Posts Tagged ‘Several Times’

2 knifed in Mission Valley hotel fight over alcohol

    

By Pauline Repard, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 8:14 a.m.
MISSION VALLEY — Two men were stabbed, one severely, in a fight over stolen alcohol during a 21st birthday party shortly after midnight Thursday, San Diego police said.
A group of people were celebrating the birthday in a room at the King’s Inn on Hotel [...]

Teen killed in Campo crash identified

    

By Debbi Baker, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
Monday, July 26, 2010 at 6:02 a.m.
SAN DIEGO — A 15-year-old girl killed in a crash in Campo was identified Monday as Crystal Lopez of El Centro, officials with the Medical Examiners Office said.
Lopez was riding with her mother in a pickup on westbound Interstate 8 west of Crestwood [...]

Israeli troops kill Palestinian at settlement

    

By The Associated Press
Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 8:17 a.m.
JERUSALEM —
Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian man entering a Jewish settlement in the West Bank on Thursday, drawing a Palestinian accusation that soldiers are too quick to open fire.

The military said troops were lying in ambush early Thursday outside the Barkan settlement [...]

Twitter warns users to expect more downtime

    

œWed already said this is going to be a rocky few weeks. Were working
through tweaks to our system in order to provide greater stability at a time
when were facing record traffic. We have long-term solutions were working
towards, but in the meantime, we are making real-time adjustments so that we
can grow our capacity and avoid outages [...]

England chases 160 for victory

LONDON (AP) Bangladesh was dismissed for 382 in its second innings on day five of the first test at Lord’s, setting England a victory target of 160 with two sessions to play on Monday.

Steven Finn took 5-87 and Tim Bresnan 3-93, while Junaid Siddique, who batted for more than four hours, made a 74 that [...]

Xu Lindong, sent to asylum for writing petition, is freed after six years

A Chinese villager who protested against the Government in a land dispute has
been locked in a mental hospital for more than six years and freed only
after his case set off a media furore.

Xu Lindong was thrown into shackles 48 times and given electric shocks on 54
occasions during his incarceration. He tried several times to escape [...]

School Crisis Rattles Missouri

BY DOUGLAS BELKIN
The Kansas City Missouri School Board voted Wednesday night to shutter nearly half of its schools in an effort to avoid going broke.
The action closes 28 of 58 campuses and eliminates about 700 of the district’s 3,300 jobs, including 285 teachers.
“None of us like doing this but it was [...]