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Harper: Controversal Drug Will Do Little To Reduce Cervical Cancer Rates Dr. Diane Harper, lead researcher in the development of two human papilloma virus vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, said the controversial drugs will do little to reduce cervical cancer rates and, even though they’re being recommended for girls as young as nine, there have been no efficacy trials in children under the age of 15. Dr. Harper, director of the Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Research Group at the University of Missouri, made these remarks during an address at the 4th International Public Conference on Vaccination which took place in Reston, Virginia...

ASHBURN, Va. -- Desiree Jennings thought it would be a good idea to get the seasonal flu shot. Her job offered incentives for it, and she didn't want to get sick. Ten days after she got the shot at a Reston Safeway, she did get sick. "I got flu-like symptoms -- nausea, vomiting, body aches, fever -- then was lethargic for a week and started blacking out," said Jennings, an AOL employee and Washington Redskins ambassador hoping to one day be a cheerleader for the team, the Loudoun Times-Mirror reported. Doctors couldn't figure out why her ability to speak and...

4 Police Officers Shot in NJ The Associated Press LAKEWOOD, N.J. - Four Lakewood police officers have been shot executing a search warrant in New Jersey. Deputy Chief Michael Mohel (mohl) says members of the tactical unit were serving a no-knock narcotics and weapons warrant around 2:25 a.m. Thursday when Jamie Gonzalez opened fire

A Tampa police officer was shot and killed on Nebraska Avenue late Wednesday. His name was not available at press time, but police said he was a veteran officer. A man in his 20s was taken into custody.

PALM BAY, Fla. -- Police shot a dog Thursday while responding to a domestic disturbance in Palm Bay. Officers, with guns drawn, approached a house on Geary Street. That's when a pit bull charged at officers. Officers say they were forced to open fire. "I myself fired a bean bag, less lethal round, hitting the pit bull in the head. The other officer fired a 9-mm, hitting the pit bull in the right rear leg," explained Sgt. Don Smith, Palm Bay Police Department. The dog survived the shots. Police took the dog, along with two others, into custody. Police also...

MELBOURNE BEACH, Fla. -- The Florida Department of Law Enforcement says officers caught suspected wildlife cop shooter, Christopher Eddy, Friday evening in Melbourne Beach. Eddy, 23, is suspected of shooting veteran Fish and Wildlife Officer Vann Streety at least six times, during a traffic stop in a rural area in west Cocoa. Investigators tracked Eddy down in a wooded area on A1A, in Melbourne Beach after he tried to steal a car. Eddy admitted his crime to Eyewitness News as he was being handcuffed. “It was just unjust the way they treated me, because they pulled me over and they...

Obama won't back the protesters because if the thugocracy crushes them, Barry will need to negotiate with the mullahs. It's getting harder and harder to justify that position when you see stuff like this. This woman was reportedly just standing with her father watching the protests when the Iranian State police gunned her down. If you would prefer to go for ice cream, like the president did this afternoon, instead of witnessing the tyranny that Obama is appeasing, I don't blame you. But then again, you are not the President of the United States.

Clarendon County (WLTX) - A Clarendon County waitress is accused of shooting a customer at the restaurant after the two had a dispute. Yakeisha Ward, 29, is charged with assault and battery with intent to kill. Yakeisha Ward An early morning run for breakfast at the Waffle House on Paxville Highway in Manning turned terribly wrong for Crystal Samuel. Crystal Samuels "I thought I was gonna get me an All-Star," says Samuel. A popular meal on the menu. "Grits, sausage, toast, eggs and a waffle," says Samuel. She didn't get what she came for. Instead, she says while she...

Police: Man Shot Driving Away From FightMan Shot After Fight On Winston-Salem Street UPDATED: 3:52 pm EDT April 25, 2009 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Police in Winston-Salem arrested a man on Saturday in connection with a shooting the night before. **SNIP** While Golden was attempting to leave the area, Gilmore got a gun and fired several times outside his residence. One of the rounds entered the vehicle in which Golden was riding. The round then struck Golden on the right side of his back. He was driven to Forsyth Medical Center with injuries that were not life-threatening. Gilmore was arrested and...

RIVERVIEW, FL -- It was supposed to look like a suicide. Detectives knew something wasn't right when they began their investigation into the death of Arthur Tilley. He was found shot to death Tamra Leasure's Riverview home on March 5th. Leasure was arrested Monday on 2nd degree murder charges after detectives said she shot Tilley three times with a handgun and then placed the gun in Tilley's hand to make it look like a suicide. Detectives say the pair were arguing in the kitchen when Tilley, of Dedham, Maine, was shot three times, once in the head, neck and upper...

Key witness in passport fraud case fatally shot A key witness in a federal probe into passport information stolen from the State Department was fatally shot in front of a District church, the Metropolitan Police Department said yesterday. Lt. Quarles Harris Jr., 24, who had been cooperating with a federal investigators, was found late Thursday night slumped dead inside a car, in front of the Judah House Praise Baptist Church in Northeast, said Cmdr. Michael Anzallo, head of the department's Criminal Investigations Division. Cmdr. Anzallo said a police officer was patrolling the neighborhood when gunshots were heard, then Lt. Harris...

WINTER SPRINGS, Fla. -- A Seminole County woman remained in jail Monday morning, after being accused of attempting to kill her own husband and then trying to cover up the crime. Deputies were called to the couple's Winter Springs home after a report of a home invasion early Sunday morning. Police have since charged Kimberly Boone, 44, with attempted murder in the first-degree. At approximately 5:45am, deputies responded to 714 Boysenberry Ct, in Winter Springs, regarding a call of a possible residential burglary with shots fired. Upon arrival deputies found 41-year-old Robert Boone in the bedroom with a gunshot wound...

Police Releasing Few Details CARTHAGE, N.C. -- At least five people have been shot at a nursing home in Moore County, police said Sunday afternoon. Police were at the scene of the shooting at the Pinelake Nursing Home at 801 Pinehurst Ave. in Carthage at 12:30 p.m. According to sister station WNCN, the five people shot were taken to Moore Regional Hospital. WXII 12 has a crew at the scene and will bring more information as soon as it is available.

OAKLAND -- Four Oakland police officers were shot and seriously wounded this afternoon after a car stop went bad, police sources reported. Two of the officers were gunned down outside their patrol car after they pulled over a car in the 7400 block of MacArthur Boulevard, not far from the Eastmont Town Center. Another officer reported was shot while in pursuit of the suspect. It was not clear where the fourth officer was shot. A suspect was later reported to also have been shot.

Police say an Iraqi soccer player has been shot dead just as he was about to kick what could have been the tying goal in a weekend game south of Baghdad.

A retired St. Paul police officer was wounded Saturday when a pistol belonging to an off-duty Minneapolis police officer accidentally discharged at a gun show. Both men were working security at the Minneapolis Gun Show at the Minneapolis Convention Center when the accident happened about 1:15 p.m., said Minneapolis police spokesman Sgt. Jesse Garcia. The semi-automatic pistol went off when the holster got caught on a chair that the Minneapolis officer was either leaning back on or getting off of, Garcia said. One bullet hit the floor and fragmented pieces struck the retired officer in the leg and hand, Garcia...

The 22-year-old man killed early Thursday in a police shootout was wounded 14 times, with 12 of the bullets hitting him in the back of his body, Orleans Parish Coroner Frank Minyard said.After releasing a terse statement about the shooting Thursday morning, New Orleans police officials ducked questions about the shootout Friday. Meanwhile, the family of Adolph Grimes III, a Brother Martin High School graduate, demanded a thorough criminal investigation, including a federal inquiry and an independent autopsy.Minyard said Friday evening that Grimes died after suffering 14 bullet wounds. Two bullets hit him in the front torso, and 12 struck...

Imagine that a prominent media conservative jokingly hoped, in any way shape or form, that a member of the Dem presidential ticket would be shot. How long until the MSM and various others demanded he be fired, a Secret Service investigation launched, etc? But when Bill Maher jokes about Sarah Palin being shot? Silence, except for the raucous laughter of the studio crowd. Maher offered up his violent fantasy on this past Friday's Real Time on HBO in a regular feature devoted to exploring foreign countries to which people might consider moving in the event of a McCain victory. India...

Detectives were eyeing the daughter of a murdered 100-year-old Long Island woman as a person of interest in her slaying - but they also had other potential suspects, a police source said. Jessie Burke - who reached the century mark on Aug. 7 - was found dead Sunday, shot once in the head inside a million-dollar Sag Harbor home that she shared with her 76-year-old daughter, Jean. Jean told cops that she last saw her mother alive about noon, and that she arrived home about an hour later to find her shot dead in her recliner.

BIDEN: Number one, there is not a single military man in this audience who will tell this senator he can get those troops out in six months if the order goes today. Let's start telling the truth. Number one, you take all the troops out. You better have helicopters ready to take those 3,000 civilians inside the Green Zone where I have been seven times and shot at.

A Levy County man accidentally shot his wife Friday morning when he tried to fend off a fox that had attacked the woman, deputies reported. The animal was killed and will be tested for rabies due to its unusual behavior, said Levy County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Lt. Evan Sullivan. Test results won’t be available until next week, but authorities are advising anyone who comes in contact with a wild animal exhibiting strange behavior to leave it alone and contact law enforcement. Officers were called to an accidental shooting in the 3000 block of SE 18th Ave. in the Morriston area...

"INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - An Indianapolis Metro Police Department officer is currently fighting for his life after being shot while trying to serve a warrant on a possible homicide suspect Thursday night. Officer Jason A. Fishburn, 29, is in critical condition at Wishard Hospital in a medically induced coma. He was shot twice, one bullet hit his torso and was stopped by his bulletproof vest. The second bullet hit Fishburn in the head. Surgeon press conference Doctor Ben Rodgers at Wishard Hospital told reporters that they are very "guarded" about Fishburn's prognosis. Rodgers said, "At this point anything can happen at...

Refugees shot fleeing North Korea Michael Sheridan in Hunchun, China North Korean guards, newly armed with Russian Dragunov sniper rifles, have shot dead refugees attempting to ford the river that divides their hungry homeland from China, according to human rights campaigners. On the Chinese shore alone, two bodies, marked by several bullet holes, were found by a local activist, said Tim Peters, an American pastor who runs a Christian group supporting the fugitives. The shootings indicate a coordinated change in tactics by North Korea and China to deter refugees from crossing. They want to stamp out bribery among border guards...

JERUSALEM, May 23 (UPI) -- Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair had a close call Thursday when two Israeli jets threatened to shoot down his plane, officials said. Blair, now a special Middle East envoy, was en route to Bethlehem from Egypt when his private jet was spotted entering Israeli airspace. When controllers could get no response from the pilot and fearing a terrorist attack, they scrambled fighter jets to intercept the aircraft, the Times of London reported Friday. The pilot identified himself after the fighter jets got in position to fire and the interceptors peeled off and returned to...

A man opened fire into a crowd of people Wednesday night, hitting a woman holding her 2-year-old granddaughter and the woman's 18-year-old male relative in St. Paul's Dayton's Bluff neighborhood, police said today. The 49-year-old woman and the man were each shot in the leg and had non-life-threatening injuries, said Peter Panos, police spokesman. A fight between juveniles had broken out in the street near the woman's home in the 700 block of Conway Street about 6:30 p.m., Panos said. The woman went to get her granddaughter from the yard, he said. "As she started to walk back to the...

A 150-pound cougar was shot and killed Monday evening in the Roscoe Village neighborhood on Chicago's North Side, Chicago police said. The incident occurred around 6 p.m. in an alley near North Hamilton Avenue and West Roscoe Street, according to officials. Police cornered the cougar in the back yard of Ben Greene, 39, who lives on the 3400 block of North Hoyne. Greene said he heard a volley of gunfire shortly before 6 p.m. as he was bathing his 10-month-old son. His wife, Kate, ran upstairs screaming with their 3-year-old son, and they all took cover in a back room

An archer has achieved a one-in-a-million feat of marksmanship after splitting one arrow with another. What makes the shot even more remarkable is that Tilly Trotter is blind. The 74-year-old grandmother pulled off the shot, known among archers as a "Robin Hood", at a practice session of the Wellington Bowmen in Somerset. Mrs Trotter, who has been an archer for two years at the invitation of granddaughter Charlotte, said: "The second arrow made such a noise going into the back of previous arrow I thought I had hit the ceiling or done some expensive damage. "Then I heard people jumping...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE ZORMAT, Afghanistan, March 14, 2008 – An Afghan girl who survived a Feb. 26 tribal shoot-out that killed several members of her family is doing well today, thanks to the efforts of soldiers here. Army Staff Sgt. Landon B. Powell, head medic, Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 4th Squadron, 73rd Calvary Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Forward Operating Base Zormat, Afghanistan, sends a medical evacuation request for a girl who had been shot in a tribal conflict, Feb. 26, 2008. Photo by Spc. Nathan W. Hutchison, USA  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. “I...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii, Feb. 24, 2008 – The crewmembers of the USS Lake Erie were calm as they fired the latest shot heard round the world. The Aegis-class cruiser fired the missile that destroyed a dead spy satellite that posed a threat to humans Feb. 21. Navy Capt. Randall M. Hendrickson, the Lake Erie’s commanding officer, spoke to reporters today aboard the ship, which has just returned from the mission. The visiting reporters are traveling with Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who visited the ship. The captain said the crew worked intensively...

Kenya peace talks called off as second MP shot By David Blair, Diplomatic Editor Last Updated: 1:55am GMT 01/02/2008 Talks designed to end the political crisis in Kenya were called off yesterday after police shot dead an opposition MP. Telegraph TV: Crisis hits Kenya's vital flower market David Kimutai Too, who died in the Rift Valley town of Eldoret, was the second MP from the opposition Orange Democratic Movement to have been murdered this week. Mugabe Were, another backbencher, was killed on Tuesday in Nairobi. His death provoked more unrest, with police tear-gassing mourners outside his home. Mr Too's murder...

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza – Yusuf Tayem is a victim, yet he is ultimately a story of inspiration. In some ways, he's a victim of his environment – both Palestinian rhetoric and Israeli occupation – encouraged him to throw stones at Israeli soldiers. All the kids did on the way back from school. In America, kids may ride a skateboard home. In Gaza in 2001, kids threw stones. One day, the stone-throwing turned especially nasty and an Israeli soldier fired back, shooting Yusuf, who was 12 years old at the time, through the neck, leaving him paralyzed below the waist. That's...

KOKOMO, Ind. -- Police said a Kokomo man accidentally shot himself in the genitals while robbing a convenience store early Tuesday.

Jingle-bang! Santa's chopper shot up over slumTue Dec 18, 2007 10:33am EST RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Not even Santa Claus is safe as the violent Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro celebrates the Christmas season. Drug traffickers in a Rio slum opened fire on a helicopter carrying a Santa to a children's party, apparently mistaking it for a police helicopter, police said Tuesday. "They thought it was a police operation and started shooting. Luckily, nobody was hurt," a police official said. The helicopter had to return to its base after the attack. Two bullet holes were found in its...

Hudson -- Who shot the Clocktower mouse? That was the question on the minds of Hudson police and many residents who woke up Dec. 5 to find an arrow sticking out of the mouse's head. Barb O'Connor, who works for Realty One on North Main Street, said she got an early morning call from a family member telling her about the arrow in the head of the mouse that annually decorates the Clocktower across the street. "I couldn't believe it," said O'Connor. "Poor little guy. He had an arrow right in the back of his head." O'Connor said she called...

Rodney King shot in San Bernardino 10:41 AM PST on Thursday, November 29, 2007 By PAUL LAROCCO The Press-Enterprise Rodney King was apparently shot and wounded on a San Bernardino street corner late Wednesday night before biking home to Rialto to report the incident, police said. King, the 42-year-old man who gained national fame when his 1991 beating by Los Angeles police was caught on videotape, called Rialto police at 11:39 p.m. to report the shooting, said Sgt. Don Lewis. He had been struck in the face and arm with a shotgun, Lewis said. King reported that the shooting occurred...

CHICAGO -- Police in Chicago are investigating an officer's use of a Taser on an 82-year-old woman. Police said the woman was swinging a hammer when they arrived at her home. They were called there after officials with the city's Department on Aging went to Lillian Fletcher's home last month to make a welfare check.

The Cochise County Sheriff's Office on Friday identified a suspected drug smuggler who was shot and injured by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Thursday afternoon. Ramon Davalos-Lopez, 41, an illegal entrant, was shot east of Douglas after he fled from authorities in a stolen vehicle loaded with more than 800 pounds of marijuana, said Carol Capas, a Cochise County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman. The shooting occurred about 1:45 p.m. Agents from ICE and the Border Patrol, along with the Douglas Police Department, observed Davalos-Lopez in a pickup truck while investigating a drug-smuggling organization, said Vincent Picard an ICE spokesman. Davalos-Lopez...

Robbery target won't be victim, kills intruder When two armed men allegedly attempted to rob a house full of young adults in Brunswick early Monday morning, their victims fought back. A man visiting the house at 601 Wolfe St. in the city's south end pulled a handgun from the front of his pants and shot the two would-be robbers, killing one of them and wounding the other, police said. Police did not release the names of the two suspects. No charges had been filed Monday. The renters of the house, Leah Whitman, 18, Robert Herd, 20, and Josh Stout, 20,...

DALLAS (AP) - A Dallas musician who played with Edie Brickell & New Bohemians was shot to death early this morning after trying to kick in the door of his girlfriend's neighbor. 34-year-old Jeffrey Carter Albrecht died at the scene. Police say the neighbor fired a shot through the door around 4 a.m. The neighbor believed a burglar was trying to break in. The case is under investigation and no arrests have been made. Albrecht, who went by his middle name, had been a keyboard player for the New Bohemians since 1999. He also played keyboard and guitar and sang...

A man armed with two kitchen knives bargains with police after he took two children hostage in a fifth-floor classroom of a children's center in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province August 17, 2004. Patrol police, SWAT team and firefighters rushed to the site for rescue operations. After a two-hour negotiation, police had to shoot the kidnapper when he was on the verge of hurting the hostage children. The two children were rescued unhurt and the kidnapper, identified as Zhang Kailin and in his 30s, fell to the ground and was rushed to hospital for treatment. It is reported Zhang, from southwest China's...

MUSKEGON -- A man who was shot in the forehead when he tried to rob a Muskegon Heights woman in her driveway early Wednesday has a long criminal record, according to police. Edtwon Magett, 32, of Milwaukee, remained on life support Thursday in Hackley Hospital, police said. Magett was shot by his intended victim about 1:30 a.m. in the driveway of a Riordan Street home in what authorities have called a drug-related robbery attempt. His record showed prior convictions for armed robbery and narcotics violations in Wisconsin and Michigan, police said. Authorities said a 27-year-old woman had just pulled into...

Elderly man awakens from beating, fires gun and hits alleged assailant The Associated Press Updated: 5:15 p.m. CT July 27, 2007 EL DORADO, Ark. - An elderly man beaten unconscious by an assailant wielding a soda can awoke and shot the man during an attempted robbery, police said. Willie Lee Hill, 93, told police he saw the robber while in his bedroom Wednesday night. Hill confronted the man and was struck at least 50 times, police said. He was knocked unconscious. Covered in blood, Hill regained consciousness a short time later and pulled a .38-caliber handgun on his attacker. The...

TITUSVILLE, Fla. -- Titusville resident William Herring acted in self-defense when he grabbed a gun and shot two intruders who attacked him in his garage early Sunday morning, killing one of them, police investigators said. It's the third fatal shooting in Titusville in three weeks, but unlike the other two, police are not looking at it as a criminal offense, Local 6 News partner Florida Today reported. Herring, 46, has not been charged. Herring was working in his garage at 908 S. Washington Ave. in downtown Titusville when he spotted two men on his property "in an area they didn't...

MIDWEST CITY, Okla. (AP) -- Midwest City police say they won't cite a man who shot a pit bull terrier that was attacking a meter reader. Jason Fish was reading a meter for Oklahoma Gas and Electric Friday when police say the dog attacked him. A neighbor heard Fish screaming and shot and killed the animal with a shotgun. Midwest City Police Chief Brandon Clabes says Fish was taken to a local hospital with serious injuries. Clabes says the dog's owner -- Terry Almon -- was cited for harboring a vicious animal.

EL DORADO, Ark. (AP) - A man irritated by children throwing rocks at his house shot and killed a 9-year-old boy, police said Tuesday. Officers were called shortly Monday afternoon and found Demotric Moore with a gunshot wound to the neck. The boy was pronounced dead at a hospital. Officers saw Jonathan Watts, 50, inside his home, ordered him to the ground and arrested him. "I've had it with these kids and the rock throwing," Watts said as he was being handcuffed, El Dorado police Capt. David Smith said. Watts told officers that he'd thrown the gun away. Initial calls...

The city recorded its 37th murder of 2007 on Saturday as three people were killed in less than 10 hours. The latest murder occurred in Mid-City, near the intersection of Esplanade and N. Broad avenues, shortly after 2 p.m., according to Joe Narcisse, an NOPD spokesman. Around 11 a.m., police received word of a shooting in the 7800 block of Venice Blvd, Narcisse said. Seventh District Officers found the victim lying in the street with gunshot wounds to his head and arm. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The first shootings of the day took place around 5 a.m....

New Orleans Police said Wednesday they were investigating the second murder in the last 12 hours and fourth shooting in as many hours. According to Officer Garry Flot, an NOPD spokesman, the incident happened at 7 a.m. in the 7900 block of Olive Street in Girt Town. Second District officers found the victim, a 40-year-old man, lying in the street with several gun shot wounds to his body. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said they had not developed any suspect or established a motive as of yet. The victim's name is being withheld pending notification of family...

NEW ORLEANS -- Two shootings within seven hours killed two people and injured seven more, two of them critically, New Orleans police said. Three were shot in a car parked near the Industrial Canal in the Ninth Ward about 6:45 p.m. Thursday. About 1:30 a.m. Friday, a shooting in a Mid-City nightclub wounded six people, one critically. The survivor of the first shooting _ the car's driver _ told police that he knew and had given a ride to the man who shot them, Sgt. Joe Narcisse, a police spokesman, said Friday. "That let us know this was not just...

(AP) CAIRO, Egypt -- An insurgent group that has claimed responsibility for the downing this week of a U.S. helicopter in Baghdad that killed five Americans posted a video on an Islamic Web site showing the wreckage and two bodies. The 1-minute, 14-second video carried the logo of the 1920 Revolution Brigades, a known Sunni militant group. It showed wreckage of a helicopter with bricks scattered around it. The naked bodies of two men, one with gray hair and the other with dark hair, were seen near the wreckage. "Our heroes were able to shoot the film of the helicopter...