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  • Body found in LA looting, protest area

    06/10/2025 9:42:06 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 37 replies
    The Hill ^ | 6/10/25 | Ashleigh Fields
    Los Angeles police said Tuesday that a body had been discovered in an area where looting has been reported amid protests against federal immigration enforcement actions in the city. The individual was found near West 3rd Street and Broadway shortly after 1:30 a.m. local time, according to KTLA. The body was reportedly found outside a T-Mobile store looted one night earlier.
  • Phil Robertson Dead at 79

    05/25/2025 5:42:53 PM PDT · by rdl6989 · 62 replies
    TMZ.com ^ | may 25,2025
    "Duck Dynasty" patriarch Phil Robertson is dead ... according to his daughter-in-law. Korie Robertson -- Phil's son Willie's wife of more than 30 years -- posted the news to Facebook Sunday ... saying Phil was a man of God, who always tried to remind people that death only meant returning to God's kingdom.
  • Trump's GoFundMe Passes $6M for Rally Shooting Victims

    07/21/2024 4:43:20 PM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 11 replies
    Newsmax Staff ^ | July 19, 2024
    A Go Fund Me account authorized by former President Donald Trump has raised more than $6 million for the victims of the failed assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday. As of Friday morning, the account had raised nearly $6.5 million through more than 69,000 donations, including contributions from billionaire Elon Musk, hedge fund investor Ken Griffin, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., and his wife, UFC CEO and President Dana White, and musical artist Kid Rock.Corey Comperatore, a 50-year-old firefighter from Sarver, Pennsylvania, was shot and killed at the rally while shielding his wife and daughter from gunfire. David...
  • Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee dead at 74

    07/19/2024 8:15:17 PM PDT · by Bobbyvotes · 77 replies
    The Hill ^ | 07/19/24 10:54 PM ET | Mychael Schnell
    Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), who served in Congress for nearly three decades, has died at the age of 74, her family announced Friday evening. “Today, with incredible grief for our loss yet deep gratitude for the life she shared with us, we announce the passing of United States Representative Sheila Jackson Lee of the 18th Congressional District of Texas,” her family wrote in a statement shared to her account on X. Her family did not specify a cause of death, but the news comes just over one month after the Congresswoman revealed that she had been diagnosed with pancreatic...
  • 5 killed after US military aircraft crashes into eastern Mediterranean Sea

    11/12/2023 2:00:53 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 56 replies
    ktla ^ | 11/12/2023
    Five U.S. service members were killed Friday evening after their aircraft suffered a mishap and crashed into the eastern Mediterranean Sea, the Pentagon revealed Sunday. The mishap took place “during a routine air refueling mission as part of military training, U.S. European Command (EUCOM) said in a brief statement... that the aircraft crash “was purely related to training and there are no indications of hostile activity.” The command gave no further details on the type of aircraft involved in the crash, the military service it belonged to, or the exact location or timing of the accident.
  • White elderly man in his 80s is revealed as homeowner who shot academically gifted black teenager, 16, TWICE after he mistakenly rang his doorbell in Missouri - as donations reach $1.2M for victim who remains in critical

    04/17/2023 12:29:42 PM PDT · by Callahan · 160 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 4/17/23 | Emma James
    -Ralph Yarl was shot through a glass door by a white homeowner in his 80s after mistakenly approaching the wrong address -He had been going to collect his two younger twin brothers from a house less than a block away in Kansas City, Missouri -Police have not brought any charges in the incident, and released the suspected gunman after 24 hours A homeowner accused of shooting a black teenager in Missouri after the 16-year-old mistakenly rang his doorbell is understood to be an elderly white man in his 80s… … Ralph was known among his peers for his intellect and...
  • Sharon Stone’s brother Patrick dead at 57 after tragic loss of his 11-month-old

    02/14/2023 4:40:50 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 10 replies
    New York Post ^ | February 13, 2023 | February 13, 2023
    Sharon Stone, 64, is mourning the loss of her brother Patrick Stone, who died suddenly Sunday in Pennsylvania. He was 57. The coroner’s office told TMZ that Patrick suffered a sudden cardiac death due to heart disease. It’s unclear whether he was hospitalized at the time of his death. SNIP River was Patrick and Tasha’s 11-month-old son who died of organ failure in August 2021.
  • Yahoo NewsIvana Trump, Donald Trump’s first wife, dies at 73

    07/14/2022 2:21:06 PM PDT · by UMCRevMom@aol.com · 34 replies
    https://news.yahoo.com ^ | Thu, July 14, 2022 | Dylan Stableford
    Ivana Trump, the first wife of former President Donald Trump and mother of his three eldest children, has died, her family said Thursday. She was 73. “I am very saddened to inform all of those that loved her, of which there are many, that Ivana Trump has passed away at her home in New York City,” Donald Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social, his social media platform. “She was a wonderful, beautiful, and amazing woman, who led a great and inspirational life. Her pride and joy were her three children, Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric. She was so...
  • Four US Marines killed during NATO drills in Norway are identified

    03/21/2022 10:40:04 AM PDT · by conservative98 · 28 replies
    NY Post ^ | 3/21/22 | https://nypost.com/2022/03/21/us-marines-identify-four-men-killed-during-nato-drills-in-norway/
    The four US Marines who were killed in a helicopter crash during a NATO training exercise off the coast Norway on Friday have been identified. The Marine Corps, in a Sunday statement, identified the dead as Cpl. Jacob M. Moore, 24, of Catlettsburg, Kentucky; Gunnery Sgt. James W. Speedy, 30, of Cambridge, Ohio; Capt. Matthew J. Tomkiewicz, 27, of Fort Wayne, Indiana; and Capt. Ross A. Reynolds, 27, of Leominster, Massachusetts. All four men were assigned to the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing stationed at Marine Corps Air Station in New River, North Carolina. The victims’ MV-22B Osprey was reported missing...
  • FReeper EGPWS [Kevin Randall] Has Passed Away

    02/28/2022 8:14:50 PM PST · by luvie · 47 replies
    Trussell | luvie
    I just received word in messenger from Trussell that Kevin Randall [EGPWS] passed away on February 11th of this year. He was 64 years old and had a lot of health issues which included prostrate cancer, congestive heart failure and aortic dissection. They have been living near Savannah, Georgia for the past few years, and he had worked at Gulfstream Aviation until health issues caused him to have to retire from work He loved aircraft. God rest his soul....and pray for strength and comfort for Tracy. They had planned to be married soon.
  • Founder and CEO of Christian evangelical network Daystar dies of COVID after proselytizing against vaccines

    11/30/2021 8:51:04 PM PST · by BlackFemaleArmyColonel · 170 replies
    NY DAILY NEWS ^ | NOV 30, 2021 AT 9:56 PM | THERESA BRAINE
    Yet another prominent evangelical Christian who proselytized against vaccines has died after being hospitalized with COVID. Marcus Lamb, founder and CEO of Daystar Television, was 64. “This morning at 4 a.m. the president and founder of Daystar and the love of my life went to be with Jesus,” said his wife, Joni, during a Tuesday morning broadcast, reported Religion News Service. “I wanted you to hear from me that he’s with the Lord.” She also said that Lamb had diabetes and went to the hospital after his oxygen levels dropped, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. The network he founded also...
  • Chief pathologist at the University of Heidelberg urges more autopsies of vaccinated people

    09/15/2021 6:19:03 AM PDT · by Mount Athos · 27 replies
    A pathologist would now like to do more autopsies on the deceased who were vaccinated against Corona - and his theses have received a lot of criticism. He himself emphasizes that vaccination is an essential part of the fight against the virus. The chief pathologist at the University of Heidelberg, Peter Schirmacher, urges many more autopsies of vaccinated people. In addition to corona deaths, the corpses of people who die in connection with a vaccination would also have to be examined more frequently, said Schirmacher of the German Press Agency in Stuttgart. The director of the Pathological Institute in Heidelberg...
  • ‘My 600-lb Life’ star Gina Krasley dead at 30: ‘My life’s been hard’

    08/06/2021 10:17:19 AM PDT · by Oshkalaboomboom · 84 replies
    NY Post ^ | 8/6/2021 | Rob Bailey-Millado
    Gina Krasley, known to reality TV viewers as the new star of TLC’s “My 600-lb Life,” has died. She was 30 years old. Her official cause of death has not been announced, but she passed away Sunday at her home in Tuckerton, N.J., “surrounded by her loving family” at the time, according to her obituary. Krasley joined the TLC series in 2020 — which chronicles the lives of obese people undergoing gastric bypass surgeries — and was featured in an episode presciently titled “Time Is Running Our For Gina,” which has nearly 1 million views on YouTube. “My life’s been...
  • Announcement on the Rush Limbaugh show, Rush has passed

    02/17/2021 9:09:04 AM PST · by ProgressingAmerica · 1,034 replies
    I am so deeply saddened by this news. Our thoughts and prayers to him and his family.
  • Rest in Peace to Freeper HitmanNY later HitmanLV and his final incarnation here as TedGrant

    01/10/2021 3:02:54 PM PST · by beaversmom · 50 replies
    Ted Grant via FreeRepublic ^ | January 10, 2020 | beaversmom
    I was saddened to discover earlier today that FReeper TedGrant passed away on December 12, 2020. His 53rd birthday would have been January 6, 2021. I was not a super close friend of his, but we had some correspondence over the years after getting acquainted years ago on the daily Michael Savage thread. Right before he passed he had a medical emergency and he was said to have had Bell's Palsy. He stated he hadn't received the Covid vaccine. I also know he had some heart problems a few years prior. From what I can determine, he passed away from...
  • Congressman-elect Luke Letlow dies from COVID-19

    12/29/2020 7:26:06 PM PST · by Meatspace · 477 replies
    WDSU ^ | 12/29/20
    SHREVEPORT, La. — Congressman-elect Luke Letlow has died after contracting COVID-19 last week, according to his campaign manager Andrew Bautsch. Letlow, who just turned 41, was getting treatment in the intensive care unit in Shreveport, according to an announcement on his Twitter page last week.
  • Washington Post Reporter Found Dead

    04/10/2020 11:24:38 AM PDT · by Berlin_Freeper · 69 replies
    washingtonian.com ^ | April 10, 2020 | Luke Mullins
    Washington Post reporter Darran Simon was found dead in his apartment on Thursday, according to a newsroom memo from Tracy Grant, the Post’s managing editor for staff development and standards. Simon covered D.C. government and politics for The Post, according to a January 30 memo announcing his arrival at the newspaper. Read the memo about his passing below:
  • NYPD officer shot while in police vehicle in the Bronx, officials say

    02/08/2020 8:36:38 PM PST · by GuavaCheesePuff · 57 replies
    abc7 ^ | february 8, 2020 | abc7
    LONGWOOD, Bronx (WABC) -- An NYPD officer was shot while sitting in a marked police van, sources say. The officer was shot in the neck and chin on 906 Simpson St. in Longwood just before 8:30 p.m. Saturday. Sources say the suspect walked up, started asking directions and then opened fire at the officer. The officers then fired back.
  • San Diego College Student Among 176 Killed in Iran Plane Crash

    01/10/2020 3:36:01 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 28 replies
    KTLA ^ | 01/10/2020
    Sara Saadat was a psychology student at Alliant International University in Scripps Ranch, the school said. She was returning from a visit with family in Iran when Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 crashed near the Iranian capital Tehran. Alliant is a for-profit college with six campuses across California, with San Diego being the main one. The school said it will have support counselors available at the Scripps Ranch campus when spring classes resume next week. On Thursday, officials in the U.S., Canada and Britain said their intelligence indicated it was "highly likely" the plane was unintentionally shot down by an...
  • FReeper wiggen has passed

    01/09/2020 10:35:21 AM PST · by wastedyears · 58 replies
    1/9/2020 | wastedyears
    My Dad passed at around 11:45am at the hospital. We were expecting it, but hearing it still hurts a lot. He got e-coli by eating raw oysters or clams when on vacation in the early 80s, before I was conceived. My parents had been trying to have a kid, but that was preventing it; they eventually found out what it was, but the damage had been done by then. Some years ago, he found out his kidneys were failing. He found out about the PD dialysis which he could do at home, and was optimistic about the future, how he...