[DailyMail] Mystery Texas killings 'solved': Disgraced court official to be charged with murders of Texas district attorney, his wife and assistant DA after they convicted him of theft
Eric Williams, 46, set to be charged with three murders
DA Mike McLelland and his wife Cynthia were killed at their Texas home last month
Assistant DA Mark Hasse was fatally shot in January
Williams had been convicted of theft by McLelland and Hasse two years ago
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Not that Ima fan, but it struck me as odd that the Airy N Brutherhewd would be that stupid. Sorta restores my faith in danger ass kryme cindy kates.
[Bangla Daily Star] One of La Belle France's most dangerous gangsters, known for brazen attacks on cash-in-transit vehicles, yesterday blasted his way out of jail after taking several wardens hostage, officials said. Haven't we seen this movie?
Redoine Faid, who risked a heavy sentence over the 2010 death of a policewoman, used explosives to blast through five prison doors and break free in the northern town of Sequedin.
Police and helicopters were trying to track the 40-year-old, who set fire to his getaway car in the south of the city of Lille before getting into a second vehicle.
State Prosecutor Frederic Fevre said Faid, who had already been La Belle France's most wanted a few years ago, was a "particularly dangerous prisoner" and was still armed and in possession of explosives.
Fevre said Faid had four hostages with him during the jailbreak. One was released just outside the prison, another a few hundred metres away and then the final two were left along a highway.
Wardens unions described the prison break as "an act of war" and also argued that the Sedequin jail was inadequate for such dangerous convicts.
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"and also argued that the Sedequin jail was inadequate for such dangerous convicts. "
I would say that the presence of dynamite in the hands of a dangerous prisoner might also be a teensy problem for their jail procedures.
[Chicago Tribune] Two men were killed and nine other people maimed in shootings across the city between Friday afternoon and early Saturday, from the Old Irving Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side to the South Chicago neighborhood near Lake Michigan.
The 34-year-old man killed in the South Chicago neighborhood late Friday was pronounced dead at Advocate Trinity Medical Center about midnight after someone shot him just after 11 p.m. in the 8700 block of South Burley Avenue.
The Cook County medical examiner's office identified the man as Kevin Sanders, 34, of the 8900 block of South Mackinaw Avenue. He lived near where he was killed.
Police said the man they tossed in the slammer Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! in connection with the shooting, who also had been shot, ran to an apartment of a family friend in a nearby building in the same complex.
Police said his girlfriend's car windows were smashed with a walker near where the shooting happened. About 100 people surrounded the front door of the apartment where he holed up, shouting threats and throwing rocks and bottles.
Wow, it's almost like how a miscreant is treated in certain neighborhoods in Bangladesh...
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Wow, it's almost like how a miscreant is treated in certain neighborhoods in Bangladesh...
Something to keep our eyes on -- the Byzantine empire succumbed to Islam after, among other things, a series of epidemics. I understand work has already started on an inoculation, thanks to proactive steps taken by China.
[Jpost] Two people in the central Chinese province of Henan have been infected by a new strain of avian influenza, the first cases found in the region and bringing the total number nationwide to 51, Xinhua state news agency said on Sunday.
One of the victims, a 34-year old man in the city of Kaifeng, is now critically ill in hospital, while the other, a 65-year old farmer from Zhoukou, is stable. The two cases do not appear to be connected.
A total of 19 people in close contact with the two victims were under observation but had shown no signs of infection, Xinhua said.
On Saturday, the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that a seven year-old child in the capital of Beijing had been infected by the H7N9 bird flu virus, the first case to be reported outside of eastern China, where the new strain emerged last month.
[Ynet] Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday called for joint efforts with the United States to safeguard cyberspace, the state-run news agency ...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?... Xinhua reported. China and the United States should conduct dialogue on cyberspace on a calm and objective basis, Wang told visiting U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... Beijing and Washington have been trading accusations in recent months of massive cyber intrusions.
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I'm not worried the Big 3 and NBC have enough money to buy enough Congresscritters, along with being part of MinTruth for the White House, to get the ultimate protection they want. Decades and decades of a free ride on the American broadcast spectrum have built enough cash to take care of it. While mining and forestry firms have not only paid taxes, they've also had to pay significant royalty fees to use federal lands. Not the broadcast industry. Cause it's a burgeoning technological industry that needs protection (still)? There you go Donks, there's a place worthy of kicking in their 'fair share' taxes for using public property, not.
[Dawn] The top judge of Pakistain Saturday took a suo motu ...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard... notice of the last-minute legislation by the outgoing governments in Sindh and at the centre, in which they declared a lifetime of perks and privileges for certain government dignitaries, DawnNews reported.
Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry also has taken notice of an unprecedented security protocol being provided to ex-prime ministers and issued a notice to the Attorney General of Pakistain in this regard.
In a last-minute hurried legislation, the Pakistain People's Party-led coalition governments in Sindh and at the centre, through bills and notices, had declared indefinite supply of perks and allowances for the office bearers of key government posts.
Former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, federal interior minister Rehman Malik Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. , speaker Sindh assembly Nisar Khoro and chief minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah are also summoned, either in person or through a counsel, to appear before the court on April 16.
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Iraqi soldiers and policemen cast their ballots for provincial elections on Saturday, a week ahead of the main vote that comes amid an uptick in violence and a long-running political crisis.
The credibility of the elections, the first since March 2010 parliamentary polls, has been drawn into question following bloody attacks on candidates and a government decision to partially postpone voting that means only 12 of Iraq's 18 provinces will take part.
At least a dozen hopefuls have been killed while others have been wounded or kidnapped in the runup to the elections and, although security has markedly improved since the height of Iraq's confessional conflict, March was still the deadliest month since August, according to AFP figures.
More than 8,000 candidates will be standing in the elections, with 378 seats on provincial councils up for grabs. An estimated 16.2 million Iraqis are eligible to vote, among them about 650,000 members of the security forces.
The latest elections come with the country mired in a political crisis that has pitted Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki against several of his erstwhile national unity cabinet partners, and amid more than three months of anti-government protests by the country's Sunni Arab minority.
The polls are seen as a key barometer of Maliki's popularity ahead of parliamentary elections next year. The premier has battled allegations from his opponents of monpolising power, and little in the way of landmark legislation has been passed by parliament, but Maliki insists he is attempting to make the most out of an unruly coalition.
Provincial councils are responsible for nominating governors who take charge of the provinces' administrations, finances and reconstruction projects. The police also ostensibly fall under provincial remit, but the federal government has typically held sway over security matters.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[Chicago Tribune] Two men were killed and nine other people 
[Dawn] The top judge of Pakistain Saturday took a 
Iraqi soldiers and policemen cast their ballots for provincial elections on Saturday, a week ahead of the main vote that comes amid an uptick in violence and a long-running political crisis.
