Automotive
Three people were taken to the hospital after a four-vehicle accident caused by a wrong-way driver in the city of New Berlin on Monday morning.
An man was driving east in the westbound lane on Cleveland Avenue, according to a news release from the New Berlin police and fire departments.
The driver struck a vehicle stopped at a red light on westbound Cleveland Avenue at Sunnyslope Road,
Berlin public transit runs on the honor system. I’m on the U-8 line, on my way to work, when a group of controllers board the train. I don’t know what else to call them. The German word Kontrolleur is derived from French, and the passive verb, to be kontrolliert, has gone into colloquial English usage in a rough direct translation, i.e., to be “controlled” (as in: “God damn it, I got controlled on the train today”). The Kontrolleurs are the people assigned to ride the rails all day, randomly entering train-cars as if administering a pop quiz, to check that everyone on board has a valid ticket. As it happens, today I do, but the guy standing next to me clearly does not. You can tell by the way he feigns inattention as the doors close and the two plain-clothes guys pull out their identification badges; he acts as
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