Officer Halts Armed Man Near Portland Church
Portland Police stopped Herbert Jones after he loaded a rifle outside First Parish Church while an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting occurred inside. Officers found another rifle, a shotgun, ammunition and knives in his car and home. Jones faces charges including terrorizing and firearms offenses. a companion faced a concealed weapon count. Both were jailed awaiting initial court hearings.
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Portland
Maine
Herbert Jones
First Parish
Vern Malloch
Alcoholics Anonymous
Steve Black
Malloch
Jones
Mother Attacks Molester in Courthouse Corridor
In Morristown New Jersey a mother attacked Pascual Gonzalez in the Morris County Courthouse after he faced sentencing for assaulting and harassing teenage girls. He received five years in prison after pleading guilty in January and tearfully apologized. The mother was not charged.
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Morristown
N.J
New Jersey
Pascual Gonzalez
Morris County
Gonzalez
Roxbury
Nations urge WHO to change pandemic criteria
Dozens of countries pressed the World Health Organization in Geneva to base pandemic thresholds on a virus’s lethality, not only its spread. Britain Japan China and others warned about panic and economic damage from a swine flu declaration while WHO weighs changes. 76 deaths had been reported from 8,829 cases.
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Geneva
World Health Organization
Britain
Japan
China
Keiji Fukuda
Alan Johnson
WHO
Margaret Chan
North America
Chan
Chile
Spain
Europe
Astronauts complete Hubble repair after five spacewalks
NASA astronauts finish the Hubble Space Telescope repair on Atlantis last spacewalk. They install two new science instruments, batteries, and gyroscopes, boosting capability for 5 to 10 more years.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Hubble Space Telescope
Hubble
NASA
Shuttle Atlantis
John Grunsfeld
Andrew Fenstel
Grunsfeld
Rollin
Darfur rebel Abu Garda faces ICC charges in The Hague
Bahr Idriss Abu Garda, a former Darfur rebel leader, turned himself in at the International Criminal Court in The Hague on murder and pillaging charges tied to a 2007 attack on peacekeepers. The case marks the first Darfur suspect before an international court amid the broader genocide and war crimes indictments tied to Omar al Bashir.
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Bahar Idriss Abu Garda
International Criminal Court
Hague
Netherlands
Abu Garda
Sudan
Cairo
Darfur
Bahr
Omar al-Bashir
Al-Bashir
Chad
Sudanese Gum Arabic
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Egypt
Mexico
Jose Angel Cordova
Tamman Aloudat
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
IFRC
United Nations
Switzerland
Hubble Telescope
Atlantis
Mission Control
Andrew Feustel
Lebanon
Israel
Beirut
Hezbollah
Mossad Intelligence Agency
Coldwell Banker United, Realtors
Laurens Street
Aiken
United
Realtors
TRANE
Beech Island Appliance Service Co
Ofer Opt
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