Lead Story
Dr. Robert J. Cosgrove’s reappointment as staff anesthesiologist at Granville Medical Center in Oxford, North Carolina, was delayed briefly in December. According to a sheriff’s report, three female YMCA employees reported that a man who was dressed as a woman entered on Cosgrove’s membership card, went into the women’s locker room, and left in Cosgrove’s car. Further arousing suspicion was Cosgrove’s decision to shave his beard, which he’d worn for a long time, right around the time of the incident. Cosgrove denied the YMCA’s claims and was reappointed.
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In February two boys, ages 15 and 14, were released from court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after a hearing for stealing a car, which police said was the 25th car theft committed by the boys in two years. According to police, the boys walked out of the courthouse, realized they had no bus fare, and promptly swiped car 26, which they crashed into a fence 45 minutes later.
In August shopkeepers whose kiosks are on the ground level of the National Stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh, threatened a lawsuit if the National Sports Council wouldn’t deal with their most pressing concern. According to a spokesperson for the shopkeepers, when the 80,000-capacity stadium is full it often appears “as if it’s raining” down below because the stadium was built without public restrooms.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): Illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
