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Balanced scoring helps WSU win fourth straight
CHICAGO - Joe Gentile, the 1946 Loyola of Chicago graduate and auto dealer whose name is on the building where the Ramblers play basketball, made an unfortunate choice of dress for Saturday's game with Wright State.
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A 16-year-old boy was arrested yesterday afternoon in connection with the mercury contamination of Cardozo High School in Northwest.
The teen was taken into custody at about 5 p.m. and charged with illegal dumping of a hazardous material, said D.C. police spokesman Sgt. Joe Gentile.
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Police in the District and surrounding areas are gearing up for New Year's Eve by increasing the number of officers on the streets and adding sobriety checkpoints.
We will have sobriety and seat belt checkpoints and have increased both foot and car patrols," said Sgt. Joe Gentile, D.C. police spokesman.
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Those who had held the crosses and others began walking down the drive toward the weapons. Each was stopped by security, and arrested by police when they refused to leave. Sixteen people were arrested and taken to the Upper Merion police station. Jackie Bauman, Theresa Camerota, Tim Chadwick, Amber Christis, Shane Claiborne, Carroll Clay, Joe Clay, Rich Conti, Beth Friedlan, Annie Geers, M.J. Gentile, Art Landis, Mary Jo Mc Arthur, Tom Mullian, Fr. Patrick Sieber OFM, and Bob Smith were all released with citations for disorderly conduct.
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A woman suffered minor injuries and a firefighter had two fingers severed after the woman's car plunged into a 20-foot-deep pit at a Southwest construction site yesterday.
Yvonne Gilbert, 55, of 1100 Kennebec St., Oxon Hill, lost control of her blue 1993 Plymouth Sundance at Fourth and I streets and caused a three-car accident at about 1:30 p.m., said Metro police spokesman Sgt. Joe Gentile.
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Two men facing murder charges are at large after escaping yesterday morning from the D.C. Jail in Southeast.
The Metropolitan Police Department began a manhunt for Ricardo Jones, 25, and Joseph Leaks, 32, shortly after 10:30 a.m., said agency spokesman Sgt. Joe Gentile.
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WASHINGTON - A former District of Columbia school board member and a potential candidate for the D.C. Council was shot and killed Saturday, police said.
Officers called to the home of Terence Hairston, 38, found him dead of a gunshot wound to the body, police spokesman Sgt. Joe Gentile said. No motive was established, but Hairston's rental car was missing.
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An unmarked police cruiser was stolen over the weekend - a cruiser belonging to Metropolitan Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey that was parked outside his house, no less.
C. police spokesman Sgt. Joe Gentile said an officer dropped off the car, a 1999 black Ford Crown Victoria, near Chief Ramsey's house Friday night. The chief was out of town at the time.
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Five men were shot, two fatally, in Southeast, and another was fatally shot in Greenbelt early yesterday morning, police said.
The shootings in the District took place about 1:15 a.m. in the Pomeroy Road area. Antoine Holroyd, 18, of the 2600 block of Jasper Street SE, and Michael Simms, 16, of the 2600 block of Martin Luther King Avenue SE both died of gunshot wounds to the head, said Sgt. Joe Gentile, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police Department.
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Professors visit Mexico
My wife, Marilyn, and I (both professors) took a trip to Riviera Maya, Mexico. Six Barcelo hotels are all connected for great morning walks under shaded palms along the beach. Many sculptures of ancient Mayan creatures such as the Jaguar blend with nature's finest.
...Pictured: Rick and Joe Gentile. Joe Gentile. Bergenfield. Class of '59 reunites o...