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Family at wake of Lindsay Richards comes home to find home burglarized, car stolen

Offender or offenders took between $10,000 and $15,000 of personal property, plus the family car Monday night […] "We hadn't had anything to eat and I was going to get something in my car. We opened the garage and there was none ... went in the house to call police and discovered a purse was missing, which contained a wallet, identification, credit cards, etc. ... bedroom ransacked, iPads computers gone. […] "We knew that during funerals people sometimes take advantage (of family)," said Kristin. "But because this was my sister-in-law - she married my brother - our last names weren't the same, and we weren't listed in the obituary." […] ICYMI: Ogden home burglarized while family attends viewing http://t.co/bAS5gnSBQD pic.twitter.com/sxPinlr5HS — Deseret News (@DeseretNews) November 27, 2014

US Special Forces funds battlefield drug that puts traumatized soldiers in hibernation -- reduces blood pressure to minimize blood loss, but not too low for brain's needs

'Golden Hour' is a meaningless concept in far-forward military environments, such as Afghanistan and Iraq, where 87 percent of deaths occurred in first 30 minutes, 25 percent of those killed had survivable injuries […] A bolus of adenosine, lidocaine, and magnesium (ALM) has been shown to be cardioprotective and restore coagulopathy in different trauma states. […] Unexpected 100% survival following 60% blood loss using small-volume 7.5% NaCl with adenocaine and Mg(2+) in the rat model of extreme hemorrhagic shock. […] What about Hydrogen Sulfide? ... might work by reducing metabolism; H2S also reduces oxygen demand, which allows crucial neurons in the hippocampus -- the part of the brain that controls autonomic functions such as breathing and heartbeat -- to withstand low oxygen levels due to hemorrhage. […]

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel Resigns Under Pressure

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is stepping down under pressure, the first cabinet-level casualty of the collapse of President Obama's Democratic majority in the Senate […] President Barack Obama, who accepted Hagel's resignation, is expected to announce his departure Monday in a ceremony at the Rose Garden […] To the degree he has deviated from the Obama White House line, he's been more right than wrong (e.g., on the threat the Islamic State poses) […] Obama initiated discussions with Hagel about leaving in October — shortly before the mid-term congressional elections that saw the president's party take a beating […] Hagel was out of step with the administration on Isis, having urged the White House to clarify its stance on ushering Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad out of power and bizarrely inflating the threat Isis posed, calling it “an imminent threat to every interest we have” in an August press conference […]

Plans to Get to Hospital Fail; Lucy Grace Hojnacki Born at Buffalo Firehouse

On the way to the hospital for emergency childbirth with his pregnant wife, Jared stopped to help a woman get out of her car. The woman turned out to be a pediatric nurse with labor and delivery experience […] "Uh oh," said the Buffalo Fire Department lieutenant. "We've got a situation here!" […] "It was kind of incredible. God really put the people who needed to be in the right spot for us at the right time," Hojnacki's husband, Jared Hojnacki […] Elsewhere in the city: Buffalo Fire Department Engine 4 stuck and abandoned on Abbott Road in South Buffalo. #BuffaloSnow #nywx pic.twitter.com/1Ki5PLa1aP — DR (@Media371) November 19, 2014

"Death Wobble" ... Never Mind the Six-Pack of Beer and Methadone Dose

Gary Joseph Monaco crossed the centerline of Southeast Tilstrom Road near Deborah Drive and drove his 2006 Ford F-350 truck into, then over the top of Laura Schaefer's Nissan Versa -- killing Schaefer  […] Ms. Schaefer was pinned in the vehicle and Boring Fire personnel were required to extricate her from the wreckage. She died at the scene. […] Tillstrom Rd and Deborah Drive, Damascus ...

Digital Trunked Radios in Public Safety Promoted in a Post-9/11 World, But Are They Worth Risk of Catastrophic Failure and the Cost to Taxpayers?

Digital radios are working better than expected in Rochester, New York (Monroe County), but firefighters worry about rare catastrophic failure […] The county's commitment of $30M to a new radio system is on track but still facing some obstacles: No guarantee that a firefighter has backup options if radio signals are blocked. Fire districts question how to dispatch calls to volunteers, monitor and record calls to volunteers. Fire districts are facing hefty bills for new equipment. Proponents always exclaim the following improvements are necessary in a post-9/11 world, but it's ironic because New York City -- where the worst terror attacks occurred -- have not switched to digital trunked radios. Thirteen years after 9/11, NYPD police operate on a UHF repeater system and FDNY fire dispatch works on a UHF base-to-mobile system. "At the end of the day, the new system will ensure that emergency responders across the region can talk to one another on a single seamles...

Drones for Neighborhood Watch, Military, Pizza Deliver and Whale Shark and Manta Ray Watching

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"Game Changer" ... Cheaper, smaller, more invisible Air Force with drone  [YouTube …] DESOTO COUNTY, MS Neighborhood Watch drone army with "first drone command center in country" […] Dropping a pie into the hands of a customer in Prospect Heights (Brooklyn) […] A new perspective of Whale Sharks and Manta Rays from a drone […]

Tustin Homicide Suspect Killed in Crash with Wall at Rio Vista and Fontera St, Anaheim

MON NOV 3 2014 ~9:30 PM ANAHEIM, CA -- Driver wanted in connection with a homicide in unincorporated Tustin crashed his SUV at Rio Vista and Frontera St into a wall at high speed. Anaheim Fire Department: driver did not survive the crash […] Fatally injured woman found still alive in a home on Warren Avenue between Newport and Holt avenues in Tustin […]

Revival of suspicions about Soviet and Russian interest in the Ebola virus as a bioweapon

Ebola-infected ordinary lab technician ... they buried her in a sack filled with sodium hypochlorite -- powdered bleach […] Antonina Presnyakova, was working on an ebola vaccine at Vector -- a secret State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology […] And Russia's Pravda.ru says Ebola is manufactured disease by US Government […]

3 Retired FDNY Firefighters, Who Worked at 9/11 Ground Zero, Die within Hours of Each Other Monday

Three FDNY firefighters who contracted cancer at 9/11 Ground Zero, Retired Lt. Howard (Howie) Bischoff and retired firefighters Robert Leaver and Daniel Heglund all died on Monday, September 22, 2014 [...] Three retired FDNY members die of 9/11-related cancers within hours of each other. http://t.co/bz6TVyuRyF pic.twitter.com/WVCDO9Z07p — New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) September 25, 2014 The deaths raise the toll to 92 firefighters who have succumbed to illnesses stemming from sifting through the rubble of the debris of the World Trade Center towers after they collapsed [...] Heroes to the end: Three retired @FDNY members die of Sept. 11th-related cancers on same day. http://t.co/vVkaKfL9en pic.twitter.com/FmwdZKNDHN — New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) September 25, 2014 Three firefighters died within hours of each other [...] Heglund, of the Rescue 4 unit who died one day before his 59th birthday, retired in March 2003 after 21 years with the department. Bisc...

Big Boom at Night: Explosion in Gaza as Air Strikes Resume

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Israeli airstrikes continued across the Gaza strip on Wednesday after Egyptian attempts to broker an end to the month-long war collapsed.

Daytime Arrests in Ferguson, Missouri

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The demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri were largely peaceful on Tuesday but witnesses saw some people being taken into custody by police. Protesters arrested for not walking fast enough.

ISIS Threat to US

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How ISIS could threaten the US; How ISIS could threaten the U.S. Al-Trinidadi from the US? Al-Habashi from Britain? Lt Col. Rick Francona (RET.) Falah Mustafa Bakir, Foreign Minister, Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government: "We need the United States and NATO to interfere because we are fighting on behalf of all those who are against terrorism." Risk: US military assets given to Kurdish forces could get in the hands of ISIS or US-armed Kurds could progress to overtake all of Iraq.

Harrison County cell phone worker killed; decapitated by falling antenna after cable snaps

While working on a Verizon tower near Kentucky 36 in Harrison County, a worker was decapitated with his body suspended on the tower as a cable broke [...] Joel Metz, 28, of Indianapolis was killed Wednesday by an 1,800-pound antenna that fell while a construction crew was replacing the antenna. Police and first responders called at 2:00 p.m.; Northern Kentucky Technical Rescue Team was called about 6:15 p.m. [...] Harrison County, Kentucky [MAP] ...

Kim Kardashian Lookalike Claudia Ochoa Felix Believed to Be in Charge of Los Antrax Hit Squad for Sinaloa Cartel

U.S. intelligence sources have named the Sinaloa cartel as 'the most powerful drug trafficking organization in the world', and they are thought to be responsible for much of the heroin smuggled into America; Los Antrax is the drug cartel's elite contract killer squad, and was previously led by Claudia's lover Jose Rodrigo Arechiga Gamboa, 33, who was arrested in January [...] The Sinaloa Cartel handle transportation across the U.S. border to distribution cells in Arizona, California, Texas, Chicago and New York. DEA Chicago Head Jack Riley described Chicago as one of Sinaloa's most important cities, not only as a final destination for drugs but as a hub to distribute them across the U.S. [...]