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Just over a week ago, seven-year-old "R." was trying to gamble his way into some extra money. The 4-ft. Jordan wannabe challenged his 6-ft. neighbor to a pickup game played with a makeshift basketball hoop fashioned from a milk crate and plywood. "R. said, 'Put your 15 up,' and he threw 15[cents] on the ground," says Demetrius Tulloch, 20. "R. was always saying, 'Put your money up.'" And as always, Tulloch let the boy win his loose change. Just around the corner at the Wash Factory, R.'s eight-year-old buddy "E." was hanging...
...especially shocking that so many citizens of two U.S.-friendly African nations were murdered in the terrorist attack. Few Kenyans will ever exorcise the hideous images of charred bodies draped from a bus, of mutilated corpses stacked in the bed of a pickup truck, of the dazed walking wounded stained with the bright red of fresh arterial blood. No arrest, trial or conviction will make sense of the losses...
...gone, police believe Rudolph returned to Nordmann's house either late that night or Thursday and took 50 to 75 lbs. of food, including canned green beans, beets, corn, tuna fish, raisins and a large bag of wheat bran. He carried it away in Nordmann's 1977 Nissan pickup truck, which the store owner discovered missing when he returned home on Thursday. Police later found the truck at a nearby campground with a handwritten note from Rudolph inside. The contents of the note have not been released. At home, Nordmann found five $100 bills, presumably left by Rudolph as payment...
When the whistle blows at 3 o'clock in the hydrant factory, a redhead named Opie races away in a pickup and begins a second back-breaking job to help pay for the dream house he is building on seven lakeside acres of peace and quiet...
...Billings meth connection. A few months earlier, south of Billings, in Hardin, an admittedly cranked-out 17-year-old, Jonathan Wayne Vandersloot, whose head hadn't touched a pillow in days, allegedly shot dead his sleeping grandparents, scooped up some jewelry, guns and cash, and took off in their pickup. Vandersloot's first trial ended in a hung jury. Prosecutors plan to retry him this fall...