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In January in Riverside, California, the fiancee of Frank Cisco Bridges, 43, bailed him out of jail, where he was being held on burglary charges, the morning of their scheduled wedding. They had the ceremony, and later that evening Bridges, who was reported to have AIDS, was arrested and charged with raping a seven-year-old girl at the reception. Bridges’s new wife is a San Bernardino County, California, probation officer.
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To transport a 65-foot spruce Christmas tree from California’s San Bernardino National Forest to the grounds of the U.S. Capitol last November, workers had to saw off dozens of limbs so the tree would fit into a truck for the journey. The limbs were numbered and then reattached to the tree once it was installed.
In February Gloria Rowell was hospitalized in Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, after being hit by a falling tree. She’d been videotaping her husband chopping down the 80-foot balsam and misjudged the tree’s trajectory.
In October a man in Deerfield Beach, Florida, drowned during a round of golf at the Hillsboro Golf Club while trying to retrieve a ball he’d hit into a canal.
