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...Diane Elsroth, 23, complained of feeling ill. Her solicitous companion, Michael Notarnicola, also 23, brought her two capsules of Extra-Strength Tylenol from what he said was a previously unopened bottle purchased a week earlier by his mother. Twelve hours later, the stenographer, daughter of a New York State trooper, was found dead of what was later diagnosed as acute cyanide poisoning. Her death touched off a new scare, reminiscent of the still unsolved Tylenol panic of 1982, in which seven people in the Chicago area died after taking tainted capsules. Once again the capsule form of the leading nonprescription...
...trees burning and strewn like pickup sticks in its wake. The DC-8's debris and the soldiers' personal effects were scattered in all directions. A boot remained upright. A knife hung from a web belt. A stuffed bear lay in the snow. Two tiny dresses meant for a trooper's daughter somehow escaped the flames...
...accused had pleaded guilty, and an eleventh changed his plea to guilty last week; at . least eight of these have drawn 20-year prison terms. One of the 23 has never been caught, and another, David Tate, is being held in Missouri to face charges of killing a state trooper...
...Massachusetts and a host of other states, police have begun forming so-called rolling roadblocks. Those are walls of LTDs that straddle the highway and, cruise along at no more than 55.06 miles an hour. Unless you want to pass a State Trooper in the breakdown lane (about as bright a move as shouting "Fag!" at him), you don't have much choice about whether to drive 55. The rolling roadblock made its debut July 3 on Interstate...
...summer afternoon, Trooper 1st Class Frank Woullard was sitting by Interstate 70 in Frederick, Md., in a bright yellow, nine-ton State Highway Administration truck. Woullard's giveway tan hat sat on the seat beside him and his radar detector sat on his lap, safely out of view. Woullard didn't dare show his face to oncoming traffic--instead, he watched for speeders in the rear-view mirror...