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The video shows the victim, a 30-year-old woman, walk into the elevator at the Huntingdon stop, on Kensington Avenue near Huntingdon Street, just after 1:30 a.m. Saturday. She holds the door for a man behind her and he joins her in the elevator. Surveillance Video Shows West Philly Triple Shooting The two stand in the elevator for several seconds and exchange words, and the man approaches the woman, cornering her in the elevator and pulling out a knife. He begins to attack the woman, at one point holding the knife pointed down toward her face and chest, as she struggles...

OXALL, England—Gladys Hammond's desecrated grave lies in the cemetery of a 17th-century Anglican church, where rows of thin grey tombstones stand tilted by the weight of time. The 82-year-old woman had been dead seven years when police believe her remains became the target of an increasingly radical and effective campaign for animal rights in Britain. Her bones were dug up and stolen in the middle of the night. Letters then arrived at the home of her son-in-law, Chris Hall, demanding that he stop breeding thousands of guinea pigs for medical research in return for Hammond's remains. To the Halls, the...

Warning of more Bay Area bombingsANIMAL RIGHTS NOTE THREATENS FIRMS By Dana Hull Mercury News The militant animal rights activists who claimed responsibility for the bombings of two Bay Area businesses in a month have vowed in a defiant communique to double the size of the bombs they will use in future attacks. Cars in company parking lots could be packed with explosives, they warn. Companies that do business with Huntingdon Life Sciences, a British firm that conducts animal testing, ``are considered legitimate targets'' of violence. Even family members of company workers shouldn't consider themselves safe. ``You never know when...