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ORLANDO, Fla. — The ambulance crew that responded after golfer Tiger Woods crashed his SUV would not allow his wife to ride with him to the hospital because they thought it was a case of domestic violence, documents released Friday by the Florida Highway Patrol show. But a police officer who responded said he didn't know where the crew got that information because he never heard it from anyone at the scene. The reports also show that Woods' wife, Elin, turned over two bottles of pain pills to troopers after the Nov. 27 crash outside the couple's suburban Orlando home....

Stepdad's trial starts in starvation of girl 'I know what I have done is wrong,' he says of child kept in closet 12/06/2002 By JENNIFER EMILY / The Dallas Morning News Kenneth Atkinson referred to Barbara Atkinson's daughter, who was starved and confined in a closet or small space for years, as "Barbie's secret." But Thursday, on the first day of testimony in Mr. Atkinson's trial, prosecutors said he also had a secret because he participated in years of abuse. Police rescued the girl from the Hutchins trailer in June 2001 after Mr. Atkinson told a neighbor Jeanie Rivers...