Gunfight After Eviction Shootout Near Texas A&M
Three people die in a College Station officer involved shooting when a man served with eviction papers opened fire at an off campus home near the Texas A&M campus. A 51-year-old man and 55-year-old woman among the wounded. Police said Thomas Alton Caffall, 35, fired from inside the residence.
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College Station
Texas
Texas A&m University
Scott McCollum
Brazos County
Brian Bachmann
McCollum
Thomas Alton Caffall
Biggest Burmese python caught in Florida Everglades
17 foot 7 inch pregnant Burmese python weighed 164 and a half pounds and carried 87 eggs. Florida Museum of Natural History will use stomach contents to identify prey as experts note snakes survive long in the wild. Tens of thousands of pythons are believed in the Everglades.
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West Palm Beach
Fla
Florida
Everglades National Park
University of Florida
Kenneth Krysko
Florida Museum of Natural History
Krysko
Everglades
Pakistan plans near term military action against Taliban
Defense Secretary Panetta said Pakistan informed U.S. officials it plans combat operations soon in a tribal area near the Afghan border used by Taliban and Haqqani Network leaders. He noted the main target would be the Pakistani Taliban not Haqqani leadership and described the move as a step forward after long discussions. Panetta also stated the U.S. will provide more aid to Egypt's Sinai security efforts but will not send extra troops there.
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U.S
Haqqani
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Leon Panetta
Associated Press
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Panetta
Ashfaq Parvez
John Allen
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Egypt
Sinai Peninsula
Sinai
United States
Islamabad
Afghanistan
Central Bureau of Investigation
Ramdev
Nitin Gadkari
Bharatiya Janata Party
Sharad Yadav
Yoga guru detained at corruption protest in New Delhi
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev and thousands of supporters were detained for hours as they tried to march on Parliament to push for an anti corruption agenda and a government change. Ramdev urged a crackdown on corruption and repatriation of funds, while vowing to end his fast.
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India
Baba Ramdev
New Delhi Fairground
Ramdev
Rajan Bhagat
Congress Party
Congress
The
Socialist Party
Anna Hazare
Hazare
Ramkishan Yadav
Cosmo editor Helen Brown dies at 90
Helen Gurley Brown longtime editor of Cosmopolitan died at age 90 in New York after a brief hospitalization. She led Cosmo for 32 years transforming the magazine and popularizing terms like Cosmo girl and mouseburger while shaping its bold approach to sexuality and success.
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Cosmo
Brown
NEW York
Helen Gurley Brown
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Hearst
Frank A. Bennack, Jr
Hearst Magazines
Cosmopolitan
U.S
Francesco Scavullo
Webster’s adds F-bomb man cave and sexting to dictionary
Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary will add about 100 new terms including F-bomb sexting man cave and aha moment in its 11th edition. The update marks decades of evolving language as terms move from media and packaging to mainstream reference.
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NEW York
Merriam- Webster
Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate
Sexting
Merriam-Webster
King
Entertainment Weekly
Oprah Winfrey
Swimmer breaches JFK security at airport fence
Two men swam ashore in Jamaica Bay and climbed an eight foot fence into Kennedy Airport bypassing a 100 million dollar surveillance system. Casillo wet and in a bright life jacket walked across runways and into a terminal ramp before being spotted. He told officers he needed help.
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Kennedy Airport
Isaac Yeffet
el al
Port Authority of
New Jersey
JFK
Daniel Casillo
Jamaica Bay
Casillo
Kennedy
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