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DARTMOUTH -- A state trooper accused of shooting at an unarmed suspect who fled from a routine traffic violation remains on active patrol more than a year after the incident.
Trooper David J. LeMar told his superiors his weapon discharged at least five times as the suspect repeatedly struggled to take it away from him during a protracted chase Oct. 7, 1997, through a crowded North End neighborhood.
But a state police investigator doubted the trooper's story.
The promised crispness of the holiday weekend already had deteriorated into somber sogginess by the time the teen-ager climbed into the blue Chevrolet at about 4:30 p.m. last Saturday.
He barely knew the two young men who offered him a ride, somewhere in the South End of New Bedford.
One was the brother of the woman he loved. He had met the brother once.
For the past nine months, most of the political battles for the 3rd Congressional seat have been fought at the other end of the 34-community district -- in Worcester.
But that does not mean the SouthCoast will not be a crucial battleground in the race between incumbent Democrat James McGovern and Republican challenger Matt Amorello. In fact, it may be the most crucial field in the contest.
Hank Seaman
It is Christmas Eve, 1953.
You are four years old, and you and your mother and sister have just gotten off a flight from the Azores to reunite with the father who has preceded you. And although no one in your family speaks English, save for the few words your father has picked up, you are in this country, as are so many other families, searching for the fabled streets of gold.
Quite simply, you are here to find the American dream.
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Dick White
Guess who went and got himself in a very embarrassing situation over America's latest, greatest No.1 hit show, "I Love the Internet"?
And to paraphrase Ricky Ricardo: Dickie, you got a lot of 'splaaaainin' to do.
On Thursday, I ran a column based on an inspirational story written by a Catholic school teacher, Sister Helen P. Mrosla, which was sent to me via the Internet by a local reader.
It seemed like a great idea at the time.
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WASHINGTON -- Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr is using a federal grand jury in Virginia to investigate the activities of a prominent land developer and Democratic fund-raiser who had contacts with presidential accuser Kathleen Willey, legal sources say.
Starr's prosecutors are looking into whether Nate Landow tried to influence or discourage Mrs. Willey's testimony against the president. They also have been reviewing his involvement in a land controversy that was a subject of Senate hearings into alleged campaign fund-raising abuses, the sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Friday.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The Titanic lies 21/2 miles beneath the waves; more people have gone into space than have dived this deep. One who has is AP national writer Helen O'Neill, who covered the first tourist dive to the wreck in September. This is her report.
By Helen O'Neill, Associated Press writer
AT THE BOTTOM OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC -- In the deepest black of the ocean, the tiny egg-shaped craft glides toward the wreck like a curious spaceship from another world.
Up the enormous hull it climbs, over the mangled decks. Hovering by the hole that was once the grand staircase it pauses just long enough for passengers to glimpse a chandelier. Then it's off again, flying by cabins and capstans, plunging past rivers of rust, skirting the jagged overhangs by the promenade deck where the rich and famous once strolled.
Squashed beside a pilot in the 7-foot cockpit of a 26-foot submarine, the two tourists gasp.
Titanic.
LONDON -- Former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet, whose 17-year rule was marked by human rights abuses and a climate of fear, was under arrest yesterday in the deaths, detention and torture of Spanish citizens.
Responding to a Spanish extradition warrant, British police arrested Pinochet on Friday for questioning about allegations that he murdered an unidentified number of Spaniards in Chile between Sept. 11, 1973, when he and other military leaders seized power, and Dec. 31, 1983.
WASHINGTON -- Just over two weeks from Election Day, Republicans are retreating from their hope that the White House scandal will drive huge gains for their party, while some newly confident Democrats now are daring to predict that they will even pick up congressional seats this year.
As a volatile election season enters its final stretch, strategists in both parties said this week that the environment for candidates seems to have returned to that of January, before the scandal broke: Most incumbents are still widely favored to win, and there are no overarching issues playing to one party's advantage.
By Todd Lewan and Steven K. Paulson,
Associated Press Writers
LARAMIE, Wyo. -- Matthew Shepard went to high school in Switzerland. He spoke three languages and had traveled the world. He was raised in a close, loving family made comfortable by his father's job in a multinational oil company. At the University of Wyoming, he was studying political science.
Aaron McKinney and his friend, Russell Henderson, came from the poor side of town. Both were from broken homes and as teen-agers had had run-ins with the law. They lived in trailer parks and scratched out a living working at fast-food restaurants and fixing roofs.
Cam Lyman's reclusive, eccentric life, which ended in murder and a decade of mystery, will be put to rest in a simple poplar box.
It's not the farewell that the cross-dressing heiress requested in her will -- she imagined her ashes dancing in the wind high above New York City. But it's a graceful exit; one that her sister is sure Cam would accept.
BOSTON -- Disabled civil servants may be able to get their old jobs back if a medical panel deems them fit, the Supreme Judicial Court has ruled.
The court on Friday reinstated Edward White, 53, a former Boston police officer who suffered a herniated disc in 1981. He has been fighting to get his job back since 1993.
By Ted Anthony, Associated Press writer
WALPOLE, N.H. – End to end, arranged carefully upon banquet tables, they crowded the second floor of the Walpole fire hall: thousands upon thousands of items, the stuff of people's lives.
Cameras and jewelry. Guns and rare coins. Autographed balls, cordless drills, porn videos, fishing rods, teapots, even women's underwear. It looked like a flea market. But the rummage cleared out of Jake Hunter's cellar didn't belong to him; it came from scores of homes up and down western New Hampshire. He stole it, and he hid it all away.
SALEM -- A small firestorm is brewing in this North Shore community, world famous for its centuries-old history of witch trials.
Now, modern-day practitioners of Wicca -- the pre-Christian, back-to-nature religion witches follow -- are outraged over a political ad in which Gov. Paul Cellucci pokes fun at a prosecutor who once took up their cause.
That prosecutor is state Attorney General Scott Harshbarger, a Democrat running against Cellucci for governor.
Recent events at Quaker Fabrics of Fall River illustrate the complexity of evaluating the fundamental strengths and weaknesses of a company whose stock is being considered for purchase. In the case of this leading manufacturer of upholstery textiles, the underlying business and the stock price have recently been on the kind of roller-coaster ride that leaves many reaching for the "Pepto-Dismal."
HARWICH -- The 600-pound Atlantic bluefin tuna looks like a beauty, splayed majestically across the dock near the sloshy rubber boots of tuna broker Andy Baler, who bends toward it with his rusty blade. "Yaaaaaki," he says, as he cuts a chunk from the tail, his accent flattening the first vowel. The word is Japanese for "burned," meaning that the fish fought too hard, the fisherman struggled too hard and now the flesh is tough and chewy and won't fetch top dollar as sushi in Tokyo.
By Ann Archambault, Standard-Times correspondent
WAREHAM -- Although their five children are grown up and gone, Patricia and William Reynolds haven't got an empty nest. Four years ago they bought a large home on South Boulevard in Onset and turned it into a bed and breakfast, now known as The Reynolds House.
Living the empty nest life was just a little too easy and boring, Mrs. Reynolds said. The couple came upon the 100-plus-year-old Victorian house during a Sunday drive and had an agent show it to them. The house tops a bluff overlooking the Onset Pier and harbor, and now it's the Reynolds' home as well as a commercial enterprise.
BOSTON -- Sending clear signals they are determined to be taken seriously, today's high school and college women say they're willing to work long, hard hours in their future careers but in exchange they want challenging and stimulating work with plenty of potential for advancement.
High salaries are not a key motivating factor for these young women interviewed in a survey sponsored by Simmons College. They say money is a concern only to the extent it can eliminate some stress and worry from their lives.
By Robert Lovinger, Standard-Times staff writer
There is a box of tissues in every room at The Oncology Center in North Dartmouth.
People come here with cancer. Many survive, some succumb. Along the way, nearly all will face their mortality and an often surprisingly deep well of emotion.
The tissues are for tears. The tears are for cleansing.
By The Associated Press
Forget Naugahyde and mismatched megawatt plaids. For ugly couches, you can't go wrong with balding green velour.
ElmaJean Donnelly of New Castle, Pa., walked away with $2,000 and a new slipcover after learning that by popular vote, her vintage velour model had been named the ugliest couch in America.
NEW BEDFORD -- Brother against brother. Cousin against cousin. The Civil War, you say? No, no, New Bedford High vs. Greater New Bedford Voc-Tech in boys' soccer.
The two local powers clashed at a chilly Walsh Field last night, with the Bears striking early and then withstanding a furious comeback bid by the Whalers to claim bragging rights for a year with the 2-1 triumph.
By Thomas George, New York Times News Service
When New England trampled Kansas City by 40-10 last week, the Patriots gained the bonus of an orderly setting for the undesirable Jets Monday night.
Although many in New England still admire Coach Bill Parcells, that is how plenty of others there feel about Parcells and his Jets. Undesirables. The Patriots would like to smack both by a score of, oh, 80-10.
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By Ben Walker, Associated Press writer
NEW YORK -- All is forgiven.
Tino Martinez hit a grand slam and Chuck Knoblauch hit a three-run homer in a seven-run seventh Saturday night that rescued the New York Yankees, giving them a 9-6 victory over the San Diego Padres in Game 1 of the World Series.
Knoblauch and Martinez, infamous for the blown bunt that cost them Game 2 of the AL championship series against Cleveland, surely redeemed themselves this time.
DARTMOUTH -- Everything went UMass Dartmouth's way in its first five games, but the Corsairs got a dose of reality yesterday in a hard-fought 28-21 New England Football Conference win over Nichols College.
Steve Urbon
I may be mistaken, but I believe it was the late Chicago columnist Mike Royko who said that he never met a politician he didn't like -- and as a result he never trusted any of them. I know how he feels, because in the case of newspaper people, election time is when we get a steady parade of new suits coming through the door for interviews with the editorial board of the newspaper. Naturally, they come looking for a nice write-up, to get to know people here and what concerns us, and maybe to snag that last-minute endorsement.
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WESTPORT The media always seem to function in a manner that the latest tragedy -- man-made or otherwise -- gets the most notice and concern, but of course the media reflects society. We go along day by day, perhaps not assuming that everything is running smoothly, but we cautiously assume that "it's 10 o'clock and all is well." When we are forced to observe that there is a disruption, that "the time is out of joint," we often act with dismay or shock.
It comes as no surprise in Massachusetts to hear that John Hume's efforts on behalf of sanity in Northern Ireland have won him a share of the Nobel Prize for peace with Protestant leader David Trimble.
Massachusetts for more than 20 years now has been a home away from home for Mr. Hume, a tireless worker in behalf a peace process that until recently seemed illusory and futile.
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Teachers, elementary and secondary students, and now college freshmen -- all over Massachusetts, all kinds of folks are being put to the test.
With hard questions about the quality of our schools and the people who work and study in them, educators are on the lookout for ways to improve how and what kids learn.
The latest addition is a test that will assess freshmen entering the commonwealth's state colleges and universities. Starting in the fall of 1999, those students will have to meet specific basic standards in reading, writing and mathematics.
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By Terry Atkinson, Entertainment News Service
Don't look now, but there's a Doris Day revival going on. On second thought, do look now. More importantly, listen now.
A growing number of CD reissues and collections are helping people discover that Day was more than that platinum-blonde "eternal virgin" character in all those fluffy '50s and '60s film comedies.
By James Verniere, Entertainment News Service
Glittering prizes have always been an aphrodisiac in Hollywood. This is evident not only on Oscar night, but also in the long-term relationship between the movies and the Pulitzer Prize, a relationship evident today in two new films, Universal's "One True Thing" and Touchstone's "Beloved."
By Ted Anthony, Associated Press writer
No one would claim that the past few years have not been bad ones for semi-best-selling author Mike Noonan.
His beloved wife, Jo, went out to run some errands at the Rite Aid, collapsed on the street and died for no apparent reason. He hasn't been able to write since; he sits at his computer and his body goes haywire.
And now -- well, now he's being drawn by strange forces toward the lakeside cabin he and Jo once shared. And if possession is nine-tenths of the law, this little cottage is well on its way to being a veritable county courthouse.
By Matt Wolf, Associated Press writer
LONDON -- With the regularity of the seasons, the English theater is heading to New York, where no spate of shows is complete on Broadway or off without a heavy lineup of Britons.
Matthew Bourne's London-born (and mostly male) "Swan Lake" is already up and dancing on Broadway, and New York is expected to receive as many as a dozen recent English or Irish hits over the coming months.
By Michael Fleeman, Associated Press writer
For special effects, two new films did not need to turn to computer-animated bugs, flying space rocks or battleground explosions. Realism served just fine.
"Slam," the story of an inner-city poet who is jailed on a minor drug charge, and "The Celebration," about a Danish family's awful secrets, both achieve a compelling look by abandoning movie conventions and using documentary-style techniques. Both opened in limited release last week.
Among the fabulous flowering houseplants that are well adapted to modern American houses, the African violet reigns No. 1 as the nation's most popular flowering plant.
The popularity is justified for several reasons. It's readily propagated, and the only potted plant that blooms year-round in the house!
There is nothing carved in stone about the position of interior walls in your home. These partitions were built where they are either to perform some structural duties that would have been too costly to accomplish another way or to suit the interior design fashions of the day. But, as times change, tastes also change, and building methods change, too. What was considered convenient and attractive in the 1950s -- to say nothing of the 1850s -- is often cumbersome when matched with present-day lifestyles.
By Ingrid Sundstrom, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
I've got an 8-foot chain-link fence enveloped this summer by a mad assortment of living things. It's as green -- and red, pink, blue and yellow -- as can be.
Here's the deal: I've chopped out most of the Virginia creeper that wants to take over the fence, the driveway and our neighbors' garage. But of course, some still managed to survive. In the cleared area this spring, I planted annual scarlet runner beans, which took off in mid-May and have overrun the fence in a war with the creeper.
Women have been pumping their own gas, unjamming the office copier and installing their own computer software for quite a while. Now, it's time to move on to the next frontier -- fix-it projects around the house.
"Women actually can be quite good at home repairs," says Karen Dale Dustman. "We are patient, detail oriented and willing to ask for help when we need it. What we lack is practice. Fathers ask their sons, not their daughters, to hand them the tools."
By Marilyn F. Winey
Have you ever seen an "Ornithopter" ca 1907? You know, the "flying machine" that attempts to imitate birds' flight by using flapping, turkey feather-covered wings.
No ... well, what about the 1913 Etrich Taube? It's dove-like wings modeled after the Zanonia tree's seed-pod would ring a bell, if you had.
By Carl Manning, Associated Press writer
Every Kansas town seems to have a story to tell. But few are more fascinating than the tale of John Milburn Davis and the massive marble memorial he built to Sarah, his wife of 50 years, in Hiawatha.
The childless couple farmed nearby for years before moving into town in 1915. Then, in the middle of the Depression, Davis angered many residents by spending a fortune to memorialize his wife, who died in 1930.
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