Police Car In Head-On Crash

A Police officer was taken to hospital after her patrol car wasinvolved in a head-on smash with a stolen BMW in Knowle West.

The crash, which set both airbags off inside the police car,happened when the stolen car, driven by a 22-year-old man, sped outof a side road and into the path of the on-coming police car, whichwas being driven along Creswicke Road.

A female officer, who was in the passenger seat, was taken byambulance to Bristol Royal Infirmary suffering from minor headinjuries. The male driver of the police car escaped unhurt.

Officers had been in the area looking for the estate car, whichhad been reported stolen, after it was spotted in the Nover's …

SHEEP IN THEM THERE HILLS

Those white spots you'll see in the Foothills over the next few weeks may not be patches of snow. In fact, Instead of cold and melty, those spots may be woolly and moving.

Sheep ranchers have started the weekslong process of moving flocks to higher summer grazing areas as the snow continues to recede. Up to 6,000 domestic sheep will head up the hillsides, and besides being a picturesque Idaho moment, it means that recreationlsts using the Foothills need to pay extra attention.

The flocks can often be found near some of the most popular trail areas, so interactions between people and sheep aren't uncommon. The problem comes when dogs are allowed off leash around the …

Pernice takes a one-shot lead at AT&T National

Tom Pernice Jr. was easy to ignore Saturday in the AT&T National until he wound up in the lead.

All he did was make 15 pars on an explosive afternoon of birdies and bogeys at Congressional, and his lone complaint was that he made only two putts longer than his shadow. One was from 4 1/2 feet for par, another from 7 feet for birdie.

But it was that steady hand that gave him a 1-under 69 and a one-shot lead over Steve Stricker, leaving the 48-year-old Pernice optimistic about winning for the first time in seven years.

"It will be interesting to see how it goes tomorrow," Pernice said. "But I'm looking forward to it."

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Local & National scoreboard

Baseball

American Legion State Tournament

At John Marshall High School, Glen Dale

Thursday

Game 1: Wheeling Post 1 4, Elkins Post 29 1

Game 2: Morgantown Post 2 11, Berkley County Post 14 1

Game 3: Kanawha Valley Post 94 15, Moundsville Post 3 5

Friday

Game 4: Elkins Post 29 (21-23) vs. Berkley County (26-14), 10a.m.

Game 5: Wheeling Post 1 (25-12) vs. Moundsville Post 3 (22-16), 1p.m.

Game 6: Morgantown Post 2 (26-11-1) vs. Kanawha Valley Post 94(36-10), 5 p.m.

If four teams remain after Game 6 and two teams after Game 9, thefollowing procedure will be observed:

Saturday

Game 7: Game 5 winner …

Solution conformation of the Met 61 to His 61 mutant of Pseudomonas stutzeri ZoBell ferrocytochrome c-551

ABSTRACT The gene encoding for bacterial cytochrome c-551 from Pseudomonas stutzeri substrain ZoBell has been mutated to convert the invariant sixth ligand methionine residue into histidine, creating the site-specific mutant M61 H. Proton NMR resonance assignments were made for all main-chain and most-side chain protons in the diamagnetic, reduced form at pH 9.2 and 333 K by two-dimensional NMR techniques. Distance constraints (1074) were determined from nuclear Overhauser enhancements and main-chain torsion-angle constraints (72) from scalar coupling estimates. Solution conformations for the protein were computed by the simulated annealing approach. For 28 computed structures, the root …

22 abducted oil workers freed in Colombia

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian authorities say suspected leftist rebels have released 22 of 23 Colombian contractors abducted while doing exploratory work in a remote jungle region for the Canadian oil company Talisman.

Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera says one contractor remains captive.

He told reporters the men were freed early Tuesday. He says that their captors were unable to evade …

Bracketed by crimes: Van der Sloot's last 5 years

For all of his garrulous charm, Joran van der Sloot didn't do himself any favors in his online interactions, where his generation tends to reveal a lot about itself.

"If I would have to describe myself as an animal it would be a snake," he wrote on his YouTube page. Perhaps wistfully wishing the past undone, he continued: "however, I want to be a lion and one day I will be a lion."

At age 22, Van der Sloot is now a caged animal. He sits in a bleak third-world prison, where he fears his fellow inmates. After requesting isolation, he shares a cellblock with a reputed Colombian murderer-for-hire.

Van der Sloot's journey from the …