Word: jr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Internet confessor Larry Froistad Jr. will plead guilty to the murder of his 5-year-old daughter Amanda. Froistad, who today also faces federal charges of trafficking in child pornography, could be sentenced to as much as life in prison without parole...
Officer Jacob Chestnut, 58, an 18-year veteran of the Capitol Police who was looking forward to retiring in a few months, was smiling, greeting visitors at the security checkpoint at the Document Room entrance on the House side. It was about 3:40 when Russell Weston Jr., 41, came through the doors, dressed in khakis and a hat, and tried to go around the metal detectors. Hold on a minute, Chestnut said, moving to stop him as he tried to barge through. Weston pulled out a revolver and shot him in the head, then ran down the hall toward...
...police techniques." Among the many factors I included in the analysis were poverty, income, unemployment, arrest and conviction rates, the number of police officers and police expenditures per capita, as well as the impact that the prevention of less serious crimes has on more serious ones. JOHN R. LOTT JR. John M. Olin Law and Economics Fellow University of Chicago Chicago
...think baseball is boring, you'll hate the games Greg Maddux pitches. At a time when hitters like Ken Griffey Jr. are thrilling teen fans bloated by a media diet of MTV and asteroid explosions, watching Maddux throw for the Atlanta Braves is like flipping to PBS. His fastball isn't fast (nearly 90 m.p.h. on his best day, vs. around 100 for a Nolan Ryan). His curveball barely curves. He has never pitched a no-hitter. All he does is win games. How? He finds a batter's weak spot and throws right at it nearly every time, which...
...that was last year. Fast on the heels of Mark McGwire and Ken Griffey Jr., Sosa is the dark-horse candidate to shatter the single-season record for home runs. Thanks to a spectacular--some might say freaky--June in which he popped 20 home runs, a major league record, the Dominican native showed that he is finally harnessing his impulsiveness. As of Saturday, he had racked up 36 homers, just six behind leader McGwire. Sosa's batting record of .319 this season is a full .57 points higher than his career average...