NYT-1201: STATE OF THE ART A Thermostat That's Clever, Not ...
NYT-1201: STATE OF THE ART A Thermostat That's Clever, Not ...
NYT-1201: STATE OF THE ART A Thermostat That's Clever, Not ...
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we are anyway, and we have been here for more than<br />
a day.”<br />
“That should tell you something,” he said.<br />
~~~~~~~~~~<br />
<strong>NYT</strong>-1210<br />
Tracing a Mother's Vagabond Path to Murder and Suic<br />
ide in Texas ... By MANNY FERNANDEZ<br />
Denied food stamps, Rachelle Grimmer, who had live<br />
d a wandering existence in recent months, took a h<br />
ostage at gunpoint at a social services office bef<br />
ore shooting her two children and herself.<br />
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LAREDO, Tex. — Months after being denied food stam<br />
ps, Rachelle Grimmer grabbed her two children, a .<br />
38-caliber revolver and 50 rounds of ammunition an<br />
d walked into the state social services office her<br />
e on Monday to demand answers.<br />
But Ms. Grimmer’s troubles were far deeper than a<br />
lack of food stamps, and neither the police nor th<br />
e employee she held hostage could resolve them.<br />
Divorced and living a vagabond existence in Texas<br />
in recent months, Ms. Grimmer, 38, told the police<br />
she was frustrated that she had been denied benef<br />
its in other states. She said that her former husb<br />
and was affiliated with the Russian mob and the Ku<br />
Klux Klan, a situation she said led to government<br />
harassment that prevented her from receiving publ<br />
ic assistance.<br />
Her hostage, Robert Reyes, a supervisor who had of<br />
fered himself in trade for two other employees Ms.<br />
Grimmer had taken hostage, granted her the food s<br />
tamp benefits she had requested — $3,050 worth, re<br />
troactive to July, the month she had first applied<br />
. The police slipped the paperwork under the door<br />
to show Ms. Grimmer it was for real. But she refus<br />
ed to leave the small office in the Texas Health a