Daily Misfortune Month January 2015 ---
Daily Misfortune Saturday January 31, 2015 ---
- January 31, 2015 The Democratic Republic of the Congo launches a campaign against Hutu rebels. (AFP via Yahoo! News) w
- January 31, 2015 A monitoring group claims that ISIL has reportedly released a video showing the execution of Japanese hostage Kenji Goto. (Al Jazeera) w
- January 31, 2015 France orders an official investigation into the crash of AirAsia Flight 8501 which had a French copilot flying the aircraft at the time of its crash. (AFP via France 24) w
- 15 missing January 31, 2015 Islamic State captures Iraqi oil facility, 15 workers missing rt
- 2 killed, 3 injured i January 31, 2015 Afghanistan Mohammed cartoon protesters fire at police Kabul demonstrations against the cartoons published by French magazine Charlie Hebdo Around 500 protesters chanted “Death to France” and “Death to the Infidels.” Protesters started to throw burning tires, stones at law enforcement officers, then some opened fire on police.
- January 31, 2015 Egypt bans armed wing of Hamas Egyptian special court in Cairo listed Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, an armed wing of Hamas, as terrorist organization and banned it from the country.
- January 31, 2015 Egypt air force bombs militant targets in Sinai Egyptian warplanes have bombarded militant bases in the Sinai Peninsula, following an attack by the Islamic State’s Egyptian branch in area on Thursday, which killed 27 people
- 1 killed 1 injured January 31, 2015 OHP trooper killed, 1 trooper injured hit by car while investigating crash
- 5 assaulted January 31, 2015 arrest 5 Florida women claim sexual assault working in hospital by former security guard
- 2 killed suspect killed by police January 31, 2015 Houston Jazz Musician Murdered by Illegal Alien at Traffic Light, Killed by Police .
Friday January 30, 2015 ---
- 1 injured 2 arrested January 30, 2015 Victim Suffers Minor Injury in LA Koreatown Shooting; 2 People in Custody
- 40 killed 50 injured Sunni militants linked to the Pakistani Taliban bomb a Shiite mosque in the Shikarpur District of Pakistan's Sindh province. wkp
- 6 killed Islamic State fighters kill Kurdish commander Brigadier General Shirko Rauf and five other peshmerga soldiers in heavy fighting in Iraq's Kirkuk province. wkp
- 12 killed Artillery fire kills at least twelve civilians in Donetsk. wkp
- 1 arresst Los Angeles police arrest American hip hop mogul Suge Knight on suspicion for murder in relation to the January 29 hit-and-run incident in Compton, California. wkp
- Justice Minister Michael Masutha paroles South African apartheid-era death squad commander Eugene de Kock, nicknamed "Prime Evil", after having served 20 years for killing activists. wkp
- 1 injured American citizen shot, injured in Saudi Arabia An American citizen was injured when his car came under fire in Saudi Arabia
- 5 killed January 30, 2015 Trolleybus comes under shelling in Donetsk
- 1 gunman threat January 30, 2015 19 yo man who forced his way into Dutch TV with fake gun, bomb threat had ‘no terrorist links’
- 4 killed January 30, 2015 Taliban claims attack at Kabul Airport that killed 4
- 1 killed May 1, 2014 missing January 30, 2015 update Missing Murdered ND college student was drug informant
Thursday January 29, 2015 ---
Wednesday January 28, 2015 ---- 2 dead January 29, 2015 PhD Murder Suicide By Carnegie Mellon Employee Roommate
- 1 killed 1 injured 1 charged January 29, 2015 Suge Knight Hip Hop Star Charged With Murder After Fatal Hit-and-Run over 2 shooting commercial
- 2014 Sydney hostage crisis A coronial inquest into the siege at the Lindt Cafe in the center of Sydney begins. one hostage was killed by gunman Man Haron Monis while another was killed by fragments of a bullet or bullets fired by police
- 17 killed Taliban insurgency Taliban attacks across Afghanistan kill 17 people. (AP)
- 3 killed An Afghan national kills three American contractors at Hamid Karzai International Airport, the lone shooter was also killed in the incident. (Bloomberg)
- Moro insurgency in the Philippines Philippines President Benigno Aquino III distances himself from a botched raid against a terrorist, Zulkifli Abdhir, that killed around 50 people,
- 16 killed Iraqi insurgency (2011–present) Several attacks around Baghdad including bombings and shootings kill at least sixteen people. (The New York Times)
- 25 killed Sinai insurgency Ansar Beit al-Maqdis claims responsibility for widespread attacks on Egyptian army and police targets throughout the Sinai Peninsula killing at least 25 people. (Ynet News)
- Shia insurgency in Yemen Shiite Houthi rebels seize a Yemeni military base south of the capital, Sana'a, where U.S. military advisers once trained Yemeni counterterrorism forces to fight Al-Qaeda in the south of the country. Forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh had manned the captured base. (Wall Street Journal)
- The Paraguayan People's Army kills a German couple who lived on a ranch near Yby Yaú in northernParaguay. (Deutsche Welle)
- 7 killed 70 injured A Nieto Express propane gas tanker truck explodes near the loading dock as it was refueling a maternity and children's hospital in Mexico City
- Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Malaysia officially declares the loss of Flight 370 over the Indian Ocean an accident meaning that victims families can seek compensation. (USA Today)
- Dutch police arrest a fake gunman who disrupted the Netherlands news broadcaster NOS after storming into the studio and demanding airtime. (BBC)
- 1 threat January 29, 2015 Houston Schlumberger Technology company bomb threat
- 1 killed other driver at fault January 29, 2015 Thompson School District CFO dies after head-on crash in Fort Collins The Denver Post Thompson School District chief financial officer Steve Towne died early Friday after a head-on crash in Fort Collins the night before. Towne was driving a 1995 Chevrolet Geo southbound on South Taft Hill Road about 7:10 p.m. Thursday when a northbound pickup drifted into his lane north of Harmony Road, Colorado State Patrol Trooper Josh Lewis said. The vehicles hit head-on, according to Lewis. still investigating what caused the truck to drift across the median lane, but they do not believe excessive speed or impairment was involved
- Israeli–Lebanese conflict Following a January 18 incident, Hezbollah targets an Israeli military convoy kills two Israeli soldiers and wounds another seven. The Israeli responds with artillery A Spanish UN peacekeeper is killed. (CNN)(BBC)(Reuters)
- A Vietnamese military Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter crashes in southern Ho Chi Minh City killing four people. (AFP via Straits Times)
- The High Court of Australia finds that a group of 157 Sri Lankan asylum seekers were legally detained by Australian authorities at sea. The government acted lawfully and the group is not entitled to damages. (ABC News Australia)
- A federal judge in Albuquerque, New Mexico sentences an ex-Los Alamos physicist Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni, who pleaded guilty in 2013 to offering to spy on the US to help Venezuela develop anuclear weapon, to five years imprisionment. (AP)(AP)
- 1 injured January 28, 2015 Retired deputy shot during E Houston restaurant robbery
- 1 killed January 28, 2015 Family don't think American defense contractor in Saudi Arabia fell from hotel window as suicide The mysterious death in Saudi Arabia of an American defense contractor who fell from a third story hotel window has family and friends emphatically denying his employer's original claim that he committed suicide.
Tuesday January 27, 2015 ---
- 10 killed January 27, 2015 Libyan Civil War (2014–present) Five gunmen at the Libyan Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli attack with at least ten dead.
- January 27, 2015 Hezbollah and forces loyal to the President of Syria Bashar al-Assad are responsible for firing rockets from Syrian territory onto the Golan Heights
- 1 lockdown January 27, 2015 Lockdown lifted at Geneva hospital after man with knife runs through halls
- update January 27, 2015 Argentine president calls on Congress to dissolve intelligence services
- 1 killed January 27, 2015 Authorities in Ohio kill Short North Posse’s chief in gun battle
- 1 killed 2 injured in 2 shootings January 27, 2015 San Francisco mom killed by stray bullet from car to car shooting, 2 others shot minutes later.
- 1 injured January 27, 2015 Alleged Chinese student gang at Michigan State University focus of karaoke bar attack trial
- 1 chase January 27, 2015 Incredible video shows cuffed woman driving 100 mph in stolen police cruiser BEAVER COUNTY, Pa. — A newly released nine-minute dashcam video shows how fast a handcuffed woman traveled while leading officers on a chase in a stolen police cruiser outside of Pittsburgh earlier this month. 27-year-old Roxanne Rimer led officers on the chase through Center Township, Beaver County, after crawling through the glass partition of an officer’s cruiser. was detained on suspicion of shoplifting before the chase and somehow managed to drive the cruiser with her hands behind her back. “With her back turned and her hands cuffed behind her back, she manages to put it in gear and drive.
- 1 intrusion January 26, 2015 Secret Service investigating small drone on White House grounds flown by drunken intelligence employee
- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Kurdish fighters recapture at least 90% of Kobanî, Syria. (CNN)
- An F-16 jet belonging to the Hellenic Air Force crashes in southern Spain during a NATO exercise, killing ten people and injuring 21. (Bloomberg)
- The U.S. Secret Service recovers a flying drone from the lawn at the White House. (AP)
- The US FBI arrests three alleged Russian Foreign Intelligence Service spies working in the United States. The three men sought secrets about US economic plans and proposed sanctions against Moscow. (The Telegraph)
- The US Eastern District Court of Virginia convicts a disgruntled former CIA officer, Jeffrey Sterling, of leaking secrets to a reporter. All nine charges he faced stem from a secret CIA mission to derail Iran's nuclear weapons program. (AP)
- airliner hit by gunfire January 26, 2015 UAE’s Etihad, Air Arabia suspend flights to Baghdad after hit by gunfire
- 1 killed January 26, 2015 Phillip Perea Shoots Himself In Front of Fox News Headquarters
- 1 killed January 26, 2015 16-Year-Old Hispanic Girl Driving at officer Shot By Denver Police
- 1 killed January 26, 2015 New Hope MN City Hall gunman shoots police at swearing in, history of violent threats
- 2 bombs found January 26, 2015 Lodi CA Police Defuse Russian Shoplifter's Pipe Bomb with Controlled Explosion
- 1 shot/injured suspect arrested January 26, 2015 Chuck E. Cheese child birthday party argument shooting
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- 1 killed 3 injured (2 shootings) January 25, 2015 Three shot Sunday at Wilmington Delaware scene of earlier fatal shooting of high school student
- 1 fire January 25, 2015 Fire in Raleigh deliberately set
1 killed January 25, 20155 Man shot dead in East Oakland San Francisco Chronicle - 1 killed January 25, 2015 Cleveland Taxi company owner ambushed killed in Lakewood by former partner
- 30-50 killed January 25, 2015 Clashes between the Philippine National Police and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front threaten a peace agreement
- 80% blackout January 25, 2015 Terrorist attack blowing up power lines causes Pakistani 80% blackout
- akewood after his former business partner staged a call for a ride and waited to ambush him.
Saturday January 24, 2015 ---
- 27 killed 90 injured January 24, 2015 Rocket attack on an open-air market in Mariupol, Ukraine,
- 8 killed January 24, 2015 Islamic State kills eight Lebanese soldiers in the northeastern Lebanese village of Ras Baalbek. (AP)
- 1 killed January 24, 2015 Islamic State video that claims the killing of Japanese hostage Haruna Yukawa by Islamic State militants. (BBC)
- 85 cases January 24, 2015 The measles outbreak at Disneyland (Anaheim) now involves at least eighty-five cases. (AJC) (CBS)
- 2 threats January 24, 2015 2 Atlanta flights receive credible bomb threats
- 4 killed suspect suicide January 24, 2015 Queens Father Killed 3 and Himself, Police Say
- 2 killed 6 injured January 24, 2015 Police: 2 Killed, 6 Wounded in gang related Omaha, Nebraska house party Attack
- 1 killed 1 arrested Pine Springs MN Man Shoots Pickup Charged with Murder in Death of Cottage Grove Bar Owner Teacher
- 1 killed 1 charged January 24, 2015 Man charged with murder after death of Zac Evans in Tuffley, Gloucester
- City officials of Glendive, Montana declare that the tap water is safe to consume following the January 17 oil spill in the Yellowstone River. (Mohave Daily News)
- 6 killed California prosecuters charge an Oregon inmate, Rodney Halbower with two of the murders from the six 1976 Gypsy Hill killings. (CBS News)
- Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia dies at the age of 90. His half brother Salman of Saudi Arabiasucceeds him.
- 32 killed Activists claim at least 32 killed by Syrian air strike near Damascus AP reported, citing the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
- 1 killed An Egyptian student was killed 17-year-old student Sondos Rida Abu Bakr was shot dead by security forces taking part in a Muslim Brotherhood demonstration and clashe
- 3 killed 3 gunmen killed in attack on Lebanese army near Syria border The army responded with artillery
- 121 arrested 80 shops looted 121 arrested after mostly somali-owned shops looted in S. Africa rt after a foreign shopkeeper shot dead a teenager who allegedly tried to rob him on Monday night.
- 1 dies Leader of Libya’s Ansar al-Sharia dies of wounds Mohamed al-Zahawi founder of Benghazi based Libyan Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia, has died from wounds suffered when fighting pro-government troops months ago,
- January 23, 2015 White House Halting Gitmo Transfers to Yemen Amid Clashes
- 6 injured January 23, 2015 Six Wounded by gang related Multiple Shooting at party in Boston Suburb: Cops
- 1 killed January 23, 2015 Boy, 13, arrested in fatal stabbing at East Los Angeles middle school
- January 22, 2015 War in Donbass An explosion on a civilian bus in the city of Donetsk kills thirteen people. Separatists and pro-government forces blame each other for the incident. (BBC)
- January 22, 2015 Shia insurgency in Yemen Yemeni President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi, Prime Minister Khaled Bahah, and the Yemeni cabinet resign, effectively handing control over to Shia rebels. (CNN)
- January 22, 2015 Edgewater Police believe workers doing plumbing work accidentally started the January 21 fire
- 1 killed January 22, 2015 Texas woman fatally shot after entering police department with knife
- 1 standoff January 22, 2015 S.F. police in standoff with suspect who may be armed
- 2 injured January 22, 2015 Carver County MN Deputy Injured in Head-on Crash 2 killed January 22, 2015 murder January 27, 2015 bodies found Bodies of Georgia Couple in Craigslist Car Case Identified; Suspect Charged With Murder GOOD MORNING AMERICA Bud and June Runion vanished while going to meet someone to buy a vintage car they found on Craigslist Suspect Charged With Murder of Missing Craigslist Car Couple Authories today positively identified the bodies of a Georgia couple who vanished last week while going to meet someone to buy a vintage car they found on Craigslist. Bud Runion, 69, and his wife, June, 66, disappeared Thursday, authorities said. suspect, Ronnie “Jay” Towns, 28 owned the phone that last talked with the Runions
- 12 injured January 21, 2015 A Palestinian man stabs a dozens in bus in Israel in an apparent terrorist attack.
- 1 killed 400 evacuated January 21, 2015 the Avalon at Edgewater apartments in Edgewater, New Jersey burn down.
- 1 killed 1 injured January 21, 2015 18-Year-Old Man Killed, Brother Hurt During Car-To-Car Shooting In South LA
- 1 killed January 21, 2015 Deputies Fatally Shoot Man Who Killed A Police Dog During Hemet Standoff
- 1 killed January 21, 2015 Woman shot riding in car with husband in Oakland, dies woman had died Jan 23 after she was shot on Wednesday driving with her husband.
Tuesday January 20, 2015 ---
- January 20, 2015 Shooting on D.C.’s Metro bus; two wounded Two men have been shot on board a packed Metrobus in the District of Columbia. Next day similar stabbing attack in Israel can't possibly be connected.
- January 20, 2015 update Technology tycoon, wife and their four grandchildren confirmed dead in 'suspicious' fire at $9million Annapolis waterfront mansion Daily Mail as police probe ruins for the hallmarks of arson Picturesque property near Chesapeake Bay engulfed by flames in the early hours of Monday morning Belonged to Don Pyle, former CEO of several large tech companies, and now COO of Virginia-based ScienceLogic The headteacher at Severn School in Annapolis sent out a letter confirming the deaths to staff and students today Eighty-five firefighters were sent to battle the 3:30am fire that ravaged the home, which took four hours to control. Specialists with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives now say the fire is 'suspicious' - partly because of how quickly it ravaged the home. trained dogs will sniff out any traces of accelerant chemicals, which would help determine whether the blaze could have been a deliberate attack.
- 1 killed January 20, 2015Man who killed Boston doctor had blamed him for mother's death, relatives say "my brother thought it was the doctor's fault that my mother died," Joly said. suspect recently learned about a lung medication the doctor prescribed for his mother, which his brother believed caused a fatal complication. "I had no idea he was going to take it to that extreme."
Monday January 19, 2015 ---
- 1 killed January 19, 2015 Argentine prosecutor who accused Fernandez of Iran plot found dead of apparent suicide
- 11 killed January 19, 2015 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Kurdish fighters battling Islamic State militants in the town of Kobanî, Syria on the Syria-Turkey border capture the strategic Mishtenur hill killing eleven fighters. (BBC)
- 9 dead 67 injured January 19, 2015 Clashes in the Yemeni capital Sana'a leave at least nine dead and 67 injured. (AP)
- building seized January 19, 2015 Houthi rebels seize the official Saba News Agency and surround the residence of the Prime Minister. (RT)
- 4 killed 10 injured January 19, 2015 Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa fire on protesters
- 6 missing January 19, 2015 Technology exec Don Pyle, his wife, and four grandchildren are feared dead as they are unaccounted for after a fire destroys a mansion in Annapolis, Maryland.
- 1 killed of 7 January 19, 2015 Gyumri massacre: seventh member of an Armenian family dies after a killing spree by a Russian soldier. (Fox News
- 1 rape 5 charged January 19, 2015 update Seminole County, Florida (Orlando-area) prosecutors charge five underage Winter Springs High School students with the alleged gang rape of a 16-year-old girl in November 2014. Prosecutors charge two suspects as adults and three as juveniles. The remaining suspect is as yet uncharged. (The Orlando Sentinel via MSN
- January 19, 2015 update No sign of terrorism on AirAsia cockpit recording Audio recordings from the cockpit of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 contain no sounds of gunfire or explosions, making it unlikely the plane was brought down by terrorism, Indonesian investigators say
- 2 killed January 19, 2015 Myanamar teachers found claimed raped and murdered by government troops Myanmar said it would investigate the deaths of two teachers who activists claim were raped and murdered by government troops, as crowds gathered in the country's far north amid rising anger over the killings. The battered bodies of the two women, aged 20 and 21, were found Monday in a remote village in Shan state where they were teaching children on behalf of the Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC) tags: christian victims, school incident
- 2 arrested January 19, 2015 2 Accused Of Ramming Car with 35 lb Meth into San Bernardino Sheriff's car Antonio Cabada, 23, and Gabriel Banuelos, 32, both of San Bernardino were arrested last Monday at the end of a chase that ended in the city of Rialto. Spotted in suspected drug activity, a Taurus led police on a chase and intentionally drove the Taurus into a sheriff vehicle in an attempt to escape. A search of the Taurus yielded about 35 pounds of methamphetamine
- censorship January 18, 2015 NYPD considers demand to remove Islamic terror report In top-secret talks to settle federal lawsuits against the NYPD for monitoring mosques, the city is weighing a demand that it scrub from its website a report on Islamic terrorists, The New York Post has learned.
- 8 killed January 18, 2015 Israeli–Lebanese conflict An Israeli helicopter strike near the border with Syria kills two senior IRGC figures and six members of Hezbollah.(Reuters), (Xinhua)
- 3 killed 80 kidnap January 18, 2015 Boko Haram militants kidnap 80 people and kill three others from villages in north Cameroon. (Daily Mirror)
- 3 killed January 18, 2015 A clash with Hindu villagers in Sarayian village in India's Bihar state leaves at least three Muslim villagers burned to death. (AP)
- 4 killed January 18, 2015 Icy roads from a freezing-rain storm cause at least four deaths in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area. (KGO)(Bloomberg), (ABC News America) (NBC10)
- 6 killed January 18, 2015 Indonesia executes six people for drug trafficking including foreign citizens from Brazil, Malawi, the Netherlands, Nigeria, and Vietnam. Brazil and the Netherlands withdraw their ambassadors in protest. (News Limited), (ABC Australia),(BBC)
- 2 killed January 18, 2015 Chinese police shoot dead two ethnic Uighurs in Pingxiang, Guangxi while they attempt to cross into Vietnam after members of their group resisted arrest with knives. (The New York Times)
Saturday January 17, 2015 ---
- 2 killed, 1 injured including suspect killed in mall shooting, Saturday January 17, 2015 Melbourne Square Mall Florida Shooting man kills his wife and man who tries to protect him, comes prepared for mass shooting
- 1 killed January 17, 2015 Downtown Los Angeles officer shoots kills man who fire into air and raises hands
- 2 killed January 17, 2015 Principal killed in Columbia TN double shooting
- 1 killed 1 injured January 17, 2015 Suspect killed after stabbing Fort Worth officer after traffic stop
- 1 killed January 17, 2015 Bicyclist Is Killed in Collision With Private Garbage Truck in Queens New York Times
- Terrorism in Yemen Gunmen abduct the chief of staff to Yemen's president in the center of the capital, Sanaa.
- Violence surrounding various protests against Charlie Hebdo leaves five protesters dead as well as some churches set ablaze in Niger. (BBC), (AFP via The Telegraph)
- Islamist insurgency in Nigeria: the Russian ambassador to the country pledges to supply Cameroon with more modern weapons to combat the Islamist insurgents. (AFP via The Economic Times)
- 2013–15 Ukrainian crisis:Clashes between the Ukrainian army and pro-Russia rebels over Donetsk International Airport intensifies. (Al Jazeera)
- Greek anti-terror police arrest four people in Athens, Greece in alleged relation to the January 15 failed terrorist plot to kill police officers in Belgium. (Sky News Australia)
- The rescue and recovery efforts at the wreckage of the January 15 capsized tugboat on China's Yangtze River near the city of Jingjiang finds that twenty-one people are dead while three are rescued. (Straits Times)
- A shark attack injures a boy and kills some dolphins in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. (AP via USA Today)
- 1 police officer stabbed suspect shot and killed January 17, 2015 Suspect killed after stabbing Fort Worth officer during traffic stop A Fort Worth police officer shot and killed a man early Saturday morning during a scuffle with a suspect
- shots fired near VP home January 17, 2015 Secret Service investigating drive by shooting shots outside VP Biden's Delaware home Multiple gunshots were fired outside Vice President Joe Biden's homein Delaware and a vehicle fled the area Saturday night Gunshots Fired From Vehicle Speeding Past Biden's Delaware Home, but Driver Gets Away New York Times
- 1 killed 1 arrested Pemberton Township, New Jersey police arrest a woman and charge her with the murder of her newborn baby girl which she set on fire. Officers extinguish the fire, but the child later dies. (AP via MSN)
- The Bridger Pipeline Company spills up to 50,000 gallons of oil into the Yellowstone River, near Glendive, Montana. (CBS)
- 3 killed, suspect suicide or government blamed January 17, 2015 MN Conspiracy Filmmaker David Crowley, Family Found Dead in Murder Suicide
Friday January 16, 2015 ---
- Syrian Civil War The United States Department of Defense announces that it will send 400 troops to train moderate Syrian rebels in the spring of 2015. (AP)
- A hostage crisis at a post office in Colombes, Paris, ends with the attacker releasing the hostages and surrendering himself to the police. (Daily Mail) (CNN)
- The Military of Chad enters Cameroon to assist in fighting against Boko Haram insurgents. (Reuters)
- The Obama Administration eases trade restrictions with Cuba, now permitting the sale of tools and equipment for private-sectoruse in Cuba. (USA Today)
- 176 killed 110,000 displaced Flash flooding continues since January 14 in the African nation of Malawi with at least 176 people killed and 110,000 displaced.(ABC News Australia)
- Polk County, Florida police arrest four men who face charges in having allegedly robbed an Auburndale, Florida pawn shop, and then fatally shot two women in their central Florida home. (AP via MSN)
- Mexican authorities arrest an alleged hitman for the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel, Felipe Rodriguez, in connection to the September 26, 2014 death of 43 college students. (AP via ABC News America)
Thursday January 15, 2015 ---
- 1 injured 5 suspects January 15, 2015 Paris hit and run police attack: female officer is deliberately run over outside President's Palace
- 1 injured 2 arrested January 15, 2015 Oklahoma police chief shot during bomb threat investigation; alleged shooter supported ISIS
- 1 killed 1 injured 1 arrested January 15, 2015 Police: 22-year-old man fatally stabs grandmother, grandfather in hospital
- 2 killed January 15, 2015 Two suspected Islamist militants killed as Belgian police conduct anti-terror ...
- 5 arrested 2014 Peshawar school massacre Afghan security officials arrest five men in Kabul in relation to their suspected involvement in the Pakistan school massacre.(ABC News Australia)
- 2 killed Police in eastern Belgium kill two suspected terrorists during an anti-terrorism raid near Verviers. (AP via News24) (CNN)(BBC)
- 8 killed 21 injured A tour bus overturns and catches fire on the North-South Expressway in the Malaysian town of Tapah leaving at least eight people killed and 21 others injured. (The Straits Times)
- 20 missing A boat sinks in the Yangtze River in east China's Jiangsu Province leaving at least 20 people missing. (Xinhua)
- Philippine authorities in Manila concentrate street children in cages with some even chained in anticipation of Pope Francis' pastoral visit. (The Daily Mail), (the Philippine Daily Inquirer), (Catholic Online)
- 1 threat January 15, 2015 Bomb threat forces evacuation of North Davis Elementary
- January 3, 2015 spree January 15, 2015 update Kentucky teens on 'Bonnie and Clyde' spree leave trail of stolen cars January 15 New York Daily Fugitive Kentucky teenagers left stolen truck in Georgia, took another vehicle with guns inside: cops The search for Dalton Hayes, 18, and Cheyenne Phillips, 13, continues as the teenagers involved in an alleged Bonnie and Clyde type crime spree were spotted in South Carolina on Monday and then their stolen vehicle was recovered in Henry County, Ga. on Thursday morning. Authorities said they stole another vehicle with handguns inside and are concerned for their safety. Dalton Hayes, 18, and 13-year-old Cheyenne Phillips left their homes in central Kentucky on Jan, 3 tags: bonnie and clyde couple, stolen cars, crime spree, fugitive
- update January 14, 2015 Suspect in suburban LA shootings denies murder charges Alexander Hernandez LA Dog Killer 7 Shooting Spree
- 1 threat January 14, 2015 Harlan High School evacuated after report of bomb threat.
- A bomb destroys a transmission tower in Philippines
- Charlie Hebdo publishes an edition as a counterpoint to the Charlie Hebdo shootings. (BBC)
- 10 killed A collision between a train and a prison transport bus near Penwell, Texas
- 73 killed Floods devastate Mozambique and Malawi, with at least 73 deaths and over 70,000 homeless. (BBC)
- The cabinet of Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe approves buy surveillance aircraft and Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II
- Taiwan protests China’s new air routes near the median line of the Taiwan Strait and vows to step up surveillance of aviation activity. (Bloomberg)(Reuters)
- The U.S. state of Georgia executes Vietnam War veteran Andrew Brannan for the 1998 murder of Laurens Countysheriff's deputy Kyle Dinkheller. (Huffington Post)
- Police charge Indianapolis Colts linebacker Josh McNary with a December 1, 2014 rape. (AP)
- The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency rules that anti-Muslim advertisements placed on Muni buses must be permitted because of freedom of speech. (KNTV)
- The U.S. Secret Service removes four of its highest-ranking leaders while a fifth one retires.
- Ohio Man Arrested for Alleged ISIS-Inspired Bombing and Shooting Attack Plot on US Capitol, FBI Says
- 1 killed 1 injured January 14, 2015 Philip Jones, 17, Shot and Killed After Basketball Game in Southeast DC
- 1 threat January 14, 2015 Marysville-Pilchuck High cleared after bomb threat
- 3 killed suspect killed January 14, 2015 FINLAND: SOMALI man who hacked two men to death with an axe at a Pub killed by police
Daily Misfortune Monday January 12, 2015 ---
- 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 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)
- 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
Daily Misfortune Sunday January 11, 2015 ---
- 2 killed 5 injured January 11, 2015 2 dead, 5 injured in Hope Mills NC house party mass shooting Two people are dead and five more are injured after an early morning shooting near Hope Mills when violence broke out at a party at the home. The sheriff's office identified the two people who were killed as 32-year-old Tanishia Graham and Izaak Bridges, 20. The five injured were all shot.
- 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, 2015 update 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
- On Sunday, prosecutors said they have linked shell cases found in the eastern Paris town of Fontenay-aux-Roses, where the jogger was shot and severely wounded, to a Tokarev gun carried by Mr. Coulibaly at the kosher grocery on Friday. Four hostages were killed in that attack.
- January 11, 2015 Islamic State Releases Video Calling Grocery Store Gunman Its ‘Soldier’ Purports to Show One of the Paris Attackers A new video appears to show Amedy Coulibaly pledging to Islamic State, or ISIS. Coulibaly killed four people Friday during a standoff at a kosher deli near Paris, and is linked to the Charlie Hebdo attackers. Wall Street Journal French prosecutors said they suspect the gunman who killed four people in a kosher grocery store was also involved in the shooting of a jogger near Paris on Wednesday, the day of the attack on a magazine that kicked off a terror spree in France.
Saturday January 10, 2015 ---
- bomb defused January 10, 2015 Police Defuse Bomb Found in Istanbul Shopping Mall
- 3 dead 1 injured January 10, 2015 Multiple shooting spree in Moscow, Idaho, leave 3 dead; suspect captured
- 5 killed January 10, 2015 5 people, including pregnant woman, killed in Md. crash somebody ran red light
- 1 explosion January 10, 2015 Explosion, Fire Shake Ohio Refinery; Police Say Nobody Hurt
- 1 bomb threat January 10, 2015 Bomb threat shuts down Acadiana Mall
- January 10, 2015 Protesters Rally Against Police Shooting of Man in Utah
- 3 killed January 10, 2015 DUI wrong-way driver kills 3 in head-on, wrong-way crash on 80
- 1 killed January 10, 2015 One Dead, Another Hospitalized in Inglewood Nightclub Shooting
Friday January 9, 2015 ---
- 2 killed Charlie Hebdo shooting The standoff ends with the two brothers dead
- 5 killed including 1 suspect killed January 9, 2015 Paris Hypercacher Jewish Market Vincennes hostage-taking
- 200-2000 killed 2015 Baga massacre
- 1 killed 23 injured 193 vehicles crash A 193-vehicle pileup along a snowy Interstate 94 highway in Kalamazoo County, Michigan
- At a court in New York City, a US District Judge sentences the radical imam Abu Hamza al-Masri to a life sentence for terrorism offences in the United States.
- Saudi Arabia sentences a human rights blogger, Raif Badawi, to ten years imprisonment and 1,000 lashes after being found guilty of insulting Islam. (Pulse Nigeria)
- A shooting into a car in San Francisco, California, U.S., leaves four men dead. (AP)
- Stockholm University cuts its ties with the Confucius Institute citing concerns about foreign interference in academic freedom. (South China Morning Post)
- 1 bomb threat January 9, 2015 West Sacramento Walmart reopens after bomb threat KCRA Sacramento - 13 hours ago police evacuated the Walmart on Riverpoint Court at about 7 p.m. because a bomb threat was directed at the store.
- 1 injured suspect sought January 8, 2015 Israeli man moderately hurt in suspected Jerusalem terror stabbing
- 2 killed January 8, 2015 2 dead in north Houston car lot shooting
- 1 killed 2 arrested January 8, 2015 Paris policewoman killed in shooting as French police hunt magazine attack suspects
- 1 explosion January 8, 2015 Explosion Reported Near French Mosque in Wake of Charlie Hebdo Attack Explosion rocks kebab shop
- 1 killed 3 injured January 8, 2015 1 dead, 3 hurt in Boston shot sitting in car in Roxbury one person was killed and three others injured when someone opened fire on a carload full of people in Boston, death was the city's first homicide of the year. victims were shot as they sat in a car in the city's Roxbury neighborhood.
- 1 threat January 7, 2015 January 2015 Shoreline WA Schools (False) Gunman Report
- combined with supermarket hostage: 19 killed, 3 suspects killed; 14 killed 2 gunmen killed Charlie Hebdo Militant Islamist shooting of French satire newspaper January 7, 2014 deadliest act of terrorism in France since the 1961 Vitry-Le-François train bombing
- 38 killed 50 wounded A car bomb explodes outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sanaa with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 50 wounded. (Reuters),
- 20 killed An Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation bus falls into a ravine near the town of Penukonda in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh killing at least 20 people. (DNA)
- 1 drone found Philippines President Benigno Aquino III demands an investigation after a drone purportedly belonging to the United States Navy is found in the Philippine province of Quezon, the second found in the country. (Manila Standard Today)
- The United States denounces a flag-raising ceremony at Taiwan's de facto embassy in Washington DC, saying the ceremony violated US-Taiwan ties. (AFP via Yahoo)
- 1 threat 1 arrested January 7, 2014 FBI says John Boehner's West Chester bartender planned to poison him Feds: Man said he was Jesus, Boehner was the devil Ebola, evil voices from the car radio and the devil are what a Butler County bartender cited as reasons he was going to kill House Speaker John Boehner this past fall, federal agents said. Michael Robert Hoyt, 44, was indicted Jan. 7 on charges of threatening to murder the congressman in a plot police said included poisoning his drink at a country club.. served drinks to Boehner for more than five years at the Wetherington Country Club.. Hoyt called police on Oct. 29, a week after being fired from the club, and blamed Boehner for his woes, police said.
Tuesday January 6, 2015 ---
- 2 killed 1 injured suspect suicide January 6, 2015 Diana Ramazanova Istanbul Suicide Bomber Attacks Police Station
- 1 explosion January 6, 2015 Police, ATF and FBI respond to explosion outside Colorado Springs NAACP chapter, target unclear
- 2 killed, suspect suicide January 6, 2015 William Beaumont Hospital VA Clinic El Paso TX Shooting
- 1 killed January 6, 2015 publicity December 4, 2013 Ala. police reveal video of cop shooting ax-wielding elderly black man New York Daily News anti-police protesters show a 2013 video of police shooting an elderly black man threatening a neighborhood with an ax. The shaky body camera shows Shaw grabs a hatchet and wanders around a residential street, sometimes cursing at the cops, as the officer holds his gun at Shaw and repeatedly commands, “Put the ax down!” When Shaw starts approaching the officer, yelling “Shoot it! Shoot it!,” the officer fires a shot at Shaw.
Monday January 5, 2015 ---
- January 4, 2015, January 5, 2015 update Man killed by San Francisco police is identified; town hall scheduled
- 3 injured 3 arrested January 5, 2015 3 Men in Custody After Shooting of New York Police Officers
- 2 killed 11 injured January 5, 2015 Authorities: 2 dead, at least 11 injured in school bus fails to stop before train crash
- 2 injured 2 arrested anti-police attack January 5, 2015 Two NYPD officers shot in Bronx NY bodega robbery
- 1 explosion FBI Seeks 1 Person In Small Explosion At Colorado Springs NAACP office
- shots fire at police January 5, 2015 Police: Hidden gunman fired at Melbourne officers FLORIDA TODAY Patrol officers remain undeterred about patrolling a south Melbourne neighborhood Tuesday, hours after someone in the residential area fired off several rounds at police which hit near officers who were outside of their car. It was similar to other shootings reported across the country in the wake of several high-profile cases involving officers using deadly force
Saturday January 3, 2015 ---
- 1 killed January 3, 2015 Limo Driver Shot, Killed During Robbery: Company NBC 10
- 1 killed January 3, 2015 January 10, 2015 update SF police officers named after fatal suicide by cop shooting
- January 3, 2015 spree January 15, 2015 update Kentucky teens on 'Bonnie and Clyde' spree leave trail of stolen cars January 15 New York Daily Fugitive Kentucky teenagers left stolen truck in Georgia, took another vehicle with guns inside: cops The search for Dalton Hayes, 18, and Cheyenne Phillips, 13, continues as the teenagers involved in an alleged Bonnie and Clyde type crime spree were spotted in South Carolina on Monday and then their stolen vehicle was recovered in Henry County, Ga. on Thursday morning. Authorities said they stole another vehicle with handguns inside and are concerned for their safety. Dalton Hayes, 18, and 13-year-old Cheyenne Phillips left their homes in central Kentucky on Jan, 3 tags: bonnie and clyde couple, stolen cars, crime spree, fugitive
- 200-300 fighting 10 police departmentsJuveniles Swarm Ohio Movie Theater in a Fight So Massive, 10 Different Police Departments Responded Hollywood violence wasn’t the only brutality on display at one Ohio movie theater on Friday night — more than 200 juveniles turned the theater’s lobby into a fighting pit. The Cinemark At Valley View in Valley View, Ohio, was wracked by 200 to 300 juveniles brawling around 9:30 p.m. on Friday evening, WEWS-TV reported.
- 1 killed 6 injured January 1, 2015 One of 7 shot in Calgary New Years party was driving by ctvnews.ca Dead man identified as 26 year old Abdullahi Ahmed from Calgary (apparently Arab / Muslim) police don't know if he was the intended victim.
- 1 injured 1 arrested January 1, 2015 Angry teen grabs, dumps toddler into recycle bin at New Year's Day party Toddler dumped in Winnipeg North End recycling bin New Year's Day CBC.ca A 17-year-old boy has been charged with a number of offences after allegedly dumping a ...
- 1 killed January 1, 2015 Alleged drunk driver hits taxi, woman in backseat killed WABC-TV Hours into the New Year, her 27-year-old niece Pamela Pimentel became the first New Yorker to die in a traffic crash in 2015. She was minding her own business on the way to work in the backseat of a livery cab. When at a red light, out of nowhere, a black charger plowed into the cab.
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