* Wrong Way: An errant driver shattered...
* Wrong Way: An errant driver shattered a wall in Indianapolis earlier this week, but this was no typical hit and run. The driver damaged a 5-foot section of a monument dedicated to the memory of Ryan White, who died of AIDS complications in April, 1990. Police don’t believe the damage was deliberate. White was a hemophiliac who contracted acquired immune deficiency syndrome from a blood transfusion.
* Road Runner: In Manhattan’s Upper East Side, time is money and parking is a premium. So Val Faria put the two together and is a parking-place broker. Here’s how it works: When Driver A is about to leave his space, he calls Faria, who notifies the parking-space-seeking Driver B by car phone. Driver B pays Faria $9 for the service and Faria gives a $4 credit to Driver A. Drivers are not running over each other to use the service. Admits Faria: “It’s a hard sell.”
* Fight Back: The vandals painted the marble markers with satanic symbols and Xs. One was sprayed with: “Sex is 1.” But maintenance workers counterattacked and removed paint from 12 small structures at the site of former President Gerald R. Ford’s birth in Omaha, Neb. The markers can likely be restored without noticeable damage, officials said.
* Once Again: When Lora Smart Swink was born 29 years ago, she made news as her county’s first baby of 1963. Now history has repeated itself with the birth of her son on New Year’s Day. At 12:23 a.m., Jeremy Tyler Swink weighed in at 7 1/2 pounds, became the first baby of the year in Cleveland County, N.C. “I think they said that I won the derby,” the mother beamed.
