Guns on college campus bill passes in Texas Senate

By Calvin Palmer
A bill to allow Texas college students and employees to carry concealed handguns on campus passed in the Senate today on a 19-12 vote.
Students would have to be at least 21 years old and licensed to carry a concealed handgun. University hospitals and athletic facilities would remain off limits to guns.
Why? I mean [...]

Angry crowd greets triple murder suspect outside court

By Calvin Palmer
An angry crowd of some 25 people gathered outside Monroe County courtroom in southwest Illinois this morning and jeered as murder suspect Christopher Coleman was led in.
Coleman, 32, of Columbiapleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Sheri Coleman, 31, and his two sons 11-year-old Garet and nine-year-old [...]

Rescuers find three bodies from Navy helicopter crash

By Calvin Palmer
Rescue teams today recovered the bodies of three crew members from the Navy helicopter that crashed in the Pacific Ocean southwest of San Diego last night.
The search for the other two crew members is continuing, said Lt Karen Burzynski, spokeswoman for the Navy’s 3rd Fleet in San Diego.
The HH-60 Seahawk helicopter, from Carrier [...]

Five dimensional DVD technology offers 2,000 movies on a single disc

By Calvin Palmer
A team of researchers at an Australian university have developed a new DVD technology that would allow more than 2,000 movies on a single disc.
Researchers at the Swinburne University of Technology, in Melbourne, have used nanotechnology to boost the storage potential nearly 10,000-fold compared to standard DVDs, according to a study published in [...]

Body of 7-year-old girl looked ‘almost mummified’

By Calvin Palmer
An ambulance officer called to the house where a seven-year-old girl allegedly starved to death told a court today that her body looked mummified.
Ambulance officer Timothy Kirkpatrick told the New South Wales  Supreme Court, sitting at East Maitland, that the dead child looked “different” from other bodies he had seen in his nine [...]

Doctor saves boy’s life by using a household drill

By Calvin Palmer
An Australian teenager owes his life to a brave decision by a country doctor and a household electric drill.
Nicholas Rossi, 13, of Maryborough in rural Victoria, fell of his bicycle outside a friend’s house last Friday and hit his head on the pavement.
At first he seemed fine but later stared complaining of a [...]

Dolla’s shooting may have links to fight at strip club

By Calvin Palmer
The fatal shooting of rap artist Dolla may have stemmed from an altercation with his suspected killer at an Atlanta strip club frequented by the hip-hop community, according to a Los Angeles police source.
Roderick Anthony Burton II, known as Dolla, was killed during a confrontation between two groups in the valet parking area [...]

Father charged with murdering wife and two young sons

By Calvin Palmer
Police last night arrested a southwest Illinois man and charged him with murdering his wife and two young children.
Maj Jeff Connor with the Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis says Chris Coleman, 32, of Columbia, was arrested and charged with three counts of first-degree murder after investigators learned of critical evidence.
Connor would [...]