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...Thursday, prosecutors also called key witness Kenneth Littleton, the Skakels' live-in tutor, to the stand. His voice slowed by a cocktail of six prescription drugs to treat severe manic depression, he methodically recalled the night of the murder...
...Skakel, dressed in a gray pinstriped suit, stared at Littleton, as he explained who he'd been upstairs in the Skakel home watching the movie "The French Connection" on TV, but went outside after the family nanny had asked him to investigate a "fracas or noise" outside. "I heard some scuffling in the leaves and it sort of spooked me, to honest with you," he said. Littleton said he had only started work for the Skakels that night, the night before Halloween. He added that when he arrived back at house the next day it was in an uproar with...
...Michael Skakel to the murder, as the defense consistently argued. Carver too had said that ultra-violet light tests had not found any trace of semen on the victim. A microscopic study of hair samples found at the crime scene showed them to be similar to those of Kenneth Littleton, who tutored Skakel and his older brother Thomas. Littleton had also been the focus of a police inquiry at the time of the murder. Another witness, retired police chief Thomas Keegan, had earlier testified that he gave an affidavit to prosecutors asking for an arrest warrant for Thomas Skakel...
...booth for Viisage Technology, based in Littleton, Mass., curious federal officials, airport execs, security chiefs and even a Mexican admiral tried out the new FacePass system, which uses a video camera and digital face-recognition software to determine who should be admitted through a door or gate. The software compares each face to digital images stored in a database. Cameron Queeno, Viisage's vice president of marketing, said commercial buildings--banks in particular--were shopping for systems whose costs range from $5,000 into the millions. "The tragedy of Sept. 11 turned into a buzz for the security business...
Life was a little simpler for me before I started thinking that I could be Dylan Klebold's mother. Klebold, the Littleton, Colo., teen who along with his buddy Eric Harris murdered 13 people in a rampage at Columbine High School in 1999, has etched his surname into the national consciousness as a symbol of everything that could go wrong in a family. Like many parents, I had always assumed--perhaps hoped--that once this family's story was known, it would be clear that the parents were checked out, maybe even uncaring, and so on some level responsible...