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In Pensacola, Florida, in November, neighbors Gary R. Goodrich and J.B. Bloodsworth pulled guns and fired, sending each other to the hospital, in a dispute over whether one was raking leaves into the other’s yard.
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In Lansing, Michigan, James Carter, 44, upset that Pamela Bonds, 31, did not drive fast enough out of a parking lot after Christmas shopping, honked three times. After Bonds drove out and Carter passed her, Bonds rammed his car three times, the final time causing it to spin around, after which she rammed the driver’s-side door and pushed the car a half block down the street. After the cars came to a stop, Bonds leapt from her car with a 20-ounce ball-peen hammer and attacked Carter before he could take it from her.
Kansas City civic leader Adele Hall, 43, on the activities of the Women’s Public Service Network: “I think this is a yeasty time in our community, and it’s a yeasty time for women.”
Illinois authorities suspect that William Grove, 33, a business professor at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, stole shoes from students at universities in two states over a five-year period by snatching them in libraries when students left their tables for short breaks. Grove told police he donated the shoes to the homeless, but police found 80 pairs in his apartment. An apparently unrelated rash of shoe thefts (one shoe at a time) occurred in the Boston Public Library earlier last year.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
