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...Marines and returned to Kannapolis to help out his mother and sister. Civilian life didn't agree with him, however, and he eventually joined the Army. In February he was posted to Friedberg, Germany, and took along his wife Mary Elizabeth and their three children. But while conducting a raid on a house in Baghdad, Parson, a trained sniper, was shot and killed. He had been scheduled for a promotion to staff sergeant in August, and his family has been told it will be awarded posthumously. --Reported by Constance E. Richards/Kannapolis...
...case to bring. About the same time, a senior Yukos security official was detained on suspicion of a double murder. Yukos representatives say neither man has been formally charged, and dismiss the allegations as spurious. Yet things got worse. Yukos offices were subject to a 16-hour raid, and last week the government announced it would review the firm's tax payments, a favorite harassment tactic. Rumors began circulating that another Yukos official, this time a top member of the board, would be charged with homicide. The attacks on Yukos caused such an uproar that Putin's own economics adviser...
...other hand, a jury might be convinced that a meth dealer who had brazenly fired a pistol through his door had a propensity for violence. Earle remained undecided for months as staff prosecutors worked up the case. During that time, the narcotics task force conducted a second raid that ended in a fatality. And in yet another botched raid, members of the task force held several local residents at gunpoint while they searched their property for pot. They found only ragweed...
...adding that Pischetsrieder may actually be trying to sell off VW's own minuscule truck operation, which made just 19,000 vehicles last year, compared to DaimlerChrysler's 222,000. Then we'd have to mourn the passing of yet another VW icon: the microbus. Gunning For Oil A raid by armed, masked police on the headquarters of Russia's giant Yukos oil corporation last week escalated the standoff between the Kremlin and Yukos owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia's richest man. His problems started when a senior associate, Platon Lebedev, was accused of the fraudulent privatization of a fertilizer company...
...IMPRISONED. JOSE BOVE, 50, militant French farm leader; for 10 months for destroying genetically modified food crops; outside Montpellier, France. Propelled to fame as an opponent of globalization when he partially dismantled a McDonald's restaurant in 1999, Bov? was spirited to jail by helicopter following a dawn raid on his farm by 80 antiriot cops. Bov?'s conviction stems from protests denouncing the dangers of genetically modified crops, during which he demolished experimental plots of rice and corn...