| A 14-year-old boy missing for a week was found murdered and wrapped...
A 14-year-old boy missing for a week was found murdered and wrapped in trash bags inside a garbage bin in Little Haiti, police said Sunday. Rod K. Williams, a Brownsville Middle eight-grader, was found Friday night -- but his badly decomposed body was not identified until Saturday. Family members noted Rod had been missing since Feb. 2 but the troubled teen often disappeared for days. They never called police because they assumed he staying with other relatives. ''He used to call me. But this time, he didn't call home,'' his father, Rodney Robinson, said Sunday. Miami homicide detectives declined to specify how Rod died. Rod had fallen in with the wrong crowd in recent months, his family said, culminating in his only brush with police, an arrest for selling marijuana last month.
Visit New York's other gems
Editors Note: This is the first in a two-part series on New Yorks outer boroughs.
Repeat visitors to New York should skip Manhattan and make a beeline for the city's outer boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island, where some neighborhoods are still the old neighborhood, while others are evolving with newcomers from as nearby as the Midwest to as far away as the Middle East.
A lot of people can trace their roots to Brooklyn, said Monique Greenwood, owner of Akwaaba Mansion, a bed and breakfast in Bedford-Stuyvesant. It has an ethnic richness.
Greenwood, a former Essence editor in chief, recommends a stop at Solomons Porch, a caf that features red velvet cake and a jazzy vibe, after a stroll past rows of brownstones on tree-lined streets that singer/actress Lena Horne, Woodstock legend Richie Havens and writer Norman Mailer have called home.
Calls flood in to adopt abandoned baby
SASKATOON - Many people have called wanting to adopt an infant who was found abandoned on a doorstep in extremely cold weather, but child welfare authorities caution that any potential adoption will take place through established channels. "There are procedures to be undertaken with respect to adoption. It's not just personal preference through any kind of compassionate phone calls," said Janice Krumenacker, director of the Saskatchewan Adoption Program. Community Resources offices are receiving phone calls from around Saskatchewan and even from other parts of Canada as people offer to adopt the baby who was abandoned on a Saskatoon doorstep on Saturday morning by her teenage mother. "This kind of news story just tugs at the heart strings and people feel compelled to call," said Krumenacker, who wasn't sure of the exact number of calls received.
Mueller light show is holiday attraction
Block Talk is a weekly feature that tells about a neighborhood as seen through a resident's eyes. Today we're talking with Judy Mueller, who lives in the original ranch house that was part of the chicken farm that once dominated her Oak Flower neighborhood. .
'Big Mac' never outgrew hunger for large ideas
Running off at the typewriter . . .
Don't really feel like writing about sports today. A friend just died -- a friend and a mentor.
Sentinel sports editor Van McKenzie, one of the best who ever lived, passed away Friday after a long battle with cancer.
We called him "Big Mac" because he was colossal in every sense of the word. He was a big man who wrote big headlines, ran big photographs and made big splashes. He lived big, spent big, ate big, drank big and -- at the poker table -- bet big.
But most of all, in a corporately downsized world filled with more and more bean-counters and budget cuts, he thought big.
And maybe that's why the newspaper business seems a whole lot smaller now that he's gone. . . .
Short stuff: Now that Bobby Bowden has hired a new offensive coordinator, when will Brian Hill? .
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