British hostage Peter Moore has been released alive after two and a half years held in Iraq.
The IT consultant was kidnapped in May 2007 along with four other British citizens. Three of the hostages were killed and their bodies have already been flown back to Britain. Alan McMenemy, is still unaccounted for but it is [...]
OLDSMAR – Authorities say a Florida man who called 911 claiming he’d been beaten and shot at was hoping the tale would get him a ride to a bar.
Instead, 37-year-old Gregory J. Oras is facing charges of misusing the 911 system and battery of a law enforcement officer.
An arrest report says Oras called 911 three [...]
RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) – Twin suicide bombs killed at least 24 and wounded more than 100 in Iraq’s Sunni Arab heartland on Wednesday and a roadside bomb killed seven pilgrims returning from a major Shi’ite Muslim religious festival.
U.S. forces transported Qassim Mohammed, Sunni governor of the vast desert province of Anbar west of Baghdad, to [...]
MIAMI (UPI) – Survivors of a 1972 Florida airplane crash that killed 101 passengers say they’re gathering to mark the 37th anniversary of the disaster.
The survivors, who were set to meet Tuesday night at a restaurant near Miami International Airport, are getting together for the first time since the Dec. 29, 1972, crash of Eastern [...]
Citrus Times has learned there was some kind of a bomb scare at 9 a.m. on Monday at Inverness Medical Imaging in Inverness.
The Citrus County Sheriff’s Office blocked off the building with patrol cars, and the fire department was staged at the automotive dealership next door, our source reported. Occupants of the building were released.
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Congressional Democrats could soon have a retirement problem on their hands — several representatives in vulnerable districts are stepping down ahead of an election year in which the party’s incumbents are already threatened by discontent over the economy.
In the course of less than a week this month, three Democratic representatives announced their resignations: Rep. [...]
SEATTLE — Authorities in Washington state say one of two officers shot in an ambush by a drunken man has died after being taken off life support.
Detective Ed Troyer says Pierce County sheriff’s deputy Kent Mundell died Monday evening with his family by his side.
Mundell suffered life-threatening injuries in the Dec. 21 shooting.
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North Little Rock, Ark., police have increased the reward money to $10,000 for information leading to the arrests of the suspects who shot and killed a Salvation Army Major in front of his children on Christmas Eve.
Philip Wise, 40, was gunned down in front of the organization’s community center in North Little Rock as his [...]
Industry analysts say it’s still too early to tell what kind of impact a thwarted terrorist attack will have on airlines and business at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, a major gateway for Delta Air Lines Inc.’s international flights.
Even after airline shares fell slightly Monday, aviation experts said the effect on business will largely depend on what [...]
China has warned Britain that it must stop its fierce condemnation of the execution of Akmal Shaikh for drug smuggling, or risk harming diplomatic ties between the two countries.
Government ministers repeatedly called on China to show clemency because Shaikh was believed to suffer from severe bipolar disorder.
On Tuesday, a spokeswoman for China’s foreign ministry [...]
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