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[Redondo]

TREASURES TRASHED
$5 million in 'stolen' diamonds found in garbage

[Redondo]

Airport worker killed after being sucked into jet engine

 

Airport and airline authorities in India on Thursday began investigating the death of a technician who was sucked into an aircraft engine at an airport in Mumbai.

 

Air India chief Ashwani Lohani said the accident happened Wednesday evening when the plane was being moved from an airport gate. A pilot misinterpreted a signal and switched on the plane's engine.

Lohani said the aircraft was being pushed back from the gate when the accident happened.

 

The maintenance engineer was working on equipment used to push back the aircraft when he was sucked into the engine and killed instantly, Lohani said.

 

The plane was full of passengers for a flight from Mumbai to the southeastern city of Hyderabad.

[Redondo]

• Top VA watchdog resigns after being caught masturbating on the job

Jon Wooditch, the Department of Veterans Affairs’ former top watchdog, resigned after being caught masturbating in the agency’s all-glass conference room in full view of people across the street, including school teachers at an education conference.

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Airport worker killed after being sucked into jet engine

Airport and airline authorities in India on Thursday began investigating the death of a technician who was sucked into an aircraft engine at an airport in Mumbai.

Air India chief Ashwani Lohani said the accident happened Wednesday evening when the plane was being moved from an airport gate. A pilot misinterpreted a signal and switched on the plane's engine.

Lohani said the aircraft was being pushed back from the gate when the accident happened.

The maintenance engineer was working on equipment used to push back the aircraft when he was sucked into the engine and killed instantly, Lohani said.

The plane was full of passengers for a flight from Mumbai to the southeastern city of Hyderabad.

I mean... If you are going to go

[arch stanton]

That's what happens when aircrew get impatient or lax. I've had a few run-ins with pilots about not paying attention or getting in a hurry.

[gotbeer]

Turing CEO Martin Shkreli arrested for securities fraud

 

Hope they put him in a cell with Bubba.

[Redondo]

• 
  BREAK IN MURDER CASE

  Gang members believed linked to burning death

 

The hunt for the killer of a 19-year-old Mississippi woman who was burned alive last year has resulted in the arrests of 17 suspected gang members, authorities said this week, though none have been directly linked to the woman's death. 

 

FBI officials announced the arrests Tuesday of suspected members of the Black Gangster Disciples, Vice Lords, and Sipp Mob street gangs, according to The Clarion-Ledger newspaper.

 

Officials told the paper the investigation, dubbed "Operation Bite Back", was focused on Panola County, in the northwest of the state, and was a byproduct of the investigation into the death of Jessica Chambers.

[gotbeer]

Jackpot-fixing investigation expands to more state lotteries

[Redondo]

TODD STARNES:
Students sing 'Allah Akbar' at Minn. holiday concert

 

 

• CONTROVERSIAL LESSON: Virginia county cancels classes Friday over Islam lesson backlash

[Redondo]

TEEN'S HEROIC ACT
HS football player dies shielding girls from gunfire

[Redondo]

Off-duty Baltimore cop kills robbery suspect brandishing toy gun

 

An off-duty Baltimore cop shot and killed an armed robbery suspect who police say tried to rob the officer with what turned out to be a toy gun.

The shooting Saturday at 1:30 a.m. on a block of homes decorated with Christmas lights in the Baltimore suburb of Linthicum Heights was being investigated by Anne Arundel County Police, Fox 45 reported. Police said, according to the the station, that the officer fired in self-defense. They identified the robbery suspect as 32-year-old Edel Moreland.

 

“We feel very bad for the Moreland family to deal with the loss of a son especially around the holidays,” Anne Arundel Police Lt. Ryan Frashure told the station. “I’m sorry, our condolences to the family. Our condolences to the Baltimore city officer. It’s a very unfortunate incident to be placed into.”

The officer, who was not identified, is an 18-year veteran of the department assigned to the special operations unit.

 

“He had just gotten off work,” Frashure told WJZ-TV. “He had his duty weapon inside of a bag and when the suspect asked for a wallet, he reached into his bag like he was getting his wallet. That’s when he shot the suspect because he was pointing a gun at him.”

 

The cop, who was not in uniform, fired several shots at Moreland. Police said, according to the station, that Moreland had been homeless for some time. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

 

Police determined after the shooting that Moreland’s weapon was a realistic-looking toy gun.

 

“It looked like a black revolver,” Frashure told WJZ. “That’s believed what the suspect pointed at the officer.”

[Tank]

 

TEEN'S HEROIC ACT

HS football player dies shielding girls from gunfire

 

 

tragic end to this kids young life. what a heroic thing he did. way to step up, kid.

[Redondo]

• One dead after tire explodes at auto center

 

SALEM, N.H. –  Police in New Hampshire say a large truck tire has exploded at an auto center, killing a worker and seriously injuring a customer.

 

Police say they were called to the Sears Auto Center in Salem at about 7:50 a.m. Saturday.

 

According to a 911 call, a caller reported that a worker was filling up the tire when it "exploded off the machine" and hit both men in the head.

 

Police say 22-year-old worker Justin Almon, of Sandown, died of head injuries.

 

Police say 23-year-old customer Adam Sproul, of Boothbay, Maine, was flown to Boston Medical Center with serious head injuries.

[Redondo]

 

 

HORROR ON THE LAS VEGAS STRIP
One dead, dozens hurt as driver plows pedestrians on sidewalk

 

INVESTIGATORS SAY a woman intentionally drove her car onto the sidewalk on a crowded section of the Las Vegas Strip 'two or possibly three times' late Sunday, killing at least one person and injuring 37 others — 6 of them critically — but are not calling it an act of terrorism.

[Tank]

i think we're at a point where we can safely distinguish between domestic acts of terror vs. radical jihadists terrorism.

 

this was a domestic terrorist attack.

[nate]

Her name was Lakisha or something and she was 24.  Chances she was trying to mow over her baby daddy for cheating on her?

[Redondo]

Surgeons perform life-saving procedures on Moroccan teen with 'ticking time bomb' on face

[Redondo]

HONESTY REPAID
Busboy who gave back
$3G receives big reward

 

A struggling Colorado busboy who returned $3,000 in cash that he found on the floor is getting rewarded with a big tip.

 

As of Monday, people impressed with Johnny Duckworth's honesty have raised more than $3,800 through gofundme.com.

 

He found the cash Tuesday at Randy's Southside Diner in Grand Junction, and handed it over to his boss, Randy Emmons.

 

The money was in an envelope behind a booth. There was also a bank ATM slip inside, and the bank was able to return the money to its owner, who gave Duckworth a $300 tip.

Emmons told KKCO-TV that Duckworth rides his bike to work, and his paycheck is garnished for medical bills.

 

Duckworth says he never thought of keeping the money, saying "I work for a living."

[Redondo]

• 'OH, HECK NO!' Alaska church tips pizza delivery driver $1,900

[Redondo]

Deadly Las Vegas crash suspect told police she was tired, stressed

[gotbeer]

Deadly Las Vegas crash suspect told police she was tired, stressed

 

Phew.  I'm tired and stressed to.  Glad to see that it's an excuse for murder. 

 

You all better watch out.

[Redondo]

Saudi man's family calls for divorce after wife kisses camel

[Redondo]

NO MONKEY BUSINESS

Paper pulls cartoon showing Cruz's daughters as trained primates

 

 

 

 

THE WASHINGTON POST removes a cartoon depicting the GOP candidate's daughters Caroline and Catherine as animals after criticism from Cruz — as a top Post editor admits he didn't see the cartoon before it was published.

[Redondo]

10 strange and slightly scary Christmas traditions around the world

[Hollyw00d]

http://www.laweekly.com/news/a-drug-rehab-mogul-built-an-empire-that-s-now-being-probed-by-the-fbi-da-and-state-of-california-6390686?utm_source=Newsletters&utm_medium=email

Does this sound fair to you? Seems like the girl was kind of an F up