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...S.U.V. driving on Memorial Drive knocked over a light pole and flipped over onto the grass in front of Leverett House at around 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday as it swerved to avoid an oncoming car, police said. The driver escaped with only minor injuries. A Massachusetts state trooper, Daniel Grants, said the driver, whose name was not released, was forced to swerve off the road when another vehicle, coming from DeWolfe Street, ran through a red light and sped off onto Memorial Drive. Grants said that because the incident happened so fast, the driver of the S.U.V. was unable...
...S.U.V. driving on Memorial Drive knocked over a lamppost and flipped over onto the grass in front of Leverett House at around 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday as it swerved to avoid an oncoming car, police said. The driver escaped with only minor injuries...
...selection of Thomas Shannon as the new Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs is widely regarded as a positive step, since Shannon, as a career diplomat, is less polarizing. Even Shannon's staunch anti-left predecessor, Roger Noriega, concedes that U.S. officials now "will be trying to avoid confrontation" with Bolivia's Morales. They don't have to sit down and chew coca with him, but maybe they could all share some Coca-Cola...
...lose less than .01 inch in altitude and reach the motel balcony with 2,370 pounds of knockdown power--enough to drop a rhinoceros. However, the odd angle of an occluding building next door meant the convict could fire the long rifle only by leaning out his window. To avoid that, he must wait until he sighted his target from the room, then run with the rifle down the hallway to the common bathroom, find it unoccupied, and hope King stayed long enough on the balcony to get a clear shot from a rear window above the bathtub...
...DIED. VINCENT (CHIN) GIGANTE, 77, Mafia boss who feigned mental illness for decades to avoid jail; in prison in Springfield, Missouri, on Dec. 19. The empire of the pompadoured head of New York's Genovese crime family once ranged from Little Italy's street fairs to Miami's shipping docks. The "Oddfather" sometimes wandered about Greenwich Village in a tattered bathrobe muttering incoherently, and was once discovered naked in the shower holding an umbrella by federal agents delivering a subpoena. The ex-boxer was convicted in 1997 on racketeering charges. He later admitted his deception...