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10 matching items found between Jul 2009 and Dec 2009. Furthermore, there are 66 matching items for all time not shown.
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Dec 31, 2009
Software exec wounded in Adams Co. office shooting — Associated Press
Type: Press
Source: Associated Press
FEDERAL HEIGHTS, Colo. (AP) - A man found dead in an Adams County office building where a software executive was shot is a past employee of the software company. The Adams County coroner said Thursday that Thomas Ciancio of Castle Rock died from apparent gunshot wounds to his head. However, the coroner says exactly how he died and his involvement in the shooting of the executive, 58-year-old Rex Fowler, are still under investigation. Initial 911 callers reported that Fowler had been ...
Dec 10, 2009
LA investigators say prominent lawyer was slain — Associated Press
Type: Press
Author(s): Thomas Watkins
Source: Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Investigators said Thursday that a prominent trial lawyer who was found fatally shot outside his home was the victim of a homicide. Detectives spent several days trying to determine if Monday's shooting of Jeffrey Tidus was a homicide or suicide. "We have gathered enough information now," Los Angeles County sheriff's Lt. Dave Dolson said. "We are certain it's a murder." Tidus was shot as he went to fetch his laptop from his car outside his home in wealthy ...
Nov 23, 2009
Australian blames Scientology for brother's death — Associated Press
Type: Press
Author(s): Rod McGuirk
Source: Associated Press
A man who blames the Church of Scientology for his brother's suicide added his voice Monday to calls for an Australia Senate inquiry into the religion. Belfast-born Stephen McBride, 35, flew from the west coast city of Perth to Canberra on Monday to support a senator's call for an inquiry into the church. The Senate could vote as early as Tuesday on Sen Nick Xenophon's motion to hold a wide-reaching inquiry into the church that was founded in 1953 by the ...
Nov 23, 2009
Grieving family urges Scientology probe — Australian Associated Press (AAP)
Type: Press
Author(s): Crystal Ja
Source: Australian Associated Press (AAP)
For the three days leading up to soldier Edward McBride's suicide, his family say he was bombarded by telephone calls and texts from Church of Scientology members. The family believe the church played a major role in his death, but have spent the past two years without answers or recourse. Now they've urged the federal government to initiate an inquiry into the controversial religious group, under fire following recent allegations of blackmail, sanctioned beatings, forced abortions and financial fraud. Independent senator ...
Nov 17, 2009
Xenophon hits out at Scientology — Australian Associated Press (AAP)
Type: Press
Author(s): Bonny Symons-Brown
Source: Australian Associated Press (AAP)
INDEPENDENT senator Nick Xenophon has accused the Church of Scientology of being a criminal organisation. The South Australian parliamentarian said he had been contacted by a number of former Scientologists, after he questioned the organisation's tax exempt status in a recent television interview. "They have provided long and detailed letters to me about the workings of this organisation," he told the Senate. "These people rightly see themselves as victims of Scientology." Senator Xenophon said their correspondence implicated the organisation in a ...
Nov 1, 2009
Defections, court fights test Scientology — Seattle Times
Type: Press
Author(s): Eric Gorski
Source: Seattle Times
The Church of Scientology is going through a difficult season. Over the course of two days last week, a French court convicted the church of fraud and Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis' resignation from the church over a litany of concerns was aired publicly. On one hand, it was just another bad press week for the embattled institution founded in 1953 by the late science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. But for former Scientologists and scholars of the movement, the setbacks pose ...
Oct 26, 2009
'Crash' director Paul Haggis quits Scientology — Associated Press
Type: Press
Author(s): Jake Coyle
Source: Associated Press
"Crash" director Paul Haggis has severed his ties with the Church of Scientology, in part because of what he alleged as the organization's stance against gay marriage. Haggis wrote a letter addressed to Tommy Davis, the head of Scientology's Celebrity Centre. In it, Haggis said he was disappointed by the church's tacit denial of gay rights in the debate over California's gay marriage ban. The 56-year-old Haggis, who won an Oscar in 2005 for co-writing "Crash," said he was quitting the ...
Oct 1, 2009
Scientologists win rights case against Russia — Associated Press
Type: Press
Source: Associated Press
STRASBOURG, France — Russia's ban on the Church of Scientology is illegal, the European Court of Human Rights said Thursday in a binding ruling. The court said Russia cannot ban the Church of Scientology just because it has not been in the country for long and awarded each of the groups euro5,000 ($7,270) in damages. The groups together also received euro10,000 ($14,500) for costs, which they shared. The case was brought to the Strasbourg-based court by two Russian Scientology branches that ...
Sep 23, 2009
Travolta recounts son’s death at Bahamas trial — Associated Press
Sep 21, 2009
Jury selected for Travolta extortion trial — Associated Press
Type: Press
Author(s): Juan McCartney
Source: Associated Press
NASSAU, Bahamas – A jury was selected Monday for a trial that could see John Travolta take the stand against two people accused of trying to extort $25 million from the movie star following his son's death in the Bahamas. Travolta is on a list of 14 witnesses against the defendants — a former Bahamas senator and an ambulance driver — who allegedly threatened to release a document related to the treatment of his chronically ill son Jett. His testimony would ...
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