov 2012 04:02 UTC

Sacramento, California - A poll worker is out of a job, and she says it's all because of an email she sent her supervisor.

The woman says she was concerned about poll inspectors coming to Sacramento for Tuesday's election.

Shannon Lewis has been a poll worker in Sacramento for 15 years. She said she sent that email and was fired 10 minutes later.

"I just tapped out a really fast email," said Lewis.

But that quick email ended Lewis' 15 year job as a Sacramento County pollster.

"I just wanted to get my feelings known and get an answer to the question before polling day," said Lewis.

Lewis' email inquired about something she saw on the internet, United Nations observers coming to local polling stations.

"I was on Facebook one day and I saw this thing that I thought was a brand new thing," said Lewis.
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'It's Like the Wild West': Lawlessness and fear take over the outer boroughs as millions in misery endure a sixth day without power

Rachel Rickard Straus and Snejana Farberov
The Daily Mail, UK
Sat, 03 Nov 2012 00:00 UTC
  • Residents claim they are the 'forgotten victims' of Sandy
  • Also say that lack of power and law enforcement means more looting and violent crime
  • Those in stricken areas stockpiling weapons like kitchen knives, machetes, and bats to protect themselves
  • Coney Island residents say they are forced to 'scavenge for food like animals'
  • Power unlikely to be returned to Brooklyn, Queen's and Staten Island until sometime next week
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© The Associated Press
What remains: Julie Traina tries to recover some personal items from the destroyed home of her parents in Staten Island yesterday
As lights have begun flickering on in Lower Manhattan, residents of the Rockaways in Queens continued struggling without power, heat or food for a sixth day as their neighborhood slowly descended into chaos.

With little police presence on the storm-ravaged streets, many residents of the peninsula have been forced to take their protection into their own hands, arming themselves with guns, baseball bats and even bows and arrows to ward off thugs seeking to loot their homes.
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© Reuters/Shannon Stapleton
Vigilante justice: A sign is seen outside a home in Long Beach in Long Island on November 2 gives a dire warning to would-be looters
It has been reported that crooks have been disguising themselves as Long Island Power Authority workers and coming by homes on the peninsula in the middle of the night while real utility workers were nowhere to be found.

'We booby-trapped our door and keep a baseball bat beside our bed,' Danielle Harris, 34, told the New York Daily News.

The woman added that she has been hearing gunshots likely fired in the nearby housing project for three nights in a row.

Meanwhile, local surfer Keone Singlehurst said that he stockpiled knives, a machete and a bow and arrow.
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Road Cone

New Jersey Governor Christie orders gas rationing in 12 NJ counties

Charisse Jones,
USA TODAY
Sat, 03 Nov 2012 00:00 UTC
The governor declares that the shortage could endanger public health, safety and welfare.

NJ gas lines
© Michael Loccisano, Getty Images
People wait for hours with gas canisters at a Gulf gas station Thursday in Manalapan, NJ.
For many in New Jersey in search of gasoline, the mantra has become sit, wait and hope.

Beginning noon Saturday, that exercise in patience will become even more confounding and complicated. Gov. Chris Christie late Friday ordered gas rationing in 12 counties, declaring that the current shortage could endanger public health, safety and welfare.

The affected counties are Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Morris, Monmouth, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, Union and Warren.

Motorists in these counties whose license plates end in even numbers can fill up only on even-numbered days. Odd-numbered plates -- which includes those not ending in number -- can fill up only on odd days.

The "state of energy emergency" order states that stations "will be required to only sell motor fuel for use in a passenger automobile bearing license plates." That indicates dealers could refuse to sell to pedestrians seeking to fill containers.

Christie and Attorney General Jeff Chiesa pledged to "aggressively and vigorously enforce" the order, and the governor warned that violators "will be prosecuted to the fullest extent permitted."
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