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Draheid

Thursday, October 10, 2002 - 09:33 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Silksmoke asked for a thread for breaking news & headlines. If the stories posted here need further discussion, a thread for that story should be created. The purpose of this thread is to 'let others know' as news happens.

Draheid

Thursday, October 10, 2002 - 09:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Also, if possible, could you please post a link to the story if it's available. To post a link, type:

\newurl{http://the.site.com/the-link.html,\Link To Story}

Thanks.

Karuuna

Thursday, October 10, 2002 - 09:50 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Great idea! :)

Babyruth

Thursday, October 10, 2002 - 09:53 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I posted this at the dumb questions thread in response to the request for more info on the Michigan bus accident. You may move or delete my post as you wish.

OK, a bus of children grades K-2 going on a field trip collided with a semi at an intersection in Erie Township, near the Ohio border. Looks like a very high impact accident....the bus torn off its platform/axles. The bus was the third of four in a caravan.

2 six year old boys are reported in critical condition at area hospitals, 2 other 6 year old boys are in serious condition. A 60-something woman is in unknown condition.

The reporters are now talking on the phone with a father who was on the bus. There were some other parents on the bus, too. Apparently the bus stopped, then turned left at the intersection and was hit in the back half sideways by an oncoming semi. The EMS response was "excellent". Air ambulance took victims to 4 different hospitals.

The children are from Pierre Trussant (sp?) Academy in Detroit and were headed for Erie Orchard.

Silksmoke

Thursday, October 10, 2002 - 10:07 am EditMoveDeleteIP
AP
Thursday, October 10, 2002

KUWAIT — An apparently accidental explosion injured three U.S. Marines on Thursday, two days after gunmen opened fire on Marines in a terrorist attack elsewhere in Kuwait.

None of the injuries was believed life threatening, said Lt. Chris Davis at the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain.

"It seems to be an accident and we are investigating," Davis said.

In Washington, Pentagon officials said the explosion, perhaps from a land mine, occurred as Marines were setting up a training exercise on the Udari range on the Kuwait mainland.

The Marines' injuries included puncture wounds in the arms and legs, the officials said.




Laluna

Thursday, October 10, 2002 - 11:07 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Va. Shooting Could Be Same Sniper
By MATTHEW BARAKAT
Associated Press Writer

MANASSAS, Va. (AP)--A seventh fatal shooting in the Washington area is ``consistent'' with six others and may be the work of the same sniper, authorities said Thursday.

Dean Harold Meyers, 53, of Gaithersburg, Md., was gunned down Wednesday night moments after filling his tank at a northern Virginia gas station. An autopsy shows he was killed by a single shot to his upper body, Prince William Police Chief Charlie Deane said.

Authorities stressed they had not conclusively linked the slaying to the others but cited the similarities with the eight shootings, six of them fatal, since Oct. 2 in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.

It ``appears to be consistent with the other shootings in the region,'' Deane said.

Police were searching for a white minivan seen leaving the scene of the Manassas shooting.

Two men had been seen in a white van shortly after the sniper slayings began eight days ago in the Washington suburbs. The vehicle described by witnesses to Wednesday's shooting was similar _ a white ``panel truck.''

``It's a minivan but instead of windows around the side, it's solid. We don't know about windows in the back,'' Sgt. Kim Chinn, a Prince William County police spokeswoman, told reporters earlier Thursday. The vehicle was described as looking like a Dodge Caravan, she said.

The rest of the article can be found here:
http://www.activedayton.com/ddn/news/ap/ap_story.html/National/AP.V4766.AP-Sniper-Shooting.html

Silksmoke

Thursday, October 10, 2002 - 12:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
House has passed a resolution giving President Bush permission to use force against Iraq. Senate is expected to approve this in the very near future.

Jo_5329

Thursday, October 10, 2002 - 01:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm so glad this was started --- thank you!


Fox News

WASHINGTON — The House passed a resolution Thursday allowing President Bush to use force if necessary against Iraq.

The final vote tally of 296-133 saw 81 Democrats voting with Republicans to give the president the maneuvering room he said he needs to effectively confront Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

Jo_5329

Thursday, October 10, 2002 - 01:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Babyruth, and others ...

Here is the story about the bus accident:

ERIE TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A truck hauling steel crashed into the side of a school bus taking youngsters on a field trip Thursday, injuring more than three dozen children and adults, at least two critically.


"It was just bodies all over the place," said firefighter Cliff Moore.


Fox News.Com

Jo_5329

Thursday, October 10, 2002 - 01:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I can't get Fox News links to work with the way we are suppose to, so I'm just linking to their front page. :(

Jo

Jo_5329

Thursday, October 10, 2002 - 03:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Police link new slaying to sniper

Man shot dead at gas station
in Virginia; police seek minivan



MANASSAS, Va., Oct. 10 — The man shot to death Wednesday night at a Virginia gasoline station was slain by the sniper believed to have killed six other people in the Washington area, police said Thursday.

The rest of the article can be found here:

Sniper

Rissa

Friday, October 11, 2002 - 05:57 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Carter wins Nobel Peace Prize

I have always loved this guy and am glad to see him win this. And very kewl about Craig Kielburger from Toronto being nominated as well. Quite the life's work for a 19 year old!!

Jo_5329

Friday, October 11, 2002 - 07:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Official: Kuwaitis Plan More Attacks
Fri Oct 11, 9:17 AM ET

Kuwaitis Plan More Attacks

KUWAIT (AP) - The two Kuwaitis who attacked U.S. Marines this week were part of a group that planned more assaults on Americans, an Interior Ministry official said Friday.

The men also are believed to have trained in Afghanistan, but no connection between them and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network has been established yet, the official said on condition of anonymity.

Note: Follow the link above for the rest of the story

Jo_5329

Friday, October 11, 2002 - 07:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
ANOTHER SHOOTING!!!!!!!!!!!!


From FoxNews.com:

Man Shot at Virginia Gas Station
Friday, October 11, 2002 9:30 am

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — A man has been shot and seriously wounded while pumping gas at an Exxon station in Spotsylvania, just south of Fredericksburg.

State police spokeswoman Lucy Caldwell said a white Chevy Astro van with ladder racks on top was seen near the station about the time of the 9:30 a.m. EDT shooting. Police have closed down parts of nearby Interstate 95 and are stopping white vans there and on other roads in the area.

Lt. John Crawford of the Alexandria Police said a vehicle matching the description of the van has been pulled over and is being investigated. He said all cars matching that description are being stopped.

Gov. Mark Warner said the victim was seriously wounded

Fredericksburg was the scene of the seventh shooting in a series of nine tied to the serial sniper who has been stalking the Washington, D.C., area.

The sniper has killed seven people and wounded two others since Oct. 7.

Heyltslori

Friday, October 11, 2002 - 09:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
shooting victim dies...

from Reuters...


Amid Sniper Search, Another Man Shot Dead in Va.
Updated 11:23 AM ET October 11, 2002


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Police said a man was shot at a gasoline station near Fredericksburg, Virginia, on Friday, and media reports said he later died of his wounds in a local hospital.

The shooting touched off a renewed hunt for a white van, as investigators searched for a sniper who has killed seven people and wounded two others in a week-long murder spree.

However, police said they could not confirm a connection between Friday's shooting and the series of sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., area. Two of the sniper's victims were killed at area gasoline stations.

The Friday shooting occurred near a state-police barracks just off a busy highway in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.

"We're on the lookout for a white Chevrolet Astro van last seen going northbound on Route 1," said Virginia State Police spokeswoman Lucy Caldwell.

Exits along highway I-95, the major interstate on the U.S. East Coast, were closed in the Virginia area.

Ketchuplover

Friday, October 11, 2002 - 01:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
There was an auto accident involving at least 2 dozen cars on I-43 in Sheboygan county,WI

9 dead 34 injured. Go to www.jsonline.com

I don't do links or headlines sorry :)

Silksmoke

Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 02:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Fox News is reporting 60 confirmed dead in bomb explosion on Bali, an Indonesia resort island. Indications now point to this being linked to a fundamentalist group of muslims with ties to Al Qaeda.

I can't seem to be able to get a link to work, so you can read more at www.foxnews.com

Laluna

Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 06:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The BBC Front Page is now saying the death toll is over 100. An article about the blast is here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2323293.stm

Jo_5329

Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 04:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
BALI, Indonesia, Oct. 13 — A massive car bomb destroyed a crowded nightclub on the tourist island of Bali on Saturday, sparking a devastating fire that killed at least 187 people and wounded another 309 - many of them foreigners. The national police chief said the attack was “worst act of terror in Indonesia’s history.”

More details at:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/820505.asp?pne=msn

Jo_5329

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 04:09 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Police probe fatal Virginia shooting

MSNBC Story


Oct. 15 — Authorities searched suburban Washington early Tuesday for a cream-colored van spotted immediately after a woman was fatally shot near a Home Depot store in Falls Church, Va., in what investigators fear could be the latest victim linked to a series of Washington-area sniper attacks.

Jo_5329

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 06:39 am EditMoveDeleteIP
New Va. shooting tied to sniper

http://www.msnbc.com/news/816566.asp

FALLS CHURCH, Va., Oct. 15 — Ballistics evidence has “conclusively linked” the fatal shooting of a woman Monday night to earlier sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., area, police said Tuesday. A dragnet covered suburban Washington as authorities searched for a light-colored van seen moments after the woman was killed in a mall parking lot by a single bullet to the head.

THE WOMAN, identified as Linda Franklin of Arlingon, Va., was shot with her husband next to her as they loaded bags into their car around 9:15 p.m. in the Home Depot parking lot of the Seven Corners Shopping Center.

Shopper Raymond Massas said he “heard one shot. Not very loud, like a snap. After that I heard people start panicking.”

Minutes later police closed off roads in the area, but nearby freeways made it easy for anyone to quickly leave the scene.

Monday’s killing occurred at one of northern Virginia’s busiest intersections, where major arteries come together to form seven corners. Virginia State Police said the van was last seen traveling east on Route 50 from Falls Church. Interstates 66 and I-95 are nearby.

Falls Church is about 10 miles west of the nation’s capital.

[More at the link posted above]

Silksmoke

Wednesday, October 16, 2002 - 09:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
A single shot has been fired in the vicinity of Catholic University in Washington DC on the Maryland border. No reports of injuries as of yet. This story is just breaking. Witnesses reported seeing a white van with ladder rack leaving the scene, police converged on the area, and have pulled over a white van matching that description. Very sketchy report here, but it's all I've got.

Silksmoke

Wednesday, October 16, 2002 - 10:04 am EditMoveDeleteIP
With reference to the above, police have determined that this shooting incident was not related to the beltway sniper, and there are no reports of injuries.

Wargod

Friday, October 18, 2002 - 08:36 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Space shuttle Atlanis has just touched down at Kennedy Space Center. Sorry I don't have a link, I just saw it on the news. No problems at all.
(I know this isn't a major deal, but I find the space shuttle interesting.

Bob2112

Friday, October 18, 2002 - 09:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
War, you just made my heart skip a beat!

The sister of one of my co-workers was on that mission, actually her first flight on the space shuttle.
My co-worker and her boyfriend (who happens to be my boss) were down there last week to watch the launch.

When the "New Message" window popped up with a
"Breaking News ... Headlines Only Please"
message of
"Wargod: 10/18, 08:50 am: Space shuttle Atlanis has just touched"
I could only think OMH, what now!

Glad there were no problems. :)