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Godley took off, back to North Carolina and would probably still be on the run were it not for the persistence of one man: Sergeant Ron Smith of the Pitt County sheriff's department in Greenville, N.C. Smith had tried to arrest Godley on robbery charges a year before, but Godley had jumped out of his mobile home, kicking one of Smith's deputies in the head, before disappearing into the woods. "The Weasel--that's what we call him here, because he keeps escaping," says Smith. "In 20 years of service, he is one of the meanest...
...report that Ted Turner is trying, in a personal capacity, to buy into the embattled Russian independent media corporation Media Most. Critical coverage of the Russian government has made the company a prime target of President Vladimir Putin, and its chairman, Vladimir Gusinsky, is currently under house arrest in Spain awaiting extradition...
...state was applying all sorts of pressures on Media Most - and shortly after the deal was signed, Gazprom indicated it would withdraw. And then the government issued the order to arrest Gusinsky...
...charged with negligent operation of a motor vehicle, failure to stop for a police officer, resisting arrest and assault and battery of a police officer. He had originally been charged with armed assault with intent to murder, but that charge was later reduced to assault and battery of a police officer...
...President's White House reception for the Packers honoring their Super Bowl victory. "I knew it all along," Chmura said later, as the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke. "It doesn't really say much for society and the morals [Bill Clinton] sets forth for our children." Just days before his arrest, Chmura had welcomed the fact that four Packers charged with relatively minor crimes--marijuana possession and obstruction of justice--would not be returning to the team under tough new head coach Mike Sherman...