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A Luzerne County man was jailed Wednesday on charges of assaulting a Secret Service agent - punching him with a set of brass knuckles and smacking him in the head with a chunk of asphalt - in what city police described as a road rage incident. William Slavoski, 52, resident agent in charge of the Scranton Secret Service office, suffered injuries to his face, head and left arm in the incident Tuesday evening on the Central Scranton Expressway, police said. Police charged his alleged assailant, Kenneth Kile, 25, of 64 Penn St., Kingston, with aggravated and simple assault, recklessly endangering...

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PHOENIX (AP) - The disc jockey who made an on-air prank call to the widow of St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Darryl Kile was fired, the radio station announced Monday. KUPD-FM morning radio personality Beau Duran called Flynn Kile at her hotel and asked if she had a date to last Thursday's playoff game. The stunt outraged St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa and prompted an apology from the Arizona Diamondbacks. KUPD suspended Duran last week, but in a written statement Monday, general manager Chuck Artigue said Duran was fired. In the statement released by the station, Duran said, "I...

Deejay suspended for call to player's widow Beau Duran By Jim GintonioThe Arizona Republic Oct. 6, 2002 The KUPD-AM disc jockey who called Darryl Kile's widow and asked her if she had a date for Thursday's Diamondbacks-Cardinals game has been suspended in an incident that has created a national buzz and caused one of the station's major advertisers to pull out. After Beau Duran serves his one-week suspension, his status will be reviewed, according to Chuck Artigue, the media manager for the Sandusky Group, which owns the station. The station and Duran have apologized to Flynn Kile, both teams and...

<p>PHOENIX -- St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa was irate over a Phoenix-area disc jockey who called Darryl Kile's widow and asked if she had a date for Thursday's playoff game.</p> <p>Flynn Kile hung up the phone after KUPD-FM radio's Beau Duran called her Phoenix hotel room, The Arizona Republic reported on its Web site Thursday night.</p>

STURGEON BAY, Wis. -- A boy who got an autograph and had a photo taken with Darryl Kile the day before the St. Louis Cardinals pitcher was found dead plans to send the items to Kile's family. Sean Zak, 10, had his baseball glove signed by Kile and then posed for a photo with him while attending the Cardinals' game in Chicago on June 21. Zak and his family said that, after their encounter with Kile, security personnel separated the players and fans for the start of the game. "He was thoughtful enough to take the time to give something...