August 26, 2015 – A fourteen year old high school student has been arrested after holding 29 students students hostage in a high school in West Virginia. The student was described as “very troubled.”
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It is being reported on August 26, 2015 that authorities are seeking information on the identity of an animal abuser. Five dogs in the last two months have been found with severe burns in Lancaster and Kern County in Southern California.
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It is being reported on August 25, 2015 that a Ukrainian filmmaker, Oleg Sentsov, who was opposed Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. “The 39-year-old Crimean native was tried along with Crimean activist Alexander Kolchenko, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison.”
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August 25, 2015 – Police received a 911 call regarding a foul smell emanating from a garage in northern Philadelphia. After police accessed the space, they discovered three dead bodies. Two corpses were in boxes and one in a coffin. Investigators traced the stinky stiffs to a funeral home around the corner.
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August 25, 2015 – Just two days after a terrorist attack on a Paris bound train which was heroically thwarted by young Americans, another group of passengers were terrorized. Two young men, 22 and 23, aboard a train headed to Mantes-la-Jolie, told passengers that they had a bomb and would blow everyone up.
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It is being reported on August 24, 2015 that the identities of NASA employees who were found to have bought child pornography from an Eastern European website will not be revealed. “An investigation by Daily Mail Online found 16 staff members from the space agency paid for pictures and videos of children in sexual situations, but were never prosecuted.”
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August 24, 2015: Judge O’Toole has denied requests by the lawyers for Boston bomber, DzhokharTsarnaev, for the names of the jurors who sentenced him to death three months ago. The Boston Globe also requested the identities of the jury.
A news was conference held on Monday August 24, 2015 to offer a $500,000 reward to anyone who identifies the hackers that released private data from the Ashley Madison website. The repercussions of this security breach has spread all over the world. At least two suicides have been directly connected to this computer attack.
It is being reported on August 23, 2015 that the 17-year-old girl who convinced her boyfriend to commit suicide via text is claiming that no crime was committed. The attorneys for Michelle Carter say that her text messages are protected under the first amendment. “Michelle Carter, now 18, is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of 18-year-old Conrad Roy III. He died of carbon monoxide poisoning last July [2014] and was found in his truck behind a Fairhaven K-Mart, police said.”
It is being reported on August 23, 2015 that a cyberhacker who calls himself, Exfocus, has repeatedly attacked the computer infrastructure of Rutgers University. The disruptions have taken down their website four times in the past year. Exfocus has also taunted Rutgers on social media, saying, “I’m fairly certain I could run circles around all of you with my eyes closed, and one leg amputated.”
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