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Osama bin Laden shot dead by US forces in firefight Mon, 05/02/2011 - 15:21 by Neka Sehgal Osama bin Laden, the slippery chief of the dreaded terrorist outfit Al-Qaeda, was shot dead by a CIA-led team at a compound inside Pakistan Sunday night, bringing to a close the world's highest-profile manhunt of the decade. Comments Read more	Lynn U. soccer star killed in bridge fall Mon, 12/13/2010 - 06:33 by Prince damin Fort Lauderdale, Fla. -- A star soccer player from Florida's Lynn University was killed this weekend when he and a teammate fell from a Fort Lauderdale bridge, college officials said. Kyle Conrad, 21, of Jensen Beach died when he fell into the New River near the downtown Las Olas Entertainment complex early Saturday. The circumstances surrounding the tragedy were not immediately known Sunday. The South Florida Sun Sentinel said Sunday that the accident occurred less than a year after four Lynn students and two faculty members were killed in the Haiti earthquake. Conrad spent four years on the Lynn soccer team. He was the fourth player in school history to score 100 points and was a two-time member of ESPN's academic all-America team. Comments Read more	Chasen murder mystery: suicide victim likely killed her Thu, 12/09/2010 - 11:16 by Natalie James Beverly Hills police claims to have solved the murder mystery of Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen. Authorities investigating the case said on Wednesday that Chasen was murdered in a random shooting by a robber riding a bicycle. Comments Read more
Police: Chasen slaying started as robbery Thu, 12/09/2010 - 10:11 by Prince damin Los Angeles -- Harold Martin Smith most likely killed celebrity publicist Ronni Chasen in a robbery gone bad, police in Beverly Hills, Calif., said Wednesday. Chasen, 64, was gunned down Nov. 16 as she drove home after a party celebrating the Cher-Christina Aguilera movie "Burlesque." Smith fatally shot himself Dec. 1 as police attempted to serve a search warrant in the lobby of a Los Angeles apartment building. The Hollywood Reporter quoted Beverly Hills Police Chief David Snowden as describing the investigation as "open and active" in a press conference Wednesday. Comments Read more	Man commits suidice as police close in Sat, 12/04/2010 - 23:34 by Prince damin Hollywood-- A ballistics test will provide a clue in the slaying of a Hollywood movie publicist, police said. Harold Martin Smith killed himself Friday when officers from the Hollywood Police Department attempted to question him about the death of Ronni Chasen, The Los Angeles Times reported. A ballistics test will reveal if the gun Martin used to kill himself was used in Chasen's death. "At this time, it is unknown if this individual was involved in the Chasen homicide," department spokesman Lt. Tony Lee said. Chasen was shot to death in her Mercedes-Benz on Nov. 16 as she drove home from a premiere party for the movie "Burlesque." Comments Read more	This Could've Killed Google Fri, 12/03/2010 - 00:18 by Rick Aristotle ... It's nice to know that chunky ole Google(Nasdaq: GOOG) can still be nimble. Reacting quickly after a scathing New York Times expose that detailed how a merchant was able to turn negative publicity into higher search rankings, the country's leading search engine has tweaked its algorithms to keep bad actors from bubbling to the top of its search queries. Comments Read more
'Ugly Betty' actor kills mother with samurai sword, arrested Wed, 11/24/2010 - 12:11 by Natalie James Michael L. Brea, an aspiring actor who had a small part in the former hit ABC series 'Ugly Betty,' has been arrested after he allegedly stabbed his mother with a three-foot sword after a fight early Tuesday in their apartment in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, according to online media outlets. Comments Read more	Ex-'Survivor' producer Bruce Beresford-Redman arrested for wife's murder Wed, 11/17/2010 - 13:29 by Natalie James Former reality television series "Survivor" producer Bruce Beresford-Redman, whose wife was killed in Mexico earlier this year, has been arrested as a fugitive in Southern California, according to multiple tabloid reports. Comments Read more	Hughes poem offers insight on Plath death Fri, 10/08/2010 - 09:34 by Prince damin London -- A poem by Ted Hughes, recently discovered in a British Library archive, reveals the late writer's anguish over the suicide of his estranged wife, Sylvia Plath. Plath killed herself in 1963 by putting her head in an oven and inhaling gas fumes. The BBC said researcher and writer Melvyn Bragg discovered three versions of "Last Letter," the previously unknown poem about Plath's death, at the library with the help of Hughes's widow, Carol. Published in Thursday's issue of the New Statesman, the poem contains the lines: "What did happen that Sunday night? / Your last night? Over what I remember of it." Hughes is believed to have worked on the verse for 30 years before he died of a heart attack while undergoing treatment for colon cancer in 1998. Comments Read more
Virus threatens survival of British frogs Mon, 10/04/2010 - 00:13 by Prince damin London -- A virus that makes frogs bleed to death is wiping them out in much of Britain, biologists said. The ranavirus has killed off 80 percent of common frogs in the worst-hit areas and threatens other amphibians, a senior research fellow at the Zoological Society of London told The Sunday Telegraph. Scientist Trent Garner said, "Many of these populations are hanging on by a handful of frogs. If the disease causes the frog populations to fall so low then so many other factors come into play that could cause local extinctions." The researchers examined frog numbers in a selection of populations around the country where ranavirus disease has been reported since 1996. Comments Read more	Miami Heat dancer killed in car-bike collision Mon, 09/13/2010 - 16:57 by Natalie James A recently-hired Miami Heat dancer has lost her life in a tragic road accident yesterday. The female dancer was killed when the motorcycle she was riding collided with a car, The Miami Herald reported. Comments Read more	Former ELO member killed in accident Mon, 09/06/2010 - 22:40 by Prince damin Tutnes, England -- An early member of the 1970s rock group ELO was killed when his van was crushed by a bale of hay, British police said. Officials said the 1,322-pound bale of hay fell from a tractor on nearby farmland and rolled onto the road in Halwell, Devon, England and instantly killed cellist Michael Edwards, 62, Friday. The BBC said Edwards, who was with the Birmingham, England, band from 1972 to 1975, was identified using photos and YouTube footage. Edwards lived in Totnes, England, and was a founder member of the classical Devon Baroque orchestra. Angus Gordon, chairman of the Devon Baroque, told the BBC: "He was simply the nicest guy and a brilliant musician. ... I'm devastated." Comments Read more