Deputies Shot In Colorado, And Other News

Before I make a post recalling some of the significant events of 2017, I must first relay some of today's events in the news.  To start, earlier today in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, a man shot five police deputies who were responding to a domestic disturbance, one fatally.  The gunman also shot two civilians and is reported to be have been shot dead.  One of the wounded deputies is the son of the Boulder County sheriff.

Read more at The Denver Post, 9News, KDVR and CBS Denver.  The TDP link comes via HotAir.

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In other stories:

From Chron, police arrest a man staying at the Hyatt Regency in Houston and find a stash of weapons and ammo in his room.

From The Daily Caller, Oregonians just can't get used to the idea of self-service at gas stations.

From The Washington Times, the best-selling movie of 2017 is......(click to find out).

From Reuters, one third fewer migrants arrived in Italy by sea in 2017 than in 2016.

From Voice Of Europe, 2017 was the year when Europe lost its freedom of the press.

From The Sun, in the U.K., New Year's Eve party-goers will be protected by SAS snipers.  (via Breitbart London)

From Focus Information Agency, Turkey detains 20 suspected ISIS members.

From Flanders News, unlike in Ostend and Bruges, fireworks in Brussels will go on as planned.

From Russia Today, Germany paid 230 million Euros to provide jobs for Syrian refugees stranded in Middle Eastern countries.

From the NL Times, a Maltese man is arrested after making a false bomb threat targeting a train.

From Deutsche Welle, 2017 ends with German Chancellor Merkel still not having formed a governing coalition.

From Sputnik International, the head of the German Bundestag rejects the creation of a "United States of Europe".

From the Sunday Express, President Putin sends President Trump a telegram.

From Defend Europa, Antifa (again) shows us their true fascist nature.

From Khaama Press,  in eastern Afghanistan, Taliban terrorists execute a lecturer and a student.

From The Asian Age, Muslim Indian women will be allowed to go on the Hajj without a male guardian.

From New York Magazine, what's going on in Iran?  (The fact that they actually noticed something going on is a good sign, I would think.)

From Free Malaysia Today, a video made by an ISIS terrorist from Singapore "jolts" his home country and taunts Prince Harry.

From National Review, some New Year's resolutions.

From Politico, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) blames former President Obama for the troubles in Iran.  (via Townhall)

From the Mirror, fans of the Arsenal don't like their uniforms.

And from the Page Six, the "stars we lost in 2017".