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...fatal street stabbing in the last days of May, three shootings in five days early in June followed by a reported double rape at the end of the month constitute a surprising rise in violent crime in a city that averaged two murders per year over the course of the last decade...
...Walden Street. According to police, Scott, the father of a five-year-old girl, was standing in front of the KFC and Taco Bell located near Porter Square when he was approached by a male assailant who allegedly produced a handgun and opened fire. Scott suffered four fatal shots to the torso...
...breaking the formerly integrated network known as British Rail into more than 100 different firms. At the center was Railtrack, which had the task of maintaining the tracks, signals and stations. It contracted out the work, resulting in spiraling costs and a record of erratic maintenance that had fatal consequences, including a 1999 collision between two trains outside Paddington Station in London that killed 31 people. Criticism of the safety record was heightened by its status as a publicly-traded company that paid out dividends to shareholders. Whenever an accident took place, critics charged that the company cared more about...
...plantation where a cache of chemicals was buried, including an unspecified amount of sodium azide, a powder that can be used to make poison gas. "When mixed with water, acid or metal, it changes rapidly to a highly toxic gas," says a Malaysian-government chemist. "The gas can be fatal...
...That was a fatal, very costly mistake. The result was that the cost went way up,” he says...