TEMPE Az ( MAN pulls out Samurai SWORD to break up Fight ) See video

TEMPE, Ariz. -

A man pulled a Samurai sword in the middle of passengers on the light rail early Saturday morning.

One of the light rail riders caught the whole thing on tape.

The man who took the video was taking the light rail home from a night of partying in Tempe.

A fight broke out and a man pulled a sword around 2 a.m., when the light rail was near Central Avenue and Camelback Road,

 

"I was like, 'What the hell, who carries a sword?'," said Juan Vargas.

Juan Vargas took the video, just inches from the sword.

"I kinda took a step back first so I could get back a little more and I just gotta keep recording this because I don't know what's gonna happen," said Vargas.

"As soon as that guy pulled out the sword, everybody was like,'Whoa'. It got really quiet and everybody was like 'Okay..okay, I guess don't do nothing to get him mad or don't upset him," said Vargas.

BROOKFIELD Wis. ( MASS Shooting Brookfield Square Mall NOW)

BROOKFIELD, Wis. (AP) — Deputies in Wisconsin are responding to reports of a shooting near a major mall in suburban Milwaukee.

 

WISN-TV reports a mass shooting has taken place near the Brookfield Square Mall.

A spokeswoman for a local hospital says it has received four patients from the shooting, none critical, and expects three more.

A woman who answered the phone at the Waukesha County Sheriff's Department on Sunday told The Associated Press that deputies are looking for an active shooter.

A spokeswoman for the Waukesha County Sheriff's Department told The Associated Press that deputies are looking for an active shooter.

According to WTMJ-TV, authorities are searching for "a 6'1", 270 lb. African-American with a bald head and brown eyes" who was reportedly driving a black 2003 Mazda.

Fire and rescue officials responded to the scene, and a rescue helicopter landed in the mall's parking lot.

ARIZONA ( GRAND Canyon Tour BUS Crashes ) 1 Dies 6 hurt

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Associated Press/Julie Jacobson - An Arizona Highway Patrol officer examines the exterior of a tour bus that careened off the highway and crashed off northbound highway 93, Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, near Willow …more Beach, Ariz. The crash killed the driver and left at least four passengers with serious injuries. About 45 other passengers were less seriously hurt and not all of them required hospital treatment, the Arizona Highway Patrol said. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson) less

 

WILLOW BEACH, Ariz. (AP) — The bus was on a routine tour of the Grand Canyon, taking tourists from the lights and glamour of Las Vegas to the beauty of the natural wonder. On such trips, passengers get a glimpse of the Hoover Dam and the northern Arizona wilderness, maybe even see a deer or two.

That was the agenda for the 50 or so passengers aboard a charter Silver State Trailways bus on Friday. But as the bus was returning from the Grand Canyon that evening, investigators said something went terribly wrong.

As the bus traveled northbound on Highway 93 and approached the Nevada state line, the driver suffered a medical episode and lost control of the bus, authorities said.

"We believe the driver experienced some sort of the medical condition and he just went off the road," the Arizona Highway Patrol said in a statement. No other vehicles were involved in the crash, which occurred on the main highway leading to the Hoover Dam.

The vehicle hit a ravine, tore up a small hill, then bounced and lurched over rough terrain for more than 700 feet before stopping, investigators said. Its front end was damaged, but the bus remained upright.

Silver State Trailways said their driver, whose name has not been released, may have suffered a heart attack.

The driver died and 48 passengers, mostly from Asia and Europe, were injured, authorities said. The six most seriously hurt were flown by helicopter to Las Vegas, where University Medical Center spokeswoman Danita Cohen said they were being treated for nonlife-threatening injuries, such as broken bones and lacerations. She described them as being mostly over 50 years old.

LOS ANGELES ( 82 yr old woman gets 6 Years in PRISON ) Rap Sheet

LOS ANGELES — An 82-year-old woman whose rap sheet goes back more than 50 years has been sentenced in Los Angeles to six years in state prison.
District attorney’s spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons says Doris Ann Gamble was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty to one count of petty theft and admitting to four prior burglary convictions.

Authorities said the 5-foot-3 woman stole about $17,000 from doctors’ offices between March and August by hiding out until closing time, then pilfering from the cash drawers.
Gamble was arrested in August at a motel in Torrance after a police detective recognized her from a previous case as he looked at surveillance video.
Gamble, who has also gone by the name Doris Thompson and other aliases, has a criminal record dating back to 1955.

BODY FOUND ( Oregon Woman ) Suspect ARRESTED

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GRESHAM, Ore. (AP) — Searchers found the body of a young Oregon woman who vanished this week on her way to work and a neighbor has been arrested, Gresham police said late Friday night.

The body of Whitney Heichel, 21, was found on Larch Mountain, a remote, forested area east of Gresham, Police Chief Craig Junginger told a news conference.

After collecting DNA and fingerprints and conducting three interviews over three days, police arrested Jonathan Holt, 24, of Gresham, for investigation of aggravated murder, the chief said.

Holt lived in the same apartment complex as Heichel and her husband.

The Starbucks barista reportedly left her apartment for work at about 6:45 a.m. Tuesday on a drive that typically takes less than five minutes.

Her husband, Clint, called police roughly three hours later. He told investigators he tried to reach Whitney multiple times after her boss alerted him that she never arrived for her 7 a.m. shift.

Police said Heichel's ATM card was used at a nearby Troutdale gas station at 9:14 a.m. Tuesday. Two hours later, her sport utility vehicle was found in a Wal-Mart parking lot with the passenger side window smashed.

COLORADO INMATES ( WORK in WOOD Shop ) Police should start here (Homicide case) Jessica Ridgeway

THE GAZETTE

CAÑON CITY • Sure, they’d rather be fishing.
That’s not an option when you’re locked up 24/7.
Instead, inmates serving time for sexual assault have to be contentmaking fishing rods. There aren’t many trout streams in prison.
Rods start at $80, but many of the custom bass-fly-spin-salmon-crank rods sell for $600 to $1,200 through the shop at Arrowhead Correctional Center, a minimum-security prison in Fremont County.
“It’s a coveted job,” inmate Mark Iverson said.
And time-consuming. It takes 80 to 100 hours to make some rods. The shop makes about 100 composite and 10 bamboo poles a year. The inmates also repair rods and tie flies.
For the prison, it’s cheap labor.

For the inmates, who earn a basic pay of about 60 cents a day, it’s a chance to learn a skill — and to dream.
The rod shop started three years ago at the suggestion of an Arrowhead inmate.
It is one of 55 work programs managed by Colorado Correctional Industries, or CCI, a self-funded division of the Colorado Department of Corrections.
About 1,700 inmates are employed in CCI programs. Inmates make credenzas, dorm furniture, file cabinets, conference tables, clothes, linens, trash bags and car tags. Some milk cows, train dogs and tame wild horses.

Read more: http://www.gazette.com/articles/inmates-92172-prison-profit.html#ixzz29rDS1siX

WOODEN Cross ( Clue in MURDER Case) Colorado Girl

WESTMINSTER, Colo. (Reuters) - Investigators probing the killing of a 10-year-old Colorado girl who was snatched as she walked to school and was later found dismembered said on Friday that a small wooden cross pendant recovered as evidence could be an important clue in the case.

Police in the Denver suburb of Westminster released photos of the distinctive solid-wood cross, which measures 1.5 inches by 1 inch. They did not say where it was found.

The announcement came as police indicated the killing of Jessica Ridgeway may be linked to a failed abduction of a 22-year-old woman jogger six months earlier at a lake near where the fifth grader was last seen.

"Police believe there may be a connection between the Jessica Ridgeway murder and the attempted abduction," police Inspector Trevor Materasso said in a statement, a day after police released a description of a suspect in that case.

"We urge the public to specifically look for someone with a cross like this that matches the suspect's description," the statement said.

The cross has a hole drilled into it that could indicate it was worn as a necklace, police said, urging any business that sells such a cross to contact police.

The woman who previously escaped abduction was grabbed from behind by a man who placed a rag with a chemical odor over her mouth, police said. They have described him as light-skinned with a medium build and brown hair, and put his age at 18 to 35.

Jessica Ridgeway vanished on October 5. Two days later, a man in a nearby town reported finding her backpack on a sidewalk in front of his house. The girl's dismembered remains were later found in a semi-rural park in another town about 10 miles from the Ridgeway home.