2008 Woodie Awards
Nation
Highway shootings leave residents and motorists on edge
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Gunfire that struck several vehicles and injured two people along a stretch of mountain highway had motorists and police on edge yesterday in a region where memories of the deadly Beltway snipers still haven't faded. Authorities were seeking at least two people suspected of firing shots the night before that hit two cars, a van, a tractor-trailer and an unoccupied dump truck on Interstate 64 just west of Charlottesville.
Woman seeks apology from TSA after having to remove nipple ring with pliers
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LOS ANGELES - A Texas woman who said she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane called yesterday for an apology by federal security agents and a civil rights investigation. "I wouldn't wish this experience upon anyone," Mandi Hamlin said at a news conference.
Judge's order: learn English and earn GED or go to jail
Alternative to prison offered by judge
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WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) - A judge known for creative sentencing has ordered three Spanish-speaking men to learn English or go to jail. The men, who faced prison for criminal conspiracy to commit robbery, can remain on parole if they learn to read and write English, earn their GEDs and get full-time jobs, Luzerne County Judge Peter Paul Olszewski Jr.
They tried to make him go to rehab...
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BROOKVILLE, Pa. (AP) - A man who police say killed his 74-year-old parents to avoid going to rehab was charged with murder yesterday after he tried to enter Canada. Richard Reed, 44, was stopped late Wednesday after a Canadian customs officer in Fort Erie, Ontario - across the border from Buffalo, N.
