Police underestimated Palm Island crisis
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Queensland Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson has admitted he underestimated the situation on Palm Island in north Queensland in the lead-up to yesterday&#39;s riots.
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The tipster responsible for helping authorities thwart a possible terrorist attack on a U.S. military base said Tuesday he experienced a "moral dilemma" over whether to report what he had seen.
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By The Seattle Times  Sep. 14--MERCER ISLAND -- A Mercer Island elementary school was put under  lockdown Wednesday afternoon as police responded to a report of a suicide  threat.   Officers later determined that a man, believed to be in his 60s, had shot  himself in a nearby home.
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ANGRY mobs burnt down buildings and threatened to kill police and media during a riot yesterday over a death in custody on troubled Palm Island, off the north Queensland coast.
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The scene was hosed down before investigators could gather material. Was it government complicity or incompetence?
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ROUND ROCK, Texas - Police in this Austin suburb were stumped for hours by the 49 emergency calls that kept coming in from an unregistered cell phone. The caller would say nothing before hanging up, sometimes after a brief giggle.
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Fears are growing for a Co Tyrone man who is thought to have been on the Thai island of Phi Phi when the tsunami struck.
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Police and the family of a woman who has not been seen since Wednesday fear for her safety.
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WEST PALM BEACH - She didn&#39;t mean it in the literal sense, but the words nonetheless were startling even under camouflage of a dismissive laugh.
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Â· Puzzled police say their inquiries will continueÂ· Weather was good and all items in dinghy were dry
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By Jessica Klipa, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Mar. 3--MANATEE -- On the same day that the state issued a heightened wildfire awareness alert, a controlled burn got out of hand in Parrish during a land clearing operation off Mendoza Road.
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Police are due to give evidence for the first time in the sex abuse trials on Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific. The court will be shown a police video interview with the mayor of the island, Steve Christian.
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A TOTAL of 18 people will appear in court in north Queensland today charged over a riot on Palm Island. Yesterday 12 people had been charged, but police said several more arrests had been made overnight.
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No matter what the disaster -- hurricane, earthquake, terrorist attack -- the nation's first responders get to the scene soon after. Which is why it's such a crime when these people can't communicate with each other.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands Three police officers have been injured in what Dutch authorities say is a terrorism raid. The officers were hurt when suspects at a house in the Hague tossed a hand grenade.
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By Leon Fooksman, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 25--WEST PALM BEACH -- The Palm Beach Sheriff's Office has identified the two people who died when a boat capsized in a canal behind a mobile home park Sunday night.
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POLICE on Queensland&#39;s riot-torn Palm Island have been accused of using the Aboriginal population as terrorism guinea pigs after children as young as nine were forced at gunpoint to lie face down