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BOSTON--A Jamaica Plain man is dead after a weekend shootout with undercover police that also left three officers injured, two of them with gunshot wounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jamaica Plain Man Killed in Shootout | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

Authorities say that Copeland, with her husband Ray, 75, had hired the transients to buy livestock from local cattle barns with bad checks, resold the animals before the checks bounced, then silenced their unwitting agents. The victims were discovered on farms in northwest Missouri with .22-cal. gunshot wounds in their heads. The cattle scheme allegedly netted the couple $32,000. Prosecutors have also charged Ray Copeland with the murders, but his trial awaits the outcome of a competency hearing later this month. His lawyers claim that Copeland is senile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missouri: Grandma's Last Roundup | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

...murder was only the latest attempt to silence Vietnamese journalists. In 1980 the house of Tien Phong's publisher, Nguyen Tranh Huang, was fire bombed. Last year the magazine's layout artist, Nhan Trong Do, was found dead of gunshot wounds in his car in Virginia. Since 1981, three other journalists who put out Vietnamese publications have been killed, two in California and one in Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Like Father, Like Son: A columnist is ambushed | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

Three times I saw the frustration on the head nurse's face when she checked the work sheet and saw that too few nurses and health assistants were assigned for Saturday night--the shift when four gunshot wounds and two stabbings is par for the course...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Who Killed Mrs. Jones? | 9/27/1990 | See Source »

...little piece of New York City died with him. Rayvon was the fourth child to be killed by a stray gunshot in less than nine days and the second to perish within the safety of his own home. By the time he was buried last week, yet another child had been fatally shot and three more wounded. The slain children are called mushrooms in street lingo -- as vulnerable as plants underfoot. Their deaths have pushed New Yorkers, already reeling from a daunting inventory of urban ills, to a new depth of despair. "The job of taking back our streets requires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Littlest Victims | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

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