21.   Missouri was also one of the leaders last year in fish killed as the result of manure spills from hog lagoons.

22.   More than half a dozen villagers identified the people killed as belonging to the Merena family.

23.   One escapee killed himself as law officers closed in and the other six were extradited to Texas.

24.   Only last week, Kulovic said, a gunman tried to kill him as he left a restaurant.

25.   Patterson goes to the woods, not so much to kill as to stalk.

26.   Police officers are twice as likely to kill themselves as to be killed by a criminal, according to the National Association of Police Chiefs in Miami.

27.   President Clinton has proposed that the tax benefits on the securities be removed, which would effectively kill them as a way for companies to raise money.

28.   Romines says the best deterrent is firecrackers, shot with an air rifle or starter pistol, though she will shoot to kill as a last resort.

29.   Ranchers kill them as pests that compete with cows and sheep for precious grazing land.

30.   She apparently had been killed as the result of jumping off a train.