May, 2010 | My Gripe An Thing

Hundreds march in Utah to honor slain 4-year-old

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LAYTON, Utah—Hundreds of Utahns gathered for a 10-mile walk to honor a 4-year-old Virginia boy whose badly beaten body was dug up from a Utah mountainside grave nearly two weeks ago. Ethan Stacy’s mother and […] […]

Grace Foods recalls cans of corned beef

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MIRAMAR, Fla.—Caribbean food products maker Grace Foods USA is voluntarily recalling two batches of its canned corned beef because they have higher than acceptable levels of a drug used to treat cattle for parasites. There […] […]

Why did Ottawa ignore warnings of Rwandan genocide?

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Newly-released documents detailed building crisis, but they hit bureaucratic wall. Months before the 1994 Rwandan genocide, a steady stream of detailed messages about the killings of Tutsis arrived in Ottawa from Canadian diplomats stationed not […] […]

Street shut down, armed man arrested

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Toronto police confirmed they arrested a man with a gun at 156 Munro St., near Dundas St. E and Broadview Ave., Sunday evening. Pat Aitken, a resident in the area, said the street has been […] […]

DiManno: Body in barrel among grim discoveries this weekend

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Body in a cement-filled drum found in Toronto harbour; two sets of human remains found in cottage country As the boom on a Marine Police launch cranked up its winch, the rusty oil drum broke […] […]

Shots being fired in Tivoli

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There are reports that shots are being fired in west Kingston community of Tivoli Gardens, Jamaica, as members of the security forces prepare to move in to arrest alleged crime lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke. The […] […]

West Kingston men mount more barricades

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Men sweating as if they are working on construction sites muscled their way through sections of west Kingston, Jamaica this morning, reinforcing barricades to keep out members of the security forces. From one end of […] […]

Fugitive cleric al-Awlaki warns of future attacks

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Fugitive American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki warned of new attacks on Americans at home and abroad in a new video released over the weekend. Anwar al-Awlaki, who is believed to be hiding in Yemen, accused U.S. […] […]

State of emergency for Kingston and St Andrew

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A state of emergency is to be imposed in Kingston and St Andrew at 6pm today as as the instability of the capital continues with criminals seeking to prevent the arrest of alleged crime lord […] […]

9-year-old girl forced into sex

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POLICE ARE QUESTIONING a 13-year-old female secondary school student who allegedly attacked a nine-year-old girl witha knife, then forced her to unrobe and to perform oral sex on her (the older student’s) brother. Reports reaching […] […]