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06 Sep 2011 12:17 #48010
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CBS/AP) NEW YORK - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg blamed illegal handguns for a shooting that killed three people and wounded two police officers a few blocks from the route of the annual West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn. Bullet fragments hit one police officer in the left arm and chest Monday night. He was hospitalized but is expected to survive. Another officer was grazed by a bullet. Two shooters were killed along with a bystander, 56-year-old Denise Gay, who was shot while sitting on a stoop with her daughter merely two doors down from the exchange of gunfire.
Bloomberg said Tuesday Gay's death was "a senseless murder, and another painful reminder I think of what happens when elected officials in Washington fail to take the problem of illegal guns seriously."
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the gunman who killed Gay had an extensive criminal history, including criminal possession of a firearm and assault and drug charges.
"This is a national problem requiring national leadership," Bloomberg said, "but at the moment neither end of Pennsylvania Avenue has had the courage to take basic steps that would save lives."
The gunshots rang out just after 9 p.m. Monday in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood after the hours-long parade, which was also marred by fatal shootings in 2003 and 2005. Post-parade parties are common, but police wouldn't say if Monday's fatal shooting was related to the parade. The shootings started as an exchange between two armed men and when officers who had been assigned to parade duties arrived at the scene, they were fired upon and returned fire, police said.
Meanwhile, Brooklyn City Council member Jumaane D. Williams was briefly detained after getting into a confrontation with police after the parade. The past holiday weekend was particularly violent in New York City. It included a Sunday shooting in the Bronx in which eight people, including children, were wounde
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06 Sep 2011 12:19 #48011
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(AP) MANILA, Philippines -- After capturing a one-ton crocodile that could be one of the biggest caught alive in the world, officials said Tuesday that they were hunting for an even bigger beast that may be lurking in the creeks of a remote southern Philippine region.
Villagers and veteran hunters ensnared a 20-foot saltwater crocodile over the weekend after a three-week hunt along a creek in Bunawan township in remote Agusan del Sur province, where terrified villagers have reported at least one deadly attack by the huge reptiles.
The crocodile -- weighing 2,370 pounds -- was the biggest to be caught alive in the Philippines in recent years. Wildlife officials were trying to confirm whether it was the largest such catch in the world, said Theresa Mundita Lim of the government's Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau.
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06 Sep 2011 13:25 #48018
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Stocks skidded Tuesday, with the Dow industrials losing as much as 300 points, amid renewed fears of a eurozone debt crisis and concerns about the global economy.
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06 Sep 2011 13:28 #48021
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Did you notice the same pontifications being regurgitated fro the market's performance? Man...it is like these guys forget what the market did yesterday, and then convienently remembers to trade on the said information the next day. Go figure!!!!
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06 Sep 2011 13:31 #48025
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I don't watch the news...I just base my decisions ont he macro-economic and geographic factors...and even that is now being questioned by the experts
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06 Sep 2011 13:33 #48027
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This is now getting outrageous...every Labor day parade sees someone getting killed senselessly. They should ban the damn thing...ala Kamla. ::rofl::
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