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Police in Birmingham, Alabama, responded in April to a woman’s plea to save her estranged boyfriend, who was threatening suicide in her apartment. When the man failed to drop his suicide pistol, they shot and killed him.
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In October, the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, school committee adopted a plan to allow 11th- and 12th- graders to get credit for mandatory physical-education classes merely by reading materials on exercise concepts.
Federal agents arrested Gary and David Gross of Alpharetta, Georgia, in April for attempting to counterfeit $4.5 million with a printing job described by agents as “poor.” The agents were tipped off by a store owner, who reported that the two had bought the kind of linen paper used in currency and then had asked the owner if he had any green ink that “matched the ink on a one-dollar bill.”
