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Richard J. Sharpe was found hanging from a bedsheet in his cell in MCI-Norfolk prison, according to Diane Wiffin, a spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Department of Correction. He had been sentenced to life in prison in 2001 for shooting his wife—and high school sweetheart—Karen Sharpe in 2000 in the foyer of her home while their two young children slept in an adjoining room, according to media reports...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Convicted Cross-Dressing Murderer Commits Suicide | 1/9/2009 | See Source »

...developed tinnitus and hearing loss in his right ear after playing golf three days a week for 18 months with a thin-faced titanium driver, the King Cobra LD. After ruling out age-induced hearing loss and damage from exposure to other loud noises, the patient's doctors at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital in eastern England decided to test his golf club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golfer's Ear: Can Big Drives Hurt Your Hearing? | 1/5/2009 | See Source »

Dissection, that formaldehyde-infused rite of passage for biology students everywhere, has a new and very committed opponent. This fall, Jennifer Thornburg, 19, changed her name to CutoutDissection.com which is also a protest site maintained by PETA, where she is an intern. BONNIE ROCHMAN asked the Norfolk, Va., resident about championing her cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hi, How Are You? My Name Is Cutout Dissection.com | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...billion warship stalled for two days in August. That's when the stern gate of the U.S.S. San Antonio - needed to roll vehicles onto and off the nearly 700-ft. vessel - wouldn't work. The Navy eventually got the gate fixed in time for the ship to leave Norfolk and sail to the Persian Gulf, where its mission is to hunt down smugglers. But now the San Antonio has been forced into port in Bahrain for at least two weeks of repairs to leaks in the hefty pipes feeding fuel to two of its four engines. Hinting at the seriousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Navy's Floating Fiasco | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...these developments pain the family of Michelle Moore-Bosko. For their part, they do not believe the men invented their involvement under duress. For the family, every new press release about the Norfolk Four reopens old wounds. "Let my poor baby rest," her father, John Moore, told the Washington Post on Monday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Disturbing Case of the Norfolk Four | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

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