BRIEFLY : LIMO DRIVER IN CRASH EXPECTED TO GO TO JAIL.The prosecution and defense agree on one thing: The driver of a limousine that crashed and left two Detroit Red Wings
The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. disabled can expect time behind bars. Richard Gnida is to be sentenced today in Birmingham, Mich., on a misdemeanor charge of driving without a valid driver's license Noun 1. driver's license - a license authorizing the bearer to drive a motor vehicle driver's licence, driving licence, driving license license, permit, licence - a legal document giving official permission to do something . Gnida, who pleaded guilty Oct. 20, faces up to a year in the county jail and a $1,000 fine. ``With all the publicity, they have to give him jail time,'' said Gnida's lawyer, James O'Connell. ``If it were anyone else, they would be fined and given probation. This system will punish him because it was two highly paid Detroit Red Wings in the back seat.'' The June 13 crash in suburban Detroit left defenseman Vladimir Konstantinov For the actor Vladimir K. Konstantinov, see . Vladimir Konstantinov (Russian: Владимир Константинов and team trainer Sergei Mnatsakanov with severe brain injuries. Gnida and Red Wings red wings see combretum platypetalum. defenseman Viacheslav Fetisov had less serious injuries. Konstantinov and Mnatsakanov remain at Beaumont Hospital. Doctors have said Mnatsakanov will never walk again, and Konstantinov might never speak again. RUNNING: Kenya's John Kagwe, running the last couple of miles with a loose shoelace, bolted away from two-time champion German Silva of Mexico and won the New York City Marathon The New York City Marathon is an annual marathon foot-race run over a 42,195 m (26.2 mile) course through all five boroughs of New York City. It is the largest marathon race in the world, and with 37,866 finishers in 2006, was also the largest marathon race ever run. in 2 hours, 8 minutes, 12 seconds, 11 seconds off the course record. The women's race produced a surprising winner, as Franziska Rochat-Moser became the first runner from Switzerland to capture a major marathon. She ran 2:28:43. Sammy Korir of Kenya ran away with the Amsterdam (Netherlands) Marathon, winning in 2 hours, 8 minutes and 24 seconds. COLLEGE ATHLETICS: Manufacturers of items that carry the Duke University logo soon will be required to sign a pledge that they don't use sweatshop sweatshop: see sweating system. labor. The code of conduct now being worked on by Duke and Collegiate Licensing Co., an Atlanta firm that negotiates trademark deals for 160 universities, will require companies to fully disclose working conditions in their factories. BASEBALL: Roy McMillan, whose sure glove at shortstop won the first three Gold Gloves awarded at the position, died at 68 in Bonham, Texas. Playing from 951-66, the first 10 seasons with Cincinnati, he batted .243 with 68 home runs and 594 RBI RBI abbr. Baseball runs batted in Noun 1. rbi - a run that is the result of the batter's performance; "he had more than 100 rbi last season" run batted in . Hw won the Gold Glove at shortstop from 1957-59 and was a National League All-Star in 1956 and '57. BOWLING: PBA PBA Professional Bowlers Association PBA Palm Beach Atlantic University (West Palm Beach, Florida) PBA Partial-Birth Abortion PBA Philippine Basketball Association PBA Public Broadcasting Atlanta (Georgia, USA) Hall of Famer Amleto Monacelli averaged 244 over six games and held a 55-pin lead over Tommy Delutz Jr. in the first round of the Ebonite Challenge in Chesapeake, Va. |
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