At Fort Lewis, hearing starts in soldier’s ‘thrill kill’ case
By GEORGE TIBBITS
The Associated Press
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD — The Army sergeant accused of masterminding a plan to kill Afghan civilians for sport and goading other soldiers to do the same appeared at a military hearing Tuesday to determine whether there is enough evidence to court-martial him.
In what has emerged as one of the most gruesome cases of the Afghan war, fellow soldiers say Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs also threatened them, collected fingers of the dead and found it amusing to slaughter animals with his assault rifle.
Gibbs has a chance to contest that portrait during the Article 32 hearing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord south of Seattle.
Charges against him include murder, dereliction of duty and trying to impede an investigation.
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before 9 p.m. Some liquid coming out of the storage containers in a fenced-off area near a closed chemical plant prompted the hazmat investigation. There is also an unknown odor in the area believed to be connected to the barrels. The Red Cross had set up an evacuation center at DuPont Elementary School at 7970 Kimberly Street. Union Pacific Railroad confirms their train tracks run through the area, but said the hazmat is not involving a train or their tracks. One train had been stopped on the tracks because of the investigation. When investigators showed up at the site a group of men were there but fled. Police are searching for the men. They believe the men were stealing metal seals from storage tanks and selling the material.
Source: http://cbs4denver.com/news/hazmat.hazardous.materials.2.1998550.html
November 7, Foxborough Country Gazette – (Massachusetts) Probe into unodorized propane behind Norfolk, Massachusetts explosion is concluded. Findings of a probe into the source of unodorized propane gas identified as the cause of a deadly explosion at the Village at River’s Edge July 30 have been released by the Massachusetts Attorney General and state fire marshal. The review, conducted by an independent propane expert, found unodorized propane gas was potentially distributed throughout the state and in other states from distributor DCP Midstream’s (DCP) Westfield facility, starting in May 2010. Authorities began an investigation into the distribution of unodorized propane gas following the July 2010 explosion in Norfolk which claimed the life of a 48-year-old resident of Blackstone. The explosion occurred while the victim and fellow construction workers were at work on a condominium unit at the
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Village at River’s Edge of Rockwood Road in Norfolk. Two firefighters, a resident and four construction workers also suffered some injuries from the explosion. Workers reported at the time they had no indication there was a propane leak in the condo unit, since the distinctive odor that is supposed to have been added to the supply was not present — propane gas is naturally odorless and state and federal law require an odorous additive to be put into supplies so it can be detected if there is a leak.
Source: http://www.wickedlocal.com/foxborough/news/x1775214243/Probe-into-unodorized-propane-behind-Norfolk-explosion-is-concluded
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Many articles at link on the things we watch, several electic outages for large areas and an arson attempt to burn out a railroad.