Everywhere a sign: express yourself for a living as American Sign Language interpreter.
Overhead sprinklers are shooting cold mist at everyone, yet the tour group stays attentive to its spirited guide--and to the woman making gestures beside her. As the guide comments on plants in the conservatory, Ruth Murphy interprets the spoken words in American Sign Language (ASL). Murphy is good at...

Bishop helps group's push for Audrey's canonization.
Byline: Bronislaus B. Kush WORCESTER - A local group has formally launched a campaign aimed at convincing the Vatican to canonize Audrey Santo, the young woman linked to a number of alleged miracles and strange happenings that began to occur after she lapsed into a comatose-like state...

Police attacked after alleged theft; Suspected getaway-car driver held.
Byline: Aaron Nicodemus WESTBORO - A Millbury man who allegedly struck a police cruiser with his car and then attacked two officers in the parking lot of a pizza restaurant in Shrewsbury Thursday was ordered held on $10,000 bail yesterday. Michael J. McCullen, 43, of...

Inca Son jury to continue deliberations.
Byline: Steven H. Foskett Jr. The following correction was published July 23, 2008: The victim of an indecent assault by Cesar Villalobos, 47, of Cambridge was 17 at the time of the assault and is now 18. In stories about the trial, the Telegram &...

Man killed in rollover crash after car strikes guardrail.
Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard SPRINGFIELD - A single-car accident Monday in the eastbound lanes of Highway 126 claimed the life of a Eugene man. Darren Patrick Perkins, 30, was killed in the 10:44 a.m. wreck when he was partially ejected from his 1992 Mitsubishi...

Wheels of injustice.
Byline: The Register-Guard The Bush administration got the conviction last week it wanted of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, one of Osama bin Laden's drivers and a low-level al-Qaeda functionary. That outcome was guaranteed by the kangaroo court created to deal with detainees held at Guantanamo Bay. ...

Brutal killing of Springfield woman results in 10-year prison sentence.
Byline: Karen McCowan The Register-Guard Carl Lee Meadows continued to declare his innocence Tuesday as he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for manslaughter in the brutal January killing of a disabled Springfield woman. "This is an injustice here," Meadows told Lane County Circuit...

Truth in justice: organization uses web site to fight for rights of wrongly accused.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sheila Berry has been transformed by the American criminal justice system. As a victim/witness coordinator, she experienced "tunnel vision" in 1985, regarding a murder case that seemed a slam dunk to her colleagues in the prosecutor's office. A 19-year-old woman had been beaten,...

Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony.
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony. By Richard Bauckham. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2006. Pp. xiii + 538. Cloth, $32.00. Bauckham provides us with an important discussion that continues the recent explosion of interest in early Christian tradition and traditioning processes. Despite...

Jury helps make a case; DAs tout `grand' investigative tool.
Byline: Matthew Bruun FITCHBURG - Gunshots echoed among the cracks of exploding fireworks on Congress Street July 3, a bloody ending to an Independence Day celebration. Nelson Ortega, 32, of Boston was killed with a single gunshot wound to the head. Ryan J. O'Neill, 19,...