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WEST BOYLSTON--Family, friends and fellow college coaches yesterday mourned the death of Holy Cross football coach Rick Carter, who was found dead of what officials say was a suicide hanging...
West Boylston Police Chief Robert Barton said in a prepared statement that Carter was found dead in his home at 8:14 a.m. by his son, Nick, a 21-year-old Holy Cross student...
Lord Are, the powdered and primping heir to a 600-year-old title, hurtles around the dining room of his country estate, ablaze with rage and grief. He does not mind that his giddy young wife lies dead on the floor, accidentally slain by him as she prankishly impersonated a ghost. What really inflames him is that the breakfast toast has gone cold. In a ranting fury he rings for a servant and, almost as an afterthought, gulls the hapless lackey into believing himself responsible for the killing. Then, confident of his escape and frugal to the last, Lord...
...were hacked and bludgeoned to death by a crowd of about 500 blacks when they tried to break up an unauthorized union meeting near Westonaria, a gold-mining complex 25 miles west of Johannesburg. Official reports said a shoot-out occurred between police reinforcements and blacks who grabbed the dead officers' weapons. Seven blacks were killed and at least 40 others wounded in the melee. The violence marked the first time that white police officers have been killed since the current wave of nationwide unrest began 16 months...
...scene was numbingly familiar. A 550-lb. car bomb exploded in a crowded commercial section of Christian East Beirut, setting eight buildings ablaze and gouging out a 9-ft. crater in the street. The toll: 30 dead, l33 injured...