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Thursday, October 9, 2014
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
PHOENIX ( Suspects wanted for shooting Cop ) DPS
Police locate vehicle involved in DPS officer shooting, suspects still outstanding
PHOENIX (AP) - A manhunt for multiple suspects was underway in the Phoenix area Wednesday after an Arizona Department of Public Safety officer was shot and wounded during a traffic stop and responding officers got into a shootout, authorities said.
The shooting occurred just before 3 a.m. on or next to an Interstate 17 frontage road in Phoenix as the officer approached a car he stopped for extremely dark tinted windows, officials said.
The officer was shot in the face but was able to radio for help, law enforcement spokesmen said.
Other officers arrived a few minutes later, and shots were fired at them from the suspect vehicle. The officers returned fire.
The suspect vehicle left the area, but it might have damage including a possible a shot-out back window, the spokesmen said.
Several hours later, a Phoenix Police Department spokesman said authorities had located the vehicle and were searching the vicinity. The spokesman, Officer James Holmes, declined to specify the location.
More than three people - believed to be young adults - were in the vehicle at the time of the shooting, said Bart Graves, Department of Public Safety spokesman.
The wounded officer was in serious condition at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center. His name was not released.
Holmes said the discovery of the vehicle led authorities to cancel "blue alert" messages that were displayed on electronic signs on Phoenix-area freeways throughout the morning. The messages describing the suspect vehicle as a blue Mercury Sable with a Kansas license plate. Authorities later also listed an Arizona license plate.
I-17 remained open after the shooting, but the frontage road and several nearby exit and entrance ramps were closed as police conducted their investigation.
The shooting occurred just before 3 a.m. on or next to an Interstate 17 frontage road in Phoenix as the officer approached a car he stopped for extremely dark tinted windows, officials said.
The officer was shot in the face but was able to radio for help, law enforcement spokesmen said.
Other officers arrived a few minutes later, and shots were fired at them from the suspect vehicle. The officers returned fire.
The suspect vehicle left the area, but it might have damage including a possible a shot-out back window, the spokesmen said.
Several hours later, a Phoenix Police Department spokesman said authorities had located the vehicle and were searching the vicinity. The spokesman, Officer James Holmes, declined to specify the location.
More than three people - believed to be young adults - were in the vehicle at the time of the shooting, said Bart Graves, Department of Public Safety spokesman.
The wounded officer was in serious condition at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center. His name was not released.
Holmes said the discovery of the vehicle led authorities to cancel "blue alert" messages that were displayed on electronic signs on Phoenix-area freeways throughout the morning. The messages describing the suspect vehicle as a blue Mercury Sable with a Kansas license plate. Authorities later also listed an Arizona license plate.
I-17 remained open after the shooting, but the frontage road and several nearby exit and entrance ramps were closed as police conducted their investigation.
DALLAS ( Another "Ebola Case " Woman states had contact with victim )??
Patient admitted to emergency room 'reporting possible exposure':
A patient has been admitted to the emergency room "after reporting possible exposure to the Ebola virus," Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas said in a statement Wednesday. "Right now, there are more questions than answers about this case," the hospital said. "Our professional staff of nurses and doctors is prepared to examine the patient, discuss any findings with appropriate agencies and officials."
Asked about the case by reporters, CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said the patient "does not have either definite contact with Ebola or definite symptoms of Ebola."
Emergency dispatchers in Frisco, Texas, received a call reporting a patient exhibiting signs and symptoms of Ebola Wednesday afternoon, a city official said. Frisco spokeswoman Dana Baird said the patient claimed to have had contact with a person she referred to as Dallas "patient zero."
There is "no indication" that the patient had "any direct contact" with the man who died from Ebola in Dallas, said Christine Mann of the Texas Department of State Health Services.
A spokeswoman for CareNow, which made the call to emergency dispatchers, said the medical center "was being very cautious" after the patient checked yes in response to a screening question regarding travel to West Africa.
"We've had a patient that checked yes to one of the screening questions regarding travel to West Africa," CareNow spokeswoman Vickie Johnson told CNN. "We are being very cautious and are in contact with the health department to ensure we follow proper protocol. Our concern is for the safety and well-being of everyone in our clinic."
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
North and South Korean Patrol Boats Exchange Fire in the Yellow Sea
SEOUL – Patrol boats from North and South Korea exchanged fire early Tuesday near their maritime border in the Yellow Sea though none of the shots struck the vessels, the South Korean Defense Ministry reported.
A North Korean patrol boat penetrated half a nautical mile across the Northern Limit Line, or NLL, which divides the two Korea’s maritime zones near Yeonpyeong Island.
The South Korean vessel replied by issuing loudspeaker warnings and firing warning shots, a South Korean defense spokesperson told Efe.
The South Korean military has increased its alert level and are closely monitoring the movements of their northern neighbor for further “provocations,” the spokesperson added.
He said that they were going to evacuate the residents of Yeonpyeong, the island where two people died in 2010 in a bombing carried out by North Korea.
This year has witnessed several similar skirmishes between the two countries along the NLL, a boundary Pyongyang does not recognize.
The latest clash came after a period of hope for the resumption of dialogue following a surprise visit by high-ranking North Korean officials over the weekend after the closure of the Incheon 2014 Asian Games in South Korea.
North and South Korea are technically still at war as the armistice that ended the Korean War in 1953 was never followed by a definitive peace treaty.
Mexican President Expresses Concern over Attacks on Students
MEXICO CITY – Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said on Monday he was concerned about the attacks on students last month in Iguala, a city in the southern state of Guerrero.The Sept. 26 attacks were “outrageous, painful and unacceptable,” the president said in a brief statement to the media.
The security Cabinet has been ordered to “clear up” who was behind the wave of violence that left six people dead and 43 education students missing in Iguala, Peña Nieto said.
“I regret, in particular, the violence that occurred and especially that it was young students who were affected and subjected to violence in the city of Iguala,” Peña Nieto said, adding that he was “deeply outraged” and “dismayed over the reports that came out over the weekend.”
The Guerrero Attorney General’s Office confirmed Sunday that 28 bodies were found in clandestine graves in Iguala.
The bodies may be those of some of the 43 teacher trainees who disappeared 10 days ago following a series of attacks on students by police and criminals, the AG’s office said.
Officials are awaiting the results of DNA tests to identify the 28 bodies, some of which were burned and dismembered.
The three suspects arrested in connection with the incidents told investigators that they killed 17 students on a hill in Pueblo Viejo, where the clandestine graves were found.
The missing students’ relatives and society “want ... the incidents cleared up and want justice done,” Peña Nieto said, adding that his administration would work with Guerrero state officials to “learn the truth and ensure that the law was applied to those responsible.”
Relatives of the 43 missing students called Saturday for a nationwide march to protest the slow pace of the investigation and demand that authorities locate their loved ones.
In a gathering with the media at the teacher training college in the rural community of Ayotzinapa, where the young people were studying, the families said they would march on Wednesday to demand that investigators determine what happened on the night of Sept. 26.
The students went missing after a night of violence in Iguala – a city in the crime-plagued state of Guerrero – in which six people were killed, including three students of the training college for future primary-school instructors, and 25 others were injured.
The murky series of events included an attack on a bus carrying members of a Third-Division soccer team.
Twenty-two municipal police officers suspected of firing at the students for reasons yet unknown have been arrested, although the involvement of organized crime elements has not been ruled out.
Some witnesses said the 43 missing students were shoved into police vans by the same officers who had attacked them. The students came under fire from the police while riding in private buses they had illegally taken to return to their homes after a fundraising drive.
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