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  • Mother charged with shooting son, 11, wanted to take her family to a ‘better place,’ police say

    05/28/2014 4:17:59 PM PDT · by ConservativeStatement · 5 replies
    Las Vegas Sun ^ | May 28, 2014 | John Taylor
    The woman accused of critically injuring her 11-year-old son in a Memorial Day shooting confessed to the crime and told police she was building up the courage to kill herself and her three children to put them in a “better place,” according to a Metro Police arrest report released today. Instead, after Shavon Jacklein Carrillo, also known as Shavon Jacklein Aguilar, 31, Las Vegas, shot the 11-year-old boy, she was confronted and had the .22-caliber rifle used in the shooting taken away, police said.
  • Electric car trailblazer Better Place to file for bankruptcy within days (Israeli)

    05/24/2013 8:04:44 PM PDT · by haffast · 8 replies
    The Times of Israel ^ | May 24, 2013, 11:41 pm | Yifa Yaakov and David Shamah
    Israeli electric car firm Better Place, which hoped to revolutionize driving habits in Israel and worldwide, will file for bankruptcy in the coming week. The trailblazing firm sought to accelerate a world motoring shift away from gas-guzzling cars to electric, battery-powered vehicles. But “the company was not well-served by having things it thought would happen over a decade happen within a year,” a source familiar with the company’s financial woes told Fortune on Friday. snip It also touted partnerships developing in France and the US, harboring particular hopes of an electric car revolution pushed by the Obama administration. snip