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Riding with Saran were four of his friends, including a popular Indian music TV host. All were killed instantly when a speeding truck plowed into their car before fleeing the scene. The truck’s driver was arrested the following day on charges of homicide...
Motivated by his parents’ strong emphasis on education as a route for advancement, Mitchell held a variety of jobs—ranging from an advertising salessperson to a truck driver—in order to pay his way through Bowdoin College. He graduated in 1954 and, after a stint in U.S. Army counter intelligence, received a law degree from Georgetown University...
Last month Reichert's journey through hell seemed to come to an end. On April 15, King County prosecutor Norm Maleng announced that he will seek the death penalty in the prosecution of Gary Leon Ridgway, 53, a married man who worked in a local truck-manufacturing plant. He was arrested last November for four of the Green River murders. He is accused of killing Chapman, Hinds and Mills, as well as Carol Christensen, whose body was discovered...
...Isolated from the rest of Russia, the people of Sakhalin have long made due with a pragmatic ingenuity. At the often snowbound Sakhalin airport a truck equipped with a surplus military jet engine aimed toward the ground clears ice from the runway, the heat and flames quickly vaporizing the fallen snow. The city bus system is made up of discarded Japanese vehicles shipped annually to Russia. Shot glasses for vodka in bars by night double as measuring cups for sunflower seeds in markets...
...aroused Saturday night when he ran into a bottle-neck on a side street and had to back out. “Students’ cars were double parked in streets around the Harvard Square area. What if fire breaks out some night in those dormitories? A fire truck could never get to it,” he stated...