Daily Misfortune Month January 2015 ---
*Today
- 7 killed 3 convicted December 1, 2013 fire January 12, 2015 update Italy Prato fire kills seven in Chinese-owned factory - BBC.com 3 Chinese Convicted in Italian Factory Fire
- 1 killed 1 guilty February 2, 2014 crash January 12, 2015 update Minneapolis driver sentenced to 4 years in bicyclist's death
- 1 killed 80 hospitalized January 12, 2015 Passengers bail out when Washington DC Metro Train fills with smoke
- Apparent ISIL computer hackers attack the feeds for the United States Central Command
- Boko Haram Cameroon kills 143 Boko Haram fighters in clashes. (Reuters)
- 5 dead 2 missing A school bus plunges off of a cliff on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent
- 6 killed Chinese police kill six attacking militants wearing explosive devices in Xinjiang.(Reuters),(Naharnet)
- 6 killed 1 wounded suspect arrested January 12, 2015 A serviceman stationed at the Russian 102nd Military Base, Valeri Permyakov, kills six members of an Armenian family
- District Attorney New Mexico charges two Albuquerque Police Department officers with murder in the March 16, 2014 shooting death of James Boyd in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. (CNN)
- The death toll from poisoned beer in the Mozambique rises to at least 69
- 7 killed 3 convicted December 1, 2013 fire January 12, 2015 update Italy Prato fire kills seven in Chinese-owned factory - BBC.com 3 Chinese Convicted in Italian Factory Fire Associated Press An Italian court on Monday convicted a Chinese garment manufacturer and two Chinese managers of manslaughter in a 2013 factory fire that killed seven people in the Tuscan city of Prato. The stiffest sentence, eight years and eight months, went to Lin You Lan, the owner of the Teresa Moda factory, which churned out cheap clothes in the largely Chinese manufacturing district in Tuscany. Two factory managers, Lin Youli, and her husband, Hu Xiaoping, received sentences of six years and 10 months, and 6 ½ years, respectively. The three defendants were also convicted of exploiting clandestine labor and failing to use safety measures... thousands of Chinese migrants have been smuggled into Italy, often to find work at factories that ignore basic safety standards. Italy Prato fire kills seven in Chinese-owned factory - BBC.com At least seven people have died and two are badly injured after fire swept through a ire early Sunday swept through an illegal, makeshift dormitory in a Chinese-run garment factory in Tuscany in the Italian town of Prato. The blaze broke out in a loft where 11 people were sleeping, causing part of the roof to collapse. Italian authorities have raided nearly 2,000 Chinese factories over the last several years, closing more than 900 for safety and labor violations.
- 1 killed 1 guilty February 2, 2014 crash January 12, 2015 update Minneapolis driver sentenced to 4 years in bicyclist's death St. Paul Pioneer Press A Minneapolis man fifty-year-old John Iverson has been sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to criminal vehicular homicide. Iverson was accused of driving his van last February after drinking heavily at a bar. Witnesses say Iverson sped west down Franklin Avenue in south Minneapolis, then suddenly swerved toward the curb and struck Marcus Nalls, a 26-year-old African American chef and bicycle commuter. Nalls was hit in the right lane, and the van veered up onto a snowbank, dragging Nalls underneath the car.
- 1 killed 80 hospitalized January 12, 2015 Passengers bail out when Washington DC Metro Train fills with smoke One woman died and more than 80 other people were sent to the hospital, mostly for smoke inhalation, after the electrical malfunction Monday on Washington's Metro. A day later, 21 passengers remained hospitalized, and the accident had left a multitude of unanswered questions.NTSB investigator Michael Flanigon said the smoke started when something came into contact with the high-voltage third rail and caused an electrical arc and smoke filled the cars. There was no fire An electrical malfunction causes a fire in the Washington, D. C.'s Metrorail subway system near L'Enfant Plaza Station resulting in one death with 84 people taken to hospitals, mostly from smoke inhalation. (AP)
- Apparent ISIL computer hackers attack the feeds for the United States Central Command for Twitter and Youtube. (Reuters)
- Boko Haram Cameroon kills 143 Boko Haram fighters in clashes. (Reuters)
- A school bus plunges off of a cliff on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent leaving at least five people dead and two missing. (AP)
- Chinese police kill six attacking militants wearing explosive devices in Xinjiang.(Reuters),(Naharnet)
- 6 killed 1 wounded suspect arrested January 12, 2015 A serviceman stationed at the Russian 102nd Military Base, Valeri Permyakov, kills six members of an Armenian family, including a two-year-old child, and, in addition, wounds a six-month-old child, in Gyumri, Armenia, initiating a manhunt by the Armenian security services until his capture. (ArmeniaNow),(News.Armenia)
- District Attorney Kari Brandenburg of New Mexico's Second Judicial Circuit federally charges two Albuquerque Police Department officers with murder in the March 16, 2014 shooting death of James Boyd in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. (CNN)
- The death toll from poisoned beer in the Mozambique rises to at least 69 with 169 in hospital. Further, medical experts begin to question if the source of the contamination was the deliberate addition of crocodile bile or instead the often usedfoxglove flowers (which contain digitalis) for homebrewing locally-derived Pombe beer. (AFP/Reuters via ABC News Australia),(Forbes
*News
- 1 killed January 11, 2015 South Gate officer-involved shooting: Carjacking suspect killed KABC-TV South Gate officer-involved shooting: Carjacking suspect killed. A suspected carjacker was killed Sunday morning in an officer-involved shooting in South Gate.
- January 11, 2015update New details uncovered in Moscow shooting KREM.com KREM 2 News obtained exclusive video of Lee's arrest after police said he shot and killed three people at three separatelocations in Moscow Saturday afternoon.
- 1 killed January 7, 2014 French police chief committed suicide after Charlie Hebdo attack Limoges deputy director of regional judicial police committed suicide hours after being tasked with investigating the family of one of the Charlie Hebdo victims A high-ranking judicial police chief in Limoges committed suicide last Wednesday hours after being asked to file a report on the Charlie Hebdo killings, it has emerged.
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The powerful explosion rocked the market in Maiduguri, which lies in the heartland of an insurgency by Sunni Muslim militant group Boko Haram, and was hit twice by female suicide bombers last year.
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Three people were killed early Saturday morning in a head-on crash on Interstate 80 northeast of Sacramento, the California Highway Patrol said.
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AFFTON - An early morning home explosion rocked a south St. Louis County neighborhood and sent a father and his son to the hospital.
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Movie crews blew up a bus on Cotton Avenue, the explosion blew out several windows along the street. Landlords got a phone call to alert them of the situation just before 4 a.m.
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A 15-year-old boy was killed and a 20-year-old man was wounded in a shooting Sunday afternoon in the Flatlands area of Brooklyn, the police said.
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The explosion at 6 a.m. Saturday triggered a fire that sent black smoke billowing into the air above the refinery. No one had to be evacuated, but nearby streets were closed for about seven hours and approximately 20 homeowners reported the explosion ...
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