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SUV Slams Into Horse-Drawn Buggy, Injures Amish Girl, Grandmother POSTED: 4:37 pm EST February 15, 2006 UPDATED: 4:49 pm EST February 15, 2006 An Amish grandmother and her granddaughter were seriously injured Wednesday when their horse-drawn buggy was struck by a sport utility vehicle in St. Mary's County, Maryland. Police said the driver of a 2000 Ford Explorer slammed into the back of the buggy on Thompson Corner Road in Mechanicsville. Authorities said the driver of the buggy, identified as Mary Z. Hostetler, 60, of Charlotte Hall, was driving her 12-year-old granddaughter at the time of the crash. She was...

A hulking Boston bodyguard was arrested yesterday, accused of hurling a scalding Starbucks coffee at a meter maid who slapped a ticket on his illegally parked Hummer in the Back Bay.      The alleged attack unfolded about 8:30 a.m. when Christi Noviello, 44, was walking her Berkeley and Boylston streets beat and saw the black Hummer parked in a loading zone with a woman in the passenger seat.      ``I am a nice meter maid,'' Noviello told the Herald yesterday in an exclusive interview. ``As a courtesy, I gave the lady a chance to move, but she pointed at the Starbucks and...