Marine Corps reservist, identified as suspect in killings of Arizona deputy, New Hampshire couple
A New Hampshire couple found dead in a car near a northern Arizona resort town and a sheriff’s deputy killed days later in Phoenix were shot by the same gunman – a U.S. Marine Corps reservist, investigators say. Ballistics experts confirmed the rifle casings at the two crime scenes came from the assault rifle used [...]
Marine Corps probe after video emerges showing American troops ‘urinating on dead Afghan bodies’
Must feel really good being a-la-supreme when you have an upper hand over the other guys. 4 U.S Marines are shown on the video urinating on dead Afghan bodies on what they claimed to be Taliban fighters. While that must feel like victory to a country with all the technologies that money can buy vs. [...]
Former Marine pleads guilty to tossing son off boat ‘after he wouldn’t stop crying’
A drunken father who tossed his seven-year-old son overboard in a busy California harbour, forcing another boat to veer to avoid hitting the boy, has been sentenced to rehab. Thirty-five-year-old Sloan Briles, a former Marine from Irvine, avoided jail by pleading guilty on Monday to felony child abuse and endangerment. He was sentenced to three [...]
The Haditha killings
The Haditha killings (also called the Haditha incident or the Haditha massacre) refers to the incident in which 24 Iraqi men, women and children were killed by a group of United States Marines on November 19, 2005 in Haditha, a city in the western Iraqi province of Al Anbar. At least 19 of those killed [...]
One cop dead, 5 hurt in Utah drug raid shootout
The suspect in the shooting of six Utah police officers remains under guard at an Ogden hospital awaiting likely charges, a jail official said Friday. One of the police officers died in the shootout that left five others from a narcotics strike force wounded Wednesday. They were serving a search warrant at a house in [...]
Navy SEAL accidentally shoots himself in head while showing off gun to woman he met in bar
A Navy SEAL is on a life support machine after accidentally shooting himself in the head while showing a gun to a woman he had met in a bar. The 22-year-old, named locally as Geno Clayton, was playing with a 9mm handgun he believed was unloaded when he pulled the trigger. He was rushed to [...]
Pharmacy Killer
A man who executed four people inside a quiet New York pharmacy during a drug robbery was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole. His wife, who drove the getaway car, received 25 years. David Laffer pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the June holdup at Haven Drugs in Medford, perhaps the most egregious [...]