News 8/26/2011: Couple back in Pa. to face homicide charges
News from violent crimes happening now, on Friday, August 26th, 2011 at 8:42am. Someone's mother or sister, son or father, is being victimized as you read this. These events happened very recently. As unsettling as they are to read, they all beg one question - could this happen to YOUR mother or sister? YOUR son? Or have you prepared yourself for similar events?
Thieves steal $24K in Ohio stadium field equipment
by WFMJ
Authorities say thieves cut through a fence at East Liverpool High School this week to make off with a $7000 tractor and a $17000 backhoe. School administrators tell WTOV-TV of Steubenville (http://bit.ly/osWBvU ) they believe the culprits must have ...
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Local domestic violence shelter awarded national grant
by KVOA Tucson News
The Emerge Center for Domestic Abuse has the only shelter in the state to receive a grant that will save them nearly $40000 dollars in supplies and labor. The grant is called the Color Care Across America Grant from Benjamin Moore paints. ...
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Entrepreneurship Grants Available for Domestic Violence Survivors in Virginia ...
by MarketWatch (press release)
26, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Verizon Wireless is providing $25000 in grants for aspiring Virginia, Maryland and DC entrepreneurs who have escaped the cycle of domestic abuse. Whether it's a startup catering company, a new retail establishment, ...
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China charges Tibetan monks with homicide in self-immolation
by Reuters Canada
BEIJING (Reuters) - A court in southwest China has charged three Tibetan monks with "intentional homicide" for hiding a fellow monk and prevented him from getting treatment after he set himself on fire, state news agency Xinhua reported Friday. ...
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Couple back in Pa. to face homicide charges
by WFMJ
(AP) - Two homicide suspects from western Pennsylvania are back in the state after being extradited from Indiana. The Daily Local News reports a district judge in the Oxford ordered 20-year-old Chandler Clark and 25-year-old Melanie Ray held without ...
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