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...April 3, Vietnamese immigrant Jiverly Wong, 41, walked into an immigration-services center in Binghamton, N.Y., and opened fire, killing 13 people in the worst mass shooting in the U.S. since the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre. The following day, three Pittsburgh, Penn., police officers responding to a domestic disturbance were killed by 23-year-old Richard Poplawski. In both cases, the suspects were wearing body armor. Wong ultimately took his own life; police eventually took Poplawski into custody after a four-hour standoff, charging him with three counts of criminal homicide and nine counts of attempted homicide as well...
...Geithner plan for public /private partnerships to buy toxic bank assets look like a carnival show. It was not heartening to see that the Treasury admitted that it did not have many takers for this new program, so it extended the deadline for applications by two weeks until April 24. Unfortunately, world class financiers keep track of things like dates. Those who have passed on the opportunity so far will not be rushing in just before the new deadline. (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...
...April 13-1861 Washington thank God we have a government Jonth Dillon.' JONATHAN DILLON, watchmaker, in a newly discovered message engraved in a pocket watch repaired for Abraham Lincoln on the day after the Civil War began...
...junk.' RUSSELL JESSOP, one of 439 kids seized from a polygamists' compound in Utah last April, describing TV and other modern trappings that he encountered during his time in custody...
...Prabhakaran finds himself cornered, his end may be dramatic, suggests Rohan Gunaratna, head of the International Center for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. "Prabhakaran will stay back and fight until death," says Gunaratna, who has written extensively about the Tigers. At an April 2002 press conference, during the cease-fire, the Tiger leader said he had advised his aides to kill him if there were ever a threat of capture. Recently there have been intelligence reports that he had advised his cadres to burn his body and not allow it to be discovered...