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...handler yelled, "Ambush! Hit the dirt!" Just then Drega began firing, wounding a New Hampshire state trooper in the thigh. The area was so isolated and wooded that the officers could not radio for help right away. Before backup could arrive, Drega shot a Border Patrol agent and a Vermont state trooper. Finally, at about 6:50, during a fire fight with more than 20 police officers, Drega was killed by a police bullet through his mouth. Two days later, police discovered an arsenal of 86 pipe bombs, half a dozen rifles, and explosives and projectile casings for a grenade...
...wanted the kids to be proud of me, wanted to increase my nest egg," says Ruth Crosson, 79, of Golden, Colo. She pooled her life savings with money borrowed on an insurance policy and turned over $100,000 to Richard O'Donnell, an insurance agent who had vowed after the death of her husband 10 years earlier that Crosson would be taken care of. Over the years, O'Donnell told Crosson and 17 other victims that he would invest their money in insurance ventures that would pay them dividends of 13% a year. Actually, he was running a Ponzi scheme...
...ultimate deadbeat dad. His character, Jake Shuttlesworth, is doing time for killing his wife. Freedom beckons, in the form of a Governor's pardon, if he can persuade his estranged son Jesus, a high school basketball star played by Milwaukee Bucks guard Ray Allen, to sign with an agent. The movie, produced by Swishin' an' Dishin', has not yet been sold for distribution, and Lee expects to wrap up filming on Coney Island early in October. In time for the season's first...
...used to work in the state's chief medical examiner's office, for using private details of their daughter's murder in her 1992 novel All That Remains. Among the alleged similarities: a victim is found with her eyeballs missing and two front teeth beside her. Cornwell's agent had no comment...
Back in Hollywood, Tarantino supporters are doing their part to soften expectations. "Pulp Fiction's cultural resonance may never be duplicated," says indie-film booster and International Creative Management agent Robert Newman, "but can people still have a marvelous time at a Quentin Tarantino movie? Why not? It's like saying the Rolling Stones did Sympathy for the Devil, so they can't do anything as groundbreaking again." As the Stones and Tarantino both might say, let it bleed...