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Wenham police found the body of Karen Sharpe in the front hall of her home Friday night following a 911 emergency call. She was rushed to Beverly Hospital, where she was pronounced dead from a single gunshot to the chest...
...probe alleged that Jena's boys suffered more than 100 serious traumatic physical injuries in a two-month period. And in a separate incident, a 17-year-old who wore a colostomy bag as a result of gunshot wounds was hospitalized after an altercation with a guard. The nurse at the prison's infirmary noted that about 5 in. of the boy's intestines were in the colostomy bag. After a subsequent encounter, the youth wrote, "[A] Sgt. came to me and said to me put shirt in pants, and I told him that I couldn...
...hero to many--and a terrifying figure to the hard-liners who have dominated Iran's politics since the death of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989. Khatami's struggle to reform Iran is proving a dangerous task. One of the President's closest friends is recovering from a gunshot wound to the head, nearly assassinated by hard-liners. Dozens of other supporters are in jail or heading there. Iran's hard-liners have sent a chilling message that they won't go without a fight.Through all this, Khatami has been conspicuously quiet, hoping his absence of comment would be seen...
Concern over gun violence has been building even as the number of Americans killed by guns has fallen--down almost 20% from 1993 to 1998. Among children too gun deaths have fallen, tumbling 28% from a peak in 1994 to 1997, when 4,223 kids died by gunshot. But highly publicized shootings like those at Columbine have changed perceptions. A recent TIME/Discovery Channel poll showed that 70% of parents feel violence in schools has increased. What's more, Americans no longer see gun threats against kids as a problem confined to inner cities. While violent crime has fallen sharply...
Chatelain was pronounced dead at Mass. General Hospital about 30 minutes later from a single gunshot wound to the chest...