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Stray bullet grazes a New Jersey woman
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Samantha Lyn Frazier, 35, of Florida, talks Monday about a gunshot that hit the abdomen at the Egg Harbor Township, NJ, home where she was staying. Frazier was shot while entering an Atlantic City bar to get a drink early Saturday morning.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — A Florida woman said her love handles saved her life when she was shot entering an Atlantic City bar. Samantha Lynn Frazier said she heard two pops when she walked into Hermans Place early Saturday.
The 35-year-old then felt pain and saw blood on her hand after she grabbed her left side. Atlantic City police said Frazier was an innocent bystander.
Detective Lt. Charles Love said the gunman was aiming for a man who escaped with a bullet hole in his down jacket.
The suspect remains at large. Frazier told The Press of Atlantic
City that "I could have been dead. They said my love handles saved my life."
that she had been "hollinger" that she wanted to lose weight. She now said "I want to be as big as I can if it's going to stop a bullet."
Frazier also told the newspaper
Shooting occurs near Columbine
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LITTLETON, Colo. — Colorado authorities said two teenagers were shot at a suburban Denver middle school that's just three miles from Columbine High School, the site of one of the nation's deadliest school shootings.
West Metro Fire officials said Tuesday's shooting happened at about 3:30 p.m. The two victims are expected to survive.
Authorities said they have arrested a suspect. It's unclear whether the suspect or the victims are students.
The mother of one student, Sheri Hasse, said the shooting happened as students were boarding buses, and at least one victim was shot outside the school.
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Ex-partners clash over child custody
COURT
CUTLAND, Vt. — A Vermont judge overseeing a custody battle ordered the arrest Tuesday of a Virginia woman who renounced homosexuality, became an evangelical Christian and disappeared with the young daughter she had with her ex-partner.
Judge William Cohen found Lisa Miller of Forest, Va., in contempt of court and issued the arrest warrant.
"I hope the judge's order today gives law enforcement the tools they need to find my daughter," Miller's former partner, Janet Jenkins, said after the hearing, holding up pictures of the girl, Isabella, and asking anyone who has seen her to contact police or the Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Jenkins' attorney said it would be up to the Rutland County state's attorney, Marc Brierre, to seek a national arrest warrant on felony charges of custodial interference.
Miller and Jenkins were joined in a Vermont civil union in 2000, and Isabella was born to Miller in 2002. The couple broke up in 2003, and Miller moved to Virginia.
Cohen initially awarded custody to Miller and gave Jenkins liberal visitation rights. But Cohen ordered a switch in custody in November after finding Miller in contempt of court for denying Jenkins access to the girl.
A switch in custody had been scheduled for Jan. 1, but Miller and Isabella didn't appear. At a court hearing last month, Cohen gave Miller 30 more days to appear.
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States consider barring 911 audio recordings from public record
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Detroit 111 operators Sharon Nichols and Terri Sutton sign papers June 9, 2006, in the 36th District Court in Detroit. A 7-year-old boy testified that a 911 operator dismissed his call as a prank when he called about his mother's collapse. The mother was found dead three hours after the call, taken by Sharon Nichols. Soon 911 calls may no longer be public record.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Linda Casey dialed 911 and screamed, "Oh, God!" over and again into the phone after finding her daughter beaten to death in the driveway of their North Carolina home.
Later that day, she heard the 911 recording on the local news and vomited.
"This was not only the most painful thing I have ever been through, it should have been the most private," she said in an e-mail.
Because of situations like Casey's, lawmakers in Alabama, Ohio and Wisconsin are deciding whether to bar the public release of 911 calls.
Missouri, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Wyoming already keep such recordings private.
But generally, most states consider emergency calls public records available on request, with exceptions sometimes made for privacy reasons or to protect a police investigation.
"Nationally there is a growing concern about the release of audiotapes that don't involve newsworthy people or events — just things that people like to hear because of their sensational nature," said Sonny Brasfield, executive director of the Association of County
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people's willingness to call 911."
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When police arrived, the boy's mother was dead.
"These kinds of things are having a chilling effect on people's willingness to call 911."
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In a 2008 call in Memphis, Tenn., a 911 operator asked, "What's your emergency?" then
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"We strongly believe that 911 recordings should be public record because they can reflect on the performance of public agencies," said Thomas Kent, standards editor of The Associated Press. "It certainly can be hard to listen to 911 recordings, and we use them very sparingly on the air and online. Our decision to use such recordings depends primarily on their relevance to important news, not the atmospherics."
it is crucial that we're able to hear how our public safety calls are being handled," said David Cuillier, chairman of the Society of Professional Journalists' Information
The public release of audio has also led to accolades for dispatchers who have helped save lives
In states where 911 calls are made available to the public, news organizations generally make their own case-by-case decisions on whether to air a recording, taking into consideration issues of taste, sensitivity and news value.
and helped vindicate operators accused of mishandling a call.
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