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NEW BOSTON (March 19, 2010)— SNIPPET: "At least 35 bullet holes were discovered March 12 when a security light was changed at the church near New Boston. Authorities say they may have been made by shotgun pellets. Hilton told the Texarkana Gazette that it must have happened since January when the steeple was tightened, because the bullet holes weren’t there then. Bowie County Sheriff’s Office investigator Robby McCarver said Friday it looks like someone was trying to shoot out a street light and "the church was in the background and got hit."" SNIPPET: "New Boston is about 100 miles northeast...

FBI Investigates Possible Bullet Holes On U.S. Airways Plane POSTED: 6:26 am EDT October 15, 2004 UPDATED: 11:54 am EDT October 15, 2004 The FBI is investigating several suspicious holes that appear to be bullet holes found on a U.S. Airways plane after it landed at Orlando International Airport, Local 6 News has learned. According to a police report obtained exclusively by Local 6 News, an Orlando baggage handler discovered the holes before unloading luggage form the Airbus aircraft earlier this week. The flight being investigated originated in San Francisco and had a stop in Charlotte before landing in Orlando,...

Latest Trendy Accessory: Bullet Holes If you have a clean, shiny car, you're passe. Those who squander money on the latest foolish gimmicks are adorning their vehicles with fake bullet holes. The magnets and stickers give "the head-turning illusion of a bullet-riddled vehicle," according to the Baltimore Sun and Wall Street Journal. Stumped? So is Lena Pause, whose company Hardley Dangerous Illusions makes the fake holes. "We started getting calls from Northern Ireland, Kuwait, Israel," she told the Sun. "I said: 'These people got to be crazy. What do they want with more bullet holes?'"

OAK PARK, Mich. (AP) — Some people are turning to an inexpensive and controversial way of customizing their cars: applying decals of bullet holes."So real-looking you have to touch them with your own finger to tell," says the Sterling Heights-based Web site bullet1.com, which offers vinyl stickers depicting .50-caliber holes and smaller ones that look like they came from a .22. Doug Rock, 25, buys the stickers from a North Carolina supplier and sells them on the site to help pay his way through nursing school. Rock said he started selling the decals on e-Bay in 2001 and has since...