The Truro Daily News: World News

Preliminary autopsy shows North Dakota college students drowned

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:50:00 GMT

DICKINSON, N.D. — The Stark County sheriff says preliminary autopsy results show drowning as the cause of death of three college softball players, including a Manitoba woman, whose sport utility vehicle went into a livestock pond in southwestern North Dakota.

US military base shooting suspect gave away belongings, said goodbyes, before rampage

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:50:00 GMT

FORT HOOD, Texas — As if going off to war, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan cleaned out his apartment and called another to thank him for his friendship — common courtesies and routines of the departing soldier.

Reports: Russian military plane crashes, 9 killed

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:50:00 GMT

MOSCOW — A Russian military plane crashed in the country’s far east late Friday, killing all nine people aboard, news agencies reported.

Police: Orlando gunman who killed 1 thought ex-employer had blocked his unemployment benefit

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:50:00 GMT

ORLANDO, Fla. — Police say a former employee accused of fatally shooting one person and wounding five others at an Orlando, Florida, engineering firm thought it had blocked his efforts to obtain unemployment benefits.