Security Guard Shot Dead In Atlanta

Security Guard Who Stopped Gunman At Florida Schoolboard Meeting Tells Story To Fox News Shep Smith (Video)
Mike Jones, a Security Guard says he was supposed to be off all week on Vacation but he was asked to stay a couple days because of the Bad Weather. He says it was troubling taking the life of another and afterwards sought help from his pastor. He hasn't watched any of the video of the shooting or read any of the papers ...

Megachurch Leaders Linked To Controversial Mortgage Venture
ATLANTA -- CBS Atlanta News has found Bishop Eddie Long and another local Megachurch leader, Gary Hawkins, are linked to a questionable Mortgage venture that is being investigated by the feds. CBS Atlanta was the first to report on Matrix Capital's long list of Victims. The company promised to lower people's mortgages for $1,500 upfront. Police say thousands of Homeowners paid Matrix money, but according to investigators, most of them ended up in Bankruptcy and losing their homes. So many people...

The weather: Just a lot more bad news
Snow, sleet and freezing rain wreaked havoc across Mid-Atlantic and Southern states on Thursday, causing hundreds of accidents, four fatal. The nasty pre-winter mix also forced schools to start late, close early or cancel classes altogether. Three people died in separate weather-related crashes in North Carolina. In south-central Kentucky, State Police said an 80-year-old man died when his sport-utility vehicle hit a patch of ice, ran off the road and overturned. Thousands of people in North Car...

Honeymoon murder: Anni Dewani was 'shot dead accidentally' by her abductor
Anni Dewani, the bride murdered on her Honeymoon, was shot dead accidentally by her abductor as he tried to Rape her, according to expert evidence commissioned by her husband’s Legal Team....

Mayweather arrested on battery charges
Published: Dec. 17, 2010 at 5:17 PM Las Vegas police say boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. was arrested on a battery charge resulting from an altercation over a parking citation at a Strip casino. UPI/Roger Williams LAS VEGAS, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Las Vegas police say boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. was arrested on a battery charge resulting from an altercation over a parking citation at a Strip casino. The Thursday arrest and charge stem from allegations he repeatedly poked a Southern Highlands casino security...

Activists stage new tax protests
Should companies offer to pay more tax? Protesters against tax avoidance have staged demonstrations at shops across the UK on what is traditionally the busiest shopping weekend of the year. UK Uncut said it held 55 Protests in cities including London, Edinburgh and Manchester against the Arcadia Group, Boots, Vodafone and Barclays. Arcadia Group's flagship Topshop and BHS shops in Oxford Street were hit. The wife of Sir Philip Green, the firm's boss, has been criticised for living in ...

Vegas judge orders Floyd Mayweather's arrest
A Las Vegas judge has issued an outstanding Arrest Warrant for boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. on a Misdemeanor battery complaint alleging he poked a Security Guard in the face several times. Las Vegas police Officer Bill Cassel said Thursday that the warrant issued Dec. 8 requires Mayweather to turn himself in or face arrest at any time. Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Tony Abbatangelo signed the Arrest Warrant for Mayweather after a Dec. 7 hearing, then immediately recalled it. It was reinstated aft...

Booze, drugs and hookers: Hundreds of offenses by Afghan contractors uncovered
At two in the morning on Sept. 9, 2005, five DynCorp International Security Guards assigned to Afghan President Hamid Karzai's protective detail returned to their compound drunk, with a Prostitute in tow. Less than a week later, three of these same guards got drunk again, this time in the VIP lounge of the Kabul airport while awaiting a flight to Thailand. "They had been intoxicated, loud and obnoxious," according to an internal company report of the incident, which noted that Afghanistan's depu...

U.S. 'vigilant' for holiday terror threats, adviser says
U.S. security is "particularly vigilant" to terror threats over the holidays, the president's Counterterrorism adviser said Friday, striking a confident note that the United States is ready. "We always have to remain on guard," said John Brennan, the White House Counterterrorism adviser said at an event for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The holidays are a particularly sensitive time because of the increased pace of travel, Brennan noted. "I'm ...

US boxer to face battery charge
US boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr has been briefly arrested on suspicion of assaulting a Security Guard outside his home. Mr Mayweather, 33, was detained at a casino in the Las Vegas area and held at the Clark County jail, police said. He was later released without bail. He is due to appear in court on Monday charged with battery, officials say. The charge alleges he poked a Security Guard in the face during a row over Parking Tickets on 15 November. He faces six months in Prison and a $1,000 (£645...

About Those Low-Paid TSA Flunkies
Corey writes: Just for some perspective, according to usajobs.com, a Transportation Security Officer in Dodge City, KS starts out making just over $31,000 annually. According to Salary.com, the median annual income for private Security Guards in Dodge City is just under $25,000. Those poor, incompetent molesto-crats only make 25% more than their productive sector counterparts! ...

Report: 191 Prisoners Escape Mexico Border Jail
As many as 191 Mexican Prisoners escaped early Friday morning from a jail in Nuevo Laredo near the US border, reports local TV station KGBT-TV. Nuevo Laredo is the sister city of Laredo, Tx. The Prisoners allegedly just walked out the front door, reports Agence France Presse. After the escape, the Prison's 44 Security Guards and its director were arrested, KGBT-TV reports. It was one of the biggest prison escapes in recent years, surpassing the 85 inmates who broke out of a prison in the norther...

Casino Heists: Criminals Are Flush With Creative Ideas
There's no shortage of creativity when it comes to trying to beat the odds in Las Vegas. Granted, this week's theft of up to $1.5 million in casino chips from the Bellagio may have been one of the more direct approaches. The thief merely entered the casino, displayed a gun, pulled the chips off a table and sped away on a black motorcycle, all in less than three minutes, according to Las Vegas Police Lt. Clint Nichols. While casino heists have been down in the past decade -- Nichols said there ...

Honda recalling Passport SUVs over suspension
WASHINGTON (AP) — Honda is recalling about 35,000 Passport sport utility vehicles to inspect brackets on the rear suspension that could detach and lead to a crash. The recall involves Passports from the 1998-2002 model years and is limited to 21 states and the District of Columbia where road salt is used during the winter. Honda says the front bracket of the rear suspension lower trailing links could corrode and the bracket could break off from the frame. Honda says a small number of incid...

Honda recalling Passport SUVs over suspension
Honda is recalling about 35,000 Passport sport utility vehicles to inspect brackets on the rear suspension that could detach and lead to a crash. The recall involves Passports from the 1998-2002 model years and is limited to 21 states and the District of Columbia where road salt is used during the winter. Honda says the front bracket of the rear suspension lower trailing links could corrode and the bracket could break off from the frame. Honda says a small number of incidents have been reported,...

GM recalling 100,000 SUVs for seatbelts
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- General Motors is recalling almost 100,000 of its popular new 2011 model year crossover SUVs because the front seatbelts could come loose in a crash. The models involved in the recall are the Chevrolet Equinox, GMC Terrain and Cadillac SRX compact crossover SUVs. A total of 97,843 vehicles are involved in the recall. Email Print Comment The problem was discovered during seatbelt development tests in September. The two incidents that occurred during the tests were on t...

Maple Shade man indicted in 2009 fatal crash
A Maple Shade man was indicted Tuesday by a Burlington County Grand Jury for causing the deaths of two people in a 2009 Mount Laurel crash, authorities said Thursday. Stephen Ford, 28, turned himself in Thursday morning and posted $250,000 bail. He faces charges of aggravated Manslaughter, vehicular homicide, and assault by auto, said Burlington County Prosecutor Robert D. Bernardi. Ford has also been charged with driving while intoxicated and other motor vehicle offenses, authorities said. On A...

GM recalling 100,000 SUVs for seatbelts
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- General Motors is recalling almost 100,000 of its popular new 2011 model year crossover SUVs because the front seatbelts could come loose in a crash. The models involved in the recall are the Chevrolet Equinox, GMC Terrain and Cadillac SRX compact crossover SUVs. A total of 97,843 vehicles are involved in the recall. Email Print Comment The problem was discovered during seatbelt development tests in September. The two incidents that occurred during the tests were on t...

Honda recalling Passport SUVs over suspension
WASHINGTON — Honda is recalling about 35,000 Passport sport utility vehicles to inspect brackets on the rear suspension that could detach and lead to a crash. The recall involves Passports from the 1998-2002 model years and is limited to 21 states and the District of Columbia where road salt is used during the winter. Honda says the front bracket of the rear suspension lower trailing links could corrode and the bracket could break off from the frame. Honda says a small number of incidents...

Jury: Don't blame company for exec's drunken driving that killed family
The 10-member jury deliberated for two days after a two-week trial before deciding that UGS, now Siemens, wasn't responsible for the crash that killed the wife and sons of Oakland County jeweler Gary Weinstein. Weinstein's lawyer, Frank Guerra IV of San Antonio, had argued that UGS employees knew or should have known that executive Thomas Wellinger, now 54, was an alcoholic and was intoxicated on May 3, 2005, when he left the Farmington Hills office he...

3 held after Ohio-to-Michigan chase
Michigan State Police Trooper Tressa Duffin said the Monroe post received a call about 10:10 p.m. Wednesday from Perrysburg, Ohio, police alerting them that they were crossing into Michigan in pursuit of two men in a white Chevrolet SUV. The pair was reportedly transporting a large quantity of narcotics and believed to be heavily armed. They were apparently fleeing a drug interdiction effort by the officers, who were part of a drug enforcement unit wi...

Police investigate 'Craigslist' murders
A man believed to be the last person to see a missing New Jersey Prostitute voluntarily surrendered his sport utility vehicle to detectives investigating the deaths of four women whose bodies were found on a deserted beach highway, police said on Thursday....

'IT'S A FUN THING TO DO'
LISBON — The final weekend before Christmas has several families out looking for the perfect live tree. Cody S. Richardson had a small hand-written sign out at the end of a Route 37 driveway advertising real Christmas Trees. He sat in his pickup truck keeping warm while awaiting customers to select either a fresh blue spruce or balsam pine tree. He has been selling real Christmas trees for about 20 years. "It's a fun thing to do," said Mr. Richardson, who also enjoys carving wood. Af...

Boyfriend sentenced after Mass. DUI death
SALEM — A man whose girlfriend was killed after he crashed an SUV in a Drunk Driving accident in Lynn was sentenced to three to four years in Prison. Christopher Maxson of Marblehead was sentenced Friday in the March death of 19-year-old Julia Gauthier of Salem. After leaving a party in Lynn, Maxson ran several stop signs before flipping over the SUV, which rolled over at least twice. The sentence was lighter than the five- to seven-year sentence prosecutors sought. Maxson’s lawyer,...

Tiger Woods Scandal Voted AP Sports Story Of Year
NEW YORK — Tiger Woods' humbling return to the public eye, from his televised confession to a winless season on the Golf Course, was voted the sports story of the year by members of The Associated Press. The fallout from Woods' admission of Infidelity edged a very different sort of story: The New Orleans Saints winning their first Super Bowl championship, giving an emotional boost to their Hurricane-ravaged city. It was late 2009 when Woods' pristine image unraveled after he crashed his ...