Dec 29th, 2008 · The singer-songwriter best known for his 1991 hit "Walking in Memphis" suffered a carjacking and a bullet wound to the head on a 2002 tour. But he lived to tell the tale, record a new album and appear on Mountain Stage.
Nov 21st, 2008 · R.J. Richard says he normally puts his cell phone in his pants pocket. But he didn't do that when he mowed his five-acre lawn. The Louisiana man put the phone in a chest pocket. So the phone was in the perfect place to stop a bullet heading his way. Richard thinks the stray bullet came from a hunter in the nearby woods. He's convinced that he put the phone in that different, life-saving place, because of a call from God.
Jul 22nd, 2008 · For soldier Brian Turner, words have the impact of bullets. His poems provide a first- person account of war; The New York Times praised their "attention to both the terrors and the beauty he found among Iraq's ruins."
May 20th, 2008 · A stressed builder in Los Angeles County managed to dodge the bullet and sell almost two dozen houses in single day, with an old-fashion strategy: an auction.
Apr 25th, 2008 · A New York judge has found three police officers not guilty in the death of an unarmed black man who was hit by a barrage of bullets and died hours before his wedding. Along with two friends, Bell was shot after a bachelor party at a Queens strip club on Nov. 25, 2006. Bullets struck Bell 50 times.
Mar 27th, 2008 · Celebrity chef Paul Prudhomme tells Robert Siegel that he was in the midst of setting up his cooking tent at a golf tournament in New Orleans when he heard a kind of "whistley zing" and felt a sting in his arm. Prudhomme shook his shirt sleeve found a .22-caliber bullet in his long johns.
Feb 20th, 2008 · Barry McRoy was leaving a Waffle House in Walterboro, S.C., when he encountered two men fighting over a gun. A shot was fired, and the bullet hit a DVD McRoy had in his pocket.
Feb 8th, 2008 · A delegate from Scotland Yard releases a report of its investigation into the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Friday. The findings echo those of the Pakistan government: that she was killed by the force of the suicide blast, not by a gunshot wound.