Author: Jason Dearen
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‘I’m a goner:’ For doomed ship crew, concern turned into paralyzing panic
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Crew members aboard a doomed cargo ship expressed increasingly dire concern — occasionally tinged with gallows humor — as a hurricane gained strength, culminating in one crewman lamenting “I’m a goner” as they scrambled to abandon the listing ship, transcripts show. The 500 pages of transcripts, which were released Tuesday, provide a…
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Logs show Pulse victims begged for help as bodies went numb
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Emergency call logs released Thursday show that victims of the Pulse shooting in Orlando pleaded with sheriff’s deputies and dispatchers to save them as they described losing their breath and feeling their bodies go numb from their wounds. Gunman Omar Mateen’s rampage at the Pulse nightclub on June 12 left 49 people…
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Possible motives emerge for club gunman as Orlando mourns
ORLANDO, Fla. — As thousands in Orlando turned out to mourn 49 people killed inside a gay nightclub, federal investigators examined possible motives for the gunman who committed the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The White House and the FBI said 29-year-old Omar Mateen, an American-born Muslim, appears to be a “homegrown…
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Worry that Gulf oil spreading into major current
NEW ORLEANS — BP said Monday it was siphoning more than one-fifth of the oil that has been spewing into the Gulf for almost a month, but worries escalated that the ooze may reach a major ocean current that could carry it through the Florida Keys and up the East Coast of the U.S. BP…