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Deputies responded to an assault with a deadly weapon call in the 45000 block of Highway 371 just after 12:30 a.m. Monday... A woman suffering from multiple gunshot wounds was found at the location and transported by paramedics to a local hospital for treatment...was later pronounced dead at the hospital. A search of the property revealed six additional victims, all suffering from gunshot wounds. All six of those victims also died from their wounds... Investigators say evidence at the location indicated it was being used as an illegal marijuana growing facility. More than 1,000 pounds of marijuana and several hundred...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8, 2009 – Combined Afghan and international forces killed seven militants and detained several suspected insurgents in operations today in Afghanistan. A combined force killed seven militants and detained four others in Laghman province while pursuing a Taliban bomb maker responsible for several suicide attacks in the region. "We are aware of civilian casualty allegations, however there are no operational reports to substantiate those claims of harming civilians, including women and children, during this operation," said Navy Capt. Jane Campbell, International Security Assistance Force Joint Command spokeswoman. The force targeted a compound near Armul village in the Mehtar...

WASHINGTON, April 26, 2007 – Coalition forces in Iraq today killed seven terrorists and disrupted a vehicle-bomb network, military officials reported. In Baghdad’s Sadr City neighborhood, four armed terrorists engaged coalition forces with small-arms fire, and the coalition troops exercised what officials called “proper self-defense measures,” killing one attacker. A vehicle approached the coalition forces during the engagement, which occurred during curfew hours, when vehicle movement is not allowed. Coalition forces disabled the vehicle, which caught fire. Two occupants ran into a nearby building. Four more armed terrorists entered the area and hid behind a stationary vehicle while they...

WASHINGTON, April 1, 2007 – Recent military operations resulted in the death of one terrorist and the detention of 22, while car bombings in Iraq yesterday killed seven Iraqi civilians, military officials said. Near the Syrian border today, coalition forces killed one armed terrorist and captured two suspected terrorists with alleged ties to an al-Qaeda foreign fighter facilitation network. In Baghdad, two more foreign fighter facilitation network suspects were detained. During an operation March 29 in Arab Jabour, coalition forces detained one suspected terrorist and destroyed a weapons cache found in the man’s vehicle. The weapons consisted of a...

7 die on I-20 near Longview 07/21/2002 By LEE HANCOCK and MANYA A. BRACHEAR / The Dallas Morning News Seven people died in a head-on collision involving a minivan, a sport utility vehicle and a tractor-trailer rig traveling on Interstate 20 just west of Longview on Sunday evening. The east-west thoroughfare was shut down for 3 1/2 hours. The dead included two of three 3-year-old triplets. Victims were from California, Louisiana and Addison, the Texas Department of Public Safety said. RICARDO P. BRAZZIELL / AP Rescue workers comb through the grisly wreckage near Longview. The accident occurred about 5:45...