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A Milwaukee firefighter was shot overnight Sunday while he and other firefighters tended to a patient who had trouble breathing. The 46-year-old firefighter, whose name was not released, suffered a graze wound to the right side of his head and has since been treated and released from the hospital, according to a fire department news release issued Monday. Firefighters were called just after midnight to the area of N. 40th St. and W. Lisbon Ave. to assist a patient with trouble breathing. Firefighters assessed and treated the patient and were in the process of transferring the patient to Curtis Ambulance...

The West Oaks Mall in Ocoee, Florida was the scene of a St. Valentine’s Day riot by nearly one thousand middle and high school students, several of them armed, who stormed a movie theater at the mall and then looted a nearby gas station Police reported gun shots were fired in the air by the ‘teens’, but that no one was wounded. Estimates of the size of the mob range from around 800 to 900. Only one person was reported to be arrested. WESH-TV in Orlando, Florida reported on the riot. “Investigators said about 800 teens tried to rush into...

Last night, new year's eve, I waited for midnight, listening intently.  I was in North Dallas, and I had heard that celebratory gunfire was sometimes practiced in the area.  About 10 pm, I heard 4-8 gunshots, (or good facsimiles there of).  They were distant, so I could not be certain.   From 12:01 am to 12:20 am, I heard about 50.  Most were clearly gunshots.  They fit the pattern of gunshots.   There is a certain cadence that is different from firecrackers or random loud noises.   In addition, the timing, just after midnight seems much more than coincidental.  It is a...

Monday night while covering the Ferguson riots MSNBC’s Chris Hayes was forced off air because he had to run for cover from gun shots ringing out behind him ...

Another indication to suggest that this is a jihad terror attack. Nothing conclusive yet, however. “UPDATING: Gunman killed at Parliament Hill, other suspects sought,” by Blair Crawford, Ottawa Citizen, October 22, 2014: A gunman has been shot and killed inside Parliament Hill’s Centre Block and police are swarming over downtown Ottawa hunting for other possible suspects after several shootings rocked Ottawa on Wednesday morning — including one at the War Memorial that wounded a soldier and another near the Rideau Centre mall. The War Memorial shooting occurred just before 10 a.m., and the shooter then apparently drove to the gates...

Fox News just interrupted their broadcast of Gretta with the announcement that gunfire has erupted on the MIT campus at Building 32. The incident is considered "active" at this time.

Gunfire from Syria was directed at IDF soldiers who were patrolling the border on Sunday morning. The IDF returned fire on a Syrian army position from which the soldiers were attacked. There were no injuries or damage reported on the Israeli side, the army said. All work along the security fence to fortify the frontier has been temporary suspended, the army added. The IDF did not clarify whether the incident was the result of accidental fire from the Syrian civil war or a direct attack on the IDF soldiers.

Yesterday we made it very clear why with the Turkey provocation avenue to further Middle East escalation rapidly closing, the one pathway left is Lebanon. Sure enough, today the escalation playbook is firmly in play - from Reuters: "Heavy gunfire erupted in central Beirut on Sunday after protesters tried to storm the offices of Prime Minister Najib Mikati, demanding that he quit over the assasination of a top intelligence official. An official said security forces had fired in the air. Witnesses said at least two protesters had fainted, apparently as a result of tear gas fired by security forces after...

Update - 5:45PM - As reported just moments ago, the Egged #2 bus was leaving the Kosel bus boarding area when gunfire erupted nearby, likely targeting the bus. Police quickly arrived to find that the bus had suffered some damage, but that B'H all the people on the bus escaped injury. As of the time of this writing the only injury being reported is an Arab man, and it is not known if he was the shooter or somehow involved, or just a bystander

A second degree felony charge of burglary of a habitation escalated into a first degree felony charge of aggravated robbery for three Mount Pleasant men this morning after gunshots were exchanged between the suspects and the caretaker of the building. “Burglars need to realize that if they don’t want to get shot, they shouldn’t be breaking into people’s homes,” said Titus County Sheriff Tim Ingram, who said charges would not be pursued against the caretaker of Mr. Pat’s Emporium who defended both his boss’ property and his own life this morning during a shootout with burglary suspects. The call for...

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/03/19/libya.civil.war/index.html?hpt=T1&iref=BN1 More than 110 Tomahawk missiles fired from American and British ships and submarines hit about 20 Libyan air and missile defense targets in western portions of the country, U.S. Vice Adm. William Gortney said at a Pentagon briefing.

hots fired at City Hall prompt Texas AG to ask for more troops on border EL PASO – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today demanded that President Obama send more troops to the Texas-Mexico border and used the shots that hit El Paso City Hall as an example of increased violence on the border. Abbott said in a letter that the seven shots that hit City Hall in El Paso were an example of the violence that is plaguing the border area and that sending 1,200 National Guard soldiers to the entire U.S.-Mexico border is not enough

Just now on on CNN there was some incredible live TV. Dr. Sanjay Gupta has been wearing the two hats of journalist and physician. Earlier this evening he was in a medical tent with about 25 patients who have just had surgery or are extremely ill. There were roughly 10 UN docs and nurses there as well. At some point the docs were told to evacuate for "security reasons". Dr. Gupta said he'd heard no gunfire- there hadn't been any trouble this evening- and yet suddenly all these docs and nurses were told to leave. They left. LEAVE THEIR PATIENTS...

Sporadic gunfire was heard Wednesday night outside the hotel where CNN is lodged. Sirens could be heard at times, but the predominant sounds in the pre-dawn darkness were the shouts and screams from the thousands of people who spent the night in a dark park across the street. A rooster's crowing could sometimes be heard above the din. SNIP The hotel resembles a compound, with razor wire topping eight-foot walls and a gated parking lot, guarded by a man wielding an old shotgun. And although the hotel's residents seemed safe, and street violence had not been seen, there was a...

Iranian security forces have clashed violently with opposition supporters in central Tehran, witnesses say. Police used batons and tear gas, according to the witnesses. There were also unconfirmed reports of security forces using live rounds. State media confirmed there had been clashes, though a foreign media ban means details are hard to verify. The violence came on the day that Iran holds an annual commemoration for the killing of three students in 1953. Early on Monday, hundreds of Iranian police were reported to have surrounded Tehran University to try to block protests. Iranian security forces, including the elite Revolutionary Guards,...

Gunfire Erupts As Sailors Approach Lifeboat Holding Somali Bandits And Hostage; FBI Prepares For Piracy Prosecution CBS News Interactive: About Somalia NAIROBI, Kenya (CBS) ― Pirates opened fired as a small U.S. Navy team approached the enclosed lifeboat on which an American was being held hostage in waters off the coast of Somalia, CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozer reports. A Defense Department official told CBS News that the Navy team was in a rubber craft headed toward the lifeboat holding the kidnapped captain of the Maersk Alabama when Somali pirates fired at or in the general direction of the Navy...

<p>Two drivers were shot to death and a third injured on roads in northeast Dallas and Garland during rush hour Monday evening.</p> <p>Police were investigating four incidents Monday after the first fatal shooting was reported about 5:40 p.m. in Garland just north of LBJ Freeway. Police are working to establish whether the three shootings in Dallas are related to the Garland one.</p>

TRIPOLI, Lebanon - Sporadic gunfire erupted Thursday inside the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp where Islamic militants are holed up after refusing an ultimatum by Lebanon's defense minister to surrender or face a military onslaught. Lebanon's leader vowed to uproot the fighters. Insurgents from the al-Qaida-inspired Fatah Islam militant group barricaded in the Palestinian refugee camp vowed not to give up and to fight any Lebanese assault. Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora, in an address to the nation, said that his government would stamp out Fatah Islam. "We will work to root out and strike at terrorism, but we will embrace...

SEYMOUR, Ind. - Sniper shootings of two vehicles along Interstate 65 in southern Indiana early Sunday left one person dead and another injured, state police said. ADVERTISEMENT A sniper shot at a southbound vehicle about 12:20 a.m., killing one of its three occupants, police said. About the same time, occupants of a second southbound vehicle called police to report a passenger had been shot. The victim was hospitalized with injuries that were not life-threatening, police said. Authorities closed a 14-mile stretch of the interstate in the area, about 40 miles south of Indianapolis. A preliminary investigation showed the sniper fired...

MIRA MESA – One man died in a three-car wreck late yesterday afternoon, and San Diego police officers were investigating the death as a possible homicide. Witnesses said they heard several shots fired at the victim's car from another car just before the crash about 5:30 p.m. at Mira Mesa Boulevard and Camino Ruiz, said homicide Lt. Jeff Sferra. The apparent shooter was not involved in the crash and fled in a car described possibly as a white compact, he said. A police officer who saw the crash performed CPR on the man, 18, who died shortly after 6 p.m....