motorized scooter: 01/21/2007

BOWLING GREEN - The Woodland Mall has reversed its policy of charging disabled shoppers to use its motorized scooter.

Police called often to seniors' home
Chugach View occupants say the steady stream of short, late-night visits are a sign of drug dealers in the building, part of what they say is escalating criminal activity in a public housing project where the majority of tenants are over 62.

World War II play presents a challenge to those filling its roles. It's no wonder that Erin Beute and Jay T. Becker don't remember World War II: Neither of them was even a gleam in their parents' eyes.

Former secretary of commerce dies in Beaufort
Serving as President Ronald Reagan's secretary of commerce, Calvin William Verity Jr., shared the stage with political giants.

Billionaire injured after game
BOISE, Idaho - J.R. Simplot, Idaho's wealthiest man, was recovering Tuesday in the intensive care unit of a Phoenix hospital after undergoing surgery for a head injury the elderly billionaire sustained when he fell from a motorized wheelchair scooter as he was leaving the Fiesta Bowl.

Home Depot's beleaguered chief executive resigns
WASHINGTON -- Embattled Home Depot Chief Executive Robert Nardelli, under fire from stockholders for earning hundreds of millions at the same time the company's stock fell and market share dropped, resigned suddenly Wednesday and will walk away with a severance package of $210 million, the company announced.

Disabled Can Now Ride Scooters On Roads
Legislation allowing disabled people to ride motorized scooters on public roads has been signed into law. The measures were inspired by a 15-year-old with muscular dystrophy who was stopped by police while riding an electric scooter in 2005.

WASHINGTON -- Embattled Home Depot Chief Executive Robert Nardelli, under fire from stockholders for earning hundreds of millions at the same time the company's stock fell and market share dropped, resigned suddenly Wednesday and will walk away with a severance package of $210 million, the company announced.

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Off sidewalks, riders are vulnerable
O* most days, 75-year-old Terry Couture is as active as a soccer mom, coasting over to Vinoy Park on his motorized scooter to meet friends and running errands around downtown St. Petersburg.

Obituary - Beverly Frailey
Beverly Frailey, 63, a resident of The Caring Place, 103 N. 13th St., Franklin, formerly of Kittanning, died suddenly Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2006, while visiting her family in Kittanning during the Christmas holiday.

Former secretary of commerce dies in Beaufort
Serving as President Ronald Reagan's secretary of commerce, Calvin William Verity Jr., shared the stage with political giants.

Susan Martel and Ed Rendell don't know each other, but they're soul mates on health care. Both think it's criminal that Pennsylvania is home to 767,000 uninsured people.

Idaho industrialist hospitalized after fall at Fiesta Bowl
BOISE, Idaho - J.R. Simplot, Idaho's wealthiest man, was recovering Tuesday in the intensive care unit of a Phoenix hospital after undergoing surgery for a head injury the elderly billionaire suffered when he fell from a motorized wheelchair scooter as he was leaving the Fiesta Bowl.

South Side man dies in blaze
The city's first fatal house fire of 2007 killed a disabled man Wednesday night, fire officials said. Firefighters found him on the kitchen floor of his burning South Side home

Former secretary of commerce dies in Beaufort
Serving as President Ronald Reagan's secretary of commerce, Calvin William Verity Jr., shared the stage with political giants.

Southern California freeways make my mother hyperventilate. So when Santa Barbara assembled a package of discounts for visitors arriving by train, it seemed the perfect outing.

Idaho industrialist hospitalized after fall
BOISE, Idaho J.R. Simplot, one of Idaho's wealthiest man, was recovering Tuesday in the intensive care unit of a Phoenix hospital after undergoing surgery for a head injury the elderly billionaire suffered when he fell from a motorized wheelchair scooter as he was leaving the Fiesta Bowl.

ROCKWELL The wind blew slightly Tuesday morning as employees of Brook Hill Memorial Gardens lifted from the ground the casket of Michael Jason Brown.

Judge OKs exhumation of body for autopsy Investigators probing China Grove man's death after May accident
A judge has given local investigators permission to exhume the body of a China Grove man killed in May while riding his motorized scooter. Rowan District Attorney Bill Kenerly petitioned the courts to have the body of Michael Jason Brown, 27, of 1665 Lentz Road, disinterred and an autopsy performed.

Scooter-riding commissionaire injured in accident
Commissionaire's scooter and papers lie on ground after collision yesterday. The commissionaire was heading south on Douglas Street and a small parts delivery vehicle was going west on Pembroke Street when the accident occurred.

Simplot recovering after fall
The surgery was to relieve pressure from a large bump on Simplots head after the fall. Simplot was leaving the stadium after Boise States Monday night victory over Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl when his motorized scooter flipped in the parking lot and Simplot struck his head.

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