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When Edward Cooperman, a professor of physics at California State University, Fullerton was found dead in his office last October, shot in the neck by a .25-cal. pistol that lay in his hand, police at first suspected suicide. Several hours later, they arrested the man who reported the crime, Minh Van Lam, 21, a Vietnamese immigrant and former student of Cooperman's. Lam later admitted shooting the gray-haired professor, but insisted it was an accident that happened while the two of them were "playing around" with the pistol at Cooperman's suggestion...
They're going to Northern Cal to take on the 49ers...
...armed-robbery suspect after a shootout in a Portland, Ore., motel last month, they got a bigger break than they realized at the time. Last week FBI ballistics experts confirmed that among the weapons found in Suspect Gary Lee Yarbrough's home in Sandpoint, Idaho, was the 45-cal. mac-10 submachine pistol used last June to murder Alan Berg, a combative and controversial Denver radio talk-show host. Yarbrough denied the killing, insisting that he was given the weapon after the shooting. At week's end he had not been charged in the case...
Posing as clerks at a bogus Oceanside, Calif., store called Golden State Surplus, authorities bought pilfered flak jackets, combat knives, .45-cal. magazines and sleeping bags from Camp Pendleton Marines for 10% to 20% of their cost. "Marines were quite literally breaking down the door trying to sell us gear," said FBI Agent John Kelso. Among the purloined goods were 9,400 blank military ID cards, which could have been used for access to mili tary bases. Most of the gear was never reported missing. Some inventories even showed an over stock, indicating that higher-ups may at least have...
Baltimore's Cal Riphan Jr., last year's AL MVP with 322 points, received just one 10th place vote for a single point in this year's election...