1.   Police found at least a dozen spent shell casings around the van.

2.   And the children arrive every day because not even the sound of a bullet or the sight of fractured glass or spent shell casings have the power of ideas.

3.   Artillery flashes lit the hills south of Erbil, and spent shell casings fell like coins from a slot machine.

4.   A handgun and spent shells were found in his vehicle.

5.   A massive effort is underway to clear out wrecked equipment, spent shells, and filth from years of war and neglect.

6.   After washing blood from the garage and depositing the spent shells in the garbage, Tiede went home to shower.

7.   Employees of the Jensen-Smith company of Chattanooga, Tenn., shot the jeans and sold them with a spent shell.

8.   Every member of the platoon who was there Wednesday night now carries three spent shells from the battle in their olive-green combat vests.

9.   His own revolver held five spent shells, but his lawyers insisted the murder was committed by a fugitive third man, never located.

10.   Live ammunition was also found near the rifle, and authorities recovered spent shell casings earlier in at least three locations believed used by the snipers.