Cosmin Oanta
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Cosmin is a law gratuate who got bitten by the media bug. And after working for almost 5 years as a journalist in Romania, he decided to experience something different and now he is bringing you the hottest and most important news from all over the United States.
Posted in: U.S. News by Cosmin Oanta | December 17th 2010 | no comments
Almost a day of freedom for an inamte from Iowa. The man fled from an Iowa City hospital and managed to remain uncaught for 18 hours, a time he spent jacking and crashing several cars. He was eventually brought into custody on Wednesday in Bettendorf, near Iowa-Illinois border, after he managed to crash one last vehicle he allegedly had stolen.
Anthony Koehlhoeffer was under police [...]
Posted in: Featured, U.S. News, Uncategorized by Cosmin Oanta | December 17th 2010 | no comments
After Jim Morrison, another historical figure might receive a pardon from the United States authorities. This time is Billy the Kid, a famous bandit of the 19th centuryʼs Wild West, who allegedly killed over twenty men. The initiative belongs to Bill Richardson, the governor of New Mexico, and it could be fulfilled by the end of the year.
Bill Richardson based his proposal on an [...]
Posted in: Featured, U.S. News by Cosmin Oanta | December 16th 2010 | no comments
New victims among the law enforcement officials in the United States. A border patrol agent lost his life during a shootout between a patrol and a group of bandits, near the US-Mexican border. Besides the dead American agent, one of the suspects was wounded as well. According to the National Border Patrol Council President, T.J. Bonner, the violence reupted on Tuesday night, after agents [...]
Posted in: U.S. News by Cosmin Oanta | December 16th 2010 | no comments
Confronted with the lack of sodium thiopental, United States are ready to carry on executions by using drugs usually used for animal euthanasia. And Oklahoma is about to become the first state to go that way, after a federal appeal court upheld a judgeʼs ruling that said that sodium thiopental, the anesthetic commonly used in the stateʼs lethal injection formula, can be replaced by [...]
Posted in: Featured, U.S. News by Cosmin Oanta | December 15th 2010 | no comments
Violence hits once more the educational system in the United States. A 56-year-olf man took hostage the school board of a Florida district, complaining about the high taxes and his wife being fired. He afterwards tried to shoot the superintendent, before being taken down by a security guard. Eventually the gunman killed himself.
The school board for the district including the beach [...]
Posted in: U.S. News by Cosmin Oanta | December 14th 2010 | no comments
Springfieldʼs mayor Tim Davlin was found death in his home on Tuesday, after he did not show up for a court hearing in the case of his late cousinʼs estate. Now the police are investigating his death, after a police squad answering a 911 call shortly before 9 a.m. went to Davlinʼs home and found the body of the 53-year-old Democratic mayor. Neverthelss, officials refused to offer any [...]
Posted in: Featured, U.S. News by Cosmin Oanta | December 14th 2010 | no comments
Law enforcement officials in New York are on high alert after they found four bodies on a Long Island beach. The bodies were dumped along a quarter-mile stretch of beach dividing the Great South Bay from the Atlantic Ocean and investigators take into consideration the fact that they had all been killed by the same serial killer. The gruesome discovery was made while the police were [...]
Posted in: Featured, U.S. News by Cosmin Oanta | December 13th 2010 | no comments
Wikileaks, worldʼs best known website for leaked classified information, is about to face some serious competition. Several former employees of Wikileaks announced that they will launch this week an alternative website, called Openleaks. The main difference between the two sites is that, unlike its predecessor, the new Internet page will not actually publish secret documents, but it [...]
Posted in: U.S. News by Cosmin Oanta | December 9th 2010 | no comments
The California authorities are hunting down a couple from Pennsylvania, after they discovered the body of a man who knew them. The body had been cut into several pieces, put into a backpack and then hid under a bed in a Skid Row hotel room. The victim had been identified as the 49-year-old Herbert Tracy White, from Los Angeles, while the two suspects are Edward Garcia Jr., aged 36, and [...]
Posted in: Featured, U.S. News by Cosmin Oanta | December 9th 2010 | no comments
The United States threatened Germany or used their influence on Russia on behalf of MasterCard and Visa. These are just a few of the new disclosures made by Wikileaks about the US foreign policy, the famous site having published new American diplomatic cables. Among the new information leaked to the public: Shell controls the Nigerian government, China holds the secret of quantum [...]
Posted in: U.S. News by Cosmin Oanta | December 8th 2010 | no comments
Two Russian military aircrafts entered the airspace over the Sea of Japan, during a joint military exercise of the United States and Japan, earlier this week, announced on Wednesday a spokesman for the Japanese government. According to the Japanese media, the maneuvers were temporarily suspended because of this intrusion occurring on Monday, while the Russian authorities announced that [...]
Posted in: U.S. News by Cosmin Oanta | December 8th 2010 | no comments
The United States and South Korean troops will conduct new joint military maneuvers, the American and the Korean chiefs of staff announced on Wednesday. The new joint maneuvers come in a moment when tensions between the two Koreas hightened once, after the deliberated and illegal bombing of an island belonging to South Korea.
The North Korean bombing last month on Yeonpyeong Island, [...]
Posted in: Featured, U.S. News by Cosmin Oanta | December 7th 2010 | one comment
Total war between Wikileaks, the website specialized in publishing classified documents, and the US authorities. Only a few days after PayPal cancelled Wikileaksʼ donation account, other two companies did the same thing. This time it was Visa, who suspended the approval of all payments to Wikileaks, after money transfers to the site had been previously blocked by MasterCard. The motive: [...]
Posted in: Featured, U.S. News by Cosmin Oanta | December 6th 2010 | no comments
Without the resignation of the leader at the White House, the United States could no longer pass as a credible nation. At least this is what Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, claims, while being himself accused of irresponsability after having disclosed a list of potential targets for terrorists. The nowadays number one public enemy in the US, Assange demands President Barack [...]
Posted in: U.S. News by Cosmin Oanta | December 4th 2010 | no comments
Wikileaks banned for the employees of US government agencies. The White House instructed the agencies to take the proper measures and make sure that their employees which do not have the necessary authorization would not acces the classified diplomatic cables posted on Wikileaks. According to the White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the disclosure of secret documents [...]
Posted in: U.S. News by Cosmin Oanta | December 4th 2010 | no comments
Emergency in the Bering Sea. A cargo ship with thousands of gallons of fuel oil on board and its twenty crew members is drifting near the far shores of Alaskaʼs remote Aleutian Islands, risking to run aground. Emergency vessels and helicopters went there to intervine, after the 738-foot Golden Seas reported engine problems. More precisely, the boat lost its turbo charger and had no [...]
Posted in: Featured, U.S. News by Cosmin Oanta | December 4th 2010 | no comments
A German citizen was arrested on Thursday, after the US authorities caught him smuggling hundreds of tarantulas and other spider species into the country during a sting operation called ”Operation Spiderman”. The whole operation began this March, after over 300 live tarantulas were found by customs officers during a routine search of a package, and it lasted for more than nine [...]
Posted in: U.S. News by Cosmin Oanta | December 3rd 2010 | no comments
The US State Department asked its diplomats in Bucharest to get hold of the biometric data of the current and emerging leaders and advisers in Romania. The information appears in note published by Wikileaks and cited in the electronic edition of The Guardian. The note was dated July the 16th 2009 and is included in the category of secret documents, with the mention of not to be [...]