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...burst round fired by its top barrel. A built-in laser range finder tells the round where in flight to explode, giving it the ability to spray lethal shrapnel in all directions, like a hand grenade, as much as half a mile from the shooter. That translates into a gun that can kill enemy soldiers hidden behind walls or in foxholes...
...report describes the initial bewilderment of law enforcement on the scene - too many agencies, too many conflicting 911 reports, not enough coordination. For a while, authorities believed there was a third shooter on the roof; he turned out to be an air conditioner repairman. As for whether police were cowardly, or negligent, or poorly trained, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department has made enough p.r. blunders to know that conclusions of that kind are best left to the courts, and with 15 lawsuits pending, the truth will have ample opportunity to come out. Connie Michalik, whose son was wounded...
...know they'll be drafted high. De Remer can talk all he wants about Michigan State's Mateen Cleaves staying to win an NCAA championship, but he has to remember that Cleaves is still a questionable first round draft pick at best because Cleaves is a 40 percent career shooter. Would Cleaves have stayed if he'd been a guaranteed lottery pick? He stayed partly to win a championship, and partly to improve his draft stock...
...York City, but they have never obtained enough evidence to charge him. A year later, Al-Amin was accused of shooting a 23-year-old Atlanta man, but the charges were dropped after the victim claimed police had pressured him into falsely naming Al-Amin as the shooter. Such brushes with the law strike Al-Amin and his supporters as harassment. Says his lawyer, J.L. Chestnut: "He's been fighting the system since he was 16 years old, and now the system is trying to kill...
Gonzaga: This school is just weird. Out of the national picture for 49 weeks of the year, this small Jesuit college in Spokane, Wash., plays well for three weeks and messes with every expert's tournament prediction. The "Zags" rely on their three-point shooter, Matt Santangelo. Sources tell me the team also gets added inspiration upon learning that I pick them to lose in the first round every year...