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...psychological day for us, to have 1,200 stores and 160,000 people ready for the next 35 days of mayhem," says Mike Vitelli, executive vice president of Best Buy's customer operating groups. "It's the gun start of the race." (See pictures from Black Friday...
...retired Fort Hood military judge, has said he has instructed his client not to talk to investigators. Meanwhile, Silliman says, investigators are likely assembling evidence from a multitude of other sources to draw up a list of charges, which could include anything from capital murder to taking a gun to the base. Hasan also may face a noncapital charge of murdering an unborn child because one of the victims, Francheska Velez, was three months pregnant. Both sides will probably want to have Hasan undergo psychiatric evaluation, with the defense perhaps having an eye on mitigating any sentence. Galligan is unlikely...
...television cop classic was fond of saying. Why he did it is not essential, Silliman says, although the defense may seek to cloud the picture with digressions into motivation. Prosecutors will focus on what the accused intended to do and how he allegedly did it: when he bought the gun, what he said to neighbors and how he acted on the morning of the crime. The jury will be composed of 12 of Hasan's fellow officers who will have to answer a narrower question: Did Major Nidal Malik Hasan murder 13 people and, if found guilty, how should...
...desire to fund cool ideas—literally—with his cotton candy cannon proposal.“One day I got the idea, why does cotton candy need to come in a stick? It should probably come exploding into your face out of a gun!” says Gordonson. “With the grant, it will be enough to make a few guns, which is way more than I hoped for. I’ll be able to have a cotton candy gun fight, maybe even start polysaccharide warfare...
...complicate a hostage situation in which 36 men are held captive on a boat by machine-gun-wielding pirates? Just ask the Spanish government. On Oct. 2, pirates hijacked the Alakrana, a Basque fishing vessel that was trawling in the Indian Ocean. A day later, the Spanish navy arrested two of the presumed pirates and deported them for trial in Madrid. That might have been a triumph for law and order, had the rest of the pirate gang not still been aboard the Alakrana, holding its crew captive...