This week, officials from Riverside, where a police officer was killed, announced that the city would not pay the $100,000 it had offered, because the conditions of the reward approved by the City Council, which included "arrest and conviction," were not met.
And the attorneys representing George Zimmerman, the vigilante who killed Trayvon Martin, announced that they were withdrawing from the case.
The murderous Bajrang Dal, a militant Hindu group that, in 2002, spearheaded attacks against Muslims in Gujarat in which more than a thousand people were killed, have announced that they are going to "fix" me with all the means at their disposal, including by filing criminal charges against me in different courts across the country.
On April 2nd Tunisia, which last month suffered an attack at its Bardo museum that killed 22 people, announced that it would reopen its consulate in Damascus.
One ruler, Zaman Shah, had all the participants in a secret loya jirga in 1773 killed after they announced that they wanted him replaced.
Seven months after Mr. Bell was killed, the Police Department announced that it would install lights and megaphones in the cars of supervisors to "enhance the awareness of police presence during enforcement actions".
Believing Powers to have been killed, the U.S. announced that a weather plane had been lost near the Turkish-Soviet border.
The Danish actress Sofie Grabol, star of Bafta-winning crime drama The Killing, has announced that she received treatment for breast cancer.
Coincidentally, executive producer Piv Bernth (now head of drama at DR, the broadcaster that makes The Killing) has announced that she intends "to develop more stories about male characters".
Here are other major recall announcements last week: Honda, in its fourth action to fix a problem with an air bag that deploys so forcefully it can injure or kill a driver, announced that it was recalling 833,000 more vehicles.
Gabrielle Giffords, the US congresswoman who was shot in the head during an attack at a constituency event in Arizona in which six other people were killed last January, has announced that she is stepping down.
