Word: crimed
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...reporters calling for tighter gun control. Weston, after emergency surgery during the night, lapsed into a coma and was placed on a ventilator. On Saturday morning doctors gave him a fifty-fifty chance of surviving. He was charged with the murder of two federal police officers, a death-penalty crime. Police and FBI agents blocked access to the Weston home in Valmeyer, and the phone was disconnected...
...supreme court is hauling in the most prominent U.S. publisher of self-help legal aids to determine if its products are doing just that. The possible culprit, Nolo Press, is a cheeky Berkeley, Calif., publisher whose logo depicts lawyers as briefcase-toting sharks with neckties. But Nolo's real crime may be putting the law into the hands of laypeople...
...August 17, President Clinton will deliver his own sworn testimony, live via closed-circuit television from the White House; an event that, aides say, he is prepping for daily with the diligence of a student before a big exam. And in the next few days, the FBI crime lab should be completing its initial tests on That Dress -- which turns out to be a dark blue, high-necked item from the Gap, lately owned by Ms. Lewinsky -- to determine if it contains the kind of DNA evidence that the former intern claims it does...
...show that there are more shootings in which the victim and shooter know each other than shootings by an unknown assailant. Yet people continue to think that keeping guns in their homes makes them safer. That mentality scares me far more than the perceived threat of crime ever will. It seems that no matter how many innocents die, no matter how many assassinations tear us apart, we're never going to learn. MARY LOU SAHD Landisville...
While your piece "Should You Carry a Gun?" [SPECIAL REPORT, July 6] was generally favorable toward my new book, More Guns, Less Crime, it contained seriously misleading statements. Despite accusations by some critics, my study on the effect that carrying concealed weapons has on crime absolutely did not ignore "counties that had no reported murders or assaults for a given year." In contrast to the tiny samples in previous work by others, I used data on all the counties in the U.S. that were available when I did the study on the years from...