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Google?? No notice or recognition of the anniversary of one of the most destructive attact on CONUS in 10+ years? Really?

<p>WASHINGTON -- So much for the argument that having more people armed in public places will result in fewer gun deaths.</p> <p>One of the three killed recently by a Las Vegas couple, Jerad and Amanda Miller, was an armed civilian, Joseph Wilcox. Two police officers who were also killed, Igor Soldo and Alyn Beck, were ambushed while having lunch. Seated in a booth, they had no chance to defend themselves, according to witnesses.</p>

The woman who told police she was the victim of a brutal hate crime in Lincoln last month will be arrested on suspicion of lying to police. The Lancaster County Attorney issued an arrest warrant Tuesday morning for Charlie Rogers, who is charged with misdemeanor false reporting. Rogers, 33, told police three masked men broke into her apartment on July 22, tied her up, carved anti-gay slurs into her skin and tried to light her house on fire. After binding her with zip ties, she told police, one of the men held her down while another cut derogatory words into...

I put a thread in thursday about some "genius" who actually bragged about sign theft in the school paper. It made front page news, with a huge picture to boot. Look here Well, sure enough, you can't "mess" with the law... Picture in paper leads police to thief Lincoln police recovered 13 stolen street signs in a search of junior biochemistry major Dustin Rewinkel's apartment Thursday afternoon. Lincoln Police Capt. Doug Srb said police obtained the search warrant after a story and picture ran in Thursday's Daily Nebraskan detailing how Rewinkel stole several signs. An arrest could be forthcoming, Srb...

The whole process seems deceptively simple. Junior biochemistry major Dustin Rewinkel said he could remove a street sign within minutes. All it usually required was a couple spins of a socket wrench and maybe the help of a Channellock tool. He quickly could have a sign off its pole and into the back of his car. All of this would be done under the cover of darkness, he said. "We got a system down. Three a.m. works the best. Once everyone is already home from the bars," he said. Rewinkel said he had stolen more than a dozen signs since...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - U.S. forces in tanks and armored vehicles stormed into the center of Baghdad on Monday, seizing one of Saddam Hussein's palaces and briefly surrounding the Information Ministry in a bold daylight raid aimed at demonstrating the Americans can come and go as they please. More than 70 tanks and 60 Bradley fighting vehicles took part in the lightning thrust by the Army's 3rd Infantry Division, with tank-killing A-10 Warthog planes and pilotless drones providing air cover against mostly disorganized resistance. At the city's southern edge, though, Marines and Army troops faced bloody fighting. Two Marines were...

Title says it all... Haven't heard from him for a while. When last listened, all I heard was "don't worry, Paul has a little laryngitis, that's all" Any body know the story?