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...reached the press room, Wesbecker shot himself with the pistol and fell face down in a pool of blood. Survivors counting bodies found seven dead and 13 wounded, five critically -- the biggest toll by a mass killer since another nut with an AK-47 sprayed a Stockton, Calif., schoolyard and killed five children last January. Investigators said Wesbecker, a former pressman, had harbored a grudge against his ex-employers since going on total disability for mental illness. Said Joe White, a Standard-Gravure employee: "This guy's been talking about this for a year. He's paranoid, and he thought...
...standard for magnetic fields. Fremont, Calif., requires that potential buyers of new homes adjacent to overhead lines be warned of possible health risks. Last month in Florida a judge declared that pupils of Sandpiper Shores Elementary School near Boca Raton could not play in a major portion of the schoolyard because of nearby power cables...
...Schoolyard Talk by Julio Varela is a new weekly feature of The Crimson sports pages...
California Attorney General John Van de Kamp could be forgiven his 20 seconds of melodrama. His state was still reeling from the massacre wrought when a crazed man murdered five children in a Stockton schoolyard, wounded 29 others and a teacher, and then killed himself with a pistol...
...killer sprays a schoolyard with gunfire, police wage an arms race with trigger-happy criminals, and frightened citizens flock to buy firearms...