61.   The reporter also wrote that he saw truck and bulldozer tracks leading to the mass graves and two empty ammunition boxes and a few shell casings.

62.   The police would not say how many shots were fired, but witnesses reported that dozens of shell casings littered the street.

63.   The White House has advocated the creation of a computerized catalog of the distinctive markings that each gun leaves on discharged shell casings.

64.   There was no blood at the scene and no shell casings.

65.   They also left their shell casings, which is littering.

66.   They had not collected fingerprints or shell casings.

67.   They based their account on interviews and forensic evidence taken from the crime scene, including powder burns and dropped shell casings.

68.   They found human artifacts like an old brass shell casing from Korean War days, when the Air Force used the woods for target practice.

69.   They turned out to be mostly fireworks, including firecrackers stuffed into shotgun shell casings.

70.   Today, residents of Matsu use old shell casings to drink beer, toasting their brothers and sisters on the mainland, an act tinged with irony.