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...unclear last week. In the early hours of Wednesday the 14-year-old disappeared from her bedroom in the most agonizing of circumstances. Her abductor crept into the seven-bedroom home in the woodsy Federal Heights area of Salt Lake City, Utah, after midnight and took Elizabeth at gunpoint, as her terrified sister Mary Katherine, 9, looked on. He didn't seem to know the house or Elizabeth. He allowed her to put on a pair of canvas shoes before they left. But he told Mary Katherine that her big sister would come to harm if she made a noise...
According to Bonneville County sheriff Byron Stommel, a 14-year-old girl who had been sleeping with her sisters on the family's backyard trampoline was abducted at gunpoint during the night by Keith Glenn Hescock, 42. After allegedly assaulting her at his home and chaining her to a bed, Hescock went to his day job as a traveling tool salesman. The girl found a nearby fire extinguisher, beat at the chain for several hours to break it, freed herself and then, perhaps because her family's home line was busy, called her parents' office. The employee who answered picked...
...measure of popular passion on the subject is that the movie John Q.--in which Denzel Washington plays an underinsured father holding a hospital at gunpoint to get his son a heart transplant--was No. 1 at the box office during its opening weekend in late February. When the movie came out, the HMO industry's lobbying group bought full-page newspaper ads blaming Washington politicians for failing to address the problems of the uninsured. There's not much evidence, however, that anyone in Washington is paying attention. "While there's conversation going on," says John Engler, Michigan's Republican...
...measure of popular passion on the subject is that the movie John Q.--in which Denzel Washington plays an underinsured father holding a hospital at gunpoint to get his son a heart transplant--was No. 1 at the box office during its opening weekend in late February. When the movie came out, the HMO industry's lobbying group bought full-page newspaper ads blaming Washington politicians for failing to address the problems of the uninsured. There's not much evidence, however, that anyone in Washington is paying attention. "While there's conversation going on," says John Engler, Michigan's Republican...
...Harvard graduate school student was robbed at gunpoint on Jan. 29 at 8:30 p.m. on Western Avenue in front of Charlesview Apartments, according to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD...