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...Chicago suburb frequented by Ward, to try to rebuild her life in middle-class Addison. A few hours later, Ward, along with his cousin, Jacqueline Williams, 28, and her boyfriend, Fedell Caffey, 22, turned up at Evans' apartment at 675 Swift St. According to relatives, Ward was high on crack. Evans let them in, and a brief argument ensued. Prosecutors charge that Caffey then shot Evans in the head with a small-caliber handgun and stabbed her repeatedly with a knife. Next, Ward and Caffey went into the bedroom of Evans' daughter Samantha, and stabbed the 10-year...
...into five tents where names were picked from revolving bins, one for each level of housing: Estate, Village, Cottage, Townhomes and Apartments. There was an extra bin for the rentals. The occasional cheer went up as the winners were read out. People whose number came up early got first crack at signing a contract with one of the approved builders and choosing a house style: Classical, Victorian, Colonial Revival, Coastal, Mediterranean or French. (Alas, nothing resembling the Swiss Family Robinson treehouse.) The first 350 units are scheduled to be occupied by June 1996, but it will take several years...
...stop it. Last week Avishai Raviv, the acknowledged leader of the secretive extremist group Eyal, was released under house arrest, indicating he was probably not involved in the assassination itself. It is thought he may have turned state's witness. But investigators are not finding it easy to crack all the suspects. While some, like Hagai Amir, quickly told police what they wanted to know, Yigal has offered only intermittent cooperation aside from his confession, and others are not breaking down as hoped. The investigators have long experience successfully grilling Palestinians, but they cannot apply the same harsh psychological...
...question, FlorCruz says, is why the government bothers to go through the formalities of a trial: "Some analysts see it as a concession to the hardliners who have complained that the government has been too "soft" toward dissidents like Wei. Others say that Beijing has decided that it could crack down on dissidents and get away with it, in spite of anticipated protests and diplomatic pressure from Western countries like the U.S. Still others view it as Beijing's attempt to publicly discredit Wei by depicting him, to the local and international audience, as a despicable criminal, to counter...
Knowles recalled visiting the building right after the crack was found, early in the renovations. Twenty steel beams had to be used to prop the building up, he said...