the homicide report

Truth at Your Fingertips

A line from this CNN story sums it up well: "...most big-city newspapers....[report] only the most 'newsworthy' cases." Ah, but "newsworthy" to whom? To the publisher or editors of any particular big newspaper (or magazine or television, for that matter)? A story about a corrupt alderman, for example, may be considered to be very newsworthy to the residents of his ward - but not newsworthy to a big newspaper editor because it does not have "citywide appeal." In Los Angeles, the CNN story goes, read

Earthquake Rocks Google Too

The earthquake in Illinois earlier today also sent shock waves through Google generating 70% of their top 100 searches this morning at Google’s US web search engine according to Google Trends. Searches for earthquake related news and information are noted in italics below Apr 18, 2008 Updated 40 minutes ago 1. the homicide report 2. new madrid fault 3. usgs 4. earthquake 5. illinois earthquake 6. earthquake aftershock 7. midwest earthquake 8. chicago earthquake 9. us geological sur read

The Homicide Report

Jill Leovy of Los Angeles Times documents homicide in L.A. through her blog. The blog started out with 17 names and reached 845 within a year. read

Quarterly Report: First Quarter of 2008 Podcast

I've had an extra two weeks to mull over the selections for this tardy podcast, as at the actual end of quarter one, my computer was in a deep and dramatic coma. The internet-less meditation crystalized a few things for me: - No matter how epic the Juan Maclean's "Happy House" is, there was no way to shoehorn thirteen minutes of early 90's techno into the mix smoothly. - If I couldn't remember a single song from an album well enough to not have to extensively review it before picking its read

Asbury police suspect murder of unidentified woman

Asbury police suspect murder of unidentified woman by The Star-Ledger Continuous News Desk Friday April 18, 2008, 5:20 AM Asbury Park police are investigating a possible homicide in an apartment at 304 Fourth Ave that was reported Thursday afternoon, according to a report in the Asbury Park Press. The report said the female victim, whose identity has not been released, is believed to have died of a stab or puncture-type wound, police said. But a determination of the cause and manner of death w read

earthquake illinois

Timely earthquake follows yesterday's report on lowered risk from Midwest earthquake

This morning's earthquake centered in downstate Illinois follows a published report in yesterday's Science Daily about a recently presented scientific study that lowered risk estimates for the New Madrid fault. Science Daily reported: The dangers posed by a major earthquake in the New Madrid and Charleston, South Carolina zones in the Midwestern and Southern parts of the United States may be noticeably lower than current estimates if seismologists adjust one of the major assumptions that go in read

EARTHQUAKE! 5.4 EARTHQUAKE HITS SOUTHERN ILLINOIS - RUMBLES NORTHWARD

As I was getting ready this morning, I suddenly felt my entire home tremor. The tremor lasted only a few seconds and occurred at about 5:40 a.m. Startled, I started thinking of reasons for the shaking. Was it a train rumbling by several blocks away? I often feel the vibrations of trains as they travel across the St. Marys River trestle at Van Buren and Main Street and head east through Fort Wayne. Was it a large semi of some kind that had passed by? Sometimes those vehicles also trigger vibra read

Rock ‘n’ Roll !!

Rock ‘n’ Roll !! 0 Comments Published by Buster April 18th, 2008 in General, News, Iowa, Enviroment, History A 5.4 earthquake that appeared to rival the strongest recorded in the region rocked people awake as far away as Milwaukee early Friday, surprising residents unaccustomed to such a powerful Midwest temblor. The quake just before 4:37 a.m. was centered 6 miles from West Salem, Ill., and 66 miles from Evansville, Ind. It awakened people in neighboring Indiana and even Milwaukee, Wis., read

It's the New Madrid Fault!

Who else felt this morning's 5.4-magnitude Illinois earthquake? Mods, feel free to delete this if need be. I don't know if this is an accepted use of MeTa or not, but I didn't see anything about the earthquake on the blue, and couldn't think of a non-chatfilter AskMe question about it. While I understand that bigger earthquakes than this happen on a regular basis in other places, and in fact do happen fairly regularly on the New Madrid fault as well, this was still a pretty big one for us in the read

Goodddddd Morrrrning, Midwest

Not exactly the way you expect to wake up in the Midwest. A 5.4 earthquake in Illinois has rocked people awake as far away as Indiana, surprising residents unaccustomed to such a large temblor in the Midwest. Yes, you west coasters may be sneering at our puny 5.4. But remember the record of this area is enough to make people nervous. So, did you get rattled out of bed this morning? Update [2008-4-18 6:32:54 by Devilstower]: And as a complete coincidence, today is the anniversary of the read