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Man Shot and killed 7-Eleven Clerk in front of his Kids
Authorities in Phoenix have arrested a man who walked into a 7-Eleven store with his two young sons, holding one in his arm, and shot the clerk in front of his kids. Although the police has not released the clerk's name, the Arizona Republic says that a nephew of the victim named the clerk as 62-year-old Inder Jit Jassal.
What happened in the ensuing moments was a brief conversation between the man and the store clerk that ended with the man pulling out a gun and, in front of the kids, fatally shooting the clerk, authorities said.
Seven hours after the slaying, acting on a call from a citizen who saw a TV news report, police took Jermaine Canada into custody as he walked along the area of 26th Avenue and Camelback Road. Police say Canada was wearing the same bright orange pair of shorts the gunman was seen wearing in the video.<snip>
"He went in, had a brief conversation, and shot the clerk," said Phoenix Detective Stacie Derge, a department spokeswoman. "Based on the video, it did not appear to be an argument."
The shooting was reported at 2:15 a.m. from a payphone near the intersection of Glendale and 27th avenues. Authorities in Phoenix have arrested a man who walked into a 7-Eleven store with his two young sons, holding one in his arm, and shot ... more -
Fentanyl Kills Over 1,000 in 2 years
The "illegal" version of fentanyl was purchased from a pharmacy and then crushed up into heroin and other opioid narcotics to enhance their effects. They're using a clever word play to make it sound like it wasn't their drug that killed these people, but an "illegal" version.
More than 1,000 people died over two years from an illegal version of the painkiller fentanyl, the government reported Thursday in its first national tally of those deaths.
The wave of fentanyl overdoses first came to light in Chicago in 2005, and by 2006 more clusters were identified in Philadelphia, Detroit and other cities.
Hundreds of deaths from the drug were gradually reported, often episodically in local newspapers. Thursday's report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention puts the toll at 1,013 deaths from early April 2005 through late March 2007.
"This was really an epidemic," said Dr. Steven Marcus, the executive director of New Jersey's poison control center and a co-author of the new report.
Some deaths from illegal fentanyl still occur, but the worst of the outbreak seems to have ended after authorities shut down a fentanyl-making operation in Toluca, Mexico, in May 2006, said Dr. T. Stephen Jones, the study's lead author.
"It almost disappeared entirely. The shutting down of the Toluca facility was probably a major factor," said Jones, a consultant retired from the CDC.
The new report is being published this week in a CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Fentanyl is a prescription painkiller, often prescribed for cancer patients and administered through a patch. But it also is a powerful, euphoria-inducing narcotic, 30 to 50 times more potent than heroin.
Illegally made versions of the drug are sold as a powder, often mixed with cocaine or heroin, and sometimes used as a heroin replacement. It's possible some heroin addicts are unaware fentanyl is part of their injection, some experts say.
Smaller outbreaks of fentanyl-associated deaths in addicts have been reported before, including the "China White" outbreak of the 1980s, famed for being so deadly that drug users dropped dead with needles still in their arms.
The latest outbreak was first noted in Chicago. Patients who recovered from overdoses said they had been given free heroin in orange and pink plastic bags by new drug dealers trying to attract more customers.
The Chicago cases are summarized in the July issue of Clinical Toxicology.
It wasn't until a cluster of overdoses seen in Camden, N.J., emergency rooms in April 2006 that federal officials were notified of the problem, by Marcus.
The resulting investigation was unusual, because some health officials have been reluctant to spend time and energy investigating deaths related to illicit drugs, Marcus said.
"The response when I deal with public health officials is; 'Drug abuse is a dangerous habit, and drug abusers know it's a dangerous habit, so why are we making a big deal out of it?'" he said.
The report distinguished deaths due to illegally made fentanyl from those due to illicit use of the pharmaceutical product. Medical examiners cannot tell the difference from what's seen in an autopsy, so investigators relied on drugs found at the scene and other information to separate the two.
Also, the investigators did not count cases in every city. The tally covers only two states — New Jersey and Delaware — and the cities of Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and St. Louis.
National health statistics show the death rate from unintentional drug poisonings — most of them illicit drug overdoses — roughly doubled from 1999 to 2005.
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Israeli military kills U.N. worker
The UN is demanding an investigation into how the Israeli military killed one of its Palestinian school teachers by blasting open the front door of her Gaza home with explosives in the presence of three of her children.
Wafer Shaker al Daghma, 34, a teacher at a local UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) elementary school, was killed last Wednesday as she stood preparing to open the wooden door of her home to the troops. According to UNRWA and relatives who found her body, the military used an explosive device on the door which blew most of her head from her body. They then confined the traumatised children – aged from two to 13 – for five hours while the body lay outside the door of the room where they were held.
The nation calling itself "Israel" is not the Israel of the bible. The should be held accountable for all their terrorist acts. The UN is demanding an investigation into how the Israeli military killed one of its Palestinian school teachers by blasting open the ... more -
Glen Beck: Kill Gitmo Suspects
GLENN BECK: We're going to shoot them all in the head. If we think that they are against us, we're going to shoot them and kill them, period. GLENN BECK: We're going to shoot them all in the head. If we think that they are against us, we're going to shoot them and k... more
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Judge sentences drunk driver to more than 20 years in prison
In a precedent-setting decision Thursday, an Alberta judge sentenced a drunk driver who killed four people to more than 20 years in prison, and moved to block people convicted of similar crimes from serving their sentences in the community. In a precedent-setting decision Thursday, an Alberta judge sentenced a drunk driver who killed four people to more than 20 years in pr... more
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CSI: Charles Manson
A dig for clandestine graves at Charles Manson's last hideout was called to an end Wednesday after yielding no bodies and leaving scientists puzzled over the clues that had enticed them to come this far.
The dig had been scheduled to last three days, ending Thursday. But the work went faster than scheduled, with the crew of 20 digging until dusk, then camping out at night beside the ranch house Manson and his followers had used.
"So far there have been no human remains found," Inyo County Sheriff Bill Lutze said after the four sites with the greatest probability of holding human remains were dug up. "We're finishing up this site and that'll be it for the day - nothing."
Manson and his followers hid out at the ranch following their killing spree in Los Angeles. For years, rumours have swirled about other possible Manson victims, including hitchhikers and runaways who visited the site and were never heard from again.
Scientists who conducted a preliminary probe of the rugged, remote site in February said they identified several spots that could be graves, leading Lutze to conduct the exploratory excavation. A dig for clandestine graves at Charles Manson's last hideout was called to an end Wednesday after yielding no bodies and leaving... more -
Hamster Kills Man!!!
A hamster with lymphocytic choriomeningitis infected and killed a woman's husband and she is suing Petsmart for not testing their rodents. Petsmart spokesman Bruce Richardson claims, "It's not a common disease in pets. It's not something that's tested routinely by us or others." Maybe its time that companies paid a little bit more money to guarantee people that what they sell can't kill them. A hamster with lymphocytic choriomeningitis infected and killed a woman's husband and she is suing Petsmart for not testing their... more
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Japanese giant hornet
The Japanese giant hornet, a killing machine that can kill a thousand honeybees an hour. What's interesting, though, is that certain kinds of honeybees have an amazing defense. The Japanese giant hornet, a killing machine that can kill a thousand honeybees an hour. What's interesting, though, is that cert... more
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