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911 Dispatcher Sorry for 'Shooting' Comment

WATAUGA, Texas – A 911 dispatcher was reprimanded for responding to a mother’s plea for help with an unruly child by saying: “OK. Do you want us to come over to shoot her?” “I admit what I did. It was stupid, it was inexcusable and I’m sorry,” said dispatcher Mike …

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Student Gets Eight Years for Eco-Vandalism

LOS ANGELES – A Caltech graduate student convicted of helping to firebomb scores of sport utility vehicles was sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison and ordered to pay $3.5 million in restitution. A federal judge Monday rejected William Jensen Cottrell’s (search) plea for leniency. “There’s no way …

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Egypt Tourist Bazaar Blast Kills Three

CAIRO, Egypt – An American tourist died Friday from wounds sustained in a bomb blast that rocked a Cairo (search) bazaar popular with foreigners, a U.S. Embassy spokeswoman said, taking the death toll in the Egyptian capital’s first such attack in seven years to three. Micaela Schweitzer-Bluhm (search) said another …

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