Several people have been shot at Northern Illinois University, according to information heard Thursday afternoon over a police scanner and from eyewitness reports. University Police posted a message on the school's Web site by 4:14 p.m. saying the gunman was “no longer a threat” and “the immediate danger has passed.” Northern Illinois
By Matthew Bigg ATLANTA (Reuters) - Dozens of people were injured, some of them seriously, in an explosion at a sugar refinery in the U.S. state of Georgia on Thursday night, local authorities said, adding that no fatalities had been reported yet. Six people were unaccounted for and firefighters were attempting to put out the blaze apparently started by a blast in a bagging room at the Imperial Sugar company plant in Port Wentworth, a suburb of Savannah, said police Sgt. Mike Wilson. Around 38 people were taken to hospital but the number of people with minor injuries was higher, he said, adding that the cause of the early evening blast was not known. "We are still in a search and rescue operation. This is still a fluid and active scene. We still have firefighters actively fighting the blaze at this point," Wilson said. Jay David Goldstein, chief of emergency medicine at Memorial Medical Center in Savannah, described the incident as: "serious, pretty significant.
At least three people were killed and eleven others were injured when a bomb exploded near a bus stand in Dera Murad Jamali, a town about 300 kilometres southeast of Quetta. According to police the bomb exploded prematurely. The police told a foreign news agency that the bomb exploded when the bomber was trying to place the explosives in a sewerage drain. Two people died on the spot, while third lost his life in a hospital, said police. The police arrested the wounded bomber, The News reported. (ANI)
Arsene Wenger has a major worry for Arsenal's major match against Newcastle as he has sustained an injury to his knee.Theo Walcott is ready to fill in the void for Newcastle match by playing on the right hand side of the midfield.Manuel Almunia should return in goal, along with full-back Bacary Sagna. However, striker Robin van Persie (thigh), midfielder Denilson (hamstring) and defender Johan Djourou (groin) are all still sidelined while Kolo Toure, Emmanuel Eboue and Alex Song are on international duty at the African Nations Cup.This match is an important match to Arsenal's title chances.
According to a report in the Denver News, soldiers who were medically unfit or considered borderline have been sent to the Middle East to meet Army goals for “deployable strength.” The newspaper said more than 50 troops were deployed to Kuwait en route to Iraq while they were still getting medical treatment for various conditions. [...]
LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran has reportedly been injured in an aerial raid by Sri Lankan Air Force jets. Sri Lankan Defence Ministry sources claimed that
At least 40 people were injured when two passenger trains collided at Bihar's Saharsa railway station today. The Saharsa-Forbesganj train slammed into the rear of
Sarkozy 'war' with strikersThe French president's ongoing dispute with striking transport unions is far from won, writes Emma Jane Kirby.French police stand guard hours after the death of two youths in a motorcycle collision with a police car in Villiers-le-Bel,...
MADRID (Reuters) - Brazil forward Ronaldinho was included in the Barcelona squad to face Olympique Lyon in the Champions League on Tuesday, but injured France
14-year-old suspect apparently killed himself after attack, police sayCLEVELAND - A gunman opened fire in a downtown high school on Wednesday, and five people were taken to a hospital, the mayor said.The suspected shooter, a 14-year-old male student, apparently killed himself after the rampage, police said.The student identified as the shooter by students at the school had been suspended Monday for fighting, said Charles Blackwell, president of SuccessTech's student-parent organization. School officials said the suspect was not supposed to be at school that day.Jackson said a 57-year-old teacher and 42-year-old man were in stable condition; a 17-year-old boy has been treated for a gunshot wound in the elbow and will soon be released; and a 14-year-old boy, who was shot in the side, appears stable. A 14-year-old girl was also treated for an injured elbow.At least three victims were taken to MetroHealth Center, WKYC-TV reported. One shooting victim was taken to Rainbow Babies and Childre
Four contractors were injured in an ‘explosion’ on the Scunthorpe Corus steelworks.
Three fire engines were called to the coke ovens in Dawes Lane at 11.35am yesterday after a flare stack was ruptured, causing a loud bang.The firefighters stood by as Corus employees isolated the supply to the damaged stack.
Four contractors were treated at an on-site [...]
Right at the moment number of US soldiers wounded the official numbers are 27,936 but estimated numbers could be around 100,000. The amount says it all that many things upset me about the war like the injured soldiers who are not mentioned much at all. The United States media and government talks about the lost lives with not much or no mention of the numbers of soldiers injured. The soldier who
It was 10 pm last night when I received a call from a Houston RCMP. He had spotted a tiny kitten near a box on the side of the road. What he found in the box filled him with sorrow - two dead kittens - flattened by a vehicle. The survivor had an injured face [...]
As if there could be no good news coming from the Ground Zero building, at the crippled and burned Deutsche Bank tower, a pallet jack fell from the 23rd floor this afternoon. The jack, a piece of heavy equipment on...
I couldn't imagine how frightening it would be to be driving along and all of a sudden, drop 64 feet. An interstate bridge jammed with rush-hour traffic suddenly broke into huge sections and collapsed into the Mississippi River Wednesday, pitching dozens of cars 60 feet into the water and killing at least seven people. The eight-lane Interstate 35W bridge, a major Minneapolis artery, was in the midst of being repaired and had several lanes closed when it crumbled. "There were two lanes of traffic, bumper to bumper, at the point of the collapse. Those cars did go into the river," Minneapolis Police Lt. Amelia Huffman. "At this point there is nothing to suggest that this was anything other than a structural collapse." Jamie Winegar of Houston was sitting in traffic shortly after 6 p.m. when all of a sudden she started hearing "boom, boom, boom and we were just dropping, dropping, dropping, dropping." The car she was riding in landed on top of a smaller car but did not fall into
WASHINGTON (AP) — Frustrated by delays in health care, a coalition of injured Iraq war veterans is accusing VA Secretary Jim Nicholson of breaking the law by denying them disability pay and mental health treatment.
The class-action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, set to be filed Monday in federal court in San Francisco, seeks broad change in the agency as it struggles to meet growing demands from veterans returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Suing on behalf of hundreds of thousands of veterans, it charges that the VA has failed warriors on several fronts — from providing prompt disability benefits, to adding staff to reduce wait times for medical care to boosting services for post-traumatic stress disorder.
It’s a sad statement of affairs in this nation when the men and women have to sue the federal government to get the health care and disability benefits they need, deserve and have more than earned…
The V.A. has long been lacking in ne
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