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...allegedly admitted to police that he had stolen the pair of rubber gloves. As the officer questioned the suspect, a large crowd of students waiting for the 1:20 a.m. shuttle gathered, “preventing the shuttle bus from leaving,” according to Catalano. The Middlesex District Attorney’s Office was unavailable for comment yesterday. —Staff writer Robin M. Peguero contributed to the reporting of this article. —Staff writer Sam Teller can be reached at steller@fas.harvard.edu...
...Poor's found that family restaurants in the Midwest were hurting because people had decided to eat out less. There's a four-month wait for a Toyota Prius (60 mpg) in south Florida, and a Cadillac dealer was giving away $500 gas cards. A Rhea County school district in Tennessee cancelled classes for two days to save $4000 on fuel for the school buses. People in California talked about switching to motorcycles to get to work...
...Hundreds of tourists in town for conventions and vacations were unable to leave the city after Katrina. With widespread power outages and street flooding in the French Quarter and Central Business District, hotels quickly ran out of food and had to help evacuate guests or, in many cases, turn them out onto streets where anarchy had all but replaced the rule of law. New Orleans Police Superintendent Warren Riley said the city would request that 3,000 soldiers from the Louisiana National Guard be brought in as an evacuation commenced, both to prevent the widespread looting that happened after Katrina...
...estimated 70% to 90% of students at the predominantly Latino high schools did not show up for school, according to Ana Vargas, a Chicago public schools spokeswoman. In Los Angeles, some 72,000 students in 6th to 12th grades skipped classes, according to the Los Angeles Unified School District. Ulises Estrada, a 16-year-old student at South Dade High School in Homestead, Fla., said he joined a local march because he has been waiting for legalization since he was a year old - when his parents brought him over the border with them from Yucatan, Mexico. "I speak fluent English...
...single day's wages. Orlando Sandoval of Nicaragua did not attend the rally in Miami because he was afraid if he missed a day answering phones or packing fish at Signature Seafood, he would be fired. In Chicago, Manuel Escelante, a Honduran who works for the Chicago Park District, was busy cleaning the very park that the organizers were using as a rallying point. "I can't leave my job," he said. " I'm with them, my heart, but I have a job to do. I have to work...