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December 16, 2011         6:15 pm The gunman who shot four people — two of them fatally — before killing himself at a Southern California Edison office Friday appeared to target specific victims, a witness said. The unidentified man, an Edison employee, began shooting after 1:30 p.m. at the sprawling Edison facility at [...]

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  13 December 2011          21:52 ET Police in Belgium are trying to determine what motivated a local man to open fire on a busy marketplace in Liege, killing at least four people. Nearly 125 people were wounded, some critically, when 33-year-old Nordine Amrani fired bullets and hurled grenades before killing himself. [...]

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28 November 2011      03:37 ET Family, friends and the football world are trying to come to terms with the death of Wales manager Gary Speed. Tributes continue to pour in after the 42-year-old was found dead at his home in Chester on Sunday morning. It is understood he was found hanged. Former team-mate [...]

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9:42 AM EST     Wednesday October 19, 2011 Flashing signs on the highways in eastern Ohio warned motorists Wednesday: Exotic animals on the loose. Call 911. Schools shuttered and some frightened residents said they were hunkering down in their homes as sheriff’s deputies hunted lions, tigers, leopards and grizzly bears that escaped from a preserve [...]

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September 21, 2011    4:23 pm Five months ago, Jamey Rodemeyer, a Buffalo junior high school student, got on his webcam and created a video urging other gay teenagers to remain hopeful in the face of bullying. The 14-year-old spoke of coming out as bisexual and enduring taunts and slurs at school. And he described, [...]

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February 12th, 2011 A nine-year-old boy in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district has allegedly committed suicide, frustrated by his inability to qualify for a television dance show. Sandip Mondol, a class 5 student of the city, was found hanging from the ceiling of his house in Kasba area by his father Debkumar Mondal on [...]

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February 8, 2011, 9:03am Former Energy Chief Angelo Reyes was reportedly shot in the chest. Reyes was rushed to the Quirino Hospital in Quezon City and reports have it that he died at around 8:30 a.m. He was 65. He is survived by his wife and 5 children. UPDATE: Reyes was reported to have committed [...]

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Saturday, January 8, 2011 News of the death of Tom Cavanagh, the Worcester Sharks’ all-time leading scorer, came as a devastating shock to his longtime coach, Roy Sommer. “I’m still numb, to tell you the truth,” Sommer said last night, a day after authorities discovered Cavanagh’s body in the parking garage of the Providence Place [...]

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Friday, January 7th, 2011 Bill Zeller, a fifth-year graduate student in the computer science department, died Wednesday night at age 27 as a result of injuries from a suicide attempt. Zeller was found in his University apartment by Public Safety officers at about 6 a.m. Sunday, shortly after he attempted to take his own life. [...]

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Thursday January 6, 2011 He felt the need to apologize. On the afternoon when Robert Butler Jr. walked into Millard South High School brandishing a handgun, on the afternoon when he killed a longtime assistant principal and severely wounded the principal, on the afternoon when he shattered a run-of-the-mill Wednesday and reminded Omaha what this [...]

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