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...American imagination, the New York City of the 1970s was a domestic war zone: Vietnam brought home. The murder rate had soared, the wrong kinds of drugs were available on any corner, and the whole place was filthy; Harry Smith, the CBS news anchor, called the city "Calcutta without the cows." New York was nearly bankrupt, and the President was disinclined to help, provoking the Daily News to the decade's iconic headline, "Ford to City: Drop Dead." An army of the emotionally disturbed, evicted en masse from state mental hospitals, made cardboard-box homes on the streets. Graffiti festooned...
Jiggetts is the second man arrested for the murder of Cambridge resident Justin Cosby, 21, who was shot in the basement of the dormitory on May 18 after a failed drug rip, according to prosecutors. Police are continuing to work to "identify and locate" a third suspect, who remains at large, said Corey Welford, a spokesman for the Middlesex district attorney's office...
...arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court on Wednesday, Jiggetts refused to return voluntarily to Massachusetts to face criminal charges, which include first-degree murder, accessory after the fact of murder, carrying a gun without a license, and armed robbery. He has been jailed without bail and is scheduled to reappear in court on July...
...indictment says Ghailani helped buy the Nissan truck used in the Dar es Salaam bombing and load it with explosives. The charges against him include murder, attacking civilians and destroying property...
...Vale of Kashmir is simmering again, this time over the rape and alleged murder of two young Muslim women. The corpses of 17-year-old Aasiya Jan and her sister-in-law, Nilofar Shakeel, 22, were found floating in a shallow stream on May 30, hours after their disappearance from their family's apple orchards in the city of Shopian in Indian Kashmir. Locals have alleged that Indian soldiers from a military encampment in the neighborhood were involved in the violent acts, reigniting separatist calls in the Muslim-majority region. At least one protester was killed and more than...