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The shooting plunged the town into lockdown and started a daylong police search for Bowles, who was clad in camouflage. Bowles was located by police early this afternoon where he was barricaded inside a rural property. According to the West Australian, he was waving a Nazi flag and wearing a Swastika. Terry Czernowski was shot by his co-worker at a grain silo business in Kelleberrin, near Perth.

A manager at a Cracker Barrel near Houston was fatally shot early Saturday as she came to the aid of a co-worker who was being robbed while she entered the location, reports said. Robin Baucom, 59, a grandmother, had worked in the restaurant for more than three decades. The scene unfolded quickly. A car pulled while another employee was entering the store before business hours, and someone jumped out of it and tried to take the employee’s purse, the Star-Telegram reported.

A Miami Beach man whose repeated romantic advances to a restaurant co-worker were rejected killed her outside her apartment, according to reports. Agustin Lucas Mariani, 20, faces second-degree murder charges for the fatal stabbing of Delfina Pan, a 28-year-old from Argentina who had refused to date him, the Miami Herald reported Friday.

It is also now known that just two weeks before the shooting rampage, Farook got into a heated argument with a Messianic Jewish colleague about Islam. The gunman's co-worker, 52-year-old Nicholas Thalasinos, was identified today as one of the victims in the attacks. Kuuleme Stephens said she happened to call Thalasinos while he was at work and having a discussion with Farook. Thalasinos identified Farook by name and told her the 28-year-old believed Islam was a peaceful religion. She added that Farook said Americans don't understand Islam. Stephens said both men worked as county restaurant inspectors and regularly discussed politics...

My wife's coworker recently posted a message about an MRI his six year old son recently underwent. Lucas has been having headaches for a while, and the doctor ordered an MRI to see what was going on. Rather than try to paraphrase what he said, I'm just going to quote it. "Thank you for all the prayers. Yesterday was a very long day for us. The MRI went fine and Lucas was a champ. He's a heck of good kid. Before I get to the results, for those of you who know Laura, please don't call her for a while....

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 2008 – When they found out one of their own was going to deploy overseas with the Tennessee National Guard, the leadership and employees of Lochinvar Corp. didn’t waste any time. They immediately found out what they could do to help, and they worked together to help him and his unit before, during and after the deployment. The deploying employee, Army Sgt. 1st Class Bill Jacobs, who was an Apache helicopter platoon sergeant with the National Guard and a manufacturing engineer manager with Lochinvar, was so impressed with the level of support he received that he...

/10/2006 - NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. (AFPN) -- A security forces noncommissioned officer lost consciousness and was saved by a fellow Airman at a Las Vegas restaurant March 5. Members of the security team for Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment '06 were at dinner when Master Sgt. Jeff Jones noticed that Staff Sgt. Dionne Bennett, an Air National Guard augmentee, looked faint and "un-alert." Sergeant Jones is the security superintendent for JEFX '06 and assigned to the 505th Command and Control Wing at Hurlburt Field, Fla. "She put her hand on her head and complained about being hot," Sergeant Jones...

Today a co-worker of mine, his name is Irv. was crossing the street this morning on his way to work. While crossing he had a siezure and was hit by a truck, I don't know his condition but I need the prayers of everyone here for his recovery. Thank You.

Please forgive me for reposting this but I am trying to get a huge response. I want to get a copy of the responses and prayers to the family. A co-worker of mine has lost an inlaw in Iraq. The exact relationship to him does not matter. I come to you and ask for your prayers for his family. What fallows is his name and info that is already in the media. Cpl. Randal Kent Rosacker, 21, San Diego, Calif • Nine Marines, fighting near An Nasiriyah, encountered Iraqi troops pretending to surrender, March 23. Sgt. Michael E. Bitz, 31,...

A co-worker of mine has lost an inlaw in Iraq. The exact relationship to him does not matter. I come to you and ask for your prayers for his family. What fallows is his name and info that is already in the media. Cpl. Randal Kent Rosacker, 21, San Diego, Calif • Nine Marines, fighting near An Nasiriyah, encountered Iraqi troops pretending to surrender, March 23. Sgt. Michael E. Bitz, 31, Ventura, Calif.; Lance Cpl. Brian Rory Buesing, 20, of Cedar Key, Fla.; Lance Cpl. David K. Fribley, 26, Lee, Fla., Cpl. Jose A. Garibay, 21, Orange, Calif.; Cpl. Jorge...