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E A G L E, Colo., July 14— The nation knows basketball player Kobe Bryant's accuser only as a namless 19 year-old hotel worker, but her hometown friend says everyone in the small town of Eagle, Colo., knows exactly who she is and what she has been through. Starlene Bray, a friend of the alleged victim, says the young woman is upset over a media stakeout outside her home and reports of emotional difficulties she's recently suffered. "She's kind of in hiding right now," said Starlene Bray on ABCNEWS' Good Morning America. "She's been back and forth from Denver, kind...

BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) _ Police are blaming a road rage crash on that left a passenger dead and three children without a father on "two stubborn people" who wouldn't back down. Now both drivers face possible criminal charges. Mark Raymond Bair, 29, of Brooklyn Park, was released from jail Tuesday pending a formal complaint. The other driver, Beth Ann Rademacher, 24, of Champlin, was being treated at North Memorial Medical Center for her injuries. Precisely what sparked the deadly confrontation on Sunday afternoon is still a matter of investigation, but Bair told police that Rademacher had cut him off,...