| 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.
Developers hope to break ground soon on DuBoistown Heights
The subdivision is located in a cleared wooded area on a hill above Candy Cane Lane, the site of a popular holiday light display of homes. Most of the development, which unquestionably sits in DuBoistown, awaits final approval from borough council. Councilman Charles Frey said the borough still is waiting to hear back from the developers. “What we are looking at from our point of view is the stormwater system, and to see if there is proper grading and width of roads for emergency vehicles." Andrus said the state Department of Environmental Protection is considering those plans but should have no problem giving its go ahead. “My understanding is it's just formality stuff," he said. “We don't anticipate any problems." Plans called for using a stormwater system making use of swales and retention ponds to prevent water runoff from the development to residences below it.
Like it or not, Jose Canseco has got more to say
Back in July 2006, when Jose Canseco was called to meet with the lead investigator in Sen. George Mitchell's inquisition into the steroids scandal in Major League Baseball, Canseco did what Canseco has become almost infamous for doing. He talked. A lot. For more than 2 hours, he talked. In that interview in Fullerton, Calif., Canseco offered up several names of players connected with steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs. He told dark tales of players injecting each other with all sorts of illicit substances. He let loose with some conjecture. He explained his place in it all. So when the wildly trumpeted Mitchell Report was finally released last month, and it contained more information from Canseco's searing tell-a-lot book, Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits and How Baseball Got Big, than it did his talk with Charles Scheeler, Mitchell's top investigator, Canseco's next move seemed painfully simple to all those around him.
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