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NEW BEDFORD -- She remembers lying on the front seat, numb with fear as the man zapped her with an electronic stun gun, then raped her twice.
She remembers praying she would survive, that the man who lured her to the car with promises of cash in exchange for sex would not kill her.
And she remembers wondering if anyone would believe her story, if the attacker would ever be brought to justice.
WAREHAM -- Wayne Sylvester sees skate-boarders and in-line skaters making use of town parking lots and streets when he patrols the town in his police cruiser.
Mr. Sylvester, a police officer and selectman, thinks it's about time the town set aside a safe, permanent place for the skaters.
Area delegates to the Democratic National Convention said yesterday their spirits hardly needed lifting, after a few days of celebrity-watching and soaking up the beauty of the city of Chicago.
But New Bedford native Elsie Souza and Mark Sullivan of Fall River said they were inspired by their political idols' speeches Tuesday night, and routinely seeing so many media and party celebrities up-close.
NEW BEDFORD -- Eyes welling with tears, Janice C. Pike stared across the courtroom yesterday at the man accused of stabbing her daughter and grandson to death.
"I wanted to yell, I wanted to scream at him," Mrs. Pike said. "I wanted to yell how much pain he caused. All I could do was sit there."
DARTMOUTH -- A jugful of folks have volunteered to serve on a committee to study how to make the town the "Napa Valley of Massachusetts," according to Executive Administrator Michael Gagne.
"I'm just amazed at the response," said Mr. Gagne. "I've had at least a half dozen send me letters and probably another half dozen call me."
By Susan Pawlak-Seaman, and Robert Haddocks
Standard-Times staff writers
NEW BEDFORD -- For the first time in its 110-year history, the New Bedford Day Nursery -- one of the nation's oldest day care centers -- will not be opening its doors this fall.
The decision to temporarily close the 1060 Cove Road nursery, which has long served preschoolers from Dartmouth, Fairhaven and New Bedford, was announced yesterday by South Dartmouth resident Jackie Beckmann, president of the nursery's board of directors.
Citing declining enrollment in recent years and the changing face of day care, Mrs. Beckmann said officials of the nursery felt the time was right to take a step back and reassess what is being done there.
WESTPORT -- Police Lt. William White has been named officer in charge of the department after selectmen learned Chief Charles A. Pierce will resign Saturday.
Selectmen held a special meeting last week to name the lieutenant after receiving the chief's letter.
The chief was expected to resign on Sept. 15 but notified the board by letter that his retirement would take effect Aug. 31.
How many people does it take to change a light bulb in the city of New Bedford?
Fifty-one.
By John King, Associated Press writer
CHICAGO -- Democrats were nominating President Clinton for a second term last night as Al Gore rallied convention delegates by casting the party's youthful ticket as America's "bridge to the future." The vice president portrayed Republican challenger Bob Dole as a good man with bad ideas.
"An America not just better off, but better," was Mr. Gore's description of President Clinton's first-term legacy.
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon acknowledged yesterday that it knew as far back as November 1991 that chemical weapons had been stored at an Iraqi ammunition depot that U.S. troops had demolished just months earlier.
The Pentagon and other government agencies aware of the presence of chemical weapons at the Kamisiyah ammunition storage facility did not realize in 1991, however, that American troops had been there, spokesman Capt. Michael Doubleday said.
So a November 1991 intelligence report indicating the presence of chemical shells at Kamisiyah -- including one described as leaking -- essentially was filed away and forgotten even as the U.S. government continued to deny it had any evidence that large numbers of troops might have been exposed to chemical weapons.
The estimated 150 U.S. troops who blew up Iraqi shells at Kamisiyah in March 1991, shortly after the conclusion of the Persian Gulf War, did not know they included chemical arms.
Capt. Doubleday denied that the Pentagon had deliberately kept the troops in the dark.
CHICAGO -- Democrats formally nominated President Clinton for a second term last night, presenting him as a young, bold and optimistic visionary -- a bridge to America's next century.
Vice President Al Gore and Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut, in hard-hitting speeches preceding the anticlimactic roll-call vote of the states, outlined "the profound differences" between President Clinton and his Republican opponent, Bob Dole.
Photo by The Associated Press
BOSTON -- You won't have to travel to Rhode Island or New Hampshire anymore for a regular chance at a huge lottery jackpot.
Tickets go on sale Saturday in Massachusetts for the first drawing of "The Big Game," a new six-state weekly lottery that could offer average jackpots of about $50 million. The first jackpot is estimated at about $6 million.
By The Associated Press
LOWELL -- Eleven people, including a city code inspector, have been charged with operating a drug ring that sold cocaine to undercover agents.
The arrests yesterday came during an early morning drug bust described as one of the city's biggest ever and followed a two-year investigation by city, state and federal officials.
Agents said they had seized several kilograms of cocaine, $200,000 in cash, 11 cars, two houses and two boats.
By Carolyn Thompson, Associated Press writer
BOSTON -- There he was. Cradled in the arms of a nurse named Joan, his tiny face toward the camera. The caption said the abandoned newborn's name was "Timmy," but Bill Swaney knew he was looking at himself.
Mr. Swaney, 29, had taken a seat at a microfilm machine at the Boston Public Library in search of the solution to the biggest puzzle of his life: Who is he?
NEW YORK -- With IBM rising on the strength of an analysts' recommendation, the Dow Jones industrials squeaked into positive territory yesterday, ending a quiet session of low-volume activity.
The Dow Jones industrial average ended up 1.11 at 5712.38 at the closing bell. Advancing issues narrowly led decliners by 11 to 9 on the New York Stock Exchange.
By Robert Lovinger, Standard-Times staff writer
The roar you hear this Sunday afternoon will be upwards of 1,000 motorcyclists rumbling into New Bedford to put their own spin on the First Lady's maxim: It takes a village.
In their second annual Ride for Life, the Westport chapter of the national Harley Owners Group (HOG) expects to attract riders from around New England.
But there they are, the staff and volunteers of one of the state's premier nature areas, open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.
I despise political correctness.
I abhor terms like second baseperson or vertically challenged.
And if you're one of those patronizing, pursed-lip do-gooders who embrace the appellation Native Americans, I have three words for you: Bering Land Bridge. There are no Native Americans.
That said, I have one thing to add about the controversy surrounding Bill Parcells referring to first-round draft pick Terry Glenn as "she" ...
... Parcells was absolutely wrong.
By Barry Wilner, Associated Press writer
The question doesn't seem to be whether the Pack is back. It is just how far behind the Pack the rest of the, uh, pack in the NFC Central will be.
And remember, we're not talking about a group of weaklings here. This is the best division in football.
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Roger Clemens rewrote Red Sox history Tuesday night at Anaheim Stadium.
And he had a chance to add a second chapter, but the Rocket put the team ahead of his individual records in the Sox' 2-1 win over the California Angels.
When Clemens registered the first out in the sixth inning, he moved past Cy Young in innings pitched for Boston. Young had worked in 2,7281-3 innings for the Sox from 1901 through 1908. Clemens is in his 12th full season.
By Steve Wilstein, Associated Press writer
NEW YORK -- Stuck with a day of awful matches, fans at the U.S. Open should have gotten a money-back guarantee, a rain check good despite a sunny afternoon, a free lunch or at least a prize in the $6 French fries.
Most of the 20,685 fans sensibly stayed out of the stadium yesterday and wandered the back courts to get close-up looks at players, even if they didn't know who they were.
This was a day when a $20 grounds pass was a lot more valuable than a $225 courtside seat in the stadium.
The headline in The Standard-Times, "Speaker: Weld fails casino," may sound sensational, but it hardly fits either the story as reported or the truth. It is rather a convenient cover for the fumbling and bumbling that occurred in the House in this session past.
The interview of Speaker Finneran is much like asking the fox who ate the chicken. "Not I," says the fox with the feathers falling from his lips. Most of this session was devoted to the power struggle for the coveted job of speaker, which ultimately fell to Rep. Finneran. Perhaps a review of the last year's business regarding the Legislature and the Wampanoag project is in order.
If you break your leg on the stairs and your health maintenance organization pays for the treatment, it will cost roughly half as much as it will if you break it in a car accident and your auto insurance pays.
Not many people give much thought that we have two parallel health care payment systems in this state, one that is very cost-conscious, and another, driven by litigation, where there are built-in incentives to drive up the bills.
By Joanna McQuillan Weeks, Assistant features editor
How many times have you let an annual festival or a special art exhibition slide by, procrastinating until it's too late to go? You might console yourself by vowing, "I'll go next year," or "I'll make it to Boston for the next Gauguin show."
That scenario fit me to a T when King Richard's Faire, the Renaissance festival, magically appeared in the South Carver forest, like an enchanted Brigadoon that lives for eight weekends instead of one day.
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