BRIEFLY.Race car crashes into stands, kills 2 A race car crashed into the stands at a southern Illinois track, killing two spectators and injuring six other people, officials said. The driver also was hurt. State police were trying to determine what caused the car to shoot off the quarter-mile dirt oval track  It has been suggested that and be merged into this article or section. Saturday night at Mount Vernon Mount Vernon, estate, United StatesMount Vernon, NE Va., overlooking the Potomac River near Alexandria, S of Washington, D.C.; home of George Washington from 1747 until his death in 1799. (Ill.) Raceway. It was the only vehicle on the track at the time. The driver was doing a qualification run. The car's speed wasn't known, but it flew deep into the stands, said Capt. Conan King of the Jefferson County Jefferson County is the name of 25 counties and one parish in the United States. The following are named for Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States:
``I believe there's about 25 rows of bleachers,'' he said. The car ``landed probably two rows from the top.'' Jefferson County Sheriff Roger D. Mulch said two men suffered major injuries. Three other spectators and the driver, Kevin Beatiee, 38, of Benton, suffered minor injuries. The dead were identified as Donald Roznowski, 51, and his daughter's boyfriend, Jeff Conner, 18, both of Du Quoin quoin In architecture, both the external corner of a building and, more often, one of the stones used to form that corner. These stones are both structural and decorative in that they often differ in jointing, colour, texture, or size from the masonry of the adjoining walls. . BADMINTON: Howard Bach Howard Bach is a Vietnamese-American male badminton player from the United States. He was the 2005 world champion in men's doubles with Tony Gunawan. Early life He was born in Vietnam on 22 February 1979 , Howard Bach came to the U.S. and Tony Gunawan, the 13th-seeded U.S. men's doubles team, finished a surprising run in the International Badminton Federation's World Championships by outlasting Indonesia's Sigit Budiarto and Candra Wijaya, 15-11, 10-15, 15-11 Sunday night in the final at the Pond in Anaheim. No U.S. player had ever made it as far as the quarterfinals in the world championships that started in 1977 before Bach and Gunawan made it through the 64-team, single-elimination bracket, including knocking out top-seeded Jens Eriksen and Martin Lundgaard Hansen Martin Lundgaard Hansen (born October 11, 1972) is a male badminton player from Denmark. Career 2004 Summer Olympics Hansen competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's doubles with partner Jens Eriksen. of Norway in the quarterfinals Friday. Bach and Gunawan beat Indonesia's Luluk Hadiyanto and Yulianto Alven 15-9, 15-13 in the semifinals late Saturday night. Indonesia's Taufik Hidayat, the 2004 Olympic gold medalist, won the men's singles title, defeating top-seeded Dan Lin of China 15-3, 15-7. In the women's final, China's Xingfang Xie beat China's Ning Zhang 11-8, 9-11, 11-3. - Tom Hoffarth BASKETBALL: Boston College's Craig Smith scored 16 points and Duke's Shelden Williams added 15 points and 14 rebounds Sunday, leading the United States past Ukraine 85-70 for the basketball gold medal at the University Games in Izmir, Turkey. The U.S. men finished with an 8-0 record and won their 13th basketball gold at the University Games since 1965, but first since 1999. --The USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. men's basketball team received a commitment from Kevin Galloway, a 6-foot-5 guard from Sacramento High. - Scott Wolf FOOTBALL: Former NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga running back Lawrence Phillips, who was wanted by police for domestic violence, was arrested after allegedly running his car into three teenagers who argued with him during a pickup football game, police said. - Daily News Staff and Wire Services |
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