Day: April 20, 2013

Breaking News: 6.6-magnitude earthquake in China leaves growing death toll

breakingnews: NBC News: A powerful earthquake shook China’s Sichuan region on Saturday, leaving at least 44 dead and hundreds injured, officials said. The 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck at approximately 8 a.m. and aftershocks have continued to rattle the region. In 2008, a 7.9-magnitude earthquake in the… This is just another in a weird series if very … Read moreBreaking News: 6.6-magnitude earthquake in China leaves growing death toll

expandinghorizonsss: i was really hoping this was fake but its not Amazing sinkhole video fromChicago.. This is not fake, it’s real. But notice the cop in the background who seems to have virtually no reaction during the video. That part at least made me chuckle. The rest sure didn’t.

Waterloo in Watertown..

It was a unbelievable day of news.. it was beyond wild.. beyond odd and strange.. beyond fortean. Entire towns were locked down. Almost an entire state stayed indoors. But I end with this until I post again tomorrow:  Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev  was not read his Miranda Rights. There was a public safety exception invoked.  This … Read moreWaterloo in Watertown..

Bombing suspect attended UMass Dartmouth, prompting school closure; college friend shocked by charge he is Boston Marathon bomber – The Boston Globe

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had passed an apparently normal day at the school Wednesday, according to a UMass official, working out at the gym, then sleeping in his single-unit room at the Pine Dale Hall dorm that night, while law enforcement officials were frantically scanning photos and video trying to identify him and his brother. Strange behavior … Read moreBombing suspect attended UMass Dartmouth, prompting school closure; college friend shocked by charge he is Boston Marathon bomber – The Boston Globe

shortformblog: perzadook: Martin Richard, 8, Dorchester, Massachusetts Lu Lingzi, 23, Shenyang, China Krystle Campbell, 29, Arlington, Massachusetts Sean Collier, 26, Somerville, Massachusetts Let’s not forget the victims here. It would certainly be an injustice to forget how we got to where we are tonight..

mohandasgandhi: fearandwar: Suck on that, Lindsey Graham. The 5th Amendment even applies to terror suspects. Imagine that. Amen! We should all be proud of this tonight.

Breaking now CNN reporting: Authorities believe a person they’ve engaged in Watertown, Massachusetts, is Dzhokar Tsarnaev, a suspect in this week’s deadly Boston Marathon bombings, a law enforcement official told CNN