Word: butcher
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...eight years. When prison officials granted Alan Matheney an eight-hour pass in March 1989, he drove directly to Bianco's home, broke in and beat her to death with the butt of a shotgun. Last March, Shirley Lowery, a grandmother of 11, was stabbed 19 times with a butcher knife by her former boyfriend in the hallway of the courthouse where she had gone to get an order of protection...
...This is not punitive, it's protective," Pannell told parents at a back-to-school night. His concern about weapons was evident. "I'm pleading with you as parents to check your children before they leave home," he told them. Last year a young boy brought a 13-in. butcher knife to school. Students saw the blade in his jacket pocket and reported it. The knife was confiscated; the child was suspended...
...Customers this year seem to be going for the fresh turkeys, brand name turkeys, but turkeys are pretty much all the same," said Michael Slattery, a butcher at the Porter Square Star Market...
Shabazz buttressed her call for continued action with a metaphor of her husband's. "If someone puts a butcher knife into my back ten inches deep and pulls it out seven inches, that's not progress," she said. "When he pulls it out completely and the healing starts, that's progress...
...Boston's Sheriff Robert Rufo gave 935 hardened criminals a present: a postmodern pink concrete-and-brick high-rise home -- a new designer prison, with a colonnaded inner courtyard where the inmates, clad in bright orange jackets, could stroll in pairs. Inside, brightly colored dayrooms equipped with televisions, butcher-block tables and cushy chairs completed a picture of serenity. For inmates and their watchers alike, it was a far cry from the dank, forbidding, Victorian-style Suffolk County House of Correction they had left behind on the banks of Boston Harbor. Gone were the five tiers of cages, the earsplitting...