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Signs of the Times for Mon, 31 Jul 2006

By MARY FOSTER
Associated Press
Sun Jul 30, 2006
NEW ORLEANS - Police were investigating six fatal shootings that occurred within 24 hours, the latest round of killings as the city struggles to rein in violence that has shadowed the recovery from Hurricane Katrina.

Three brothers and a friend were killed in a neighborhood not far from the French Quarter, and two other people were gunned down in separate incidents hours later, authorities said Saturday.

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AP
July 30, 2006
HYATTSVILLE, Md. - A man was charged early Saturday with an attack on his girlfriend that left her with second- and third-degree burns on her upper body.

Anthony Willoughby, 40, of Hyattsville, was taken into custody at the home of a friend, less than two miles away from his home after he contacted police to arrange his surrender.

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Reuters
Mon Jul 31, 2006
HAMILTON, Bermuda - A drive-by shooting, a gunman spraying bullets into a bar and a teen-ager gunned down in his car in a gangland-style hit -- it's not the image that most people have of once-sedate Bermuda.

Yet the British mid-Atlantic island, long a picturesque playground for vacationing Americans, is grappling with a gang problem that some fear is heading the way of urban America or other island getaways in the nearby Caribbean.

The latest outbreak of violence saw 18-year-old Jason Lightbourne die a week ago in a hail of bullets in a back street in the central Paget parish, the fifth shooting in the last 90 days but the island's first murder this year.

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By JIM SALTER
Associated Press
Sat Jul 29, 2006
SULLIVAN, Mo. - A small plane carrying skydivers crashed shortly after takeoff Saturday, killing six people on board and injuring two others, authorities and witnesses said.

Early reports indicated the plane may have struck a telephone pole before hitting a tree, Franklin County Sheriff Gary Toelke said. It crashed about 10 feet from a house.

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