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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Have You Mass Murdered A Family Today?

The latest atrocity happened in the Heartland. Shawn Bentler, 22, walked into his parents house in Bonaparte, Iowa, then shot and killed his parents and three teenage sisters. The sheriff's department received a 911 phone call from Shayne Bentler, one of the three girls shot, wherein she told the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, October 15, 2006

Florida Family Murdered And Left At Roadside

A passing motorist discovered the bodies of four people, two adults and two children, shot to death early Friday morning alongside one of the state's busiest interchanges. Police later determined from witness accounts of what they heard (gunshots) that, for whatever reason, the driver of the vehicle... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, October 12, 2006

What The Hell Do You Mean Mark Foley Isn't A Pedophile?

Every time I turn around, I see a prominent GOP representative or Republican spinmeister trying to put a pretty face on the Mark Foley scandal. Now, don't get me wrong. I understand it's all about damage control. And there's a certain amount of leeway I'm willing to give these guys. After all,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, October 7, 2006

Have We Passed A Frightening Tipping Point?

In the past several weeks, there have been dozens of young men arrested for threatening to bomb and/or kill their fellow students and teachers. There have been incidents of older men, above school-age men, who have attacked schools in Canada, Colorado, and Pennsylvania. A teenager walked into a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, September 28, 2006

Nothing Like Columbine

Duane Morrison, a 53-year-old petty crook, carried two handguns and a backpack into North Platte High School yesterday, told everyone that the backpack held a bomb, and took several female students hostage. He then held them in a second-floor classroom during the standoff. And as if the trauma of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Student Killed In Hostage Standoff In Colorado

An as yet unidentified gunmen took six girls hostage at North Platte High School in Bailey, Colorado today. As time went by, he released his hostages one by one until two were left, and, after setting a deadline and negotiations stalled, a SWAT team moved in. The gunmen then shot and mortally... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 24, 2006

Woman Murders Friend, Three Children And Unborn

Tiffany Hall, for an as yet unknown reason, killed her friend, Jimella Tunstall, in East St. Louis, Missouri, on or around Sept. 15 by cutting open her abdomen and extricating an unborn fetus. Tunstall died of exsanguination. Hall then disappeared with the children. After having a funeral for the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, September 23, 2006

When Safeguards Don't Work

Nurses at an Indianapolis hospital gave the wrong anti-coagulant medication to six premature babies last Saturday, resulting in the deaths of three. The intensive care unit's drug cabinet had been mistakenly stocked with heparin, an anti-coagulant 1000 times the dosage normally given babies.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, September 19, 2006

"Hey mom... I'm being held in a hole."

A simple text message sent to her mother while her captor was asleep was all it took for authorities to get a rough triangulation of the tranceiving device and search the area that led to the rescue of a 14-year-old South Carolina teenager who had been missing since September 6. Searchers heard her... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, September 16, 2006

Mother's Throat Slashed And Baby Girl Kidnapped

Stephenie Ochsenbine was approached by an unknown woman yesterday, stabbed several times and had her throat slit. She is still alive. However, when she awoke from passing out, she discovered her one-week-old baby gone. Her one-year-old son was unharmed. Her boyfriend was at work. The baby is still... Sign in to see full entry.

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