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LAKE CITY, Fla. — An 18-year-old man was shot in the leg by a homeowner Wednesday morning after breaking into a home, Columbia County deputies said.

Deputies were called to 100 block of Cardinal Lane at 10:40 a.m. after the homeowner called 911 to report that someone had just broken into his home and that he had shot the burglar.

Deputies said they found and arrested Damien Morgan in a nearby business parking lot.

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A suspect was shot and killed during a home invasion on Jolley Road in Jefferson County on Sunday night. Jefferson County Sheriffs deputies responded to the call shortly before 8:00 p.m.

Randy Christian with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says deputies responding found the 62-year-old homeowner walking up the driveway up arrival. Inside the house, they found 54-year-old Preston Jenkins already dead with a wound to the left side of his stomach.

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ESCATAWPA, Miss. — Cornelious Ferrande, 23, of New Orleans, has been identified as the man who was shot and killed on Wembley Avenue Sunday, authorities said today.

Moss Point Detective JD Savage said the black male was going from home to home in the residential neighborhood knocking of doors and seeking money or a ride to a bus station.

“Witnesses stated that Ferrande wrapped clothing around his hand and attempted to open the front door at 3813 Wembley,” Savage said. “Ferrande then went to the back door of the residence where he was confronted by the homeowners. A conversation ensued, which then lead to gunfire.”

Savage said Ferrande was shot once in the chest and homeowners Charles and Altman “Nita” Ray were also shot.

“Mr. Ray was shot in the hand and Mrs. Ray was shot in the face,” Savage said.

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Police have identified the victim of an early morning shooting in the 3100 block of Gaylord Street as 17-year-old Marcus Duran.

Sonny Jackson, a spokesperson with the Denver Police Department, says it appears Duran, and two other men, were trying to break into a home in the area when the homeowner opened fire.

“About 2:30 this morning, we got a call of a burglary in progress up the block at another residence,” Jackson said. “Officers, while they were there, heard shots fired at another residence. They responded there, found a male party who was down in front of the home, appeared to be suffering from gunshot wounds.”

Police say the man died at the scene. The other suspects fled into the neighborhood.

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Folks you just cannot make this stuff up. To “balance” the California budget Democrats call for new oil tax, borrowing from Wall Street, raiding pop bottle revenues.

State Assembly Speaker John A. Perez on Tuesday outlined an alternative path to balancing California’s budget that would raise oil taxes, delay corporate tax breaks and borrow billions from the nickel-and-dime deposits consumers make on recyclable bottles — and would not require any Republican support.

At the heart of the proposal is the idea of raiding the state’s bottle deposits for the next 20 years and then getting an $8.7-billion loan from Wall Street. The programs currently funded by bottle deposits would be reimbursed by a new tax on oil production.

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Could the world economy be headed for a depression in 2011?  As inconceivable as that may seem to a lot of people, the truth is that top economists and governmental authorities all over the globe say that the economic warning signs are there and that we need to start paying attention to them.  The two primary ingredients for a depression are debt and fear, and the reality is that we have both of them in abundance in the financial world today.  In response to the global financial meltdown of 2007 and 2008, governments around the world spent unprecedented amounts of money and got into a ton of debt.  All of that spending did help bail out the global banking system, but now that an increasing number of governments around the world are in need of bailouts themselves, what is going to happen?  We have already seen the fear that is generated when one small little nation like Greece even hints at defaulting.  When it becomes apparent that quite a few governments around the globe cannot handle their debt burdens, what kind of shockwave is that going to send through financial markets?

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ABC6 News Anchor John DeLuca sat down with two prominent economists, with two drastically different outlooks for the nation’s economy.

Gerald Celente, Director of the Trends Research Institute, sees a very bleak future for the United States, and a major collapse coming soon for the entire nation, maybe the entire world.

URI Economics Professor Leonard Lardaro admits some serious problems in today’s economy, and that of the future, but thinks Celente’s ‘doomsday’ scenarios are too dire, and a little much.

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The Department of Homeland Security is alerting Texas authorities to be on the lookout for a suspected member of the Somalia-based Al Shabaab terrorist group who might be attempting to travel to the U.S. through Mexico, a security expert who has seen the memo tells FOXNews.com.

The warning follows an indictment unsealed this month in Texas federal court that accuses a Somali man in Texas of running a “large-scale smuggling enterprise” responsible for bringing hundreds of Somalis from Brazil through South America and eventually across the Mexican border. Many of the illegal immigrants, who court records say were given fake IDs, are alleged to have ties to other now-defunct Somalian terror organizations that have merged with active organizations like Al Shabaab, al-Barakat and Al-Ittihad Al-Islami.

In 2008, the U.S. government designated Al Shabaab a terrorist organization. Al Shabaab has said its priority is to impose Sharia, or Islamic law, on Somalia; the group has aligned itself with Al Qaeda and has made statements about its intent to harm the United States.

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A colossal Iran-funded and directed armament program has enabled Syria to field 1,000 ballistic missiles and Hizballah 1,000 rockets – all pointed at specific Israeli military and civilian locations, including the densely populated conurbation around Tel Aviv, debkafile’s military sources reveal. Syria has smuggled most of its stock of liquid-fuel powered ballistic missiles over to Hizballah in Lebanon, while its own production lines have been working day and night for five months to upgrade its stock solid fuel-propelled missiles, so improving their accuracy. North Korean military engineers and technicians are employed on those production lines.

According to Western military sources, a command center for coordinating a missile offensive against military and civilian targets in Israel has been operating at Syrian general staff headquarters in Damascus since early March with the help of Iranian, Syrian, Hizballah and Hamas liaison officers.

The command center, operating under direct Iranian command, was formally established at a gala banquet attended by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Syrian President Bashar Assad, and Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Damascus on February 25.  Its primary mission was defined as “target unification” – military lingo for interaction at the command level to make sure that Tehran, Damascus, Beirut and Gaza do not send short-range missiles flying toward the same Israeli target at the same time.

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Washington (CNN) — Just weeks after the failed car bombing of New York’s Times Square, the Department of Homeland Security says “the number and pace of attempted attacks against the United States over the past nine months have surpassed the number of attempts during any other previous one-year period.”

That grim assessment is contained in an unclassified DHS intelligence memo prepared for various law enforcement groups, which says terror groups are expected to try attacks inside the United States with “increased frequency.”

CNN obtained a copy of the document, dated May 21, which goes on to warn, “we have to operate under the premise that other operatives are in the country and could advance plotting with little or no warning.”

The intelligence note says recent attempted terror attacks have used operatives and tactics which made the plots hard to detect.

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