| Motorist killed by flying pizzeria rooftop
Forbes: A powerful wind gust blew off a section of a Castlewood, Va., pizzeria rooftop, killing a passing motorist when it slammed into his car. Michael Brandon Hess, 19, was traveling on Route 58 Tuesday evening when the roof and possibly remnants of an air conditioning unit landed on his Ford Mustang, police said. .
Students can now carry plastic for purchases at Severn School
There are 585 students in grades six through 12 at Severn, an independent private college-preparatory day school in Severna Park. Since the beginning of February, about 80 students have enrolled in the card program. which is optional, Mrs. Pinnix Fish said. The card bears the student's name, identification number, photo and a bar code. It can be clipped to a lanyard. Currently, a separate photo identification card is given to all students. Mrs. Pinnix Fish said she loves the new system. "We're the first school in the area to offer this service in our cafeteria and bookstore," she said. "From a control standpoint, it's a good thing not to be carrying cash. It's a service we can offer to our students and their families." The program was not cheap.
Crims' jail time trimmed
SERIOUS criminal offenders will receive shorter jail sentences because of record prison overcrowding, a judge has warned. District Court Judge Marie Shaw said jail terms were being reduced in Britain because of similar problems with prison overcrowding, sparking a political storm last night. "In England, what's happening with overcrowding is that the Court of Appeal has handed down a decision that means that, because there isn't suitable housing for prisoners, prisoners get shorter sentences and are being released," Judge Shaw said. She made her remarks on Monday during a bail hearing for a convicted sex offender who had spent almost four weeks in the City Watchhouse in conditions described by his lawyer as "inhumane". The Advertiser previously has reported how the Department for Correctional Services has used the facility since February to hold up to 37 male and female remand prisoners because the state's prisons were full.
Peterson a full-time Dirtbag
He played in the prestigious Cape Cod League and earned all-league honors, leading the league in hits, 52, in 42 games while hitting .338 with a .436 on-base percentage. "I pretty much took what I finished with (at Long Beach) and carried it into the summer," he said. "All I did was play first base and right field. The first half of the summer, I had a lot of extra-base hits. "I lifted more in the off-season and I feel a lot stronger and more capable of driving the ball into the gaps." Peterson had some prodigious swings last season, coming close twice to putting a ball over the center-field fence at Blair in a night game. At 400-feet away, with a persistent breeze to left and in the thick marine night air, that's an achievement as rare as a triple play. At 6-0 and 200, he may always be more of a hit machine than a pure home run hitter.
Review: 'Wishful Drinking' Fisher's tell-all
It isn't every solo show that can boast a supporting cast that includes Debbie Reynolds, Eddie Fisher, George Lucas (all seated in the audience) and Paul Simon (on tape). Carrie Fisher's does. Or did, at least - so help me, Obi Wan Kenobi - Tuesday when her "Wishful Drinking" opened at Berkeley Rep's Roda Theatre. And that's not all. The cast of characters in her autobiographical tale also features Elizabeth Taylor, Mike Todd, Connie Stevens, Sherlock Holmes and a Wookiee. Welcome to the curious world of tabloid theater. Fisher (Carrie), daughter of crooner Fisher (Eddie) and movie star Reynolds, former stepdaughter of Taylor, Stevens and a host of others (on both sides), ex-wife of Simon and eternal Princess Leia, is just telling her life story - as honestly, sardonically, fetchingly, caustically and comically as she can.
Illegal Alien Advocates Ignore the Real Problem
Two United States Catholic bishops have written to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, asking the agency to adopt policies aimed at assisting families and communities affected by immigration raids. Normally I do not engage in discussions relating to religion, but this issue should be important for all Americans, regardless of their religious orientation. I recently testified before the Indiana State Senate about a bill (SB 335) that would enable the state of Indiana to revoke the business license of any business that repeatedly hires illegal aliens, and provides other measures to enable that state to do the job the federal government won't do where immigration is concerned. During the hearing, I listened to a representative of the Catholic Church talk about the need to honor the dignity of the "undocumented immigrants." For the Catholic Church to take a stand on an issue that has such extreme implications for national security is outrageous. What is also outrageous is the fact that while the Church decries the lack of dignity that the arrest of illegal aliens represents (in the Church's judgment), why is the Church conspicuously absent at those factories and other work sites where illegal aliens are horribly treated? Why is the Church not showing up to protest the terrible conditions under which illegal aliens often live and work? During my long career at the former INS, I found (on many occasions) illegal aliens living in abject squalor.
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