Oct 24, 2007 -
Right now a popular question in animal sheltering is ‘Are they a No Kill Shelter?’ Although a common question, many people don’t really understand what’s behind it. While the euthanasia rate in the US has dropped dramatically – from around 350,000,000 a year to 3,000,000 a year – there are factors into how those numbers get reported and why these animals are being euthanized. The bigger question is not if a shelter is No Kill, but if the shelter is Public or Private.
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Jul 27, 2009 -
This is the most disturbing thing I've ever read in my life
Police said they found a 3 1/2-week-old infant stabbed and decapitated in a Texas home on Sunday and his mother screaming that she killed her son after the devil told her to do it. (July 27)
Mother decapitated newborn and ate his brain, Texas police say
A Texas woman decapitated her newborn baby and ate pieces of his body before turning a knife on herself, police said on Monday.
Otty Sanchez, 33, has been charged with murdering her 3 1/2-week-old son, Scott Wesley Buchholtz-Sanchez.
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Aug 12, 2009 -
A grove of trees has been planted in Israel in Loving Memory of Aqsa Parvez and All Victims of Honor Killings Worldwide.
Full story here: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/
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Jun 26, 2009 -
Weed-Whacking Herbicide Proves Deadly to Human Cells
By Crystal Gammon and Environmental Health News
New research has found that an 'inert' ingredient in the herbicide Roundup can kill human embryonic, placental, and umbilical cord cells.
Used in yards, farms and parks throughout the world, Roundup has long been a top-selling weed killer. But now researchers have found that one of Roundup’s inert ingredients can kill human cells, particularly embryonic, placental and umbilical cord cells.
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Jun 14, 2009 -
A Cutler Bay teen has been arrested and charged for a slew of brutal cat murders and mutilations in Palmetto Bay and Cutler Bay.
By JENNIFER LEBOVICH and JOSE PAGLIERY
jpagliery@MiamiHerald.com
An 18-year-old was arrested early Sunday in the recent killings and mutilation of more than a dozen cats in Palmetto and Cutler bays which had terrorized pet owners in the area, authorities said.
Tyler Weinman was charged with 19 counts of animal cruelty, 19 counts of improperly disposing of an animal body and 4 counts of burglary.
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May 01, 2009 -
Female Pakistani Singer Killed In Peshawar
April 29, 2009
By Kristin Deasy, Sharifa Esmatullah
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Ayman Udas, a rising female vocalist in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province, was shot at her home, allegedly by her own brothers.
Her death has rattled the city's jittery artistic community, as local musicians and dancers in Peshawar -- a city renowned for its vibrant artistic life -- face increasing pressure as the region falls under greater Taliban influence.
Some attributed Udas's death to the Islamist militants, but her husband told reporters that his wife was killed because she broke family traditions.
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Jul 24, 2008 -
The National Enquirer reports that in 1975 Lynne Spears ran over a 12-year-old boy and killed him. Lynne, then 20, was rushing to the hospital with her brother, who had some kind of unspecified injury. According to the Enquirer, the guilt still haunts Lynne and she generally refuses to talk about it.
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Jul 13, 2008 -
Marc Malkin of E! Online reports that the latest buzz from the set of the ABC hit Grey’s Anatomy is that creator Shonda Rhimes may be entertaining the idea of killing off Katherine Heigl’s Dr. Isobel ‘Izzie’ Stevens because of the now infamous remarks Heigl made about the upcoming Emmys.
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Aug 11, 2008 -
There are several reports floating around the internet that rapper Lil’ Wayne’s 8-year-old daughter Reginae Carter was killed in a car accident yesterday. Wayne’s Myspace page is flooded with condolences, but there has been no official word one way or the other.
Lil’ Wayne Daughter Killed - Reginae Carter, the daughter of Lil’ Wayne, has reportedly been killed.
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Oct 24, 2008 -
TOKYO: A 43-year-old Japanese woman whose sudden divorce in a virtual game world made her so angry that she killed her online husband's digital persona has been arrested on suspicion of hacking, police said Thursday.
The woman, who is jailed on suspicion of illegally accessing a computer and manipulating electronic data, used his identification and password to log onto popular interactive game "Maple Story" to carry out the virtual murder in mid-May, a police official in northern Sapporo said on condition of anonymity, citing department policy.
"I was suddenly divorced, without a word of warning.
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