Author: Cleve R. Wootson
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Jaguar escapes New Orleans zoo and moves from one enclosure to next, killing trapped animals
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A jaguar at a New Orleans zoo slipped out of its enclosure and went on a killing rampage sometime Saturday night, attacking four alpacas, an emu and a fox trapped in their own habitats before zoo officials managed to sedate it. The big cat was…
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A Hawaiian man with ‘a classic serial killer’ profile escaped a mental hospital and flew to the mainland
Add this to the list of things you probably need to worry about. A manipulative and psychopathic killer who Hawaiian prosecutors said has the “criteria of a classic serial killer” is on the loose in the U.S. mainland, after escaping from a mental hospital on Oahu, chartering a plane to a neighboring island and then…
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Day-care owner hangs toddler, then takes minivan on rampage through Minneapolis
A day-care owner hanged a 16-month-old boy at her Minneapolis home Friday, then fled through the city in her minivan, striking several pedestrians before unsuccessfully trying to jump from an overpass, police said. Police said the suspect is Nataliia Karia, 42, who owns Uptown Daycare. She was in a hospital for unspecified treatment, and will…
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A 64-year-old tried to bomb a police station – and may have been planning it for decades
At first, the detective thought the bag sitting outside the Nederland, Colo., police station was a piece of lost property that someone hoped to reunite with its owner. So he carried it inside. But when he grew curious later that morning and glanced into the bag, the detective saw a cellphone with wires connected to…
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7-year-old told her bus driver she couldn’t wake her parents, police found them dead at home
For more than a day, the 7-year-old girl had been trying to wake her parents. Dutifully, she got dressed in their apartment outside Pittsburgh on Monday morning and went to school, keeping her worries to herself. But on the bus ride home, McKeesport, Pa., police say, she told the driver she’d been unable to rouse…