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Attorney Ilan Katz, who is heading the defense team for the soldier who last Thursday shot a wounded terrorist in Hevron, said on Wednesday that the soldier's lawyers will not agree to him being stood on trial for homicide. In the incident, the soldier was filmed by an Arab activist for the radical leftist NGO B'Tselem shooting a terrorist, who minutes earlier together with an accomplice stabbed and wounded a soldier. The soldier has argued he shot the terrorist over concerns he was moving to detonate a bomb belt that was thought to be hidden under his unseasonable coat. That...

Late at night this month, the pastor’s phone beeped with a text message from an anguished parishioner. Andre Taylor, the church member’s great-nephew, had been shot and killed. “Dre had just turned 16,” the message on the Rev. Ira Acree’s phone read. “I think that it’s time to call for action and solicit help, have the National Guard to take over and patrol the Chicago streets.” Four days earlier, another text had appeared. A different parishioner’s granddaughter, Daysha Wright, a 21-year-old nursing student, had been shot to death in a car, leaving a 2-year-old son. At his desk at Greater...

Georgia murder suspects accused of killing pizza delivery man for food, leaving cash in his pocket BY CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN The young men suspected of killing of a Georgia pizza delivery man were more focused on the food he was carrying than the money in his pocket, according to police. Investigators said that Shane Varnadore still had $62 on him when the Papa John’s driver was found dead outside an apartment in Lawrenceville earlier this month. Jermaine Young, 21, and Reginald Lofton, 14, are both on trial for the 28-year-old’s death and suspected of only taking two regular pizzas and two...

A popular Muslim shopkeeper was murdered in Glasgow, Scotland by another Muslim last Thursday, mere hours after posting a warm Easter message on Facebook to "my beloved Christian nation." The shopkeeper, 40-year-old Asad Shah, was a devout Muslim who originally hailed from Rabwah in Pakistan, reports The Telegraph on Saturday. According to an eyewitness, in addition to stabbing him his assailants stomped on his head. Roughly four hours before his brutal murder, Shah wrote on Facebook: "Good Friday and a very Happy Easter, especially to my beloved Christian nation. Let's follow the real footstep of beloved holy Jesus Christ and...

A 27-year-old man remained behind bars Saturday after he was arrested in the slayings of a Santa Barbara doctor, his wife and their 5-year-old daughter. Pierre Haobsh, a business acquaintance of Dr. Henry Han, was arrested Friday morning, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said in a statement. Police found a loaded handgun and property belonging to one of the victims in his car when he was taken into custody in San Diego County, Brown said.

Nine people have been charged with murder after a row between two high school girls over 'a boy and some racy photos' led to the death of a teenager. Demajhay Bell, 18, was stabbed in the neck by a friend during a chaotic street brawl at the house of one of the feuding girls in Hephzibah, South Augusta. The teenager, who stayed inside for most of the fighting, was wounded in the deadly melee which featured a 50-strong mob wielding baseball bats, knives and pipes last Friday. He died in hospital two days later. . . . Friends and relatives...

wo days after bomb attacks at Brussels airport and on a packed metro killed 31 people and injured hundreds, a security guard who worked at a Belgian nuclear plant was murdered and his pass was stolen, Belgian media reported on Saturday. The French language Derniere Heure (DH) newspaper reported the security guard's badge was de-activated as soon as it was discovered he had been shot dead in the Charleroi region of Belgium and his badge stolen.

A 32-year-old man has been arrested after a Glasgow shopkeeper was killed in what Police Scotland are treating as a "religiously prejudiced" attack. Asad Shah, 40, was found seriously injured in Minard Road, Shawlands, at about 21:05 GMT on Thursday. He died in hospital. The incident happened hours after he apparently posted social media messages wishing his customers a happy Easter. Police said both Mr Shah and the arrested man were Muslims. ....

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The City of Dallas has a murder rate that’s up 71 percent this year compared to 2015. Forty-one homicides were committed thus far in 2016. The Dallas Police Association said it’s a sign the city needs to hire more officers.

Two suspects have been identified after a woman allegedly shot her husband and made it look like a suicide. Police say they responded to the block of 18500 E 101st St. after receiving a report of a suicide. According to authorities, the man was found by his wife with a gunshot wound to the head. As police investigated, they say evidence began to suggest that the suicide was staged. As investigators spoke with family members about the day's events they found inconsistencies. Upon further investigation, police say they learned that 69-year-old Judith Nix allegedly shot her husband, 69-year-old Kenneth Nix....

The two-month standoff between Oregon militia members and police came to a violent end in January, with the shooting of militia leader Robert “LaVoy” Finicum by Oregon state troopers. But now the Washington Post reports “new details have emerged” about the controversial conduct of FBI Hostage Rescue Team snipers. The Post article portrays the current state of the investigation as considerably messier than readers casually following the story might have suspected. The FBI team has been accused of firing at Finicum’s truck, failing to report their shots as required, and actually taking steps to cover their tracks by collecting their...

In January, Eswin Mejia, reported to be an illegal immigrant, went street racing in Omaha, Nebraska and caused a fatal car crash, killing 21-year-old Sarah Root. The Omaha police alerted Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities and they took Mejia into custody. He was released on $5,000 bail and has not been seen since.

In Petah Tikva a man was moderately wounded but managed to kill his Arab attacker; in Jerusalem two officers were shot and seriously wounded; and in Yafo, a mass casualty stabbing took place. American tourist Taylor Allen Force was murdered in the Yafo attack and 12 others were wounded. The US issued a condemnation of the attack. But for the Hamas terror organization that holds de facto rule of Gaza, the bloodshed throughout the country was something to rejoice. "We applaud he courageous attacks in Tel Aviv (Petah Tikva - ed.), Jerusalem and Yafo. This is proof of the failure...

Four Danish men go on trial on Thursday accused of aiding a Copenhagen gunman who killed a filmmaker and a Jewish security guard in twin attacks last year. The four stand accused of committing "terror offences" by providing support for Danish-Palestinian Omar El-Hussein ahead of the second attack, which took place outside a synagogue. El-Hussein, 22, was shot dead by police hours later, having killed two people and wounded five. The prosecution said it could prove the four suspects were in close contact with El-Hussein in the hours after the first attack. "There has been a very comprehensive investigation involving...

The Punjab Province of Pakistan's efforts to criminalize violence against women was denounced as un-Islamic by the Council of Islamic Ideology. "The Quran explicitly grants men control over their women," Muhammad Khan Sherani, head of the Council pointed out. "The secular authorities have no right to impede the laws given to us by Allah." Fazlur Rehman, the chief of one of Pakistan's largest religious parties, the Jamiat-i-Ulema Islam, concurred. "This law makes every man insecure. If a husband is barred from beating his wife, if a father is prohibited from killing a wayward daughter we will descend into the same...

(TRUNEWS) Pregnant women may soon be forced to make a difficult decision – to abort their babies or giving up their organs after birth. National Health Service (NHS), the publically funded healthcare system in the U.K. is proposing that women be "supported" to carry the child to term for the sole purpose of harvesting the baby’s organs. There is currently a shortage of donated organs, according to The Express. The mother could choose not to have their child's organs removed by choosing abortion instead if tests during pregnancy determined the baby may have a birth defect. In some cases, if...

Seventy years ago, the small town of Texarkana became the stuff of horror movies. It began on Feb. 22, 1946, when Jimmy Hollis, 25, and Mary Jeanne Larey, 19, went to a movie. The evening ended with the young couple in a lovers’ lane near the town, which straddles the border between Texas and Arkansas. All of a sudden, a bright flashlight beam blinded Hollis and a male voice ordered him to take off his pants. Then the stranger stomped and clobbered the young man so savagely that his skull cracked, putting him into a coma for days. Larey tried...

Presidential Press Secretary Josh Earnest told media representatives that "the Administration will not declare ISIL's practice of slaughtering Christians an act of genocide. From a technical perspective, genocide is the effort to exterminate a race or ethnic group. Most of the Christian victims have the same ethnic heritage as the killers. So we're not seeing the killings as having the requisite motivation to qualify as genocide, per se." "On top of this, there is a genuine question of religious freedom that needs to be taken into account," Earnest added. "According to Islamic faith, Muslims have an obligation to fight for...

During the Friday broadcast of his radio show, Glenn Beck said that if he were present at Thursday night’s Republican debate, and “had a knife,” he would have stabbed Donald Trump. “I don’t know what I would have done if I was sitting in” Cruz or Rubio’s shoes, Beck stated. “I can’t say it that way. If I were on the stage, I would have said, ‘have you been listening to him tonight? Have you been listening to what I say about him?’ I believe these things.” “If I was close enough and had a knife, the stabbing just wouldn’t...

To avoid clicking through the slideshow, here's the list: Rates are per 100K people 30 Lake County, IN 12.37 29 Hunt County, TX 12.61 28 Norfolk City, VA 12.67 27 Robeson County, NC 13.34 26 Jackson County, MO 13.42 25 Newport News City, VA 13.78 24 Russel County, AL 14.04 23 East Baton Rouge Parish, LA 14.20 22 Forrest County, MS 14.44 21 St. Clair County, IL 14.53 20 Fulton County, GA 14.58 19 Essex County, NJ 14.69 18 Pulaski County, AR 14.92 17 Lauderdale County, MS 14.94 16 Marion County, IN 15.01 15 Chaves County, NM 15.19 14 Montgomery...