A Boston woman accused of throwing a handful of change in the face of a Boston bus driver faces an assault charge. According to a police report, 23-year-old Chantal Williams boarded an MBTA bus Sunday and told the driver, "I only have this change and you're gonna let me ride this bus."
The driver, according to the report, called dispatch to have Williams removed for refusing to pay …
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Roughly a month after a wild night that left a New York hotel room in tatters and sent Charlie Sheen to the hospital, the drama continues.
Police in New York on Tuesday were investigating a harassment claim made a day earlier by a woman found locked in the bathroom of Sheen's suite during the incident at the swank Plaza Hotel. She told police the actor put his hands around her throat during the raucous evening in late October, but she managed to slip away and hid in a bathroom. She later said in a nationally televised interview Monday that the actor used racial slurs. Within hours, Sheen sued Capri Anderson claiming her version of events was a fabrication and that …
Tampa Bay Rays catcher Dioner Navarro has been injured in a home-plate collision and taken in an ambulance for X-rays.
Navarro was hurt when he tagged out Minnesota's Jacque Jones in Saturday's game.
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Last year, the state bought 207 old cars at above-market prices -and then junked them.
The idea behind Cash for Clunkers was to make the air cleaner bytaking old polluting cars off the road.
On Thursday, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency officialspronounced the program a "tremendous success" and said they'll seekto expand it next year.
"It worked much better than we expected," said EPA Director MaryGade.
There are more than 200,000 pre-1980 cars in the Chicago area.They represent 10 percent of all cars but belch at least 30 percentof the pollution that contributes to ozone smog.
The agency bought cars from Chicago and south …
Funeral services were held in Houston for Aaron Jackson, a two-sport standout at Southern University in the late 1950s.
Jackson, who will be inducted into Southern's Athletic Hall of Fame on April 15, died recently at the age of 63.
He played football and was a member of the track and field team from 1957-60 at Southern.
He played linebacker, center and end for the Jaguars football team, earning All-America honors in 1959 at center. After making All-America in 1959, he was switched to end the next season.
Jackson was regarded as one of the best linebackers in college football and was a capable receiver. He doubled as a high jumper on the track team and was an …
Chinese stocks fell Monday morning on heavy selling of real estate developers and resource shares.
The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index dropped 3.4 percent, or 68.82 points, by midday to 1,931.75.
Weekend news of a European bank rescue plan failed to stir buying enthusiasm.
China Vanke, a leading property developer, dropped 4.7 percent to 5.63 yuan while Poly Real Estate sank 7.6 percent to 12.45 yuan.
Expectations that slower growth resulting from the deepening financial crisis will hurt demand continued to drag resource shares lower.
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