Gunman shoots at gamblers at Las Vegas casino

Saturday, July 7, 2007File:Newyorknewyork-corner.jpg A 51-year-old man fired 16 rounds from a semiautomatic handgun from a balcony overlooking the floor of the New York New York Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. The shooting left four people with non-life threatening injuries. They were treated and released from a local hospital later that morning. Steven […]

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Massive blackouts hit Florida

Tuesday, February 26, 2008 Massive blackouts occurred throughout the US state of Florida shortly after 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time (18:00 UTC) on Tuesday afternoon. Out of the 4.4 million customers served by Florida Power & Light, Co. (FPL), about 680,000 residents were affected, with an additional two million-plus customers affected in other parts of the […]

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NASA issues survivability report on Columbia crash

Friday, January 2, 2009 NASA has issued a report on survivability during the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, entitled “Columbia Crew Survival Investigation Report”. Although the report finds the accident was impossible to survive, it still faulted a number of design issues with the astronauts’ equipment. The accident investigation report was released in 2003, the year […]

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