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Reports: Shots fired at Garden State Plaza mall By LUKE FUNK, Senior Web Producer - bio NEW JERSEY (MYFOXNY.COM) - There were unconfirmed reports of shots being fired at the Garden State Plaza mall in Paramus, N.J. on Monday night. It reportedly happened about 9:30 p.m. Police had not confirmed any information but there were several reports on Twitter about a gunman opening fire inside the mall. Law enforcement scanner traffic reported a male wearing body armor and a rifle in the mall. Witnesses report a large police presence at the mall. The Hackensack tactical team was being deployed to...

<p>It’s been a long time since I last posted an article, but John Robinson’s latest version of FreeRepublic has me inspired. I have seen so many compliments and complain about the latest and greatest forum software, that I thought it might be a good time to take a look back.</p>

Is GOOGLE down? In my area if you try to use Google you get "There is no website configured at this address" from cPanel. I wonder if this is regional or maybe another hack attack?

<p>NEW YORK (AP) - An explosion rocked an oil refinery on the edge of Staten Island, sending black smoke and flames hundreds of feet into the air.</p> <p>"We have a preliminary report that tanker was transferring a product or was being fueled and somehow ignited," Fire Department Chief William Van Wart said.</p> <p>It wasn't immediately clear whether any of the dozens of oil tanks in the area were burning.</p>

All Freepers, Several people have asked for links to the Australian Relief effort for the victims of the Bali terrorist attack. I used to live in Australia and have very close friends there. I requested that they provide me with some relief effort information and the following is what I have received in reply. The Aussies have always stood by us in our times of need. They have never wavered since the September 11th attacks. The attacks against a nightclub that only admitted foreigners at a popular Australian vacation retreat were not only an attack against Bali and its mainly...

One of the largest groups providing aid to the Taliban meets almost every day in a building known to the U.S. military. But it is unlikely Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will order his troops to wipe out the Pentagon press corps, though he must be sorely tempted. With a handful of exceptions, such as Tom Ricks of The Washington Post and Jamie McIntyre of CNN (a rose in a patch of weeds) most of the journalists covering this war aren’t quite sure from which end of the rifle the round comes. Consider the genius who at a press briefing suggested ...

Gore Holds Post-Debate Lead, Nader 'Surges'October 5, 2000 7:09 am EST By Carol Giacomo WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Al Gore continued to hold a slight lead over Republican George W. Bush in the Reuters/MSNBC daily tracking poll released on Thursday, the first to reflect some impact of Tuesday's presidential debate. The survey also showed what pollster John Zogby called a "surge" of support for Green Party candidate Ralph Nader, which could affect the neck-and-neck presidential race in battleground states. The poll, conducted by Zogby, surveyed 1,209 likely voters between Monday and Wednesday. It found the vice president leading the Texas ...

LAZIO IS OK'D BY FED PROBE Wednesday,August 23,2000 By GREGG BIRNBAUM and ROBERT HARDT JR. Federal watchdogs yesterday dropped their two-month investigation into GOP Senate candidate Rick Lazio's quick-profit 1997 stock deal and said no action would be taken against him. The news from the Securities and Exchange Commission is a welcome turn of events for Lazio, who also is set within days to bare at least eight years of his state and federal income-tax returns. Lazio's Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton and her supporters had been raising questions about Lazio's stock-options trades, as well as his decision not ...

GUN-TOTING MOM FORCED TEEN INTO ABORTION CLINIC By MALCOLM BALFOUR and ANDY GELLER A Florida mom has been charged with pointing a gun at her daughter's belly, forcing her to go to a women's clinic and threatening to blow the teen's brains out unless she had an abortion. Alone with clinic workers, 16-year-old Brittany Dowis said her mother, Glenda, was forcing her to have the abortion against her will. The workers called 911 after the mom told a nurse, "If my daughter doesn't have this abortion, I'll blow her brains out." Glenda Dowis, 42, was arrested Tuesday and charged ...

Hero Ex-Cop Shoots Thug Holding Up Brooklyn Store 1 535 3051 MMA 25 6 3746 9.2720 Hero Ex-Cop Shoots Thug Holding Up Brooklyn Store &nbsp; By Roosevelt Joseph, Larry Celona &amp; Bill Hoffmann &nbsp; A fearless ex-cop raced into action when he spotted a robbery in progress at a Brooklyn convenience store yesterday, wounding an armed thug who threatened to shoot him in the head. &nbsp; “I wasn’t afraid for a minute and I’d do it again,” Eugene Assencao, 59, a retired sergeant and Vietnam veteran, told the Post. &nbsp; Assencao was driving home when he glanced into the ...