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In an early-morning gun battle in June at Pittsburgh’s Ferris Court housing complex, two undercover officers and a shooting suspect fired at least 103 rounds at one another but missed every single time; no bystanders were hit either. And in March Regina Jones-Peoples of Youngstown, Ohio, was shot 18 times at close range in the neck, breast, abdomen, and legs (allegedly by her estranged husband), after which she drove herself to the hospital; she was later listed in stable condition.
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A support group in Nelson, New Zealand, for people suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome said in May that its committee members had been too tired to plan any activities for CFS International Awareness Day. Also in May a Rotary Club in Miramichi, New Brunswick, announced that the grand prize in its raffle to help build an environmental education center would be a new Hummer. And in June Gerald Williams, 34, pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography; last year federal agents were interviewing him in his home about his possible purchase of such materials when a child-porn screen saver suddenly appeared on his computer.
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