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...group of local police officers who allegedly raided a dorm party to crack down on drinking by underaged students may face charges of assault...
...Vernon, N.Y., was lying awake on his bed on the fourth floor when the bomb went off. He blacked out; when he revived, he found himself pinned under a jumble of concrete. After his cries for help went unheeded, he grabbed a wire and painfully pulled himself through a crack in the rubble. While Balcolm was being treated at a makeshift hospital, however, his dog tags were found in the wreckage. He was declared dead, and his relatives were notified. Balcolm did not learn about the mix-up until he called his brother the next day. Said Balcolm: "My mother...
...passed out and came to in the back of a truck." Ways of escape could be serendipitous as well as terrifying. Lance Corporal Adam Webb, 20, of Jacobsburg, Ohio, one of four guards on the roof, glimpsed the speeding truck as it disappeared below him. Webb felt the roof crack, then rode it down the four stories to the ground. Sliding off the concrete slab just before it crashed, the stunned Marine wound up sitting upright in a Jeep parked near...
...because of neglect, that one tiny crack has grown into a major headache for Harvard, as many of those so-called "fins" crucial to holding up the building have started to crumble...
Twelve years ago, a Harvard maintenance worker was doing routine work in Holyoke Center, when he noticed a small crack in one of the concrete slabs that supports the outside walls of the building...