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When a first-grade student fatally shot classmate Kayla Rolland on Tuesday, people in Michigan - and around the country - scrambled to find someone to blame for the murder. As Genesee County, Mich., prosecutor Arthur Busch noted wryly Thursday, if this crime had taken place in 17 states other than Michigan, a case would have been opened against the owner of the gun used to kill Rolland. In those states, so-called Child Access Prevention laws hold gun owners criminally liable if children access their loaded guns to hurt themselves or others. In essence, the legislation is a gun-oriented, highly...
...since Busch had to find a logical scapegoat for Rolland's murder without the benefit of a Child Access Prevention law, he took the old-fashioned route. Thursday, Busch brought charges of involuntary manslaughter against 19-year-old Jamelle James, who lived in the same house as the young killer. Although Michigan recently adopted some of the nation's harshest juvenile penalties, a six-year-old is universally considered too young to understand the consequences of his behavior. Busch alleges that by making the gun available to the boy, James was "grossly negligent" and contributed to the delinquency...
British soccer fans have their proud, blue-collar sections of Wembley Stadium. The French urge on the tennis underdog amid the dusty-red clouds of Rolland-Garros. Duke basketball is thunderously supported by the "Cameron Crazies." And there was nothing like the "Dawg Pound" in Cleveland before Art Modell whisked the Browns (er, Ravens) off to Baltimore...
...blockmates and I] did it a few times last year, and we enjoyed it a lot," says Knox, who since September has shared the duty with Brian R. Blais '97, Michael A. Cress '97 and Rolland...
...friend, Rolland Ho '97, came 10 minuteslater and walked Mossman back to his Lowell Houseroom, where he attended to her injuries. Ho saidthey were "mainly superficial scratches...