A gang leader was shot on a street in a residential area of Chuo Ward in Fukuoka City on Saturday evening and was later pronounced dead at a hospital, Fukuoka prefectural police said.
The man was identified as Yoshihisa Matsuo, 56, head of the major regional crime syndicate Dojinkai. The police are searching for two men who witnesses said fled from the scene.
They are also warning of a possible escalation in rivalry between gangster groups in the region. Dojinkai is one of the largest syndicates on the southern main island of Kyushu with around 950 members operating in Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki and Kumamoto prefectures.
The police received a call that a man had been shot at around 6:15 p.m., and an ambulance took him to the hospital. Witnesses were quoted as saying they heard three or four gunshots and two men fled the scene in a white car.
Matsuo became chairman of Dojinkai, based in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, in May last year. This appointment prompted some members to leave the syndicate to form a new group, and the two have subsequently been in conflict. Shootings and arson apparently related to the rivalry have since been reported.
Matsuo is believed to have been shot in the head as he got out of a car, the police said.
RALEIGH, N.C. -- A soldier cleared of a triple murder in civilian court 18 years ago will face a military court-martial for the same crimes, an Army general ordered Friday. The Army will try Master Sgt. Timothy Hennis on three counts of premeditated murder in the May 1985 deaths of Kathryn Eastburn, 31, and two of her daughters -- Kara Sue, 5, and Erin Nicole, 3.
Hennis was convicted and sentenced to death for the crimes in 1986, but the state Supreme Court awarded him a new trial after finding the first trial was run unfairly and with weak evidence. A second jury acquitted Hennis in April 1989.
Last year after a detective reviewing the case uncovered DNA evidence that couldn't be tested using technology available in the mid-1980s. State officials couldn't charge Hennis again, so the new evidence was given to the Army, which recalled Hennis to active duty and began an investigation into the deaths. Hennis had retired from the military in 2005.
In ordering the court-martial, 18th Airborne Corps commander Lt. Gen. Lloyd Austin dismissed a rape charge. In 1985, the military had a three-year statue of limitations on rape charges. The limit was changed in 1986, but not made retroactive.
Going to raise some interesting constitutional issues.
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Okay - officially, retired pay is 'limited pay for limited duty' - that is, you are liable to callback up to age 62. As long as this guy was collecting retirement checks, this is legal.
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TRENTON, N.J., Aug. 17 (UPI) -- Trenton, N.J., police kept a merchant from losing his shirt to a shoplifter but the suspect wasn't so lucky. The female suspect literally lost her top while trying to avoid being handcuffed Thursday night and fled down the street with her boobieshonkers breasts flopping flapping in the wind, the Trenton (N.J.) Times reported Friday.
ED: Shoulda gone with "bouncing," I think. Maybe "bobbling." "Flapping in the wind" implies there was wind. In Trenton. In August. Right. It could happen, I suppose.
The 20-year-old woman was nabbed a short distance from the store and forced to lie face down on the pavement until police re-dressed her, officials said. The suspect -- who had an outstanding warrant -- faces fresh charges of shoplifting and resisting arrest.
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A 20 year old's breasts flapping is a truly horrific sight.
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"The suspect -- who had an outstanding warrant rack -- faces fresh charges of shoplifting and resisting arrest"
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ISS was a boondoggle compromised in design to keep the Russians in line and their scientists busy. Putin's games should have led to the complete abandoning of the project. So what if that leaves the ISS in Russian hands, without US cash they can't get up there and the orbital inclination is nightmarish anyway.
The only thing the ISS is good for at this point is as a docking area for orbital vehicle assembly and even then the inclination is a problem.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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A gang leader was shot on a street in a residential area of Chuo Ward in Fukuoka City on Saturday evening and was later pronounced dead at a hospital, Fukuoka prefectural police said. 
TRENTON, N.J., Aug. 17 (UPI) -- Trenton, N.J., police kept a merchant from losing his shirt to a shoplifter but the suspect wasn't so lucky. The female suspect literally lost her top while trying to avoid being handcuffed Thursday night and fled down the street with her 
