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No one has to tell David Williams the homicide rate in South Jamaica has skyrocketed in the last year. As owner of David Williams Funeral Services on Sutphin Boulevard, he sees it first hand. "It's coming back, maybe not like it was in the early '90s but you are definitely seeing more," said Williams.

I need help picking a weapon from FR's firearms gurus! Here's the deal: 1. The choices consist of the Glock 19, Sig Sauer 226, or (boo) S&W 5946. I know you all have your favorites but these are the options and they're not going to change. 2. Money is not an issue, nor is ease of use. If one is more work but worth the effort then its worth getting. I'll just have to invest the time and energy. My life is worth it so thats ok. 3. Concealment and weight are not critical. Reliability and my confidence level are...

Watch New York's Finest square off against New York's Bravest for charity, honor and respect on Madison Square Garden TV now! Hey, its not the NFL but it'll do for football junkies. The FDNY team actually lost some of its players on 9-11.

Mayor Tells of Dream For 'Beautiful' Memorial ayor Giuliani said yesterday he envisions a "dramatic, beautiful, and inspirational" World Trade Center memorial that would teach generations to come the full story of the terrible tragedy and its victims. The memorial should be striking, he told a town hall meeting in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, because the disaster site is "a sacred place, a burial ground, a place where American democracy was attacked." "It should be a place where children can go," he said, "like Normandy or Gettysburg, but maybe not as commercial as Gettysburg." The mayor appeared to completely abandon his ...

Judy Woodruff just said that there was a warning issued regarding a possible attack by some terrorists on an unknown school or schools in Texas.

<p>November 21, 2001 -- NOW it begins. The Post's Murray Weiss is reporting a 24 percent jump in New York City shootings, despite the much-noted plunge in criminal activity after the World Trade Center attacks. This troubling news comes in the wake of a story that seems right out the recent history books - with a 5-year-old boy dead in The Bronx from drug-dealer crossfire.</p>

IRAQ MISSION'S FLAG EXCUSE HALF-BAKED By STEVE DUNLEAVY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ODD MAN OUT: Iraq was one of the few nations - perhaps the only nation - to fly its flag at full-staff yesterday outside its mission to the United Nations. - Dan Brinzac September 19, 2001 -- AT THE building housing the Permanent Delegation of Iraq to the United Nations at 14 E. 79th St. in Manhattan, there was something wrong with the picture. It was 2:10 in the afternoon, and a cop friend of mine called outraged just before he and his brothers returned to the horror of Ground Hero. ...

SRINAGAR, India, Aug 11 (AFP) - Militant Muslim groups in Indian Kashmir condemned Saturday another outfit that sprayed acid on two unveiled women this week in a drive to impose the Islamic dress code. "People should get hold of these people (attackers) and teach them a lesson," Salim Hashmi, spokesman for Kashmir's dominant separatist group the Hizbul Mujahedeen, said. "Our group will not tolerate crime against women," he said. A previously-unknown militant group, Lashkar-e-Jabbar, took responsibility for the attack on Wednesday, saying it was the beginning of a drive to impose an Islamic dress code on Kashmiri women. The ...

Family massacred in Algeria By North Africa correspondent David Bamford Suspected Islamist militants in Algeria have massacred three generations of the same family in an attack on a holiday camp to the west of the capital, Algiers. In one of the bloodiest months in the long-running insurgency campaign by the militants, the number of people killed since the start of July has reached 90. These latest killings took place near the seaside resort of Tipaza. According to reports, at about 0100 local time (0000 GMT) on Monday the electricity to the area was suddenly cut. The attackers then arrived in ...

The story behind LBJ's Silver Star Merits of late president's wartime record still debated By Jamie McIntyre CNN Military Affairs Correspondent And Jim Barnett CNN Producer Navy Lt. Cmdr. Lyndon Baines Johnson, the first member of Congress to enter active duty in World War II, was awarded the Silver Star in 1942 for gallantry in action on a flight over enemy territory. But historians have called Johnson's decoration one of the most undeserved Silver Stars in history, and CNN's review of the historical record raises new questions about the circumstances of its award by Gen. Douglas McArthur nearly 60 years ...

Russians talk subs with Taipei WENDELL MINNICKJDW Correspondent Taipei & ROBERT KARNIOL JDW Asia-Pacific Editor Bangkok Private individuals from Russia are pursuing exploratory discussions with Taiwan on the latter's capability to build the Russian-designed Kilo-class diesel-electric patrol submarine, according to locally-based defence sources. The talks are reportedly "unsanctioned by either government". This may well be the case with respect to the Russians involved, as Moscow has strong political and economic ties with Beijing. However, on the Taiwanese side, such a programme would almost certainly be led by the Ministry of Defence's Chung Shan Institute of Science and Technology, with construction ...

HUNG JURY SPARES LIFE OF BOMBER By DEVLIN BARRETT June 13, 2001 -- A heartbroken 12-year-old girl, whose mother was killed by a terrorist bomb, ripped a Manhattan jury yesterday for not sentencing the mass murderer to death. Tara Kavaler, whose mom, Prabhi, was one of 213 people killed in a devastating attack on the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, on Aug. 7, 1998, was stunned after the Manhattan federal jury that convicted him could not reach a verdict on whether he should be put to death. That means Mohamed Al-Owhali, a fanatic follower of Osama bin Laden, will be ...

Tim Russert just reported that McCain will have "discussions" with Tom Daschle while spending the weekend at Daschle's cabin.

Jedis Stand for the Census Count By Kim Griggs 2:00 a.m. May 31, 2001 PDT WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- To the frustration of the census managers in New Zealand, England, Wales and Australia, an e-mail saturating inboxes for the past couple of months just refuses to go away. The e-mail, which appears to have originally surfaced in the first week of March in New Zealand, urged locals who didn't identify with conventional religions to tell census statisticians they were adherents of the Jedi religion, whose knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Star Wars movies. The e-mail ...

(17:15) Lebanese paper: Hizbullah deploying Katyushas The Hizbullah is setting up numerous firing positions for Katyusha and mortars in southern Lebanon, today's Lebanese Daily Star newspaper reported. IDF officials told UNIFIL they would fire on about any suspicious movements across the border in Lebanon, Israel Radio said.