Body found in truck trailer identified as Susana De Jesus

By Calvin Palmer
The body of a woman found in a truck trailer on Tuesday near Reliant Park in south Houston was today formally identified as that of a missing Pearland woman.
The Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office today confirmed the badly decomposed body was that of 37-year-old Susana De Jesus. The cause of death has not [...]

Kretschmer may have targeted females in high school massacre

By Calvin Palmer
Almost all of the victims gunned down by Tim Kretschmer at his former high school were women but authorities this evening refused to speculate as to whether he was deliberately targeting women.
Kretschmer, 17, walked into the Albertville Realschule in Winnenden, near Stuttgart, at 9:30 a.m. local time and went straight to room 10d, [...]

Economic crisis sounds a sad note for NY Philharmonic free concert

By Calvin Palmer
The New York Philharmonic has canceled its annual free summer concert on Long Island.
Islip Arts Council says it was notified in a letter from the orchestra’s president, Zarin Mehta, who cited “the financial realities of the day”.
The arts council has turned to the Long Island Philharmonic to perform at Hecksher State Park on [...]

Alabama gunmen had list of people “who done him wrong”

By Calvin Palmer
The Alabama massacre gunmen had been keeping a list of those “who done him wrong,” Coffee County District Attorney Gary McAliley said today.
Investigators trying to figure out why Michael McLendon, 28, killed 10 people yesterday afternoon found the list in his home and it featured former employers, including the sausage plant where he [...]

Passenger plane makes emergency landing after pieces fell off engine

By Calvin Palmer
An American Airlines plane bound for Chicago made an emergency landing this morning after an engine failed shortly after takeoff from New York’s LaGuardia Airport.
American Flight 309 was diverted to Kennedy Airport after the pilot reported engine problems.
The crew heard a loud noise just after takeoff, which Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters [...]

Girl’s headless body found after crocodile attack

By Calvin Palmer
A 10-year-old girl on her way to school in the Philippines has been decapitated by a crocodile.
The girl and a classmate were on their way by canoe to their floating school on Mihaba Lake in the Agusan del Sur province when the 23-foot crocodile caused the boat to capsize, police officer Melchor Danuco [...]

Gunman’s deadly rampage in Alabama claims 10 lives

By Calvin Palmer
A gunman in Alabama killed at least 10 people yesterday, including his grandparents and other relatives, before killing himself when cornered by police.
Michael McLendon, 28, left a trail of dead and wounded across two rural counties and three towns yesterday before police cornered him in a factory where he had once worked and [...]

Gunman shot dead by police after massacre at German high school

By Calvin Palmer
The routine of a high school in southern Germany was shattered today when a 17-year-old gunman killed nine students and three teachers.  He fled the scene and killed three other people before police cornered him in a car park 25 miles away and shot him dead.
Tim Kretschmer, dressed in black combat fatigues targeted [...]

Arrested carjacker led police to body of kidnapped woman

By Calvin Palmer
A man charged last night in an attempted carjacking in Pearland has given investigators information on the case of kidnapping victim Susana De Jesus.
Nicholas-Michael Edwin Jean, 21, of Pearland, was charged with attempted murder, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated robbery, burglary and theft of a firearm, Brazoria County District Attorney Jeri Yenne said.
Jean was not [...]