EAST HARTFORD, CT -- "A clothing store owner was shot in the lower back during an armed robbery attempt and one of two suspects, 26-year-old Jashar Haslam of Hartford was killed in the subsequent exchange of fire, according to police." --MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH...
-- "Fourteen-year-old Jake Currie in Nanaimo, B.C., is being hailed as a hero by his family after a would-be robber entered their business. 'I hit him with the bat; he lost his knife and backed up a bit,' Currie says." --
