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Yiannis Avranas (born ca. 1940) is a Greek former sea captain who commanded the cruise ship Oceanos when she sank off the Wild Coast of the Transkei, South Africa, on Sunday 4 August 1991. He was one of the first to be rescued while most of his passengers remained onboard the sinking ship.
This is a list of law enforcement officers convicted for an on-duty killing in the United States.The listing documents the date the incident resulting in conviction occurred, the date the officer(s) was convicted, the name of the officer(s), and a brief description of the original occurrence making no implications regarding wrongdoing or justification on the part of the person killed or ...
On March 27, 2007, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department was ordered to pay $1.48 million to settle a federal lawsuit alleging Las Vegas police gave special treatment to an officer's wife who hit and killed a bicyclist in 1994. The settlement ends 13 years of legal fighting that began shortly ...
Police in Las Vegas now believe a man who was arrested in 2023 on murder charges may actually be a prolific hitman connected to three other murders.. Las Vegas Metro Police have filed three new ...
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department alleged at a news conference Tuesday that the two suspects had been involved in at least three hit-and-run incidents on the morning of Aug. 14 ...
The suspected gunman, who was killed by police, was a 67-year-old professor who unsuccessfully sought employment at multiple Nevada schools. 4 Dead, Including Suspected Gunman, in Shooting at ...
MTS Oceanos was a French-built and Greek-owned cruise ship that sank in 1991 when she suffered uncontrolled flooding. Her captain, Yiannis Avranas, and some of the crew were convicted of negligence for fleeing the ship without helping the passengers, who were subsequently rescued thanks to the efforts of the ship's entertainers, who made a mayday transmission, launched lifeboats, and helped ...
A man suspected in a shooting that killed five people and critically wounded a teenage girl in North Las Vegas, Nevada, on Monday night died by suicide after officers tracked him down Tuesday ...