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...after two Massachusetts policemen stopped and then waved on a drunken driver, he smashed into a car, killing 20-month-old Misty Jane Irwin and her young father; the drunk died too. Civil justice in the case was meted out last year, when a jury ordered the town of Ware (pop. 8,953) to pay Widow Debbie Irwin, now 25, $873,697 for the negligence of its policemen...
Irwin, now an official of the central Massachusetts chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, was back in court last week for the first time since the judgment, in sad and unlikely circumstances. Ware police say that she was driving erratically. When they pulled her over outside the Cue and Cushion-the last bar her family's killer patronized-she refused to take a Breathalyzer test. Says Officer Richard Primavera: "She swayed, she stumbled, her speech was slurred, and there was an odor of alcohol...
Irwin says she was sober. According to her lawyer, Alan Goodman, she declined the test for fear the police would falsify the results: many Ware residents resent Irwin's financial windfall at the taxpayer's expense. The arrest, he suggests, "appears to be more than coincidental." But Police Chief Stanley Mettig is unbudging. Declares he: "The bottom line is she was caught red-handed...
Conte, who represents a district in the western part of the state, has denied the charges, pointing out that the University is far from his district However, after the award was announced, the Ware school system, which is in Conte's district, was added to the plan...
...lose easily $10,000 worth of silver-ware every year," said Richard J. Montville, University Food Services Manager for five River Houses and Dudley House. "One year at Eliot House we found 20 bowls in one closed. Some still had salad in them...