Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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JASPER, Texas: Anyone who doubts the gruesome nature of the killing police say took place here earlier this week need only look at the crime scene. In bright fluorescent paint, police have marked the separate locations in which parts of James Byrd's mutilated body were found. "Dentures," reads one. "Head," says another...
...prosecutors -- ever more incensed by what they see as a brutal racially motivated crime in which three white supremacists chained and dragged a black man behind their pickup truck, decapitating him -- are scrambling to build a case that will allow them to ask for the death penalty. And blacks in this small sawmill town of 8,000 are beginning to ask: How deep does this river...
Brown had instant name recognition, but also voters liked his support for charter schools, his vow to revive the city's moribund downtown and his "zero tolerance" of crime. "I want people to feel safer," he says. "That's key to people moving here and staying here." Brown has visited nearly 100 neighborhood groups and won endorsements from the Sierra Club to the United Farm Workers...
...bits of personal data. Incidents of identity fraud are on the rise, with criminals stealing credit-card and Social Security numbers to rack up $750 million in charges in 1997, the General Accounting Office reported last week. The House and Senate are working on bills to stamp out the crime. In the meantime, check your credit report and disclose vital statistics only if absolutely necessary...
...Sharif, the Hamas bombmaker whose body was found naked outside an explosives lab in Ramallah, in the West Bank, on March 29. The Palestinian Authority maintains Sharif was shot and then blown up in an inside job; two Hamas men remain in a Palestinian jail accused of the crime. Other Palestinians blamed Israel. But after Yasser Arafat ordered Palestinian officials to turn over to Israeli police the two Kalashnikov bullets found in Sharif?s chest, new weight has been given to a different theory. Israeli forensics experts say the bullets were never fired from a gun and were probably part...