Tough Canadian street-racing law nabs 85-year-old
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A new law meant to help crack down on young Canadian street racers in their souped up cars has nabbed an octogenarian in his Oldsmobile.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The dead driving the dead. At least that's how the government seemed to have it in the case of Frank Jansky, a 75-year-old Kansas City man who drives a hearse part-time. Even as he lived and breathed, the Social Security Administration seemed to think he was no longer alive.
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A 100-year-old Japanese man who was arrested after his car hit an umbrella held by a child said driving was his ticket to avoiding senility.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia  -- Carla Coco-Boutte stepped off the train for a brief Canadian excursion, but she wasn't looking for typical souvenirs such as aboriginal carvings or smoked salmon. The 51-year-old former airline employee planned to return to her home in Santa Barbara, Calif., with an armload of prescription drugs she bought at a fraction of what she would pay at home...
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No one was going to stop him. How could they? Denny Hamlin was an irresistible force of nature, even as a 7-year-old go-kart driver who won the first race he entered. When he crossed the finish line some 19 years ago at Capitol City Speedway in Ashland, Va., Hamlin kept right on going. The flagman stopped short of throwing himself ...
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Lifestyle: 4 January 2005, Tuesday. A 67-year-old man had a 9.14 promilles blood alcohol level when he got crushed by a truck at the end of December, police say.
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Orrin Phipps is holding his own as a driver at Plainridge Racecourse, with four wins from 27 starts. There's nothing unusual about that, except he's 82 years old.
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A 58-year-old man is in a critical condition after his car was involved in a head-on collision with a police car.
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A 78-year-old anti-Zionist campaigner is due before the High Court on Monday facing a lawsuit from Michelin.
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Just as a new five-year deal hauled the British grand prix out of the boiling pot, F1&#39;s 74-year-old &#39;supremo&#39; threatened to firebomb the most historic race -- in 2009.
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GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (CP) - Wins by Ghostzapper, Wilko and Speightstown resulted in the most glorious day by Canadian-owned horses in the 21-year history of Breeders&#39; Cup thoroughbred racing Saturday.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- How sweet was this? A year ago, the wheels were about to fall off of Robert Yates Racing. Yates had struggled through what the 63-year-old car owner called "one of the lowest" seasons of his career in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series after one driver, Elliott Sadler, defected in midseason to drive Dodges for Evernham Motorsports, ...
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CONCORD, NC -- Another of NASCAR&#39;s old guard has decided the rigors and pressures of the Nextel Cup schedule are best left to the young.
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Rock star Eric Clapton had his license suspended after speeding down a French motorway at 134 mph. The 59-year-old Clapton was pulled over in his Porsche 911 Turbo for driving 50 mph above the speed limit near the town of Merceuil in Western France.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. - A 79-year-old retiree who tussled with a man half his age over the man's foul language in a restaurant was sentenced to probation - but outside of that, he's been treated more like a hero than a criminal.
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A Swiss driver caught speeding in Canada explained that he had been taking advantage of the ability to drive fast without hitting a goat, police said on Wednesday.
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Sylvester Stallone faces stiff fines after trying to bring vials of a muscle-building hormone into Australia, where it is restricted. Lawyers for Stallone, the 60-year-old star of the "Rocky" and "Rambo" movie franchises, represented him in a Sydney court on Tuesday where he faces one charge of importing a banned substance.