FROM THE REGION.

• Position: LOCAL NEWS

The following correction was published in the Telegram & Gazette on September 21, 2010:

Dava Sobel, author of "Galileo's Daughter," will discuss her book at 7 p.m. Oct. 27 in the Kent Recital Hall of the Conlon Music Building at Fitchburg State University. Ms. Sobel's name was incorrect in the Sept. 13 Telegram & Gazette.

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Athol

Bodies of woman, man are found

ATHOL - The Franklin County district attorney's office is investigating the deaths of a man and woman whose bodies were found yesterday morning.

CBS 3 Springfield News reported that a fisherman pulled the body of a man from the Connecticut River near the French King Bridge.

Authorities later found a woman dead at the man's home. They provided no further information.

WFXT Fox 25 in Boston identified the dead woman as Joanne Johnson. A Facebook page in her memory last night contained comments from the 42-year-old woman's shocked friends and relatives.

Westboro

Four hurt in crash; teen to be charged

WESTBORO - Four people were hurt in an early morning crash yesterday on Ruggles Street when a car slammed into a tree.

One person in the car, identified by police only as a 16-year-old Mount Pleasant Street resident, was removed by firefighters using extrication tools. The boy, of Westboro, was trapped in the front passenger side and was then flown by medical helicopter to UMass Memorial Medical Center - University Campus in Worcester with internal and leg injuries.

The driver of the car, identified by police as Vaughn Sewell, 18, of 74 Powder Hill Way, was treated at the scene for leg and arm injuries and will be summoned to Westboro District Court on drunken driving and other charges.

Police were called to the area of 92 Ruggles St. about 4:10 a.m. to investigate a one-car crash. Officer Tyson Delong's investigation showed the 2000 Toyota was driving south on Ruggles Street when the driver swerved to avoid a small tree that was partially in the road.

"Due to the high rate of speed the operator lost control of the vehicle and struck a tree on the opposite side of the road in front of 92 Ruggles St.," police said in a news release. "The tree in the roadway had been chewed at the base by beavers from a nearby stream."

Mr. Sewell was taken by ambulance to UMass Memorial Medical Center - University Campus along with two girls who were in the rear seats. The two girls, identified as Alina Bayborodin, 17, of 14 Westminster Way, Westboro, and a 15-year-old Thomas Newton Drive resident, had minor injuries, according to police.

Mr. Sewell will be summoned to court on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol causing serious bodily injury, driving without a license, speeding, failure to keep within marked lanes and...