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A Dallas police officer was arrested Friday morning after she mistakenly entered the wrong unit in her apartment building downtown and fatally shot a 26-year-old man inside. The officer was fresh off a shift and still in full uniform Thursday night when she walked into what she believed to be her apartment at the South Side Flats, located about a block away from the Dallas Police Department Headquarters. She was confronted by a man, identified by the Medical examiner’s office as Botham Shem Jean.

Climate change’s latest casualty appears to be fish — or more specifically, fish brains — as researchers say the carbon dioxide that’s being absorbed into the ocean is causing the scaly creatures to lose their survival instincts. In other words, the fish are losing their minds, The Daily Mail reported. The acid from atmospheric carbon dioxide seeps into sea waters, dissolves and ultimately lowers the pH balance, researchers said. The acidic waters then hamper the fishes’ sensory systems, so they’re not able to distinguish between smells any longer, the scientists went on.

State Senator Performs Heimlich On His Political Rival ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 2, 2006 — The race for a state Senate seat in Prince George's County took an unexpected turn Monday night. Democratic Senator John Giannetti performed the Heimlich maneuver on former delegate Jim Rosapepe, who will challenge Giannetti this fall in what was expected to be a hard-hitting campaign. Giannetti says he had no idea who Rosapepe was when he stumbled into the bar at Maria's Sicilian Ristorante and Cafe. Rosapepe was choking, and Giannetti grabbed him and dislodged a piece of fish that was stuck in his windpipe. Giannetti...

OSLO, Norway - November in Norway is full of hazards. Ice-slicked streets, moose on the roads and fierce cold. So when a woman turned up with a nasty cut on her finger at an emergency room at an Oslo hospital, doctors were surprised to learn that the cause was not an upset house cat or a stray dog. It was a piranha, as in the nasty, brutish fish found in South America that has a fabled reputation for traveling in schools and stripping cows down to the bone in a feeding frenzy. But Helle Hogner wasn't in South America. Instead,...

Syrian president, Bashar Al Assad "personally" supervised Tuesday night’s operation in al Mazza neighborhood of Damascus where a "terrorist" group attacked foreign targets, Syrian sources told Al Bawaba. Al Mazza is a neighborhood in Damascus known to be the residence to many foreign diplomats and embassies in addition to high ranking Syrian officials. Al Bawaba sources have revealed that president Assad drove in his car from his residence in the Rawda neighborhood to the scene at al Mazza to head the police force that were confronting the "terrorists." Late on Tuesday, a "terrorist" group used two cars to fire RPG...

Search for pregnant woman continues 12/28/2002 Associated Press MODESTO, Calif. - Investigators looking for a missing pregnant woman combed through her computers and vehicles for clues Friday, while a newly opened volunteer center dispatched search teams armed with fliers. "All avenues of the investigation are going to be of interest," said Detective Doug Ridenour, a spokesman for the Modesto Police Department, which is leading the search for Laci Rocha Peterson. Ms. Peterson, 27, was last seen walking her dog in a neighborhood park about 10 a.m. Christmas Eve and was later reported missing by her husband, Scott, after he...