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Also on March 1, a cab driver from Somerville told police that he drove two women to a Cambridge destination. When they arrived, the women told the driver that they would bring him his fare. They never returned. However, one of the suspects left her purse-containing her wallet and identification-in the back of the cab. Police are searching for the suspects. March...
...punishment, it's this one. King and two friends were driving a 1982 Ford pickup in the early-morning hours last June. They spotted Byrd, 49, an unemployed vacuum-cleaner salesman, walking home from a party on a lonely stretch of Highway 96 and offered him a ride. They drove him to a deserted corner of the backwoods and, after a struggle, chained him to the truck by his ankles. Then they dragged him for three miles along a rural road outside Jasper. Byrd was alive for the first two miles, a pathologist testified at trial, and deliberately twisted...
...seems to define the high society of its day as fully as Felix Nadar's photographs recorded the artistic elites of the 1850s and '60s. Ingres loved doing portraits--and hated it. It was both hackwork and the vehicle of some of his highest instincts as an artist. It drove him crazy: "I don't know how to draw anymore," this greatest of 19th century draftsmen moaned to a friend. "I don't know anything anymore. A portrait of a woman! Nothing in the world is more difficult; it's not doable. I'm starting it over. It's enough...
...stared at a stranger's face, and not looked away as black men were supposed to do. Carolyn Bryant told her husband Roy about it. And Roy Bryant and his brother J.W. Milam seized Emmett from the home of his great-uncle in the middle of the night, drove off and proceeded to bludgeon and, finally, shoot him. Then they threw him into the river...
...Sprague and his wife Esther Sparks found the place a few years ago, while enduring a miserable Midwestern winter, after Sprague read that author John Grisham considered his hometown of Oxford a paradise on earth. "As soon as the ice-storm was over, I got in my car and drove south to Oxford and checked into a Holiday Inn," Philip says. "The moment I got into town, I said, 'Oh, my God. This is a movie...