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January 25, 2016

Names released in gun store shooting that killed father, son

Source: Sun herald

PEARL RIVER COUNTY -- Authorities have released the names of all four people involved in a shooting at a Pearl River County gun store that left two dead and two injured.

Jason A. McLemore, 44, the owner of McLemore Gun Shop, and his son, Jacob Edward McLemore, 17, were killed in the shooting, said Pearl River County Deputy Coroner Albert H. Lee. Both died of multiple gunshot wounds.

Audy McCool, 52, and his son Michael McCool, 29, both sustained life-threatening injuries. As of Sunday morning, Michael McCool was stable in the intensive care unit. There was no update on Audy McCool's condition, said Pearl River County Chief Deputy Shane Tucker.



Read more: http://www.sunherald.com/news/local/crime/article56352075.html

January 22, 2016

Seattle's first tiny house village for homeless to open this week

SEATTLE —


On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, volunteers put the finishing touches on small houses with the kind of basic amenities you don't see in Seattle homeless camps.

"The difference is you have electricity and a lock on the door," said Steve Tucker, a member of the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, which is hosting what organizers are calling Seattle's first tiny house village.

The 14 homes are insulated.

They'll have oil heat registers for winter and fans for summer

http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/seattles-first-tiny-house-village-homeless-open-we/np7PQ/

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I live in Seattle so this struck me as very cool

January 8, 2016

In child's hospital room, a mom is dead, dad ODs

Source: USA Today

CINCINNATI — Police arrived at an Ohio hospital Thursday to find a mother dead and a father unresponsive from a heroin overdose on the floor of their 7-month-old child's hospital room bathroom.

The parents had traveled from Alabama to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center to seek treatment for their child.

The mother, identified Friday by the Hamilton County Coroner's Office as Mary Landers, 31, of Trinity, Ala., was found dead from an apparent overdose at


Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/01/08/child-hospital-room-parents-heroin/78500942/



Another state of the union update.
January 3, 2016

Iranian protesters damage Saudi embassy in Tehran

Source: AP

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Protesters in Iran, angered by the execution by Saudi Arabia of a prominent Shiite cleric, broke into the Saudi embassy in Tehran early Sunday, setting fires and throwing papers from the roof, Iranian media reported.
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In Tehran, the crowd gathered outside the Saudi embassy and chanted anti-Saudi slogans. Some protesters threw stones and Molotov cocktails at the embassy, setting off a fire in part of the building, Sajedinia told the semi-official Tasnim news agency.

"Some of them entered the embassy. Currently, individuals who entered the embassy have been transferred out (of the building). However, a large crowd is still there in front of the embassy," Sajedinia told ISNA early Sunday.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/state-tv-saudi-arabia-executed-47-criminals-073445735.html

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