Nov 04, 2007 -
NEW YORK (CBS) ― Police are on the hunt for the violent vandals who shot out the windows of dozens of cars in a Brooklyn neighborhood
Shattered glass can be found glistening the streets of Williamsburg.
Many vehicles were vandalized, when their windows were shot out with a b-b gun. Police took more than a dozen incident reports and leaders of the Jewish Patrol say the total number of damaged vehicles could go as high as forty.
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Jul 16, 2008 -
Clearly, not everyone in NYC is a fan of Madonna. Madge's SUV was attacked in New York's Central Park earlier this week, but fortunately, she wasn't in the car.
Two young men hurled a large rock at her car, damaging the back window while her chauffeur was driving.
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Mar 01, 2010 -
There's a few indirect spoilers in this so if you wnat to remain spoil-free,don't read this :)Yesterday I attended a roundtable interview with Robert Pattinson for his upcoming romantic drama Remember Me. I’m a new writer at Collider and it was my first time attending a press junket and participating in a roundtable interview. Let’s just say it was an interesting experience.
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Oct 16, 2007 -
New face of vandalism?
By Gersh Kuntzman
The Brooklyn Paper
October 13, 2007 / News
The Brooklyn Paper / Julie Rosenberg
Six-year-old Natalie Shea got a threatening letter from the city demanding the removal of “graffiti” she drew with chalk — with chalk! — on her front step. Here, Shea shows her defiance to the warning letter by creating a new work with the supposedly illegal medium.
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Feb 05, 2010 -
CENTRALIA, Pa. – Standing before the wreckage of his bulldozed home, John Lokitis Jr. felt sick to his stomach, certain that a terrible mistake had been made.
He'd fought for years to stay in the house.
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Jan 08, 2010 -
TRINIDAD, Texas — It was Christmas Eve 1999, but John Joe Gray wasn't consumed with the holiday spirit. When the car in which he was a passenger was pulled over for speeding by two Texas state troopers near Palestine, in Anderson County, he was packing a loaded handgun in a shoulder holster. He had no permit for it.
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Jul 23, 2007 -
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Nov 29, 2009 -
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/world/europe/30swiss.html
By NICK CUMMING-BRUCE and STEVEN ERLANGER
Published: November 29, 2009
GENEVA — In a vote that displayed a widespread anxiety about Islam and undermined the country’s reputation for religious tolerance, the Swiss on Sunday overwhelmingly imposed a national ban on the construction of minarets, the prayer towers of mosques, in a referendum drawn up by the far right and opposed by the government.
The referendum, which passed with a clear majority of 57.5 percent of the voters and in 22 of Switzerland’s 25 cantons, was a victory for the right. The vote against was 42.5 percent.
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Sep 07, 2009 -
The Town Halls of August
They're here, they're conservative, get used to it.
by Mary Katharine Ham
It had been a rough month by the time 67-year-old Bert Stead of Redding, Calif., stepped to the microphone at an August 18 town hall meeting with Republican representative Wally Herger. It was about to get rougher.
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Sep 01, 2009 -
Distrust and verify”–Michelle Malkin
For the second time in as many weeks, Democrats have accused health care opponents of politically-motivated crimes–vandalism at the Democratic Party’s state HQ and even a death threat against Rep. John Salazar.
Thanks to intrepid investigations by PPC and others in the blogosphere, we know how the vandalism story turned out.
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