Dirt Road

A Dutch music promoter and his German girlfriend were identified Wednesday as the pair found dead in Joshua Tree National Park earlier this week, and authorities said they likely died after being exposed for hours to the desert heat. Augustinus Van Hove, 44, and Helena Nuellett, 38, entered the park in a sedan shortly before noon on Monday and took a remote, dirt road to head to Arizona, Riverside County Sheriff's Capt. Raymond Gregory said in a statement. Nearly seven hours later, a couple visiting the park found Van Hove's body on the edge of Black Eagle Mine Road.

GISENYI, Rwanda - Around every corner of the winding dirt road we are greeted by exuberant children who cheer us as if we are competing in the Tour de France. We pass goats, cows, and farmers carrying impossibly large bundles of bananas to market. To our right, terraced peninsulas meet the sparkling expanse of Lake Kivu, while faint against the horizon, we see the distant shores of the Democratic Republic of Congo. We are cycling Rwanda's Congo Nile Trail, a dirt road and trail stretching 140 miles along the Lake Kivu shoreline, which winds by stunning bays and peninsulas, rising and then...

GISENYI, Rwanda - Around every corner of the winding dirt road we are greeted by exuberant children who cheer us as if we are competing in the Tour de France. We pass goats, cows, and farmers carrying impossibly large bundles of bananas to market. To our right, terraced peninsulas meet the sparkling expanse of Lake Kivu, while faint against the horizon, we see the distant shores of the Democratic Republic of Congo. We are cycling Rwanda's Congo Nile Trail, a dirt road and trail stretching 140 miles along the Lake Kivu shoreline, which winds by stunning bays and peninsulas, rising and then...

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - An infant born prematurely in a violent attack on his mother 10 months ago is learning to walk, beginning to talk, and bears a bittersweet resemblance to the slain woman. Yesterday was a sad but important date for the boy's family: His mother's killer pleaded guilty but mentally ill to cutting him from the womb and leaving the woman dead beside a rural road. Prosecutors say Jamie Stice, 21, was shocked with a stun gun before having her wrists and throat cut last April.

One of the many Bay State stars at this week's Sundance Film Festival is Eric Mabius, an Amherst resident, who's promoting the movie "Price Check," in which he stars with indie queen Parker Posey. Mabius, who's best known for his role on "Ugly Betty," told the Globe before heading to Park City, Utah, that he shot "Price Check" last winter and that, as we might expect, "Parker's just too much fun to work with. " Mabius said he has a TV project in the works. He'll star with Kathy Najimy and Brooke D'Orsay in "Love's Playing Our Song," a Hallmark Channel movie that airs in July.

Arcadia Wildlife Management Area RI Department of Environmental Management, Division of Forest Environment Arcadia Headquarters 260 Arcadia Road, Hope Valley, R.I. 401-539-2356 ; www.dem.ri.gov/ Directions: Take Interstate 95 to exit 5A onto Route 102 south. Go one mile and turn right onto Route 3 south and right again, at the blinking light, onto Route 165 west. Three miles later, you will see a sign for the Arcadia Wildlife Management Area. Turn right and park anywhere along this dirt road.

At the end of a dirt road in a narrow valley in northeastern Romania, Niculina Lubiuc tugs and turns in an effort to lead a stubborn horse from field to barn. She considers the snow that can cover her world each winter: "Wow. Wow. Until May, it can stay. " Lubiuc's son, Vasile, idles on a nearby step after another day at school. A neighbor banters from over a fence. They speak not Romanian, but an old Ukrainian dialect. The advance of Soviet soldiers in 1940 created a line, putting others from her culture in Ukraine, 10 miles north.

WOODLAND, Calif. - Authorities say an elderly woman died of hypothermia after she and her husband took a wrong turn in Northern California and got stranded. Police say Harold and Raquel Labbe, 78, of Hayward, set out for Cache Creek Casino on Jan. 27. They took a wrong turn onto a dirt road running through an orchard and got their car stuck in mud. Police believe the couple ran the engine to stay warm, then sought help on foot after running out of gas. The couple’s son reported them missing Jan. 29, saying concern was high because his mother had Alzheimer’s disease.

AUGUSTA, Maine — A family friend said the body of the boy left along a dirt road in Maine is back in Texas for a funeral to be held this weekend. Shirley Miller, a longtime friend in Texas, said yesterday that the body of 6-year-old Camden Hughes is back in Texas. The funeral is scheduled for Saturday. Camden’s body was released Friday by the Maine medical examiner. The boy’s mother, Julianne McCrery, of Irving, Texas, is being held in New Hampshire, where she is charged with killing the boy before leaving him in South Berwick, Maine.

Authorities are seeking help in identifying the body of man believed to be Hispanic and between the ages 25 and 35, found about 8 a.m. yesterday on a dirt road leading to a Department of Public Works sand pit. The man was 5-foot-10 and 177 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair, according to the Worcester County district attorney's office. Officials released a photo of a tattoo on the man's right calf of four Asian symbols with flames coming from each. Officials are encouraging anyone with information to call State Police at 508-829-8420 or Fitchburg police at 978-345-9648.

One of the many Bay State stars at this week's Sundance Film Festival is Eric Mabius, an Amherst resident, who's promoting the movie "Price Check," in which he stars with indie queen Parker Posey. Mabius, who's best known for his role on "Ugly Betty," told the Globe before heading to Park City, Utah, that he shot "Price Check" last winter and that, as we might expect, "Parker's just too much fun to work with. " Mabius said he has a TV project in the works. He'll star with Kathy Najimy and Brooke D'Orsay in "Love's Playing Our Song," a Hallmark Channel movie that airs in July.

A Dutch music promoter and his German girlfriend were identified Wednesday as the pair found dead in Joshua Tree National Park earlier this week, and authorities said they likely died after being exposed for hours to the desert heat. Augustinus Van Hove, 44, and Helena Nuellett, 38, entered the park in a sedan shortly before noon on Monday and took a remote, dirt road to head to Arizona, Riverside County Sheriff's Capt. Raymond Gregory said in a statement. Nearly seven hours later, a couple visiting the park found Van Hove's body on the...

Authorities are seeking help in identifying the body of man believed to be Hispanic and between the ages 25 and 35, found about 8 a.m. yesterday on a dirt road leading to a Department of Public Works sand pit. The man was 5-foot-10 and 177 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair, according to the Worcester County district attorney's office. Officials released a photo of a tattoo on the man's right calf of four Asian symbols with flames coming from each. Officials are encouraging anyone with information to call State Police at 508-829-8420 or Fitchburg police at 978-345-9648.

AUGUSTA, Maine — A family friend said the body of the boy left along a dirt road in Maine is back in Texas for a funeral to be held this weekend. Shirley Miller, a longtime friend in Texas, said yesterday that the body of 6-year-old Camden Hughes is back in Texas. The funeral is scheduled for Saturday. Camden’s body was released Friday by the Maine medical examiner. The boy’s mother, Julianne McCrery, of Irving, Texas, is being held in New Hampshire, where she is charged with killing the boy before leaving him in South Berwick, Maine.

SOUTH BERWICK, Maine — Officials were looking for a navy blue Toyota Tacoma pickup truck that may be related to the discovery of the body of a young boy found Saturday along a remote road in southern Maine, police said yesterday. Officials were working last night to identify the child, who was 3 feet, 8 inches tall, weighed 45 pounds, and is believed to have been between 4 and 6 years old. He had dark-blond hair and blue eyes. There were no missing-person reports filed for a boy fitting the description.

ASHFIELD AND CONWAY — It is one of those scenes that prompts back-road drivers to pull over for a closer look: Beyond a white farmhouse, old barns top a low hill. A light snow has dusted a mown path and revealed the lines made by tractor tires in the stubble of the sloping field. A dark edge of pine and hemlock trees enfolds the cleared expanse, like a wall enclosing a secret garden. The Bullitt Reservation, 262 acres of fields and forest on the northwestern edge of the Connecticut River Valley, is a very private-feeling public place, and a brand-new one, at that.

FARNESE, Italy - Sometimes, when you feel like you’ve traveled as far from home as you can possibly go, you reach a moment when things start to seem less like a vacation and more like a trust fall. This is the sense that crept over me as I turned the key in my rented white Fiat, coasted out the gate of the stone farmhouse where I was staying, and turned onto a dirt road to follow the Last Brigand. There were seven of us in two cars, a little caravan along an unmarked red ocher road.

BERWICK, Maine -- Family and friends of a pregnant teenager allegedly stabbed to death by her former boyfriend remembered her yesterday as a determined student who was working toward becoming a nurse when she died. Treasure Genaw had broken off her relationship with suspect Anthony O'Leary "and he would not let it go," said Bob Lahr, a family friend. The teen's father, Bradley Genaw, wept quietly and was comforted by a minister as Lahr addressed reporters before O'Leary, 19, was arraigned yesterday on a second-degree murder charge in District Court in Dover, N.H. ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — John Shirreffs looked up at the majestic replica of Secretariat’s US postage stamp looming behind him and adjusted his cap. Big Red and his trademark checkered blue blinkers stared right back down, a larger than life reminder of the legend Shirreffs and superstar mare Zenyatta are chasing. The unbeaten 6-year-old has become arguably the sport’s most transcendent figure since Secretariat won the Triple Crown in 1973, her 19-0 record giving the industry a much-needed shot of adrenaline.

AREQUIPA — Maybe it was on the Urubamba River as our chain-smoking guide hollered, “Paddle like you’re drowning!’’ Or maybe it was on a rocky dirt road, when, in a vain effort to ward off altitude sickness, I chewed cheekfuls of coca leaves. It could have been in the muddy Amazon jungle, when I was certain the next boot-sucking step on the five-mile hike would yield an angry anaconda. Perhaps it was when a waiter passed with a platter of the traditional delicacy “cuy,’’ roasted whole guinea pig. But no. The worst moment of our family vacation in Peru?