ONE SOLDIER KILLED, SEVEN HURT DURING TRAINING
A training exercise involving demolitions killed one special operations soldier and injured seven others at the Army’s largest base Thursday.
The soldiers were taken to several hospitals, including the Womack Army Medical Center on base for treatment, said Lt. Col. Rob Bockholt, a spokesman for the Army’s Special Operations Command, which is based at Fort Bragg.
Staff Sgt. Alexander P. Dalida, 32, of Dunstable, Mass., was killed during the exercise, Bockholt said. The cause of death is under investigation.
Dalida, who enlisted in 2006, was assigned to 1st Special Warfare Training Group (Airborne).
Bockholt didn’t know the extent of the other soldiers’ injuries.
Initial reports said the injuries happened in an explosion, but Bockholt says he could not confirm that.
“There was an incident that occurred on one of the ranges,” Bockholt said, adding that the command is investigating. “We’re looking into exactly what happened.”
Suspect in school shooting said victim who died bullied him.
WASH.» A 15year-old ROCKFORD, accused of shooting four classmates at a high school had been meeting with a counselor over suicidal thoughts before bringing guns from home and killing a student he said had bullied him, according to court documents.
Caleb Sharpe took a semi-automatic rifle and a handgun from his father’s gun safe and took them to school. He pulled out the AR-15 rifle and tried to fire it in a hallway but it jammed. That’s when a classmate approached Sharpe.
“I always knew you were going to shoot up the school,” the student said before Sharpe shot him in the head and abdomen with the handgun, according to the documents. Sharpe told police that he had been bullied by that student.
Russian navy fires cruise missiles into eastern Syria.
Russia fired a salvo of cruise missiles from the Mediterranean on Thursday and said they struck Islamic State targets in eastern Syria. Activists there said at least 20 civilians were killed in what they described a “fanatical” bombardment — blaming some of it on Russia and some on the United States.
The seven Kalibr cruise missiles, launched from the submarines Veliky Novgorod and Kolpino, hit Islamic State installations in Deir el-Zour, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Husker Du’s Hart dead at 56.
Grant Hart, drummer and vocalist for indie rock band Husker Du, died Wednesday at age 56. Hart had been diagnosed with cancer.
Hart formed Husker Du with bassist Greg Norton and guitarist Bob Mould, with whom he shared singing duties, in St. Paul in 1978. The band began as a punk outfit before moving into alternative rock.
While it was never a huge commercial success, Husker Du was seen as a major influence on bands such as Nirvana, Green Day and the Pixies.
Donleavy, author of “The Ginger Man,” dies at age 91.
J.P. Donleavy, the IrishAmerican author and playwright whose ribald debut novel “The Ginger Man” was censored and scorned but eagerly read and later embraced as a groundbreaking classic, has died. He was 91.
Donleavy, author of more than a dozen books, Donleavy sometimes was compared to James Joyce as a prose stylist and ranked among the world’s funniest writers.