| 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.
Cape 6-year-old’s body released to family
The body of Joshua Jenkins, 6, has been released to his family, according to the medical examiners office.
Jenkins, of Cape Coral, was reportedly beaten to death by his stepfather, Phillipe Gayle, 26, according to police. He died Feb. 11. .
LOVE, FRANKLIN-STYLE
FRANKLIN Four couples gave their significant others the gift of themselves for Valentine's Day.
The couples all township residents were married by Mayor Brian Levine on Thursday morning in a civil ceremony. Each had a different story to tell before exchanging vows in front of two witnesses and a handful of family members. For Donna Gower, 57, and Ernest Albert Hofer, 64, who live in the same housing development, it was about a year ago when they spotted each other on bicycles. "We lived in close proximity, so we saw each other bicycling, and so we started bicycling together," Hofer said. "One thing led to another." The couple chose to get married on Valentine's Day because two of Hofer's sons were born on Valentine's Day during different years. Next, they are planning a honeymoon trip in March to a ski resort out West and plan to travel to Africa in 2009.
Down-to-earth fashions
Four years later, the Harvard School of Public Health found a significant link between exposure to pesticides and Parkinson's disease. And the National Safety Council warns that applying pesticides and fertilizers on crops sends particulate matter airborne, and when breathed in it can lead to respiratory problems. "You think about the rise in asthma and allergies and skin conditions and it's impossible not take notice of that connection," says Marci Zaroff, a mother of two tweens who founded the Under the Canopy organic clothing brand in 1996. Among the brand's specialties is casual wear for women and babies (the latter of which is sold at Macy's and, soon, BabyStyle) with plans for a tween line. In addition to the finished product, Under the Canopy makes all of its own fabrics - a business model known as farm to finish.
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