Daily Misfortune Thursday August 7, 2014 ---
Misfortune Timeline August 2014 ---
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- August 7, 2014 ISIS takeover of Iraq’s largest Christian city, mountaintop siege of Qaraqoush
- August 7, 2014 Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen: Yemeni forces kill at least seven al-Qaeda militants in the Wadi Hadramout region. (Reuters)
- August 7, 2014 2014 West Africa ebola outbreak: Liberia, declares a state of emergency over the outbreak which has claimed the lives of 282 Liberian people so far. (BBC)
- August 7, 2014 A United Nations backed war crimes tribunal sentences former Khmer Rouge leaders Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea to life imprisonment for their roles in theCambodian genocide
- August 7, 2014 Russians Testing Alaska Air Defences With Bear Bombers
- August 7, 2014 In Australia, youths on a bus carrying students from Jewish schools yelled "kill the Jews," and threatened to cut throats of children,
- August 7, 2014 Freedom From Religion threatens prayer discount restaurant
- 1 store destroyed, 1 car damaged August 7, 2014 Car crashes into salon in Queens, drives 25 feet before
- August 7, 2014 Robin Tyrone Smith Jr. arrested in August killing of Rajinder Kumar, Exxon station clerk in Hanover, Md.
- August 7, 2014 Militant takeover of Iraq’s largest Christian city, mountaintop siege of Qaraqoush fuel calls for aid. IS seized control Thursday of the country's largest Christian city -- reportedly telling its residents to leave, convert or die -- while members of another religious minority remained trapped on a mountain without enough food or water, circumstances that fueled calls for the U.S. and U.N. to get more involved. 2014 Northern Iraq offensive:The Islamic State captures a range of cities inhabited primarily by Assyrian/Chaldean Christians in Northern Iraq, notably Bakhdida, Bartella, Qaraqosh, Tel Keppe,Karamlish and Tel Isqof; thousands flee, while many Yazidis are caught in the newly-captured city of Sinjar. (BBC) (Al-Jazeera)
- August 7, 2014 Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen: Yemeni forces kill at least seven al-Qaeda militants in the Wadi Hadramout region. (Reuters)
- August 7, 2014 2014 West Africa ebola outbreak: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the President of Liberia, declares a state of emergency over the outbreak which has claimed the lives of 282 Liberian people so far. (BBC)
- August 7, 2014 A United Nations backed war crimes tribunal sentences former Khmer Rouge leaders Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea to life imprisonment for their roles in theCambodian genocide that claimed a quarter of the population between 1975 and 1979. (AP)
- August 7, 2014 Russians Testing Alaska Air Defences With Bear Bombers Newsmax The Russian military may be testing U.S. air defenses, with at least 16 incursions by foreign aircraft have been logged in American "air defense identification zones" in the past 10 days, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
- August 7, 2014 In Australia, youths yelled "kill the Jews," and threatened to cut throats of children, students say The school bus was carrying children aged 5 to 12 home from Jewish schools Terrified students on the bus called their parents, parents called police the youths fled before police arrived, but five arrests were made Thursday cnn
- August 7, 2014 Freedom From Religion threatens prayer discount restaurant A lawyer from the Freedom from Religion Foundation atheist organization sent a letter to Mary’s Gourmet Diner in Winston-Salem, calling the discount illegal under federal civil rights laws, the Winston-Salem Journal reported. “People who are atheists don’t pray,” Gaylor told the Journal, adding that it’s illegal to “charge an atheist more than a Christian.
- 1 store destroyed, 1 car damaged August 7, 2014 Car crashes into salon in Queens, drives 25 feet before Daily News Aug 8, 2014 - A car careened through a storefront in Jamaica, Queens, late Thursday and continued 25 feet into the building before finally stopping, the driver claims he confused the gas for the brake pedal.
- August 7, 2014 Robin Tyrone Smith Jr. arrested in August killing of Rajinder Kumar, Exxon station clerk in Hanover, Md. Video Saturday, October 25 AP Police in Anne Arundel County have arrested Robin Tyrone Smith Jr. of Glen Burnie in the fatal shooting of a gas station clerk in August 7 robbery of an Exxon station in Hanover. During the robbery, 49 -year-old Rajinder Kumar of Glen Burnie was fatally shot.
- August 7, 2014 Danny Wright intentionally run over hit and run in St Paul 5 am in the Union Gospel Mission parking lot Wright was walking when the suspect, an adult man, drove up along side of him and shouted at Wright. As Wright walked into the parking lot, the driver followed him and accelerated, intentionally running Wright down. Unsolved crime.
- August 17, 2013, August 7, 2014 Man Charged With Starting Massive California Blaze shafaqna A California man Keith Matthew Emerald, 32 was charged Thursday with starting the state s third-largest wildfire, a 2013 blaze that charred hundreds of square miles of land in Yosemite National Park and the Stanislaus National Forest. It is alleged he started a fire wich spread beyond his control into the massive Rim Fire when temporary restrictions prohibited fires.
- August 7, 2014 Markell slams Carter as friend of terrorists (OneNewsNow.com)The leader of a Messianic Jewish ministry says recent comments by former president Jimmy Carter suggest he hasn't met an Islamic terrorist he doesn't like
- August 7, 2014 President Carter aligns himself with terrorists Town Hall Former President Jimmy Carter, who once accused Israel of being an "apartheid state" worse than South Africa, has gone even further, rebuking the Jewish State for the way it has waged war with Hamas while actually siding with the terrorists. Mr. Carter claims that Hamas, by recently joining together with the Palestinian Authority, "pledged to adopt the three basic principles..: nonviolence, recognition of Israel, and adherence to past agreements." Hamas official stated: "Any referral to handling the Palestinian issue through peaceful means implies the cleansing of Palestine from foreigners who entered in 1948, before and after this time." rebuking the Jewish State for the way it has waged war with Hamas while actually siding with the terrorists. Writing together with former Irish president Mary Robinson in Foreign Policy magazine, Mr. Carter stated that, “There is no humane or legal justification for the way the Israeli Defense Forces are conducting this war,” calling on Israel and the West to recognize Hamas’s “legitimacy as a political actor.”
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- December 8, 2013 Deputy was texting before he hit, killed cycling Napster executive Los Angeles Times A memorial at the site on Mulholland Drive where a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy struck and killed Milton Olin Jr. as he was cycling on Dec. 8. the deputy had failed to negotiate the curve on Mulholland and drove straight into the bike.
- 4 killed July 28, 2014: Moments Before they were Killed, Soldiers Photographed Putting on Tefilin Moments before they were killed by a mortar, Midan Biton and Niran Cohen put on Tefilin. ( small black leather cubes containing parchment scrolls ) a mortar shell fired by the enemy exploded nearby and killed all three, along with another soldier who was nearby. Minutes before their death on the 28th of July, two of the three were captured in a photo putting on Tefilin with a Lubavitcher Chosid. Midan Biton and Niran Cohen were killed in the attack, and their friend Eren Porat was critically injured.
- July 31 2014 Bergische synagogue in Wuppertal in western Germany was firebombed in the latest in a string of anti-Semitic attacks following Israel’s military assault on Gaza. An 18-year-old Palestinian youth was arrested after three Molotov cocktails were hurled to set it on fire. thetimes
- August 7, 2014 Radio Free Asia 'At Least 2000 Uyghurs Killed' in Yarkand Violence: Exile Leader Prison Planet An exile Uyghur leader has claimed that at least 2,000 ethnic minority Uyghurs may have been killed by Chinese security forces following riots last ...
- August 3, 2014 Virginia Churches Hold Vigils For Family of 5 Killed In Murder-Suicide Two Virginia churches held vigils Wednesday night for a Culpeper family found dead in their home. On Sunday a mother found her daughter's family dead, which included three children, in what police believe is a murder-suicide caused by the father of the family. Investigators believe 35-year-old Clarence Washington shot his wife, Shauna, 35, and then killed their three daughters – 4-year-old Olivia, 6-year-old Onya and 13-year-old Omesha.
- August 5, 2014 Official: Liquid accelerant used to start fatal Port Washington house explosion WABC-TV Twenty fire departments responded to the home on Prospect Avenue in Port Washington after reports of the ...Neighbors Wednesday pointed out their concern about a Facebook post from December 2013 from the man killed in the blast. It showed a photo of propane tanks in his car, saying "..if you're going to go out with a bang, might as well do it with 25 gallons of gas and 40 pounds of propane." [sounds like the house where father filled house with fireworks]
- August 5, 2014 accident 1 arrested suspected DUI NY Doubledeck bus driver says he was not DUI, brakes failed August 7 story Dalambert insisted he was not on any type of drugs or medication when the Gray Line double-decker tour bus he was driving crashed into a parked double-decker CitySights around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, jumping the curb and causing a lamp post and traffic signal to crash onto a crowd of people. Dalambert failed a field sobriety test, which he said included walking a straight line and touching his finger to his nose, and was handcuffed, booked, and spent the night in a jail cell. But he was released when tests showed there were no drugs or alcohol. The driver has no active points, but “20 administrative suspensions dating back to June, 1993 that began with problems with his vehicle insurance.” including driving while using a cell phone and driving without a license/registration/insurance Dalambert said the brakes failed, but the brakes were working at the time of the crash, CBS 2 reported earlier [similar case May 6, 2013 Kirkland Runaway Bus Kills Ford Escape Russian bus driver claimed his brakes failed, investigation concluded it was not an accident]
- Tuesday August 5, 2014, Wednesday August 6, 2014 Three insider attacks including US Army general wapo a man in his 20s to hide in a bathroom at a military training base near the capital Tuesday, then emerge and open fire on a delegation of visiting American and European military officers, before being shot dead himself. ..two other “insider attacks” this week: a firefight Tuesday between an Afghan police guard and NATO troops near the governor’s office in southern Paktia province, and an incident Wednesday in Uruzgan province in which an Afghan policeman poisoned his colleagues’ food, then shot at least seven of them before fleeing in a police truck
- August 5, 2014 Insider attack firefight Tuesday between an Afghan police guard and NATO troops near the governor’s office in southern Paktia province, wapo
- August 6, 2014 Insider attack Uruzgan province in which an Afghan policeman poisoned his colleagues’ food, then shot at least seven of them before fleeing in a police truck wapo
- August 6, 2014 1 Teen Girl Killed, 1 Injured After Being Accidentally Run Over By Boat In Greenwich One 16-year-old girl was killed and another was injured Wednesday afternoon in a boating accident near the ...
- 2 killed 4 arrested August 6, 2014 British Medical Students Stabbed In Malaysia Borneo By Gang on Meth In Malaysia Borneo, a gang of 4 killed two British medical students serving on foreign exchange at hospital in Borneo was high on Crystal Meth. Neil Dalton, 23, and Aidan Brunger, 22 were in their fourth year studying medicine at Newcastle University in Britain and had completed a six-week stint at Sarawack General Hospital in Kuching. One suspect was a 23-year-old fishmonger, one was a 29-year-old mechanic, the others 19 and 35 and both unemployed. Two had previous convictions for drugs and armed robbery. It started with (or was staged as) an argument over the students making too much noise at a bar. They were followed by car after they left and stabbed them from behind.
- August 6, 2014 Man admits to starting fire that killed four children KTRS An Illinois man has pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree murder for setting a May 2013 fire in Percy, a village about 60 miles southeast of St. Louis. The fire killed for children, siblings ages 12 and 9 and 5-year-old twins.
- Mother-Son Firefighters Hurt, Killed in Kentucky His mother, Lisa French, was seriously injured and taken to a hospital in Louisville
- Body of US general killed in Afghanistan returns home USA TODAY The two-star general was killed Tuesday when an assailant named .
- Liberty County toddler killed by horse kick KPRC Houston They said the 3-year-old was at the family's home
- Man who 'killed wife' fled with kids is found dead New York PostA man killed himself in Staten Island on Thursday morning, after murdering his wife in suburban Philadelphia and fleeing with their kids, authorities ...
- Officials: Oregon Mother Jennifer Huston Killed Herself Via Asphyxiation Authorities from the Oregon State Medical Examiner's Office Wednesday ruled the death of Dundee, Ore. woman Jennifer Huston a suicide.
- Christians Killed in Nigeria Through June Already at 91% of 2013's Full-Year Total The Aquila Report deaths were accompanied by an increase in the total number of people (of all faiths) killed, which stands at 4099 - 975 more than the total ...
- Dershowitz: Jimmy Carter Is ‘All-Out Cheerleader for Hamas’ Newsmax Jimmy Carter Has 'Blood on Hands' For Mideast Meddling Former President Jimmy Carter is "an all-out supporter of Hamas" and if his advocacy turns into material support he will be committing a crime, Harvard law professor and legal analyst Alan Dershowitz said... even if you're a former president, it's against the law to provide material support to a listed terrorist organization and Jimmy Carter's coming awfully close to that line."
- Australian police 'hit and run' in Israel - Bicycle Law.com Mar 4, 2010 - Three officers visiting Israel to question Israelis whose passports were allegedly used in Dubai hit ran into a Tel Aviv bicycle and did not remain on the scene.
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The giggles and innocence neighbors associated with the playground at the Pinebrook Village mobile home park vanished in the screams of a 9-year-old boy, who witnesses and authorities said was stabbed in the back by a 12-year-old.
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| Chicago Tribune | - 5 hours ago |
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A Detroit jury will resume deliberations on Thursday to determine whether the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white suburban homeowner was murder or a fear-driven mistake.
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In the hours after the shooting numerous questions remain unanswered, including whether the man shot - 22-year-old John Crawford III of Fairfield - was armed with a real gun when a Beavercreek police officer killed him. A witness called 911 and said ...
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| USA TODAY | - 16 hours ago |
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KENTWOOD, Mich. - A 12-year-old boy is being charged with open murder in the deadly stabbing of a 9-year-old boy at a playground in western Michigan on Monday night.
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| USA TODAY | - 2 hours ago |
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The body of Army Maj. Gen Harold Greene, the highest ranking American officer to be killed in the Afghan War, was returned to the United States on Thursday in a brief, solemn ceremony at Delaware's Dover Air Force Base.
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| Washington Post | - 12 hours ago |
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KABUL - Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene, the highest-ranking U.S. military officer killed in a war zone in four decades, died not at the hand of a sworn enemy but from a burst of gunfire by a soldier in an allied army who had been largely paid, trained and ...
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| NBC 7 San Diego | - 2 minutes ago |
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There has been a break in the search for the suspect in a violent stabbing in a park area near University Town Center, a man believed to be "extremely dangerous.
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| St. Cloud Times | - 13 hours ago |
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COLD SPRING - A Cold Spring woman has been charged with second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon after her father was attacked this week, according to a criminal complaint.
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| New York Post | - 4 hours ago |
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A man killed himself in Staten Island Thursday morning, after murdering his wife in suburban Pennsylvania and fleeing with their kids, authorities said.
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| WTAE Pittsburgh | - 11 hours ago |
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Bob Hazen: @HazenWTAE. Witness testifies in shooting that killed teen's unborn... Sixteen-year-old Eric Taylor stood 6 feet away as one of his closest friends testified as a witness in a shooting that hospitalized a 15-year-old girl and killed her ...
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LA PORTE, Texas -- The man who became known as the "naked unicyclist" was killed in an auto-pedestrian incident in La Porte late Tuesday, police said.
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| SFGate (blog) | - 20 hours ago |
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A bomb threat that brought all BART service through the West Oakland Station to a halt for more than two hours Tuesday night was determined to be unfounded and trains were rolling again.
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SPRING, Texas - Just days after Cassidy Stay, 15, survived a shooting in her Texas home which took the lives of her parents and siblings, she publicly quoted a passage from a Harry Potter novel in which the character Dumbledore says, "Happiness can be ...
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Four girls, all 16, were boating on the Long Island Sound on Wednesday afternoon near the Old Greenwich Yacht Club, with two of them being towed in an inner tube, authorities said.
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| Journal and Courier | - 12 hours ago |
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Police tape cordons off the area following a shooting in the parking lot of Jordan Manufacturing Tuesday, August 5, 2014, at 1200 S. Sixth in Monticello.
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| Lost Coast Outpost | - 26 minutes ago |
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UPDATE, 10:50 a.m.: Nearby residents spoke with LoCO about this morning's incident. Neighbor Alan Sanborn said he heard seven “pops.
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| Lake County News-Sun | - 33 minutes ago |
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Police from North Chicago, Lake County Sheriff's Tactical Team and Great Lakes Naval Station police and Waukegan K9 unit are searching for a suspect in a shooting Thursday morning. The shooting occurred sometime around 10:30 a.m. in an alley behind ...
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| KERO-TV 23 | - 52 minutes ago |
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UPDATE: The Kern County Sheriff's Office tells 23ABC News that three people were shot and killed inside a residence in the 1700 block of Quincy Street late Wednesday night.
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