motorized scooter: 02/25/2007

Ridgefield discriminated against a wheelchair-bound resident whose wife had to hoist him up two flights of stairs to a hearing on his bid to make his home more accessible, a federal jury found on Thursday.

Group helps give seniors a new sense of community
Perhaps nothing symbolizes the challenge of keeping America's elderly in their own homes, where they prefer to grow old, as much as the struggle to get their front walks shoveled after a snow.

6 teens charged with manslaughter
A Rowan County grand jury indicted five former East Rowan High students and another teen Monday, accusing them of leaving the scene of an accident that resulted in the death of a China Grove man killed while riding his moped.

Holding on to Home: Group Helps Give Seniors a New Sense of Community
By Michael Vitez, The Philadelphia Inquirer Feb. 18--Perhaps nothing symbolizes the challenge of keeping America's elderly in their own homes, where they prefer to grow old, as much as the struggle to get their front walks shoveled after a snow. So many widows. So few shovelers.

Authorities searching for woman accused of kidnapping, torturing Austin man
Police say Precious Sparkman, also known as Jasmin Anderson, cut the 60-year-old with kitchen knife.

Police say Precious Sparkman, also known as Jasmin Anderson, cut the 60-year-old with kitchen knife.

Disabled in Mesa? It's more hardship
Jack Kavanagh has no problem negotiating turns and wheelchair ramps on his motorized scooter. No hassle, at least, as long as such access exists for disabled people. In Mesa, he's had problems. {b} Report a violation

4 teens surrender on hit-run charges
Four Rowan teens charged with involuntary manslaughter turned themselves in to authorities Wednesday and Thursday afternoon. Two other teens indicted in the death of 27-year-old Michael Jason Brown had not surrendered as of Thursday night.

Police seek woman who kidnapped disabled man
APD is searching for a woman who is accused of kidnapping a 60-year-old man and holding him at his apartment.

Holding on to Home: Group Helps Give Seniors a New Sense of Community
By Michael Vitez, The Philadelphia Inquirer Feb. 18--Perhaps nothing symbolizes the challenge of keeping America's elderly in their own homes, where they prefer to grow old, as much as the struggle to get their front walks shoveled after a snow. So many widows. So few shovelers.

Don Bechards cell phone rang just as his Gardner Edgerton basketball team was ready to board a bus in December for the Olathe South tournament. He walked back into his coachs office inside the gymnasium to take the call in private.

Police seek woman who kidnapped disabled man
Police are looking for a 29-year-old woman accused of kidnapping and assualting a disabled person. The woman they're looking for is Precious Sparkman, also know as Jasmin Anderson. She's accused of kidnapping a 60-year-old disabled man.

Church lady no longer a back-bencher
Longtime parishioner Patti Kondor knew the church she was a member of for nearly three decades was a special place. It was not the biggest. It did not have a fancy foyer. And it did not house hundreds of the faithful for services on Sundays. But still, Kondor wanted everyone to know St. Joseph Church had not only drastically transformed her spiritually -- but physically as well.

On her first motorized tour of the hall outside her apartment, Loretta Deane shifted her new scooter's speed to "turtle." Slowly, slowly, she glided toward the elevator, banked beside the call button and rotated once inside, on her way to a neighbor's flat one floor away.

Owners say perception of Plainfield as unsafe is keeping customers away.
PLAINFIELD -- The city may have its share of crime-related problems, but business owner Robert Bertelli doesn't think Plainfield is unsafe. The problem, Bertelli said, is that there are outsiders who do.

Milwaukee City Police Reports
North | South NorthArson2700 block of N. 8th St. - A porch swing was doused with gasoline and ignited about 10:30 p.m. Jan. 11.

Woman on motorized scooter killed by DOT car
Deputies say a Florida Department of Transportation vehicle struck a woman riding a motorized scooter at Bayshore Road and Hart Road in North Fort Myers shortly before 2 p.m.

Norwood was proud to be a `Morehouse Man'
The Associated Press - AUGUSTA, Ga. Rep. Charlie Norwood's face lit up when his new congressional aide told him where he'd attended college _ Morehouse, a historically black school near downtown Atlanta.

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