Misfortune Timeline Year 2015 ---
Daily Misfortune Monday, August 31, 2015 ---
- August 31, 2015 Explosion, injuries reported at Marietta GA apartment fire
- August 31, 2015 2015 Bangkok bombing Thai police say they have discovered bomb-making material in a raid in an apartment in an outer side of Bangkok. (AP)
- August 31, 2015 Destruction of cultural heritage by ISIL The Islamic State of Iraq and Levant partially damages the Temple of Bel in Palmyra, Syria, by detonating an explosive within its walls. (CNN) (Al Jazeera English Online)
- Two reporters and a support worker for Vice News are charged with being members of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant by a judge in Turkey
- August 31, 2015 Minsk II implementation iot police clash with protesters armed with firecrackers and petrol bombs outside the parliament building, in Kiev, Ukraine, leaving one national guardsman dead and around 100 people injured
- August 31, 2015 Syria–North Korea relations A park in Damascus is named after the North Korean founding leader Kim Il-Sung. (Al Jazeera English Online)
- Kevin Dahlgren, who is suspected of killing four Czech family members, has been extradited from the United States to face trial. (Yahoo news) (Fox news)
- August 31, 2015 White supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr. (also known as Frazier Glenn Cross) is convicted of three counts of murder outside twoJewish centres in the American state of Kansas. (AP via Yahoo! News)
- August 31, 2015 At least three people are dead and three people injured in the Churachandpur district of India's Manipur State following riots after the passage of three bills in the Manipur Legislative Assembly yesterday. (NDTV)
- August 31, 2015 DA: Shooter who killed Texas cop unleashed 15 shots at close range
- August 31, 2015 Suspect in deputy's killing found mentally incompetent in 2012, prosecutor says
- August 31, 2015 Another Massive Explosion Rocks Industrial City in China
- August 31, 2015 Authorities Investigate Bomb Threats At 5 Mid-State Schools
- August 31, 2015 Notting Hill carnival: man fighting for his life after stabbing
- August 31, 2015 Woman critically injured in shooting outside skating rink concert in Chino; 2 suspects...
- 1 killed 1 injured 2 suspects Man killed, another hurt in Evanston shooting by two bicycle men
- 1 stabbed Baxter County Sherriff AZ investigates stabbing at Buzzard Roost Marina
- August 31, 2015 nov 23 update Deputy shoots mental case Armando Montalvo charges cops trying to get into Orlando FL WWE wrestling center
- August 31, 2015 Officer-involved shooting in Loveland CO; suspect with knife dead
- August 31, 2015 Fatal shooting of owner at check cashing business in Raleigh NC could be linked to earlier crime
- August 31, 2015 1 injured in Camarillo CA parking lot stabbing
- August 31, 2015 Niles man killed in Evanston bicycle shooting survived 2012 attack
- August 31, 2015 UK: Enfield police shooting victim who wielded gun and threats named
- 6 detained August 31, 2015 Southwest Airlines Unruly Passenger Group Held After Plane Diverts to Amarillo
- Aug 29, August 31, 2015 Arizona DPS investigating 4 shooting at cars incidents along Interstate 10 declared unrelated
- August 31, 2015 New trial slated for unjustly accused black man in 1995 deaths of 3 firefighters becauser ATF paid witness named Abdullah
- Yemen An air strike from a Saudi-led coalition kills 36 civilians working in a bottling plant
- ISIL has blown up the ancient Temple of Bel in Palmyra.
- A fire at an Aramco housing complex in the Saudi Arabian city of Khobar kills at least two people and injures 105.[possible terrorist attack? cause unknown]
- European migrant crisis Hungary makes a fifth arrest in relation to the death of seventy-one migrants in a truck in Austria. (CNN) [deliberate attack on migrants?]
- 65 girls and young women traveling to an annual dance festival are killed after an open truck smashes into the back of a van nearMbabane, Swaziland. (RT) (The Telegraph) the truck smashed into the back of a van and was then struck by another truck while on a road between the Swazi cities of Mbabane and Manzini. [accident or attack?]
- update aug 28 shooting Mom of Suspect in Texas Deputy's Goforth Killing Gives Alibi [lying cover story?] He Was With Her
- Aug 30 1 Arrested in Venice Beach Boardwalk Shooting That Left 1 Dead, Another Hurt
- 1 killed 2 arrested Police: Eugene youth shot killed by two in Commons Drive apartment early Sunday
- 1 dead, 4 injured in South Memphis apartments mass shooting as children sleeping in bed one of 4 shootings in city
- 1 killed suspect charged homicide August 30, 2015 White suspect whot hit and run charged with vehicular homicide, DUI after off-duty black officer killed on motorcycle
- 1 killed 1 arrested August 29, 2015 Jaquan Huston Allegedly Fatally Stabs Fellow Chef at Boston Suburb P.F. Chang's
- Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant Turkey launches its first air strikes against ISIL in Syria. (Daily Sabah)
- Iraq War (2014–present) At least 10 people are killed in roadside bombings in Iraq. (al-Arabiyah)
- Thirty-five people are killed when a bus traveling between Butterworth and Willovale in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, drives off a cliff and overturns.(News24) Only nine of the 44 people inside a bus that drove off a cliff on the R408, between Butterworth and Willovale, on Saturday have survived the horror accident.
- A Pacific Northwest windstorm, with winds of up to 87 miles per hour (140 km/h), leaves two dead and over 450,000 people in theSeattle metropolitan area without power. (Seattle P-I)
- A man, who fell from the upper deck of Atlanta's Turner Field during Saturday night's Braves-New York Yankees baseball game, has died. (CNN)
- 2013-15 detention of Al-Jazeera journalists by Egypt Al Jazeera journalists Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy, and Baher Mohamed are each sentenced to three years' jail in Egypt for "aiding a terrorist organization" and falsifying news. Greste, who earlier was deported to Australia, was tried in absentia. Mohamed, an Egyptian, was sentenced to an additional six months for possession of a spent bullet casing; Fahmy is a Canadian national.(ABC News) (Al Jazeera)
- 2015 Bangkok bombing Thai police report a man with a fake passport has been arrested in a Bangkok suburb in connection with the Erawan Shrinebombing. The man was allegedly in possession of bomb making material and dozens of passports. (AP) (Banjkok Post) (BBC)
- U.S. police in Harris County, Texas, arrest Shannon Miles for the alleged murder of Sheriff Deputy Darren Goforth on Friday. (ABC)
- August 29, 2015 Aug 31 2015 DPS investigating 4 shooting incidents along Interstate 10 declared unrelated ABC15 Arizona During a Monday press conference, Milstead said it appears the shooting incidents are random and there is *** nothing about the targets that appears to be related [which means they are almost certainly related] *** Department of Public Safety is investigating four incidents involving shots being fired at vehicles on a Valley freeway over the last several days. two incidents happened along Interstate 10 on Saturday morning, third shooting happened around 10:15 p.m. on I-10 at 16th Street. fourth shooting had been reported at 4:25 a.m. Monday on I-10, also near
Daily Misfortune Friday, August 28, 2015 ---
- Hacker Junaid Hussain Recruiter Garland Texas Attack Killed by Drone Was Islamic State's 'Secret Weapon'
- Police Investigate Drone Interference With LAPD Helicopter in Hollywood
- Virginia Shooting Victims Were Hit in Head, Autopsies Show
- Nine Killed as India and Pakistan Exchange Cross-Border Fire
- Iraq War (2014–present) A car bomb detonates in the parking lot of a Baghdad police station while police attempt to defuse it, killing 6 officers and injuring another 10.
- The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination recommends that Costa Rica remove Cocorí from schools because of its perceived racial connotation. (Tico Times)
- The body count from a van found on an Austrian highway carrying migrants yesterday rises to at least 71. Three people are arrested in Hungary in relation to their deaths. (AP via New York Times) (ITV)
- Seven people are killed and two injured after being exposed to toxic chemicals at a paper mill in central China. (AP)
- Thirty-eight girls and young women die in a crash and twenty others on board the truck are injured travelling to the traditional Umhlanga ceremony in Swaziland.
- Two French journalists are arrested for allegedly attempting to blackmail King Mohammed VI of Morocco. (AP via New York Times)
- President of Vietnam grants amnesty to 18,539 prisoners including murderers, rapists, human traffickers and other criminals but no political prisoners were released.
- aug 28 update Sept. 14, 2013 killing No Retrial for North Carolina Officer Who Killed Unarmed Erractic Man Who Crashed Car, Banged on Door and Rushed into Taser Fire
- August 28 arrest March 26, 2015 killing 23-year-old woman arrested in fatal stabbing of 71-year-old Ypsilanti Michigan man wallet found on street
- Long Island woman Kendra Sterling, 24, intentionally strikes rival with car, then gets into another crash during getaway: officials
Daily Misfortune Thursday, August 27, 2015 ---
- Gaza–Israel conflictIn retaliation to a rocket attack on Southern Israel, Israel Defence Forces destroy a Hamas weapons manufacturing facility located within the Gaza Strip. (Haaretz)
- The Government of India deploys the Army to Gujarat state after two days of caste-related violence results in seven deaths. (Reuters via Daily Mail)
- War in Donbass Seven Ukraine servicemen have died and 13 wounded in skirmishes with pro-Russian separatists in the past day. (Reuters)Business and economy
- WalMart will stop selling the AR-15 and other semi-automatic rifles because of sluggish customer demand. (Reuters)
- Austrian police discover at least 50 dead refugees in an abandoned cube truck. (Reuters)
- Explosion destroys food truck, rocks Miami neighborhood
- 2 killed Ex-Con Stabbing Suspect Who Stabbed Mayor's Sister, Grabbed Officer's Gun and Killed Sunset Louisiana Officer, all Black Was Cop's Cousin
- August 27, 2015 Iraq conflict: Bomb kills two generals near Ramadi
- August 27, 2015 Suspect, victims identified in shooting at Texas Southern University
- August 27, 2015 Man stabbed near downtown movie theater by pervert who stepped off bus
- August 27, 2015 Feds: Arizona Man Helped Student Get Islamic State Training
- August 27, 2015 Family Dispute is excuse for stepping on gas meter and pipes linked to Motel 6 Explosion in Bremerton, Washington
- August 27, 2015 1 shot injured Child, 5, injured sleeping in apartment in Rancho Cordova drive-by shooting at home
- August 27, 2015 2 killed 2 women killed in home by white domestic violence history man leaving court
- August 27, 2015 Video Captures Moment Ohio Black Transgender Lives Matter Activists Disrupt Hillary Clinton
- August 27, 2015 raid US Coast Guard intercepts more than 50 pounds ecstasy Taiwan man boat in San Juans Washington State
- August 27, 2015 Duluth's Sacred Heart Music Center damaged by runaway truck swerves to avoid traffic after brakes "accidentally" fail
- 2 NATO Soldiers Killed by Attackers in Afghan Uniforms
- Murders of Alison Parker and Adam WardAn American television reporter and her cameraman, Alison Parker and Adam Ward, are shot dead during a live broadcast in Moneta, Virginia,
- 2012 Aurora shooting James Eagan Holmes is formally sentenced to a life prison term for the murder of 12 people
- France: Muslim ‘refugees’ throw 7ft metal pole at tourist car, nearly killing passengers
- Wash Post: now averaging more than one mass shooting per day in 2015
- A U.S. drone strike in Syria kills Junaid Hussain, dubbed "Mr. Terror" - a British hacker for the Islamic State. (The Telegraph)Arts and culture
- The U.S. Army awards the $6.7 billion contract for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, the replacement for the Humvee, to the Wisconsin-based company Oshkosh Corporation. (AP via FOX News)
- European migrant crisis A Swedish rescue crew finds 51 dead migrants in the hold of a boat off the coast of Libya three women are found dead in another migrant boat and another corpse is found during ten rescue operations
- 2015 Tianjin explosions The People's Republic of China sacks its workplace safety chief Yang Dongliang for alleged corruption f
- 1 killed 1 arrested August 26, 2015 Woman with walker stabbed to death in "self defense" on Detroit bus after argument
- Atlanta: Gunmen open fire on truck drivers, then officers
- 1 injured suspect sought August 26, 2015 Teen shot walking home from Cleveland school by man in pickup, collapses in store
- Boko Haram A teenage girl suicide bomber kills five people and injures fourteen in the Damaturu area in northeast Nigeria. (AP via Fox News)
- Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant Fourteen people are arrested in Spain and Morocco for allegedly trying to recruit people to ISIL. (Times of Israel)
- North Korea and South Korea come to an agreement to end propaganda and quasi state of war with the south, easing tensions.
- Florida: Black gunman in car stopped in middle of exit ramp fires shots at off-duty sheriff's deputy
- Intolerant Christian Duke students reject summer reading assignment award-winning book over nudity and gay themes
- A gas explosion in the Afghanistan city of Herat kills eleven people and injures 18. (AP via Ahram Online)International relations
- A record number of migrants crossing the Balkans results in a record number of people in Hungary despite the government building a wall on the border withSerbia.
- A Federal Security Service court in Russia sentences Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov to 20 years in prison for plotting terrorist acts in Crimea, amid allegations of torture and US claims that he is being held hostage in Russia after having been abducted from Ukraine by Russian-backed separatists. (BBC)
- mass shooting: 4 people in same family and police officer are killed and 3 others are severely injured in a shooting at a Romani camp in Roye, Somme, France, by a suspect from the same community..
- 1 killed August 25, 2015 White House fence-jumper killed after Pa. court attack
Daily Misfortune Monday, August 24, 2015 ---
- August 24, 2015 DUI driver charged after crashing through cones to sideswipe FL patrol car with lights flashing in construction zone
- August 24, 2015 Police cruiser window smashed in attempted theft of laptop
- 1 arrested August 24, 2015 Fire Chief: Barricaded man with gasoline threatened to burn three-family home
- August 24, 2015 Protesters at Houston's Arabic Immersion Magnet School on first day of class
- August 24, 2015 Toronto police: 2 suspected suicides tied to Ashley Madison leak
- August 24, 2015 Two Turkish Army soldiers are killed and three are injured as their car hits an IED near the town of Şemdinli in Hakkari Province.(Reuters via LBC)
- August 24, 2015 PKK insurgents blow up a natural gas pipeline in Turkey's south-eastern Kars Province near the Armenian border (Daily Sabah)
- August 24, 2015 terrorist 2015 Thalys attack The President of France, François Hollande, presents the Légion d'honneur to four people—three Americans, Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos, Anthony Sadler; and Briton Chris Norman—for foiling a suspected terrorist act last Friday. (BBC)
- August 24, 2015 terrorist: A bomb explodes on a bus carrying Egyptian police killing one and injuring 29 in the Nile delta. (AFP via NDTV)
- Clashes at a government protest in Kailali kill 8 in Nepal, including seven police officers. (BBC)
- terrorist: Yemeni Civil War (2015) Rockets fired by Houthi militiamen reportedly kill 14 people as fighting intensifies in the city of Taiz. (Reuters)
- Turkey and the United States will flush out ISIL from a zone inside northern Syria near the border
- August 24, 2015 Sightseeing seaplane crash on Quebec's North Shore kills all six people aboard. (Toronto Sun)
- August 24, 2015 9 injured Casino Bus Crashes Into NYC Building to Avoid Car Shears off Corner
- August 23, 2015 Pentagon confirms blast at US military post building storing gases in Japan
- August 23, 2015 Stabbing in NE, DC brings homicide total to 102 W*USA 9 WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- A fatal stabbing took place at a neighborhood basketball game on Sunday afternoon, according to The Metropolitan Police Department.
- August 23, 2015 Bomb squad blasts suspicious canister found at Milwaukee WI East Tosa gas station
- 1 killed 1 arrested August 23, 2015 Oklahoma State Labor Commissioner killed in stabbing by his son at northwest Oklahoma after domestic fight is not assassination
- ISIS linked France train gunman says he is just a homeless man who found gun in park and stealing for food
- Al-Qaeda militants take over parts of the strategic southern Yemeni port city of Aden.
- A Saudi general is killed in cross-border fire from Yemen
- A British hostage in Yemen is freed following by United Arab Emirates military intelligence
- Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant is reported to have blown up the ancient Baalshamin temple in Palmyra, Syria. (BBC)
- The number of fatalities in the 2015 Shoreham Airshow crash is "highly likely" to have risen to 11. (BBC)International relations
- Malaysia finds the bodies of more than 20 people believed to be victims of human trafficking in mass graves buried near the border with Thailand.
- Two men from Iowa are arrested in Saugus, Massachusetts after heavy firearms are discovered in their hotel room. The two had made threats on social media targeting the 2015 Pokemon Video Game World Championships that are being held in Boston. (CNN)
- 1 killed apparent suicide after crash August 23, 2015 Man killed after jumping from Delaware I-495 after crash ID'd Monday, August 24, 2015 WILMINGTON, Del. (WPVI) -- Police say a man died after he jumped from I-495 moments after 41-year-old Timothy Kain, of Philadelphia apparently crashed his red SUV head-on into a the guardrail for unknown reasons. Police say Kain then got out of his vehicle and jumped onto the ramp for Edgemoor Road for unknown reasons.
- South Korea evacuates residents near the North Korean border as tension escalates. High level talks are held in Panmunjom to defuse tensions. (Yonhap) (Yonhap)
- War in Somalia (2009–present) An al-Shabaab suicide bomber attacks a Somali military training base in Kismayu with at least 16 people dead. Another five people are killed in a suicide bombing inMogadishu. (Reuters)
- War in Afghanistan (2015–present) An Afghan suicide bomber attacks a NATO convoy in Kabul killing at least twelve people and injuring 66. (CBS)
- Syrian Civil War Over 50 people are killed in the Syrian rebel-held town of Douma near the capital Damascus following missile strikes by pro-Assad forces. (Reuters)
- 7 killed 15 injured Shoreham Airport disaster A Hawker Hunter aircraft crashes during an airshow after failing to pull out of dive at Shoreham Airport, West Sussex, United Kingdom. Seven people are killed with 15 injured. (BBC News Online) (News24)
- An explosion occurs at a chemical warehouse in China's Shandong province, with nine injured according to Chinese media. (RT)
- Three people are dead and eight missing after a landslide in China's Yunnan Province. (Xinhua)
- A second journalist is killed in the Philippines in a week. (CNN)
- Fourteen members of the Barrio 18 street gang are killed in the Quetzaltepeque penitentiary in El Salvador; the killings are believed to be a result of a power struggle within the gang. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
- Aug 22 CNN Newsroom: Train gunman identified as Ayoub el-Qahzzani. May have tried to join ISIS. traveled from Europe to Turkey this year. Likely linked to French ISIS fighters Moroccan in origin
- hostage, shots fired 0 injured suspect arrested August 22, 2015 Metairie Louisiana bar hostage standoff ends when hero patron overpowers not terrorist gunman with AK-47 and two pistols, JPSO says
- 1 injured ruled accident August 22, 2015 Woman hit by car outside R and B nightclub concert in Southwest Philadelphia driver did stop and was cooperating with police, not arrested. R and B singer Chris Brown was featured
- August 21, 2015 Egyptians Adapt as Cairo Is Redefined by a String of Bomb Attacks
- August 21, 2015 update 3 killed in Rochester, NY Boys Girls club basketball game drive-by shooting ID'd
- August 21, 2015 ISIS' No. 2 Killed by Drone Strike in Iraq
- August 21, 2015 Off-duty members of the U.S. military subdued a high speed train apparent ISIS terrorist gunman headed to Paris
- August 21, 2015 Сhemical reactor at Delaware oil refinery on fire
- August 21, 2015 Police: Gunman Shoots Security Officer, Kills Self At Lower Manhattan Federal Building
Daily Misfortune Thursday, August 20, 2015 ---
- August 2015 Egypt bombings Large blasts occur in Cairo and Giza, Egypt, targeting the State Security agency with six police officers injured. (Al Jazeera English Online via Twitter) (Al Jazeera English Online), (Washington Post)
- August 20, 2015 North and South Korea exchange gunfire over the border. (Sky News)Disasters and accidents
- 2015 Pacific typhoon season August 20, 2015 At least 7 people are killed in a mid-air collision between two aircraft near Bratislava, Slovakia. (The Independent)International relations
- The President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro orders the border with Colombia at the town of San Antonio del Táchira closed for three days after three soldiers are attacked while looking for smugglers. (AP via ABC News America)Law and crime
- August 20, 2015 A newspaper publisher is shot dead by motorcycle gunman in Mindanao, Philippines. (ABC News)
- August 20, 2015 2015 Bangkok bombing Thai police say they suspect that at least ten people were involved in planning the attack on the Erawan Shrine
- August 20, 2015 Omaha NE Head-On Crash Into Parked Car Sends Woman To Hospital, Suspected DUI Driver To Jail WOWT 6
- Macedonia declares a state of emergency as immigrants from the Middle East, mainly from Syria and Iraq, block the railway line
- The Israeli Army has fired Spike missiles on Syrian Army positions in the Golan
- At least 7 people are killed in a mid-air collision between two aircraft near Bratislava, Slovakia. (The Independent)
- 5 killed August 20, 2015 South Africa flipped Audi Q7 walks away after ripping top off Honda in horror crash enca
- 1 killed 1 injured August 20, 2015 Argument leads to shooting at Webster Texas Twin Peaks restaurant .
- 1 killed suspect pleads guilty February 22, 2015 crash August 20, 2015 pleads Buffalo NY pleads guilty to manslaughter after unlicensed DWI by drugs wrong way fatal crash
- August 20, 2015 2 killed 1 arrested Tampa: Bail denied for Florida StateU student held in Carrollwood mother's, stepfather's murders after screaming voices
- UK: North East Ambulance paramedics attacked by drunks August 20, 2015
- 3 killed 3 hurt August 20, 2015 update August 30, 2014 Dad of 15-year-old who crashed SUV, killing 3 Bucks County teens, sentenced to prison
- August 20, 2015 During the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen, Houthi fighters supported by renegade Yemeni Army units fired an OTR-21 ballistic missile targeting a Saudi Naval base in Saudi Arabia.
- August 19, 2015 Motel 6 in Bremerton, Washington, Rocked by Gas Explosion After Gas Leak Reported ; 2 Remain Missing
- August 19, 2015 Taxi driver: Suspect in Bangkok shrine pipe bombing was calm, didn't seem Thai or [English]
- 68 cars damaged 2 stolen August 19, 2015 Florida: Mass Vandalism as dozens of vehicles burglarized at Pompano Beach condo complex
- CNN Poll finds Support for Hillary Clinton Below 50% August 19, 2015
- Aug 19, 2015 Bellefontaine mom says she suffocated and killed 3 sons because husband ignored their daughter police only had hunch
- 1 killed August 19, 2015 Protests erupt after St. Louis police shoot, kill 18-year-old pointing gun after home search turned up guns, drugs
- August 19, 2015 CAA Building near Los Angeles Evacuated After Bomb Scare,
- August 19, 2015 Bainbridge GA Chemical Plant Explosion Victim Identified
- August 19, 2015 3 firefighters killed, 4 injured battling wildfire near Twisp WA
- August 19, 2015 3 dead, 4 injured in Rochester, NY, drive-by mass shooting of school children at Boys and Girls Club basketball game crowd
- August 19, 2015 Maine mother of five dies in random stabbing at grocery store's frozen food aisle
- August 19, 2015 protest Crowds gather to protest St. Louis police shooting, but no outrage for murder of girl shot in home.
- August 19, 2015 Police searching for 2nd man in Pittsburgh East Hills shooting, praise communities help
- June 28, 2015 murder Aug 19 2015 arrest 1 killed 4 charged Jose Amaya Guardado Machete Murder Buried Alive by Job Corps Classmates
- August 19, 2015 Turkey: 8 soldiers killed by roadside bomb
- August 19, 2015 Standoff that resulted in school lockdown in St. Charles MO ends
- August 19, 2015 Mother of five dies after stabbing in Maine Saco Shaw's
- August 19, 2015 Mosby explains why officer charged with attempted murder shooting Balitmore unarmed burglary suspect
- August 19, 2015 Did Black Lives Matter Organizer Shaun King Mislead Oprah Winfrey By Pretending To Be Biracial?
Daily Misfortune Tuesday, August 18, 2015---
- August 18, 2015 Two women pass the United States Army's Ranger School becoming the first to do so, and earning Ranger tabs on their uniforms. (AP, via MSN)d accidents
- Trigana Air Service Flight 257 August 18, 2015 Indonesian crews locate bodies of all 54 people aboard the wreckage of Trigana Air Service Flight 257 in a remote area of Papua. (New York Times) (CNN via Twitter
- August 18, 2015 (Aug 17 attack) Sathorn bridge, Erawan temple attacks work of same [pipe] bombers
- Top Executives Detained in Investigation Into Explosion at Tianjin Warehouse ... Tianjin sets off an explosion online [social media fills missing information]
- August 18, 2015 shooting Man charged in shooting of Delaware boy, in head at home 10
- August 18, 2015 1 killed 2 injured 1 arrested 1 woman dead, arrest made after boy returns to home after argument and shoots 3 in SE DC
- August 18, 2015 update Jan 27, 2015 Family of woman killed as [targeted bystander] in San Francisco drive-by shooting asks for witnesses
- August 18, 2015 Kremlin TV Backing “Bolshevik Bernie” for President
- August 18, 2015 1 killed Syrian archaeologist beheaded in Palmyra after refusing to tell IS militants where to find treasures
- August 18, 2015 10 killed Suicide bomb attack on Kurdish security forces in the north-eastern Syrian border city of Qamishli reportedly killed at least 10 people. BBC
- 1 killed 1 injured suspect confessed August 18, 2015 Murder of Jamyla Bolden girl sitting on her mother's bed doing her homework killed when shots were fired into her Ferguson Missouri home
- 1 killed August 18, 2015 In Sopore, India "Extremists stage a drive-by on a rival mosque, leaving one guard dead" (ROP)
- August 18, 2015 1 killed suspect is toddler Alabama toddler confessed to mother may have accidentally shot and killed his father
- August 17, 2015 20 killed 125 injured 1 suspect arrested 2015 Bangkok Erawan Shrine Bombing
- A heat wave affecting the Middle East causes almost 100 deaths in Egypt. (Al Jazeera English Online)
- Trigana Air Service Flight 257 Indonesian authorities reveal that the crashed plane was transporting $US470,000 in cash for the poor.
- The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) breach exposing an additional 220,000 individuals.
- Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi approves a controversial anti-terrorism law.
- A former police officer is charged with second degree murder, in connection with the on-duty shooting death of John Geer in Fairfax, Virginia, U.S., in August 2013.
- 1 killed 1 arrested August 17, 2015 Morgan Freeman's step-granddaughter E'dena Hines stabbed to death by boyfriend in apparent drug-fueled exorcism
- August 17, 2015 (Awonori, Nigeria) - Islamists attack a fishing village and massacre seven residents. (ROP)
- August 17, 2015 (Rawa, Iraq) - Two men are crucified by the Islamic State. (ROP)
- Aug. 4, 2012. August 17, 2015 conviction Man convicted pouring gasoline lighting match in apartment arson murder of Hazelwood (St. Louis) Missouri man
- August 17, 2015 15 killed South Africa Speeding Overloaded Taxi Carrying 20 Jumps Off Bridge Onto Oncoming Train Tracks
- Biden [but not Obama] calls Chattanooga gunman a 'perverted jihadist' | Fox News
- YouTube bans channel with black-on-white violence
- 2015 Douma market air strikes, Syrian Civil War More than 110 people have been killed and hundreds injured following a series of air-raids by the Syrian Arab Air Force on the rebel-held market town of Douma according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (BBC) (IBT) (Reuters) (Xinhua) (Al Jazeera English Online)
- 2014–15 India–Pakistan border skirmishes, Kashmir conflict Eight people have been killed in the past week as India and Pakistan trade gunfire over the border in the disputed area of Kashmir. (AP via Fox News)
- Turkey–PKK conflict A Turkish Army soldier and three PKK militants are killed in a clash in Turkey's Kars Province. (Daily Star via Reuters)
- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ISIL militants reportedly execute 15 women in Mosul. (Al-Manar)
- 2015 Tianjin explosions The death toll from the explosions rises to 112 with 95 people missing including 85 fire fighters. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera English Online)
- An Indonesian plane (Trigana Air Service Flight 257) with 54 people on board goes missing in Papua. There are later reports that the remains of the aircraft have been found in the Oksibil district. (BBC), (AFP via Yahoo!)
- North Korea–South Korea relation South Korea establishes a surveillance center on its northernmost island of Baengnyeongdo to better deter North Korean threats. (Korea Times)(Yonhap)
- ROP 2015.08.16 (Sar Gora, Afghanistan) - Five policemen are drugged and then butchered by a Sunni fundamentalist with a knife.
- ROP 2015.08.16 (Shadi Khan, Pakistan) - Eighteen people are crushed to death when two suicide bombers bring down the roof of a meeting hall.
- August 16, 2015 Husband Shot, Wife and Baby Shot at Twice By Black Invaders in Ga. Home ... wfmynews2.com A mother was forced to flee her home, with her infant daughter in her arms, when men broke into her Atlanta home and started shooting. Her husband was shot twice in the leg. home invasion Sunday night has been released. Whitney Lash made the call while holding her infant daughter, as men broke into the house and shot at her and her husband, Michael. The family had just returned home from a vacation. Lash: "We're being robbed at gunpoint. I just ran outside with my baby, and there is a, there's a black young man at the front door. He just pulled a gun on my husband." there were three shell casings from a .40 caliber pistol as well as two slugs inside the residence. The men left behind evidence that is being processed for fingerprints.
- August 16, 2015 1 of 2 suspects In Omaha St. Cecilia's Cathedral Robbery, Assault Arrested OMAHA Police have arrested one of the two suspects believed to have robbed and assaulted a woman inside an Omaha church last Sunday. A felony warrant for robbery was issued earlier Wednesday morning for 22-year-old Wayman Clark. Video of the attack on a 76-year-old woman sparked outrage across the country as surveillance video of the attack went viral. That video shows the elderly woman make her way through St. Cecilia's Cathedral to pick up a pamphlet when she was blindsided by two men. One assailant grabbed her purse and the other punched her, knocking her to the ground, gashing her head on the table. The attack landed the victim in the hospital. Gang unit recognized Wayman Clark in the surveillance video, lengthy list of minor arrests. stepped up to a more serious crime. also arrested Clark's mother, Charlean Clark, for harboring a fugitive. The two were arrested in their car at an apartment complex. UPDATE: Suspect in St. Cecilia Cathedral attack under arrest, police sayPolice are still looking for the other suspect seen in surveillance video of the robbery and attack on 76-year-old Lucille Morinelli. The Des Moines woman was visiting the church Sunday. Thieves punch 76-year-old woman inside Omaha church
- August 16, 2015 Inmate is killed by guards in third California prison riot in a week Los Angeles Times An inmate at a Northern California prison was shot and killed by corrections officers Sunday during a riot involving about 45 inmates, state officials ..
- Atlanta: Three Teens Turn Themselves in For Violent Sumter Street Home Invasion Shooting Robbery Police said three teenagers wanted by police turned themselves into officers early this evening, in an Atlanta home invasion where a father was shot twice, and his wife had to run from bullets while holding their infant daughter. Arrest warrants were taken out for 15-year-old Trequan Sutton, 15-year-old Quindarius Slade, and 14-year-old Veshawn Smith. All teens will be charged as adults. teens stole the gun they used
Daily Misfortune Saturday, August 15, 2015 ---
- August 15, 2015 Iraq War (2014–present) ISIL bombings kill 21 and wound more than 100 persons in Shia neighborhoods of Baghdad. (The News Hub)
- August 15, 2015 Yemeni Civil War (2015) Saudi-backed forces loyal to the former Government retake the Shabwah Governorate from the Iran-backed rebels. (AFP via Maktoob Yahoo!)
- August 15, 2015 Boko Haram insurgency A suicide bomber kills at least three people in an attack on a marketplace in Borno state. (Reuters via New York Times)
- August 15, 2015 2015 Burundian unrest Jean Bikomagu, a leader of the military during the Civil War is assassinated, heightening fears of another civil war developing. (AFP via Daily Star)Arts and culture
- August 15, 2015 2015 Tianjin explosions The death toll from the explosions in Tianjin rises to at least 85. In a further update, Chinese state media reports are now saying that the death toll has now risen to at least 104. (AP, via MSN), (AFP, AP, via The Daily Telegraph)
- August 15, 2015 At least 40 migrants die of suffocation in the hold of a boat in the Mediterranean Sea near the Libyan coast. (Reuters)
- August 15, 2015 July 28, 2015 spree starts Kern County CA Sheriff’s Deputies Fatally Shoot Released Prisoner After 18 day Terrorist Spree Accused of Killing Dentist, Injuring 2 Deputies
- ROP 2015.08.15 (Habibiya, Iraq) - Fifteen people at a used car market in a Shiite area are sectionalized by a Mujahideen car bomb.
Daily Misfortune Friday, August 14, 2015 ---
- August 14, 2015 Thirteen pilgrims are killed and 11 injured in a road accident near the Indian city of Jamshedpur in Jharkand state. (IBN Live)
- August 14, 2015 Masked gunmen kill 19 people and wound seven others at multiple locations of São Paulo's suburbs Thursday night. (BBC) (ABC) Brazil: Overnight shooting spree kills 18 in Sao Paulo BBC News Gunmen have killed at least 18 people on the outskirts of Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo, in a series of overnight attacks.
- August 14, 2015 Bomb threats at 7 schools across Tennessee The Tennessean Schools in seven Tennessee counties were evacuated Friday morning due to bomb threats. No explosives were found at any of the schools, said Lt.
- August 14, 2015 Gang leader after luring ambush suicide shooting attack on firefighter at Staten Island NY home: 'Today I die' New York Post A gangbanger was killed by police after he set off a smoke bomb, shot an FDNY lieutenant - and wrote, “Today I die,” in an online post - during a desperate bid to evade capture at his Staten Island home on Friday.
- 76 dead 212 injured 2015 Baghdad market truck bomb claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
- 44 dead 2015 Tianjin explosion The death toll from the 2015 Tianjin explosion rises to 44. (AP via Star Tribune)
- Newly released emails from Lois Lerner show the former IRS official at the heart of the Tea Party targeting scandal calling Republican critics “evil and dishonest,” and even “hateful.” Fox News
- 1 dead 4 Late-Night Shootings in Boston Area Leave 5 People including Bystander Dead
- 9 cars crash or carjack attempt, suspect arrested Suspected DUI driving while terrorist arrested after plows into 7 cars, runs car to car to carjack 2 others in Bellevue WA
Daily Misfortune Wednesday, August 12, 2015 ---
Daily Misfortune Tuesday, August 11, 2015 ---
Daily Misfortune Monday, August 10, 2015 ---
- August 12, 2015 Lawyer Defends Action of Officer Fired After Fatal Shooting slams spineless police chief ARLINGTON, Texas — Aug 12, 2015 By EMILY SCHMALL Associated Press An attorney for a Texas police officer in training who fatally shot an unarmed, black college football player during a suspected burglary at a car dealership defended his client's actions Wednesday and rebuked those of the police chief who fired him. Arlington Police Chief Will Johnson had said a day earlier that Officer Brad Miller had been fired for making mistakes that led to the deadly confrontation, including pursuing 19-year-old Christian Taylor without telling his supervisor. Miller, 49, could also face criminal charges.... Snider says Johnson used "20/20 hindsight to protect his job and appease anti-police activists." He also said Johnson's "biggest fears are getting a paper cut or losing his six-figure salary." [police chief should be fired]
- August 12, 2015 Hillary Clinton emails contained signal intelligence from spy satellites By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times - Wednesday The revelation that Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private emails contained sensitive information derived from spy satellites and signal intelligence undercuts her defense that she had no reason to believe she was dealing with classified information, security experts say.
- August 12, 2015 3 dead 4 Late-Night Shootings in Boston Area Leave 5 People including Bystander Dead AP wed night One killed in car neat MIT campus, 3 shot, killed Roxbury, 3 three shot 1 killed in Mattapan neighborhood. One died. See Aug 13: at 1am next day, same night one shot and killed outside near an Everett restaurant. At about 1 a.m. Thursday, authorities say 21-year-old Ashlee Berryman, of Malden, was shot and killed outside near an Everett restaurant.
Daily Misfortune Tuesday, August 11, 2015 ---
- UK Finsbury Park stabbing: Man arrested close to Heathrow Airport after shocking 'knife' attack on Tube
- Boko Haram insurgency A bomb attack consistent with Boko Haram kills 50 people in Nigeria's Borno State. (BBC)Business and economy
- Japan's Sendai Nuclear Power Plant in Satsumasendai in Kagoshima Prefecture on Kyushu restarted reactor no. 1 Tuesday. This is the first of 50-plus shut-down nuclear reactors to go back online since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. (UPI) (CNN)
- A scorching heatwave in Egypt has killed at least 42 people. (AP)
- Debris from a BUK surface-to-air missile is found at an unspecified location in eastern Ukraine.
- Flooding in Argentina kills at least three people and 11,000 are made homeless. (AFP via ABC News)
- 1 killed, 12 homes shot at, 1 cars stolen August 11, 2015 White gunman Nathen Ryan Terault terror rampage kills, shoots, and carjacks Puyallup WA
- August 11, 2015 ROP Afghanistan Mahipar 1 1 A truck driver is shot to death by religious radicals.
- August 11, 2015 ROP Iraq Hawija 3 0 Three 'youth' are executed by the Islamic State.
- August 11, 2015 ROP Syria Marea 25 0 IS fighters including 4 suicide bombers attack rebel-held Syrian town killing 25 alaraby.co.uk At least 25 Syrian rebels were killed overnight in an attack by Islamic State militants. At least eight IS fighters were killed, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, "including four suicide bombers who blew themselves up with explosive belts". Aleppo-based activist news network, said in a Facebook post that "an IS cell infiltrated the town of Marea and its fighters bombed and fired upon civilians"
- August 11, 2015 ROP Cameroon Achigachia 1 0 Religious radicals murder a border guard.
- August 11, 2015 ROP Nigeria Sabon Gari 47 52 A female suicide bomber detonates at a packed market, slaughtering fifty innocents.
- August 11, 2015 ROP Iraq Mosul 2 0 Two tribal elders are kidnapped and executed by ISIS.
- August 11, 2015 ROP Thailand Sai Buri 1 0 A 43-year-old man is gunned down by Muslim 'separatists'.
- August 11, 2015 Ex-student with burglary history charged with leaving bag of gas-soaked towels but not attempted arson in Coffman Union at U Minnesota Minneapolis
- August 10, 2015 STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARED AFTER FERGESON VIOLENCE IN ST. LOUIS COUNTY
- 9 killed August 10, 2015 Two attacks on police vehicles and stations and two women with guns attacked the US consulate in Istanbul with guns.
- August 10, 2015 War in Afghanistan (2015–present) A suicide bomb blast kills at least 5 people at the entrance to the Kabul International Airport. The Taliban have claimed responsibility. (BBC)
- August 10, 2015 2 killed 1 injured Stabbing spree at an Ikea store in Västerås, Sweden.
- August 10, 2015 The death toll from floods in Myanmar tops 100 with more than a million people affected. (AAP via Sky News Australia)
- The Secret Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinian Arabs in Iraq
- August 10, 2015 Bomb explodes at Cairo traffic sentry post, wounds three policemen
- August 10, 2015 China's Been Hacking The Emails Of U.S. Officials Since 2010: Report HuffPost
- Aug 3 explosion, August 10, 2015 North Koreans Blamed for Mine Blow Legs Off Two S Korean Soldiers on Patrol
- August 10, 2015 30 killed 40 injured ISIL claims responsibility for suicide car bomb at busy outdoor market a bombing in central Iraqi city of Baquba
- 2015.08.10 Libya Derna 9 25 An ISIS car bomb claims the lives of nine innocents.
- 2015.08.10 Thailand Si Banphot 1 2 Muslim gunmen fire on a family, killing one member and injuring two others.
- 2015.08.10 Afghanistan Nangarhar 10 0 Ten prisoners are forced by their fundamentalist captors to kneel in a row and then blown up with an IED.
- 2015.08.10 Afghanistan Kabul 5 16 Five people outside an airport are taken apart by a Fedayeen suicide bomber.
- 2015.08.10 Syria Aleppo 6 14 Three children are among six civilians bleeding to death following a Sunni rocket attack on a Shia area.
- 2015.08.10 Iraq Huwaidar 51 80 Fifty people at a market are blown to bits by suicide bomb blast targeting Shia 'rejectionists'.
- 2015.08.10 Syria Kuweris 18 0 Three suicide bomber take out eighteen Syrians.
- 2015.08.10 Iraq Aski Mosul 18 5 Nine women and a child are among eighteen civilians aerated by caliphate rocket shrapnel.
- 2015.08.10 Iraq Hassan Shami 13 3 Terrorists lay out thirteen Kurds with two missiles fired into their town.
- 2015.08.10 Mali Diabozo 3 4 Three people are killed when their vehicle hits a Jihadi roadside bomb.
- August 9, 2015 Japan commemorates the 70th anniversary of the atomic bomb dropped over the Japanese city of Nagasaki during World War II. (BBC)
- August 9, 2015 2015 Pacific typhoon season At least 22 people are dead or missing in China and millions are without power after Typhoon Soudelor hit the nation yesterday. (USA Today)
- August 9, 2015 An arrest warrant has been issued for the cousin of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Suleiman Hilal Al-Assad, who is accused of shooting and killing Colonel Hassan Al-Sheikh of the Syrian Armed Forces at what can be described as a traffic dispute. (The News Hub) (France 24)
- 1 innocent black youth injured after accused of shooting at police August 9, 2015 Ferguson unrest Tyrone Harris, Jr is shot in Ferguson, Missouri one year after the death of Michael Brown after allegedly firing shots at police.
- 40 killed in 2 days August 9, 2015 Egyptian heat wave kills at least 40 people in 2 days
- August 9, 2015 Flowers, protest mark anniversary of Ferguson shooting
- 1 killed 1 wounded August 9, 2015 Missouri SUV driver killed, passenger wounded in targeted I-170 shooting at car after leaving house party
- 3 injured August 9, 2015 Police investigate multiple stabbing in Ottawa Canada
- 2015.08.09 Nigeria Nwajurko 4 3 Four people are killed when Boko Haram ambush a civilian vehicle.
- 2015.08.09 Afghanistan Adam Khan 6 0 A Taliban in uniform shoots six local cops in the back.
- 2015.08.09 Syria Umm Housh 37 20 At least thirty-seven others are eliminated by a suicide bomber.
- 2015.08.09 Iraq Mosul 300 0 Fifty women are among three hundred civil servants executed en masse by the Islamic State for 'promoting ideas that distort Islam'.
- 2015.08.09 Afghanistan Tir Giran 1 0 Fundamentalists take a woman from her home and throw her into a river.
- 2015.08.09 Iraq Ghazlani 50 0 University professors are among fifty people rounded up and executed by the Islamic State.
- 2015.08.09 Philippines Sulu 2 0 Two guards at a market are gunned down by Abu Sayyaf.
- 2015.08.09 Iraq Mosul 6 0 A clan leader and is family are put to death by the caliphate.
- 2015.08.09 Egypt al-Arish 2 3 Two local cops are laid out by a fundamantalist bomb blast.
- Afghanistan: One NATO service member is killed, along with eight support staff and two Taliban insurgents, in an overnight attack on Camp Integrity in Kabul.
- August 8, 2015 A hostage rescue operation in central Mali was successfully performed by British SAS forces after gunmen attack a hotel with at least seven people dead. (Daily Star)
- August 8, 2015 Central African Republic A Rwandan soldier attached to MINUSCA goes on a shooting spree in Bangui, killing four fellow UN peacekeepers and injuring another eight before turning the gun on himself.
- August 8, 2015 2015 Pacific typhoon season Typhoon Soudelor makes landfall in Taiwan killing at least four people with four people missing and 64 injured. (CNA via Focus Taiwan), (AP via New York Times)
- August 8, 2015 Typhoon Soudelor makes landfall in mainland China in Fujian province with 250,000 having been evacuated
- 8 killed suspect arrested August 8, 2015 David R. Conley Executes Ex-Girlfriend and Partner, 6 Children in Texas
- 3 wounded August 8, 2015 Shooting, robbery attempt leaves 3 wounded in Seattle Ballard
- 1 killed August 8, 2015 Texas one dead following officer-involved shooting in his own front yeard in Brookshire
- August 8, 2015 Armed suspect critically injured in officer-involved shooting after Minneapolis Edina MN welfare check
- August 8, 2015 update Stabbing by Father Survivor Anthony Sukto Shares How His Life Has Changed Headed To University
- August 8, 2015 India Tangdar 1 2 A group of militants cross over from Pakistan and murder a border guard.
- August 8, 2015 Afghanistan Jalalabad 2 3 Two locals are taken out by a Taliban bomb.
- August 8, 2015 Afghanistan Sarda 1 0 A woman is hanged for adultery by a Sharia court after being raped in front of her family.
- August 8, 2015 29 killed 19 injured A suicide bomber plows into a crowd of people, massacring over two dozen. Afghanistan: Taliban attack in Kunduz kills 29 - BBC News Taliban suicide attack kills 29 members of pro-government militia in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz. Radio Liberty a Taliban suicide bomber drove a vehicle loaded with explosives into a group of pro-government militia and detonated it.
- August 8, 2015 Egypt Cairo 1 3 Militant Islamists open fire on a police vehicle, killing an officer.
- August 8, 2015 Omaha Area Teen Girl Riding In Car Wounded In Pull Alongside Drive-By Shooting
- December 6, 2014 murder, August 8, 2015 murder Quinton Tellis Murder of Jessica Chambers and Meing-Chen Hsiao Suspect 2 killed 1 arrested
- 10 killed 400 wounded August 7, 2015 Afghanistan Violence: Deadly Truck Bomb Leaves Crater in Heart of Kabul
- September 3, 2012 Aug 7, 2015 TV show 31 shots that were fired on Labor Day of 2012,Florida Man Billy Woodward Walked Across Street Killed Two Unarmed Neighbors with Multiple Chest Head Shots, But Ran Out of Bullets for Third One
- Was Carly Fiorina real debate winner? Christian Science Monitor
- Trump on the Ropes (or triumphant survivor?) at the First Debate
- Scott Walker and Jeb Bush Have a Rough Night [Only Carly Flew High] The Atlantic Only one debater left Cleveland in a stronger position than when she arrived
- Convicted California school bus kidnapper James Schoenfeld released on parole
- Man pleads not guilty to shooting family who stopped on Montana Crow Reservation to help
- Prosecutor [condemnation] comments in U Cincinnati Ohio fatal traffic stop draw critics from cops
- Suspected Islamist militants stormed two hotels in central Mali where UN peacekeepers were housed, seizing at least ten hostages and killing three Malian soldiers and a U.N. peacekeeper. (Times of Oman) (Reuters)
- A bombing outside the Kabul police academy kills at least 20 people with the Taliban claiming responsibility. (AFP via ABC News)
- Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims that ISIL has kidnapped at least 230 people, including at least 60 Christians, from Al-Qaryatayn in the Homs Governorate.
- Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants execute 19 women in Mosul, Iraq, for refusing to have sex with the group’s fighters. (Tribune) (Daily Caller)
- Attacks on secularists in Bangladesh A Bangladeshi blogger known for his atheist views has been hacked to death by a gang armed with machetes, the fourth such incident this year, in the capital Dhaka, Bangla. (BBC) (The Telegraph) (The Hindu)
- Aurora theater shooter James Holmes verdict to sentence him to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Daily Misfortune Thursday, August 6, 2015 ---
Daily Misfortune Tuesday, August 4, 2015 ---
Daily Misfortune Monday, August 3, 2015 ---
Daily Misfortune Sunday, August 2, 2015 ---
4 attacks against churches in United States by 3 suspects
- 12 tire blowouts August 6, 2015 Bellevue WA neighborhood plagued with nails vandalism in street since May
- August 6, 2015 Biden-Shaped Wrench in Clinton Machine
- August 6, 2015 In Afghanistan a suicide bomber kills at least eight people and injures twelve in the city of Pul-i-Alam in Logar Province. (AP via ABC News America)
- August 6, 2015 2015_Abha_mosque_bombing, Terrorism in Saudi Arabia, Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the south-western Saudi city of Abha. IS claims responsibility. (Reuters), (AFP via Yahoo! News)
- August 6, 2015 Syrian Civil War Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant conquers the key transport hub Al-Qaryatain, allowing its forces in the Qalamun region to be supplied through this city. (The News Hub)
- August 6, 2015 Russian hackers are suspected of infiltrating the U.S. Pentagon e-mail system last week. (The Daily Telegraph)Arts and culture
- August 6, 2015 Many people throughout the world commemorate the 70th anniversary of the dropping of an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. (Reuters via Melbourne Age)
- August 6, 2015 At least 17 people, including 12 Afghan army soldiers were killed following a helicopter crash in the southern province of Zabul. (Al-Jazeera)
- August 6, 2015 A Pakistani military helicopter crashes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province resulting in at least 11 deaths. (AP)
- Aug 5, 2015 New evidence of Japan's effort to build atom bomb at the end of WWII
- Aug 5 Florida home of dentist who killed Cecil the lion vandalized
- aug 5 Bomb scare and shooting at Oslo University as youth return to Utoya
- MD officer seriously hurt roof sheared off in rear end crash attack
- update Courthouse Shooting Suspect Remains Jailed; Bail at $300000
- 1 killed 1 injured Nashville TN movie theater gunman killed by police
- CNN: Debris found on a beach in the Indian Ocean is part of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak says.
- Authorities in Britain are charging two people — including radical preacher Anjem Choudary for ISIS support fox News inviting support for the Islamic State group through lectures that were published online.
- 2nd day of shots from white man in red pickup at Camp Shelby Mississippi
- 1+4 killed El Salvador: 4 slain in new terrorist bus attack near capital, officer killed; killings had halted service last week
- Undercover detective sentenced to 2 years for his role in 2013 biker-Lien SUV fight
- Malaysian Airlines Flight 370:Malaysian Prime confirms that the plane debris recovered from Reunion Island on July 29 is from Flight 370.
- 25 killed The Italian Corps of the Port Captaincies – Coast Guard and Irish Navy rescue 367 people as a boat carrying migrants founders off the coast of Libya with 25 people dying.
- 8 killed 97 sick The death toll from an outbreak of legionnaires disease in New York City rises to eight with 97 people sick. (NBC New York)
- 5 killed The Government of Cambodia claims that the Royal Thai Army has killed five Cambodians since January. (Bangkok Post)
- Police claim a triple murder in Pensacola, Florida is linked to witchcraft and the blue moon. (The Washington Post)
- August 5, 2015 Black off-duty Tacoma officer shoots, kills white phone robbery suspect - Kiro TV two men saw the suspect steal the woman's phone at a bus stop late Wednesday afternoon. They chased him to a truck and struggled with him..suspect pulled a gun, pointed it at the men and got in his truck. .. officer then fired a single shot...drove off before crashing into a street sign.. died in hospital, where he was pronounced dead... officer, who is black, is a 59-year-old veteran...
- August 5, 2015 Shooting in Nashua sends 1 to hospital, police sayWMUR Manchester The shooting occurred on Central Street near Vine Street around 6:20 p.m. Wednesday, police said. The shot was fired from a passing vehicle, authorities said.
- August 5, 2015 Police: Mobile home invasion stabbing suspect incoherent after being pulled over WANE FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Police arrested a man who has been accused of stabbing a man in a mobile home and then driving away. victim was in his home when the suspect, Victor Rivera III, (white) barged inside and swung at the victim with a knife. The victim jumped out of the way and ran out the back door of the mobile home
Daily Misfortune Tuesday, August 4, 2015 ---
- August 4, 2015 update Prosecutor: SC White Officer Panicked Before Shooting Black Man
- August 4, 2015 steal 2 cars, rollover crash, no license 2 chase, 1 burglary Armed 14-year-old on W. Wis. crime spree caught in Twin Cities
- August 4, 2015 3:30 AM 2 killed One Dead, Three Critically Injured in Shooting at Toronto Canada OVO Drake concert Fest Afterparty
- August 4, 2015 shots fired, 2 suspects sought Two men open fire on soldiers at Camp Shelby in Mississippi
- August 4, 2015 Extremist Ali Muhammad Brown Serial Murders Gays College Student Finally Faces Federal Terrorism Charges
- August 4, 2015 American's Fifth Columns Undermine China and Russia with NGO Color Revolutions and Rights Veterans Today American writes for Sputnik (Russia)
- shots fired near government buildings, 1 arrested August 4, 2015 Man Arrested After Report of Shooting on National Mall
- 3000 United Arab Emirates Army troops deploy with tanks and heavy equipment to the strategic southern Yemeni city of Aden
- A street-corner sized sinkhole forms in Brooklyn, New York City
- 31+ people are killed and about 100 injured as two express passenger trains derail after rains in India.
- Several people are dead after two boats collide between Kiwa and Remba Islands on Lake Victoria. (The Nation)
- August 4, 2015 update Prosecutor: SC White Officer Panicked Before Shooting Black Man
- August 4, 2015 steal 2 cars, rollover crash, no license 2 chase, 1 burglary Armed 14-year-old on W. Wis. crime spree caught in Twin Cities
- August 4, 2015 3:30 AM 2 killed One Dead, Three Critically Injured in Shooting at Toronto Canada OVO Drake concert Fest Afterparty
- August 4, 2015 shots fired, 2 suspects sought Two men open fire on soldiers at Camp Shelby in Mississippi
- August 4, 2015 Extremist Ali Muhammad Brown Serial Murders Gays College Student Finally Faces Federal Terrorism Charges
- August 4, 2015 American's Fifth Columns Undermine China and Russia with NGO Color Revolutions and Rights Veterans Today American writes for Sputnik (Russia)
- shots fired near government buildings, 1 arrested August 4, 2015 Man Arrested After Report of Shooting on National Mall
- 3000 United Arab Emirates Army troops deploy with tanks and heavy equipment to the strategic southern Yemeni city of Aden
- A street-corner sized sinkhole forms in Brooklyn, New York City
- 31+ people are killed and about 100 injured as two express passenger trains derail after rains in India.
- Several people are dead after two boats collide between Kiwa and Remba Islands on Lake Victoria. (The Nation)
- August 4, 2015 Boy, 14, lectured by dad at sentencing for shooting three teens Chicago
- August 4, 2015 Why the police killing of this unarmed white man Zacharacy Hammond in drug sting hasn't led to national outcry
- August 4, 2015 Man who said he would use gun Dead After Shooting Involving O.C. Sheriff's Deputy, Border Patrol Agents
- August 4, 2015 Son arrested after argument leads to fatal stabbing of father in Langhorne PA
- August 4, 2015 Two Special Ops Airmen Killed During Free-Fall Training in Florida
- August 4, 2015 shooting aug 5 updatePolice find car connected to McKees Rocks shooting that left 22-year-old black man dead
- August 4, 2015 2 killed Husband shoots wife and self in Germantown MD gas station murder suicide
- August 4, 2015 N.C. cop defense blames victim erratic behavior yelling shoot me, bad choices for shooting
- August 4, 2015 Paranoid man accused of firing gun and threatening to blow up Tacoma marina charged The Seattle Times. man accused of firing a shotgun into the air and threatening to blow up a marinaresort in the Lakebay area on the Key Peninsula, has been ... Prosecutors charge man accused of threatening to blow up Lakebay marina TheNewsTribune.com Man accused of threatening to blow up Tacoma marina ... KCPQ man accused of firing a shotgun into the air and threatening to blow up a Tacoma marina resort has been charged. The News Tribune of Tacoma reports that Russell Beery was charged Wednesday with threatening to bomb property and felony harassment. ... held without bail as he undergoes psychiatric evaluations... threatened to bomb the Lakebay Marina Resort Tuesday after he had been drinking. They say he was on a 30-foot boat secured to a dock and told bystanders he’s strapped explosives to marina fuel tanks.... Beery believed people were out to get him
Daily Misfortune Monday, August 3, 2015 ---
- August 3, 2015 15 wounded, including 2 children, in shootings citywide Chicago
- August 3, 2015 4-year-old dead in a bomb blast in Kolkata India
- August 3, 2015 At least 31 people dead and dozens injured after a Syrian fighter jet crashes into a marketplace
- August 3, 2015 Flooding caused by heavy monsoon rains has caused over 100 deaths in India
- August 3, 2015 Twenty people are injured when two truck mounted cranes on a barge overturn on several houses in the Netherlands.
- 12 killed August 3, 2015 many feared trapped in the rubble as a fifty year old building collapses in the Indian city of Thane after days of heavy rain. (NDTV)(AP)
- Aug 3 update 1 killed 1 turned self in Officer Sean Bolton shooting suspect Tremaine Wilbourn turns self in to investigators, crowds chant Free T
- 459 killed August 3, 2015 Hundreds of civilians killed in US-led air strikes on Isis targets – report
- August 3, 2015 “Iran Making its Move smuggles explosives, terrorists on Bahrain,”
- August 3, 2015 Germany accepts ISIS supporters, refusing Christians from Egypt Copt
- August 3, 2015 United Express pilot reports drone fly-by on Minneapolis MN airport approach
- August 3, 2015 Authorities: Revenge for mother's shooting may be motive in courthouse homicide
- August 3, 2015 Lightning sparks explosion leaves crater at Dixie Highway Gas Depot in Fairfield Ohio
- August 3, 2015 Bomb squad removes training bomb device bought at blind auction from Buffalo home
- August 3, 2015 Burundi rights activist Mbonimpa injured in gun attack
- August 3, 2015 Governor: Father, daughter killed in circus tent collapse at Lancaster NH fairgrounds
- August 3, 2015 Lafayette LA police seek Jeep man who attempted to kidnap young girl
- August 3, 2015 Philadelphia: killer at large after fatal shooting, standoff in Brewerytown
- August 3, 20153 2 Injured In Shooting Outside J. Cole Concert In New Jersey 2 shot 1 arrest, plus 100+ other arrests August 3, 2015 100 arrests, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center argument after hip hop concert shooting NJ.com shooting late Monday, Aug. 3, 2015, in Holmdel, N.J. Police say the shooting happened outside the PNC Bank Arts Center, where hip hop artists J. Cole and Big Sean performed at the venue. started over an argument in the parking lot. New Jersey State Police have arrested and charged a 27-year-old Holmdel man with shooting two men in the parking lot of the PNC Bank Arts Center after a concert, Powell pleaded guilty in November 2011 to a drug distribution charge and was sentenced in January 2012 to probation. Two other drug charges – possession of Ecstasy and drug distribution were dismissed as part of the plea agreement, according to the records. At approximately 11 p.m. on Monday, two males from Neptune — a 23 year old and a 24 year old — were shot in Lot 4 of the concert venue's parking area. concert featuring [black rap] artists J Cole, Big Sean, YG and Jeremih, was held at the PNC Bank Arts Center earlier that night. more than 100 arrests at the concert in addition to the shooting incident. arrests included 67 for underage alcohol consumption, 23 for possession of CDS, six for juvenile possession and consumption of alcohol, six for defiant trespass, four for possession of fake IDs, two for disorderly conduct, two for resisting arrest and one arrest for lewdness
- August 3, 2015 Boy, 11, charged in fatal shooting of 3-year-old in Detroit
- August 3, 2015 5 wounded, unborn killed Police seek suspects in Brooklyln Red Hook shooting that wounded 5, killed unborn baby
4 attacks against churches in United States by 3 suspects
- 2 possible connected explosions August 2, 2015 Sunday morning explosions at 2 nearby Las Cruces N.M. non-black Catholic and Baptist churches mailbox and trash can stun congregants USA Today
- Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen A Saudi Arabian citizen is killed in the city of Najran by a projectile fired from Yemen. (Al-Arabiya)
- Turkey–PKK conflict A suicide attack by the PKK kills two Turkish Army soldiers and injures 24 in the Turkish town of Doğubeyazıtin Ağrı Province near the Iran border.
- Boko Haram Nigerian Army soldiers rescue 178 people from Boko Haram camps including 101 children. (AP)
- A court in Egypt postpones a verdict in the prominent trial of two journalists with Al-Jazeera,who have been charged with aiding the Muslim Brotherhood.
- August 2, 2015 Ohio church worships outside after terrorist / vandal wreaks havoc with fire extinguisher on church
- 1 stabbed Aug 2 Stabbing attack on group of 4 on Boulder Colorado University Hill by man may have been on drugs
- 1 threat 1 arrested August 2, 2015 Melbourne FL man jailed after trying to rob church with fake gun during sermon
- August 2, 2015 California: Pregnant Teen Shot In Face In Pull Alongside Drive-by Road Rage Attack Sky News
- 1 killed August 1, 2015 Wrong-way car veers into traffic for unknown reasons shuts down Long Beach bridge; 1 killed A wrong-way car crash that left one person dead shut down the Gerald Desmond Bridge in Long Beach Saturday morning. KABC – Los Angeles Fatal Crash Involving Wrong-Way Driver Causes Closure of Gerald Desmond Bridge in Long Beach: Fire Department KTLA wrong-way driver entering the freeway around 7:12 a.m heading westbound when he veered into oncoming traffic for unknown reasons. at least two vehicles were engulfed in flames. Both sides of the bridge were expected to be closed for “an extended period. No reason to suspect terrorism.
- August 1, 2015 Operation Martyr Yalçın Turkey has killed around 260 members of the Kurdistan Workers Party in recent bombing campaigns in Turkey and northern Iraq. Officially the operation was started to attack ISIL but over 90% of attacks were against the PKK. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
- August 1, 2015 Two 17-year-old Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in separate incidents in violent riots protesting an arson attack that burned an infant to death. (Reuters)(RT (TV network))
- August 1, 2015 Internal conflict in Peru The Peruvian Army rescues 15 people from Shining Path guerillas. (AFP via France 24)Arts and culture
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