Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.
Tiger Woods hospitalized: Golfing great Tiger Woods’ career was in doubt this week after a one-vehicle crash in which he fractured his right leg and shattered an ankle. Woods, 45, was traveling at a “high rate of speed” just after 7 a.m. on a dangerous stretch of roadway about 20 miles from downtown Los Angeles when he hit a median, swerved across two oncoming lanes, hit a tree, and rolled several times, law enforcement sources said. His airbags saved his life, cops said. Surgeons later inserted a rod into his fractured leg and screws and pins into his foot and ankle. Police said Woods did not appear to be intoxicated and was alert after the accident. He underwent his fifth back surgery in December and was hoping to play in the Masters in April.
“It was very fortunate that
Mr. Woods was able to come out of this alive,” said Deputy
Carlos Gonzalez.
Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Deported: A 95-year-old man who served as an armed guard at a Nazi concentration camp was deported to Germany last week for his “assistance in Nazi-sponsored persecution,” the Justice Department said. At his two-day immigration trial last year, Friedrich
Karl Berger was found to have guarded prisoners at the Neuengamme sub-camp near Meppen, Germany, in 1945 as they worked to exhaustion and death. The camp housed civilian prisoners from around Europe, including Jews and
Nazi “political opponents.” After the war, Bergen emigrated to Canada and later to the U.S., living in Oak Ridge for decades. During last year’s proceedings, a U.S. immigration judge ruled that Berger was a willing participant in Nazi crimes. After his trial, Berger said that he’d been ordered to work at the camp. He called his deportation “ridiculous,” and said, “You’re forcing me out of my home.”