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...very least, the 24-year-old Wilhite should be on a ventilator and in a wheelchair. Instead, only six months after the accident - which took the lives of Adenhart, Henry Pearson and Courtney Stewart - Wilhite walks, talks, lifts weights, jogs - and smiles. A catcher on the Cal State Fullerton teams that won the Division 1A College World Series in 2004 and reached the finals in 2006 and '07, Wilhite would like to play in the alumni game next year. Indeed, on Aug. 29, he threw out the first pitch at the Angels-Athletics game. Once...
...danger, Wilhite also suffered a brain injury called "brain shearing." While a concussion damages the part of the brain that strikes the side of the skull, Bhatia says brain shearing occurs when a powerful blow whiplashes nerve endings across the entire brain. At a charity game at Cal State Fullerton in July, the Wilhite family thanked the paramedics and doctors for saving Jon and offered their condolences and prayers to the Adenhart, Pearson and Stewart families. At the time, Wilhite spoke haltingly, walked stiffly and heavily favored his left side. "His personality was there," says his father, "but we were...
South of Los Angeles at California State University at Fullerton, Nicole Muth, 22, has just finished her junior year with straight A's. Muth grew up in Modesto with "lots of love but no money." Raised by her aunt and uncle, she receives a Cal Grant of $4,500 a year. "It definitely helps," says Muth, who credits the grant with allowing her to focus on her studies. As part of his proposed budget cuts, however, Schwarzenegger says Cal Grants should be phased out and that money promised to the incoming college class eliminated. "I appreciate the grant very much...
...makes his living humiliating people for entertainment. On top of that, he intentionally used his position as a judge at a beauty contest to sabotage a contestant's shot at the crown because she had the nerve to have her own opinion and, even worse, share it. Dave Avanzino, FULLERTON, CALIF...
...Greenville, S.C. Esther R. Reed—who sporadically attended Harvard between 2002 and 2005, according to the New York Post—was charged with stealing at least six identities and using such disguises to forge her way into the Extension School, Columbia, and California State University, Fullerton. A federal judge in Greenville characterized her as a scheming manipulative criminal, according to the Associated Press. Reed’s scam was unveiled in 2006 when she applied for a job in Manhattan, using the persona of Brooke Henson, a South Carolina woman reported missing since 1999. She was indicted...