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Pregnant woman, baby survive being set on fire, shot
DETROIT â€"  A pregnant Michigan woman and her unborn child miraculously survived a brutal attack where the mother was set on fire and then shot in the back, MyFoxDetroit reports. Â
The 22-year-old woman, who was not named by police, was reportedly grabbed from behind by an unknown assailant. The attacker bound her hands and feet with duct tape, forced her into her car and drove her to Detroit.
The attacker then stopped in a vacant lot, doused the woman with lighter fluid, and lit her on fire. She was also shot in the back.
The woman is expected to make a full recovery, MyFoxDetroit reports. The woman's unborn child is also reportedly doing fine.
Police say the woman's boyfriend is a suspect in the attack, along with a second man.
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Pregnant woman, baby survive being set on fire, shot
DETROIT â€"  A pregnant Michigan woman and her unborn child miraculously survived a brutal attack where the mother was set on fire and then shot in the back, MyFoxDetroit reports. Â
The 22-year-old woman, who was not named by police, was reportedly grabbed from behind by an unknown assailant. The attacker bound her hands and feet with duct tape, forced her into her car and drove her to Detroit.
The attacker then stopped in a vacant lot, doused the woman with lighter fluid, and lit her on fire. She was also shot in the back.
The woman is expected to make a full recovery, MyFoxDetroit reports. The woman's unborn child is also reportedly doing fine.
Police say the woman's boyfriend is a suspect in the attack, along with a second man.
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Bieber Accused in Scuffle
Selena Gómez and Justin Bieber's Fun Day in Santa Monica
Selena Gómez and Justin Bieber escape to the beach to share a special moment.
CALABASAS, Calif. â€"  Justin Bieber is wanted for questioning by Los Angeles County Sheriff's investigators after a photographer complained of being roughed up by the pop star at a shopping center.
Sheriff's Lt. Robert Wiard says the photographer called 911 on Sunday and complained of pain to his chest. Wiard said the scuffle happened when the photographer tried to snap pictures of Bieber and his girlfriend, teen actress Selena Gomez, after they walked out of a theater at The Commons at Calabasas.
Wiard says the photographer was taken to a hospital where he was treated and released.
He says Bieber and Gomez left before deputies arrived, so investigators want to talk to him to get his side of the story.
A call to Bieber's publicist was not immediately returned late Sunday.
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Strong earthquake shakes northern Argentina
A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck northern Argentina in the early hours of Monday morning, the US Geological Survey said.
The tremor hit at 2:07am local time 21 miles east-southeast of Suncho Corral in Santiago del Estero province.
There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
Suncho Corral lies about 630 miles northwest of the capital Buenos Aires.
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Bicycle of missing Louisiana college student found
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This undated photo provided by the Lafayette Police Department shows missing college student Michaela Shunick.Lafayette Police Department
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This undated photo shows a pickup truck of interest to Lafayette, La., investigators in the search for Michaela Shunick.AP/Lafayette PD
LAFAYETTE, La. â€"  Police have confirmed that an abandoned bicycle found under a highway bridge belongs to missing college student Mickey Shunick, Fox 44 reports.
Two fisherman reportedly spotted the bicycle in a remote, swampy area in Iberville Parish, about 25 miles from where Shunick was last seen on May 19.
Several police agencies are now searching the area for clues and have dispatched search dogs under the bridge.Â
 "Police are asking the public to remain out of the area so that law enforcement officials can search," Cpl. Paul Mouton, a Lafayette police spokesman said in an emailed news release obtained by The Associated Press.
Shunick, a 21-year-old student at the University of Louisiana, was last seen about 1:45 a.m. on May 19, when she left a friend's house to go home. A video taken about that time showed her and, separately, a late model, white, four-door pickup truck.
Shunick is described as a white, with long, wavy blonde hair. She is 5-foot-1 and 115 pounds.
Police had asked area businesses and homeowners with video security cameras to review video from May 19 for any clues to her disappearance.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Enjoy the Ordinary for All Who Gave Their Lives
You'd have thought the affects of the war might have passed by now, that I'd be back to my old, pre-war self. But I'm not. My close friends and family have noticed I'm  changed in a fundamental way.
A year ago this month, on May 12, I returned home from a nine-month deployment to Afghanistan.
Like many citizen sailors and soldiers in the reserve and National Guard, I don't much look like a warrior. That is, until September 2010, when I was called out of the reserve into active duty. Â I packed up my life, left my family, and shipped over to the shadow of the Hindu Kush with the United States Navy.
I'm a public affairs officer, so though I carted around some weaponry and wore cammo, my main task in Afghanistan wasn't in the infantry. Instead, I worked at headquarters as the director of media outreach, briefing reporters and editors to combat the daily lies and misinformation spewing out of my Taliban spokesman counterpart, Zabihullah Mujahid.
Many of our deployed troops in Afghanistan work daily with Afghan counterparts at building a stable, peaceful country, but it's still stressful and dangerous to work in a war zone.Â
Roadside bombs, rocket attacks, and insurgent fire remain a daily part of life in some regions of the country. So does bad food, separation from loved ones, the irony of military life (Exhibit A: I was a naval officer in a landlocked country.), and missed holidays, birthdays, and special moments we take for granted here in the US.Â
Moreover, every one of our troops stationed in Afghanistan sees depressing events and circumstances. That's just part of being deployed to the world's poorest country outside of sub-Saharan Africa and one that has been at war for the better part of 30 years.
Like most, I couldn't wait to return home to the arms of my loved ones and start my life anew.
Prior to leaving, my minister gave me a verse, Jeremiah 29:14, which promised the Lord would bring me back from my exile. And thankfully, He did.Â
Daily, I think of my fellow 1,943 countrymen who did not return and the many more thousands who will carry lasting physical or mental wounds from their deployment for a lifetime.Â
And that's where Afghanistan really changed me; before coming home, I assumed I'd eventually stop thinking about my war experience, but I haven't.
Some of my thoughts and reactions have been what you might expect.Â
In Afghanistan, I'd briefed General Petreaus, 40 flag officers, two ambassadors, and 100,000 troops every morning.Â
So, when I appeared on the "Today" show for the launch of my new book shortly after returning home and the makeup woman in the green room asked, “Are you nervous?† I laughed, “Of Kathy Lee and Hoda? They're not armed are they?†Â
Likewise a month later, a shipmate from Afghanistan and I were catching up in the parking lot of a swank Beverly Hills hotel when we both heard a loud noise made by a SUV driving over a metal grate. Instinctively, we leapt to the ground and took cover (then immediately burst out laughing at each other as the valets wondered what the devil two well-dressed guests were doing lying on their asphalt).Â
That's training for you, and we're taught to react without thinking, so of course loud noises, helicopters, and other triggers bothered me for a few months after I returned home. Â
But there's something more lasting about my experience in Afghanistan; I find myself pondering my time there in unexpected places. Â Like when I'm in the checkout line at the Piggly Wiggly and the irritated mother in front of me snips at the bag boy that she wanted paper bags, not plastic.
I think of Afghanistan when I'm in traffic and someone waves at me with one finger for some perceived offense.Â
I think on my nine months abroad when a friend complains about all the daily stresses he's had with meetings, luncheons, and fussy clients.Â
Usually, what I think but don't say, is you don't know what a bad day is.
My new reference point for a bad day guides my life back here at home.Â
Suddenly the very ordinary has become sacred: mowing the lawn, attending Tuesday's Kiwanis Club meetings, jogging with the dog, grilling hamburgers for friends--these moments are now sacrosanct to me.Â
This year, decisions that might have scared me in the past--making a huge career change or telling my pretty girlfriend I've fallen in love with her--seem less frightening and more urgent. Â
Less frightening, because I can ask myself, “Does this compare to being awakened by a rocket attack? Nope.†Â
More urgent because the old adage, “life is short,†has new, real, meaning for me.
Like I suspect World War II did for my grandfather and many other GIs who came home to be risk takers, company builders, family men, and institution joiners, Afghanistan distilled and intensified what's important for me.Â
Personally, that's time with my family, a first-name relationship with God, and a life led by intentional, deliberate purpose.Â
I'm a more patient person, a more thankful person, a man less driven by daily stresses than a desire to make each day count. I also swear a lot more and refuse to eat with plastic utensils, but I digress.
In the past several days, many well-meaning friends and family have remembered my deployment and said, “Thank God you're not in Afghanistan.†Â
I smile, nod in agreement, but often think, "thank God I was in Afghanistan." Â Â Â
Lt. Commander Morgan Murphy, US Navy, is the best-selling author of "Off the Eaten Path" and received the Defense Meritorious Service Medal for his service in Afghanistan. Follow him on www.whosay.com/MorganMurphy.
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Rally car strikes Irish crowd; 2 killed, 7 injured
DUBLIN â€"  A race car went out of control on a rural Irish road and crashed into a crowd of about 30 spectators Sunday, killing two people and seriously injuring seven, authorities said.
Witnesses said the car crashed through a fence and into the onlookers before coming to rest on its side beside a home near Bailieborough, 50 miles (80 kilometers) northwest of Dublin.
Police said two people - a 29-year-old woman from Cork, southwest Ireland, and a 50-year-old male photographer from the western city of Galway - were declared dead at the scene. Seven others, including the car's driver and navigational co-driver, were hospitalized with unspecified injuries.
Sunday's accident highlighted the dangers posed to drivers and viewers alike by Ireland's annual high-speed contests on hedge-lined, narrow country roads. At least four other people have been killed during races over the past decade as hundreds of miles (kilometers) of unmodified local roads are blocked off for use by souped-up rally cars.
Organizers of the Cavan Stages Rally involving about 100 cars in the border county of Cavan canceled the event following the accident. Police and the race organizer, Motorsports Ireland, both launched investigations into what went wrong.
Police Superintendent Gerry O'Brien said it was too early to say whether a mechanical failure or driver error caused the accident. He said the car, a modified Ford Escort, "went over a hump in the road, it went midair, and when it landed it appears it lost control and drove into spectators, a group of 30-odd people."
One witness, Matthew McMahon, described the chaotic aftermath.
"I heard people screaming 'Red flag, red flag, stop the stage!' Then all hell broke loose basically. There were people crying, people white as ghosts," he told Irish state radio RTE.
Stage rallying is the most popular form of road racing in Ireland. About 30 competitions are staged annually on country roads, with each racer taking their turn on the makeshift course. Spectators frequently sit within a few yards (meters) of the roadway as drivers, guided by co-drivers with maps in lap shouting out speed and turning guidance, roar past in hopes of scoring the best time.
Among those killed since 2002, all in racing in the northwest county of Donegal, were two crowd stewards, a co-driver and an 18-year-old fan struck as he tried to walk across the road.
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Online:
Motorsport Ireland guide to rally racing, http://bit.ly/JnO2Wa
Footage of 2011 Cavan Stages Rally, http://bit.ly/Ls5lJI
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