| Cops kill innocent bystander in Laventille
Family members and residents yesterday recalled what they said were minutes of terror when police stormed through the Des Vignes' yard. "They started firing shots, we begged them to stop. There were children, so many of them in the yard. All the officers yelled was 'move. All yuh vote for PNM so take dat,'" a crying Joyce Des Vignes, the victim's mother, claimed. "We had to run for safety in our house. They take my best son. They kill him in front of his children, they take their father away from them. He work so hard for his family. I want justice for Sheldon - how they could do him that ?" Hypolite, the successful People's National Movement candidate in Monday's general election, told the villagers he would ensure a proper investigation was conducted into the incident.
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The Novato Police took a missing persons report at 11:30am Tuesday, they suspected he might have used his mother's credit card to buy a plane ticket. The next thing they know, the 16 year old they're looking for is arrested in Nashville, Tennessee at around 7:30 p.m. our time. The TSA says he was arrested for a probation violation. The FBI says he plotted to hijack an airplane. Agents found the teen with rope, duct tape, and handcuffs. He never tried anything on the plane. They say he is suicidal. The TSA says nothing found with the teenager is prohibited, not even the handcuffs. On its website the agency says this is a lesson to watch for suspicious behavior as much as for items. The U.S. Attorney's office in Nashville says it is reviewing the case to see if federal charges are appropriate.
Changing Skyline: Thanks - but no thanks
But instead, the city told the young developers it was committed to preserving their junk-strewn, half-acre lots in the event an industrial user came along. "You get the feeling," Nebel later grumbled to me, "that cities are the worst redliners." The surprise here isn't that Philadelphia believes it should set aside land for industry. Even though we're deep into the post-manufacturing age, every city needs places where fabricators, warehouses, truck depots, junkyards and other messy enterprises can feel at ease. But this enclave claimed by the Kensington South Neighborhood Advisory Council is a place that abounds with vacant tracts. You can hardly walk a couple of blocks without bumping into one of the great redbrick relics of Philadelphia's industrial heyday, like the Rieger & Gretz brewery on Germantown Avenue.
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