| No Injuries Reported After Van Crashes Into Store
SAN DIEGO -- Amador Ramirez was just trying to park his van in a handicapped spot when it kept going, straight into an Albertsons market. I tried to step on the brake, but I could not find it. I think I lost motion in my feet, said Ramirez. Customers and employees were able to get out of the way and nobody was injured in the accident. .
Joyful homecoming Residents return to Homes for the Deaf after terrifying evacuation
DANVERS - When Josephine Morris arrived in her bedroom yesterday for the first time in two months, she was most relieved to find the pictures of her grandchildren, which she located in a box and immediately lined back up on her night table.
Morris was among 56 deaf and deaf-blind seniors who returned home yesterday to the New England Homes for the Deaf after being displaced by a chemical plant explosion in November. None of them heard the blast on Thanksgiving Eve, and the blind residents couldn't see it either. But everyone felt it, as they described yesterday.
"It scared me, it really scared me," Morris, 91, said through an interpreter. She recalled the blast with wide eyes and sweeping gestures to mimic an explosion.
But residents said yesterday's homecoming wasn't about the traumatic event that displaced so many Danversport residents.
Cruises might be more inclusive
The federal government proposed new rules last week that would apply the Americans with Disabilities Act to cruise ships for the first time.
The rules, published Tuesday in the Federal Register, ban discriminatory practices by foreign-flagged cruise ships that dock in the United States. Guidelines for the design of ships have not been worked out.
Ted Thompson, a vice president at the International Council of Cruise Lines trade group, said that when they are, the rules will be merged into one document.
"It is difficult to analyze the impact of these regulations until we know more regarding the content of the guidelines," he said.
Nearly every other mode of public transit is already covered by the ADA, which was passed in 1990.
Around Broward County
A 56-year-old man was on life support Thursday at Coral Springs Medical Center after falling into a canal and getting pinned by a lawn mower. Claudius Dufresne of North Lauderdale was operating a riding lawn mower along the banks of a canal in the 1200 block of Springs Circle Drive about 8:30 a.m., according to Coral Springs police. Somehow, he fell into the water and was trapped under the lawn mower. Emergency workers and neighbors lifted the lawn mower and pulled Dufresne from the canal. Dufresne was underwater for eight to 10 minutes, police said. Paramedics took Dufresne to Coral Springs Medical Center, where he was in critical condition. Dufresne is the brother-in-law of the owner of L&D Complete Lawncare of North Lauderdale, police said.
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