Tuesday, November 09, 2004

Today's Regional News Blotter

Boy howdy, this brings new meaning to sangfroid.

QUEENS: DAUGHTER CHARGED IN MAN'S DEATH The daughter of a 67-year-old man who was found beaten to death with a hammer on Friday has been charged with his murder, the authorities said yesterday. The woman, Laura Martin, 43, fought with her father, John Martin, last Wednesday in their Long Island City housing project and struck him with a hammer, the Queens district attorney's office said. The next day, prosecutors said, she placed a plastic bag over his head and a blanket over his body, cleaned up the blood, dropped her 5-year-old daughter at school and smoked cocaine for several hours. On Friday, she acted as if she had discovered the body, neighbors said.

Don't let your sheep get behind the wheel, folks:

SEVERAL SHEEP DIE IN TURNPIKE CRASH A collision between two trucks on the New Jersey Turnpike last night killed at least 22 sheep in one of the trucks and left others running along the turnpike in a panic, said a spokesman for the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. The accident, which caused no human injuries, occurred about 11 p.m. in the northbound lanes near the interchange to Route 8A, said the spokesman, Joe Orlando, who said he did not know how the crash occurred. Animal control officers were called to help round up about 16 sheep that had escaped.

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