Joe Hogan, 92-Year-Old Florida Veteran, Arrested Again For Violent Attack
Sun Sentinel
By Ihosvani Rodriguez
Posted: 01/05/2013
A 92-year-old war veteran is incarcerated for the third time since 2011 for allegedly setting off a violent attack against others, this time his 70-year-old wife.
Joseph Hogan on Friday remained in a Broward County Jail's medical facility after he was arrested on Thursday for allegedly pushing his 70-year-old wife to the ground and shoving her face against the concrete floor outside the couple's home in Hollywood, according to court officials.
He is facing one count of battery on a person older than 65.
Hogan's public defender, W. Dale Miller, said Thursday's incident is the latest in an ongoing saga of a 92-year-old man who appears to be in need of help over his increasingly violent behavior and deteriorating mental health.
Broward County Judge John "Jay" Hurley called the case "unique" and appeared perplexed during a bond court hearing on how to handle the jailing of a man in his 90s who may be suffering from dementia.
"The court is not inclined or comfortable jailing a 92-year-old man," Hurley said. "At the same time, this 92-year-old man now has two felony cases, and I feel that at least in the short term, it seems he's becoming more violent."
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Sunday, January 6, 2013
Disabled vet rescued from burning apartment
Disabled vet rescued from burning apartment
ABC News
Saturday, January 05, 2013
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A veteran and a pizza delivery driver rushed into a burning Houston apartment to save a trapped man early Saturday.
It happened just before 9pm at the Midtown Terrace Suites on Blodgett. Investigators said the old hotel has been converted to an apartment complex and caters to local veterans.
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ABC News
Saturday, January 05, 2013
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A veteran and a pizza delivery driver rushed into a burning Houston apartment to save a trapped man early Saturday.
It happened just before 9pm at the Midtown Terrace Suites on Blodgett. Investigators said the old hotel has been converted to an apartment complex and caters to local veterans.
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Friends take to ice to honor Marine killed in accident
In memory of Devan Krausch
Friends take to ice to honor Marine
By Amy Renee Leiker
The Wichita Eagle
Dressed in her late fiance’s blue and black hockey jersey, Andi Valcoure caressed her rounded belly and smiled.
The baby she carries — a boy due in May to be named Bentley Michael — had just kicked.
Bentley’s been active for the past several days, Valcoure, 21, explained. She felt the first movements an hour after the phone call came that Devan Krausch had died.
“It’s a sign from Devan,” she said, tears welling in her eyes.
“He would’ve been a really good dad.”
In a show of support for the young fiancee and unborn child of Marine Lance Cpl. Devan Krausch, 22, hundreds of hockey players and spectators gathered Saturday at Wichita Ice Center for a memorial and drop-in hockey game.
Devan’s mother, Kim Krausch, said the event started as a small gathering between a few of her son’s buddies, who planned to “knock the puck around” in honor of their hockey teammate, one of two military servicemen who died Dec. 27 after a single-car accident in west Wichita.
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Marine and Soldier killed in car crash
Friends take to ice to honor Marine
By Amy Renee Leiker
The Wichita Eagle
Dressed in her late fiance’s blue and black hockey jersey, Andi Valcoure caressed her rounded belly and smiled.
The baby she carries — a boy due in May to be named Bentley Michael — had just kicked.
Bentley’s been active for the past several days, Valcoure, 21, explained. She felt the first movements an hour after the phone call came that Devan Krausch had died.
“It’s a sign from Devan,” she said, tears welling in her eyes.
“He would’ve been a really good dad.”
In a show of support for the young fiancee and unborn child of Marine Lance Cpl. Devan Krausch, 22, hundreds of hockey players and spectators gathered Saturday at Wichita Ice Center for a memorial and drop-in hockey game.
Devan’s mother, Kim Krausch, said the event started as a small gathering between a few of her son’s buddies, who planned to “knock the puck around” in honor of their hockey teammate, one of two military servicemen who died Dec. 27 after a single-car accident in west Wichita.
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Marine and Soldier killed in car crash
Marine Sea Knight pilot risked all to stop carnage
40 years after sniper Mark Essex, Marine pilot is proud he helped stop the carnage
By Ramon Antonio Vargas
NOLA.com
The Times-Picayune
January 05, 2013
Though cornered, whoever was on the hotel roof was out of the NOPD's reach. Disturbed, Pitman -- at the time a 37-year-old lieutenant colonel in charge of a Marine air unit stationed in Belle Chasse -- thought, "We've got to do something. Those people need help out there."
So Pitman did do something. He flew a Marine helicopter to the hotel on Loyola Avenue and helped police officers, some of them on board the chopper, kill 23-year-old Mark Essex, who investigators determined was the sole sniper. In doing so, however, Pitman placed his career with the Marines in jeopardy.
Four decades later, many New Orleanians are still thankful for Pitman's actions on the day Essex terrorized the city. "Without that helicopter and without his piloting, it would've been a lot worse," Moon Landrieu, New Orleans' mayor at the time, said recently. "The city owes him a debt of gratitude."
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By Ramon Antonio Vargas
NOLA.com
The Times-Picayune
January 05, 2013
Retired Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Charles H. "Chuck" Pitman, the branch's former Deputy Chief of Staff for Aviation, was at Veterans Memorial Park in Pensacola, Fla., on January 2, 2013. Forty years ago, on Jan. 7, 1973, Pitman volunteered to pilot a Sea Knight helicopter and helped police stop Mark Essex, the Howard Johnson's sniper in New Orleans, risking his life and his career.Like most other residents of New Orleans, Marine helicopter pilot Charles H. "Chuck" Pitman watched the television in horror on Jan. 7, 1973, as authorities tried to stop a sniper or snipers who had invaded the Downtown Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge that morning and fatally shot seven people, including three police officers. Shots rang out from various spots in the 17-story hotel, making police think there was more than one gunman, but the cops eventually contained the killer or killers to the roof.
(Photo by Michael Spooneybarger, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune contributor)
Though cornered, whoever was on the hotel roof was out of the NOPD's reach. Disturbed, Pitman -- at the time a 37-year-old lieutenant colonel in charge of a Marine air unit stationed in Belle Chasse -- thought, "We've got to do something. Those people need help out there."
So Pitman did do something. He flew a Marine helicopter to the hotel on Loyola Avenue and helped police officers, some of them on board the chopper, kill 23-year-old Mark Essex, who investigators determined was the sole sniper. In doing so, however, Pitman placed his career with the Marines in jeopardy.
Four decades later, many New Orleanians are still thankful for Pitman's actions on the day Essex terrorized the city. "Without that helicopter and without his piloting, it would've been a lot worse," Moon Landrieu, New Orleans' mayor at the time, said recently. "The city owes him a debt of gratitude."
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Fort Hood massacre survivors still seek justice
Sgt. may join suit in Fort Hood shooting
Posted: Saturday, January 5, 2013
Philip Jankowski
Herald staff writer
An active-duty staff sergeant wounded in the Nov. 5, 2009, mass shooting at Fort Hood is planning to join a large civil suit seeking to classify the shooting as a terrorist act.
Staff Sgt. Patrick Zeigler and his wife, Jessica Zeigler, will likely join 105 co-plaintiffs next week in a federal civil suit that claims government negligence played a significant role in the shooting.
Accused shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan allegedly shot Zeigler four times during the massacre at the post’s Soldier Readiness Center. A gunshot to his head temporarily paralyzed Zeigler and led to a long and arduous recovery.
The lawsuit claims the government could have prevented the shooting had agents acted upon intelligence indicating that Hasan had become a violent Islamic extremist.
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Posted: Saturday, January 5, 2013
Philip Jankowski
Herald staff writer
An active-duty staff sergeant wounded in the Nov. 5, 2009, mass shooting at Fort Hood is planning to join a large civil suit seeking to classify the shooting as a terrorist act.
Staff Sgt. Patrick Zeigler and his wife, Jessica Zeigler, will likely join 105 co-plaintiffs next week in a federal civil suit that claims government negligence played a significant role in the shooting.
Accused shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan allegedly shot Zeigler four times during the massacre at the post’s Soldier Readiness Center. A gunshot to his head temporarily paralyzed Zeigler and led to a long and arduous recovery.
The lawsuit claims the government could have prevented the shooting had agents acted upon intelligence indicating that Hasan had become a violent Islamic extremist.
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