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...park bench, waiting for a ride. A witness reported seeing a white van with two occupants screech out of the area. Police began frantically stopping white vans, but a little more than an hour later, Lori Lewis Rivera was struck down while vacuuming her minivan outside a Shell station. At 9:20 p.m., about a 5-mi. drive from the last shooting, Pascal Charlot, 72, was cut down with a shot below the neck as he crossed the street...
...hunt for the Beltway sniper, one intriguing clue was a spent shell casing found outside the middle school. Like a spent slug, a casing can help narrow down the type of gun that may have been used. So far, ballistics tests have not pinpointed the sniper's weapon. But investigators appear particularly interested in individuals known to possess a Colt AR-15, the civilian version of the M-16 infantry rifle, or a Sturm-Ruger Mini-14 rifle. Both are semiautomatic rifles, popular with target shooters, criminals and some domestic extremist groups...
...tremendous." Driving the oil rush is Washington's search for reliable oil suppliers outside the Middle East - a search made more urgent in the wake of this month's terror bombing of an oil tanker off the coast of Yemen. European companies such as TotalFinaElf and Royal Dutch Shell have long been players in the region but leading the new charge are U.S. giants ExxonMobil and Chevron and independents such as New York-based Amerada Hess. American firms have been particularly aggressive in wooing new producing countries like Equatorial Guinea and can tap their experience in deep water drilling...
...forensics side, the FBI is examining the ink written on a tarot card found at one of the 12 shooting sites, hoping to link it to a specific kind of pen, law-enforcement sources told Time. Agents dismissed as unrelated a shell casing found in a white box truck at a car-rental agency near Dulles Airport in Virginia. And the FBI is reviewing credit-card receipts from filling stations near the shooting sites, in case the killer staked out his crime scenes and gassed up while he was at it. The latest suspected shooting site was in Ashland...
...weeks ago, about 20 girls received a egg shell-colored note card with the word “Pleiades” written in blue ink with a blue star-shaped sticker dotting the ‘i.’ This Monday, those who were intrigued by the invitations had a 45-minute get-together in the Claverly common room, where they celebrated a birthday and played party games...