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...district attorney's office said that the defendant was visiting friends on campus. It is alleged that, along with others, Copney then confronted Cosby in a common space in Kirkland House. Shots were fired, and one of those shots struck Cosby, resulting in his death, according to the DA...
...mother of Rogerio da Silva, Debora da Silva, refuses to give up the fight. Da Silva says nine men killed her son after stopping him at a gas station. She recounts that they asked him if he had any previous convictions and when he responded that he had once spent two years in jail for armed robbery, they allegedly told him his time was up. The 29-year old was ambushed as he drove away and shot four times, da Silva says, citing eyewitnesses at the scene. She says it was eyewitnesses who told her that some...
...state needs to give us answers," da Silva says. "We want an ethical public-security policy." Police chiefs have so far refused to comment on the report, but the authorities have defended officers and pointed out that it was not the police that closed the cases but judges. The mothers and families of the dead vow to keep on fighting...
...reasons for the relatively close finish - a new hit typically doubles the weekend take of the movie it's replaced - are easy to enumerate. The Da Vinci Code was a publishing phenomenon with the added balm of religious controversy; the movie version earned $77 million its first weekend. Angels, actually a prequel, didn't generate the kind of heat that spurs audiences to see it immediately. Also, Dan Brown, the author of both Da Vinci and Angels, is a powerhouse literary name but not yet a megamovie franchise; Star Trek, the latest in a series of film spin-offs that...
...match that haul. But Hanks' films usually don't open with a big bang; audiences discover them over time, and by the end, he has a Forrest Gump. At 52, Hanks is not the ideal age for a teen kid's movie icon; his one starring role since Da Vinci, in Charlie Wilson's War, brought in only $65 million. So Hanks should probably be happy with the huge salary he earned for making Angels, for the fact that it did manage to edge out the competition for the weekend's No. 1 slot...