Convicted killer Guede refuses to testify at Amanda Knox trial

By Calvin Palmer
Rudy Guede, the 21-year-old Ivory Coast national convicted last October of the murder and sexual assault of British student Meredith Kercher, took the witness stand today in the trial of American Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito.
Guede, who is appealing his conviction, appeared tense and did not look at Knox [...]

Three Pittsburgh police officers killed in shootout

By Calvin Palmer
Three polices officers were killed and two injured when a man started firing from a window in a Pittsburgh neighborhood this morning.
Four officers were shot entering the house in Stanton Heights. The fifth officer was injured on the perimeter of the scene, police said.
The gunman was identified as Richard Poplawski who lived with his mother and [...]

Gunman depressed and angry over job loss and poor English skills, police say

By Calvin Palmer
The gunman who killed 13 people at a civic center in upstate New York was angry and depressed because he had lost his job and his standard of English was poor.
Armed with two handguns and a satchel of ammunition, Jiverly Voong, a 42-year-old Vietnamese immigrant, stormed the American Civic Association building yesterday killing [...]