Wednesday, November 18, 2009

7am Headlines


Police were searching early Wednesday for two armed men at a T.J. Maxx clothing store in a southwest Florida shopping mall after they allegedly held eight employees hostage for at least 3 hours.
Seven of the eight hostages were freed after dozens of SWAT team members, backed by two helicopters, surrounded the store. The final hostage reportedly hid from the gunmen and was injured after being shoved to the ground by the attackers. SWAT members were seen dragging her out of the store on a blanket.

Donald Trump is giving up the fight to reclaim his casino empire.
Trump’s famous name will stay on the three Atlantic City casinos he once controlled, but corporate bondholders would be the new bosses under a deal that ends a high-stakes bankruptcy battle.
Trump and his daughter, Ivanka, have agreed to back the bondholders’ proposed buyout of Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc. and will drop all of their litigation in bankruptcy court.


A former Marine turned himself in to authorities on Tuesday after being named a suspect in the shooting deaths of four people whose bodies were found in a burning home, including a prostitute featured on the HBO reality series "Cathouse,"
David Allen Tyner, 28, surrendered on a warrant that included six murder complaints. Authorities said two of the victims — 22-year olds Brooke Phillips and Milagrous Barrerra — were pregnant.

Seattle police say a man who thought he was a ninja was impaled on a metal fence when he tried to leap over it.
.Police are saying officers thought the man might have been involved in a reported assault, but he insisted he was just a ninja trying to clear a 4- to 5-foot-tall fence.
Police say the man was "overconfident in his abilities," and that alcohol likely played a role.

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