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Police ID man who killed self on TV after chase

In this video grab provided by Fox 10 News, a vehicle involved in a police car chase is followed on an interstate highway by a television station helicopter west of Phoenix, Friday, Sept. 28, 2012. Police say a man fatally shot himself in the head on live national television at the end of the high-speed chase that began in Phoenix when the driver stopped, ran into the desert and placed a handgun to his head and fired. (AP Photo/Fox 10 News)

In this video grab provided by Fox 10 News, a vehicle involved in a police car chase is followed on an interstate highway by a television station helicopter west of Phoenix, Friday, Sept. 28, 2012. Police say a man fatally shot himself in the head on live national television at the end of the high-speed chase that began in Phoenix when the driver stopped, ran into the desert and placed a handgun to his head and fired. (AP Photo/Fox 10 News)

Map shows Tonopah Arizona, where a suspected car-jacker appears to shoot himself on live television.

(AP) ? Phoenix police have identified a man who shot at officers and then led them on a chase that ended with his suicide broadcast on national television.

Police spokesman Sgt. Tommy Thompson says 33-year-old Jodon F. Romero was a wanted felon who stole a car at gunpoint late Friday morning. Thompson said Saturday that an officer fired at Romero just before he committed suicide in the desert miles west of Phoenix but he apparently was not hit.

The chase was being followed by a television news helicopter and was broadcast live by Fox News. The network was unable to cut off the feed before Romero shot himself.

Thompson says Romero had previous convictions for violent acts and was wanted for parole violations.

Associated Press

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Agricultural Inventions from 1862: A Look Back in Scientific American 's Archives [Slide Show]

Cover Image: October 2012 Scientific American MagazineSee Inside

As the young United States expanded, inventions became one of the cornerstones of Progress. Inventors could come from any class of people, including many who worked long and hard in the dominant industry of 1862, agriculture.


From our comfortable viewpoint in 2012, the United States of 1862 sounds wretchedly backward: Most of the population lived and labored in rural areas. Water and sewer services were almost nonexistent. Small children worked in coal mines. Life expectancy was a miserable 44 years (34 years for slaves). Civil War dominated the news.

Yet three-quarters of the population could read (for instance, such fine publications as Scientific American). Service and manufacturing businesses were growing rapidly. Thousands of miles of railways and telegraph wires crisscrossed the country, moving people, goods, news and ideas. The ideals of learning and progress were enshrined in the U.S. Constitution: ?to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.?

Inventions were a cornerstone of Progress. Any device that could save labor or improve some process or product could bring fortune and even fame to the successful inventor. Agriculture had its share of hopeful farmer/inventors, as the following slide show of agricultural improvements from 1862 attests.

? View the Agricultural Inventions from 1862 Slide Show

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