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<CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Officials in Chattanooga say a church-run nightclub where nine people were shot and wounded has been the scene of violent incidents in the past.Police spokeswoman Sgt. Jerri Weary said Tuesday that the club had been the site of shootings, stabbings, fights and assaults since 2006.City spokesman Richard Beeland said city legal officials are reviewing options following the Christmas morning shooting.Authorities say the shooting followed a fight at Club Fathom, where some 400 teens and adults were attending a Christmas party. No arrests have been reported.Tim Reid, the pastor of the church that runs the nightclub, did not respond to an after-hours email Tuesday from The Associated Press seeking a response to comments of police and city officials.Mosaic Church runs the club as a youth outreach.
lice deaths has topped 160 five other times since 2000. It routinely topped 200 in the 1970s.The police deaths were spread across 41 states and Puerto Rico. The largest number of fatalities was reported in Florida, where 14 officers were killed, followed by Texas (13) New York (11), California (10) and Georgia (10). The New York City Police Department and Puerto Rico Police Department, which both lost four officers, were the law enforcement agencies that reported the most deaths.The number of firearms-related fatalities, which have risen 70 percent since 2008, was particularly alarming to analysts. Of the 68 deaths, 14 took place while the officer was attempting an arrest, nine occurred during a domestic disturbance call and five were ambushes, according to the data.One of the victims, Rainier, Ore., Police Chief Ralph Painter, was shot once in the head during a Jan. 5 struggle with a suspect who was accused of taking Painter's pistol from his belt. Glendale,
hows that 15 registered sex offenders live in the park that numbers about two dozen homes. Plumadore is not on Indiana's registered sex offenders list. He has a criminal record in Florida and North Carolina that includes convictions for trespassing and assault.The girl's relatives told the newspaper that Plumadore had cared for Aliahna's ailing grandfather until his death early this month and was living in her grandfather's mobile home."He was a trusted family friend," Aliahna's step-grandfather, David Story, told The Associated Press late Monday, saying he was surprised by the arrest.Sheriff Ken Fries said investigators questioned Plumadore on Friday and Saturday and that he was arrested Monday after being interviewed by detectives for several hours more."The story just didn't make sense to our investigators or to me when I first heard it," Fries said Monday night. "I thought this is the guy we needed to focus on. If we are going to find her, he's going to be
SACRAMENTO, Calif. Rescue firefighters responded to a Southwest Airlines flight in distress after two tires blew on the runway Tuesday evening, leaving the jet and its passengers grounded.The left main tires blew at about 6:15 p.m. as Southwest flight 2287 was departing for Seattle, Sacramento International Airport spokeswoman Laurie Slothower said.Southwest Airlines spokeswoman Katie McDonald said the pilot quickly aborted the takeoff and emergency crews were called in to hose down the 737 as a precautionary measure. They later set up a portable stairway to let the 130 passengers off the plane."I want to stress that there were no injuries tonight, and the tires never caught on fire," Slothower said.McDonald said all passengers were being booked onto other flights.Officials have not determined what caused the blowout and the incident is being investigated. In the meantime, one of the airport's two runways remains closed.
s been a sensation among U.S. readers yet failed to challenge "Mission: Impossible" and the other established franchises at the top of the box office.Beloved by generations of readers overseas, "Tintin" launched internationally two months ahead of its U.S. release. But the blockbuster global attention, with nearly $250 million already in the bank from foreign markets, did not translate to crowds in the United States.The calendar made it a tough weekend for Hollywood, with Christmas Eve -- always a slow night for movie-going -- falling on Saturday, usually the best day of the week at theaters.Christmas Day typically is a strong one for movies, as fans squeeze in a film between unwrapping presents and sitting down to family dinners.Two big holiday releases -- Spielberg's World War I epic "War Horse" and Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock's Sept. 11 drama "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" -- opened Christmas Day, but estimates on their revenues will not be available
though analysts say Kim Yong Un is on the path toward cementing his power and all moves in North Korea so far -- from titles giving him power over the ruling party and military and his leading position in the funeral procession, his age and inexperience leave questions about Kim's long-term prospects. Whereas his father was groomed for power for 20 years before taking over, the younger Kim has had fewer than two years.He also faces the huge challenges of running a country that struggles to feed its people even as it pursues a nuclear weapons program that has earned it international sanctions and condemndation.Kim Jong Il -- who led with absolute rule after his father Kim Il Sung's death in 1994, through a famine that killed hundreds of thousands and the controversial buildup of North Korea's nuclear and missile programs -- died of a heart attack Dec. 17 at age 69.Mourners in parkas lined the streets of Pyongyang, waving, stamping and crying as the convoy beari
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