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...Sixteen minutes later, they had reached the town of Norfork, Arkansas. State troopers, alerted to the situation, had set up "spike strips" across the roadway. "The strips took out two of his tires but he just kept going, or tried," says Arkansas State Police spokesman Bill Sadler. Robida's hobbled Pontiac finally stopped after smashing against parked cars in Norfork's small downtown area, and a gun battle with local and state police ensued. Robida was shot twice in the head and was helicoptered out to a hospital in Springfield, Missouri. Bailey was found dead in the car. An autopsy...
...what could go wrong? Mortgage rates could spike and buyers could walk away from their deals. But with the economy slowing and the Fed?s rate hikes near an end, that seems unlikely. These stocks won?t continue their torrid run indefinitely, but Muhlenkamp believes they will continue to rise. If he?s right on this group-and he has been for half a decade-the occasional pullback should be viewed as an invitation to join his house party...
...offers for newly-minted history Ph.D.'s are up 13 percent this year—a spike that experts say stems from a less competitive market in the field, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported last week...
...Trick question!) Data are actually mixed: car crashes do spike right after the Super Bowl, but fatalities are low compared with other days of the year...
...Dooney boys, who come from the Magnolia Projects just west of downtown New Orleans, home of the slain rapper Soulja Slim, are old rivals of the 3'n'G (named for the intersection of Third and Galvez). "This wasn't a Houston thing," says Harris. "You see a spike in homicides in New Orleans in July and August, then the hurricane comes and they are displaced to Houston and elsewhere...