| Lancaster boy beaten with bat over a bike 5:18 PM
LANCASTER, S.C. -- A 13-year-old boy endured a brutal beating, as a police report the details of how he was hit with a bat, punched in the abdomen, kicked in the side, rolled down a hill -- all because of a bike. Detectives say his attackers could face some serious prison time. "We had a kid that noticed his bicycle was gone from the front of his apartment," said Lancaster police detective Brenner Hartley. So the 13-year-old boy went looking and found it quickly. His bike was behind his home with five teenage boys crowded around it. Investigators say the boy knew it was his bike because it's not like any other bike in the neighborhood. "It was a bike made up of many different parts, it was blue, and it was a trick bike," said Hartley.
A Personal Rememberance by John Allen, League Board Member
In 1972, I was halfway home with a flat tire and walked into a bike shop that was just closing. Sheldon stayed late to fix it. That's how I first met him. There were 46 bicycles in or around his house "with a few shared wheels", by his recent count, mostly in his basement. He didn't buy bicycles off the shelf -- as a challenge to his mechanical ingenuity, and a way to spend less money and spend more time doing what he liked to do, he cobbled up customized bicycles from parts he acquired mostly through special deals, barter or secondhand, to suit himself or someone in his family. He often came up with a something unique, clever and useful. You may read about his bicycles on his Web site. He had an eye for style, but also, one or two rusty clunkers hung out by the back door getting rustier, for the quick ride to the convenience store, and several old hulks of bikes lived under the front porch.
Doc wants to get Glasgow on its bike
And Glasgow could soon be offering its citizens the chance to pick up a bike whenever the impulse takes them. Today the city's top doctor, Dr Linda de Caestecker of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is calling for the city to adopt its own bike-hire scheme. .
Update: Library Has 10 Copies of "Water for Elephants"
Bush, left, casts as his father former President George H.W. Bush watches as they fish near Kennebunk, Maine, Friday. You write the cutline. Top Cutlines 1. George Sr.: "This is a great fishing spot, son, we'll have to remember it for tomorrow." George W.: "Yup, I made an 'X' on the side of the boat to mark the spot." George Sr.: "You idiot! How do you know we'll be using the same boat?" 2. "Son, read my lips, you know that war thing over in Iraq: it's time to cut bait and run" -- Raymond Pert. 3. "Damn it Jr, your gonna hit the teleprompter!" -- C. Bert. HM: TN_TOP_HAT .
Tiger tales
Leyland acknowledged the Tigers appear to have more pitching depth in camp than he had in his first two springs as Tigers manager. It is a significant statement, given reliever Joel Zumaya 's absence because of shoulder surgery. "We've got some real quality stuff in this camp to make a 12-man pitching staff," Leyland said. Although right-hander Francisco Cruceta is now almost two weeks late reporting because of visa problems in the Dominican Republic, the Tigers believe they have adequate bullpen candidates in Matt Mantei and Denny Bautista . Mantei, an ex-Arizona reliever, had some excellent seasons in the National League. Bautista, a hard-throwing right-hander, came from Colorado in December's trade for Jose Capellan . Lynn Henning .
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