Wedding Party

What began as a wedding party at the Danversport Yacht Club in Danvers Saturday night turned into a battle royale and ended with two women, including the groom's mother, in handcuffs. When officers arrived at the yacht club just after midnight Sunday for a report of an "out of control" groom, police found a melee, with party guests yelling and wrestling on the ground, but did not find the groom. Instead, officers saw the groom's mother - Darlene M. DeIorio, 45, of Revere - "attempting to punch a female at the bottom of the pile," according to the police report of the...

A flash flood swept through villages in a mountainous area of northern Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 27 people, authorities said. It was the second major flood reported this week in the north. Abdul Jabar Taqwa, the governor of Takhar province, said flood waters broke through a dam early Friday, washed down a valley and damaged several villages in Ishkamish district. "It was a very powerful flood. It hit around midnight," Taqwa said. "Dozens of villages have been hit. I'm worried that the death toll will go up. " Rescuers have been trying to reach the site,...

When Guy and I decided to tie the rainbow knot next summer after 13 years of unwedded bliss, no one was surprised. But everyone still wants to know: What are you going to do with your ex-wives? My ex told me that a friend had the temerity to suggest that she, my ex-wife, should be the one to "give me away. " Hadn't she raised our two sons with me? Hadn't she stood by me during my midlife coming-out process? Not to mention the parties at Guy's and my home where she made clever repartee with our gay friends.

A flash flood has swept through a village in northern Afghanistan, killing 21 people, many of them members of a wedding party. The deputy police chief in Sari Pul province says 45 houses were destroyed in Dahmra village late on Sunday as heavy rains caused floodwaters to rush down the mountains. Sayed Jahangir Kramat says rescue teams were headed to the area on Monday. He says the dead included men, women and children, many who were attending a wedding in the village.

An Amherst man has been released on $1,000 bail after pleading not guilty to stabbing four people at a post-reception wedding party in Sunderland over the weekend. Ian Woishnis (WOE'-shnis) was arraigned Monday in Greenfield on four counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon in connection with the alleged attack Saturday night at an apartment complex. Authorities say although none of the injuries are considered life-threatening, one victim was wounded in the head and shoulder, another in the arm and neck.

GAUHATI, India — A would-be groom and several relatives going to a wedding were among the 28 people killed when a wooden bridge collapsed and sent a bus crashing into a lake in India’s remote northeast, officials said yesterday. The bus fell 15 feet into the water and sank with the wedding party trapped inside late Monday near the village of Hajo, about 25 miles west of the Assam state capital of Gauhati, district magistrate S.K. Roy said. Villagers were first to arrive and rescued 10 people, who were sent to a hospital.

RAMADI, Iraq -- As survivors tell it, the wedding party was in full swing. The band was playing tribal music, and the guests had just finished eating dinner when, at about 9 p.m., they heard the roar of US warplanes. Fearing trouble, the revelers ended the festivities and went to bed. About six hours later, the first bomb struck the tent. "Mothers died with their children in their arms," said Madhi Nawaf, who survived the attack Wednesday in Mogr el-Deeb on the Syrian border.

Though everything about their wedding day was picture-perfect, it was dirty laundry that brought South End residents John Lam and John Ruggieri together. "John was driving his car, and he stopped to let me cross the street," remembers Lam, a 27-year-old soloist at the Boston Ballet. "He smiled. I smiled. I dropped off my laundry. He dropped off his dry cleaning. I went for coffee at the Buttery Cafe and sat outside nearby. John came around the corner and we started talking. " Ruggieri, an equity partner and attorney specializing in residential real estate development at the Boston law firm...

Spring entertaining means throwing open the doors and letting the party spill onto the patio or a balcony. The air is warm, the trees leafy again, the flower garden showing its first blooms. And there are all those graduations and weddings to celebrate. For these events, a buffet is tailor-made. But not the kind of spread where foods sit in heated chafing dishes. Instead, plan a menu of dishes served at room temperature. Think of it as an indoor picnic that is easy to eat with forks, plates balanced on laps.

"Carry the One" is a brilliant feat of storytelling, a total immersion into a family deeply injured, fractured, wounded in every way by a tragic death that occurs after the last truly happy, free moment in the lives of three siblings: a backyard wedding in rural Wisconsin in the early 1980s. Carol Anshaw takes chances from the first moments of the novel, her fourth book. The plot, which dives in and out of 25 years in the Kenneys' lives, does not come in neat increments or even chapters that feel the necessity of traditional arc. It's not "plates spinning in the air," as some writers...

What began as a wedding party at the Danversport Yacht Club in Danvers Saturday night turned into a battle royale and ended with two women, including the groom's mother, in handcuffs. When officers arrived at the yacht club just after midnight Sunday for a report of an "out of control" groom, police found a melee, with party guests yelling and wrestling on the ground, but did not find the groom. Instead, officers saw the groom's mother - Darlene M. DeIorio, 45, of Revere - "attempting to punch a female at the bottom of the pile," according to the police report of the...

Spring entertaining means throwing open the doors and letting the party spill onto the patio or a balcony. The air is warm, the trees leafy again, the flower garden showing its first blooms. And there are all those graduations and weddings to celebrate. For these events, a buffet is tailor-made. But not the kind of spread where foods sit in heated chafing dishes. Instead, plan a menu of dishes served at room temperature. Think of it as an indoor picnic that is easy to eat with forks, plates balanced on laps.

Philippine officials say a militant leader has been killed in an ambush by bandits in the country's south. Army Col. Ricardo Visaya says Long Malat Sulayman of the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf group died hours after being wounded in Sunday's attack by bandits feuding over land. A firefight broke out, but no one else was wounded. The attack happened in Basilan's province's Al-Barka town, where Sulayman led a sub-group of militants. He had been wanted by authorities. An October operation to arrest him and his followers ended in the deaths of 19 soldiers.

"Carry the One" is a brilliant feat of storytelling, a total immersion into a family deeply injured, fractured, wounded in every way by a tragic death that occurs after the last truly happy, free moment in the lives of three siblings: a backyard wedding in rural Wisconsin in the early 1980s. Carol Anshaw takes chances from the first moments of the novel, her fourth book. The plot, which dives in and out of 25 years in the Kenneys' lives, does not come in neat increments or even chapters that feel the necessity of traditional arc. It's not "plates spinning in the air," as some writers say, or a...

Though everything about their wedding day was picture-perfect, it was dirty laundry that brought South End residents John Lam and John Ruggieri together. "John was driving his car, and he stopped to let me cross the street," remembers Lam, a 27-year-old soloist at the Boston Ballet. "He smiled. I smiled. I dropped off my laundry. He dropped off his dry cleaning. I went for coffee at the Buttery Cafe and sat outside nearby. John came around the corner and we started talking. " Ruggieri, an equity partner and attorney specializing in residential real estate development at the Boston law firm...

Monday's question was an unusually black-and-white one, from a young woman who no longer wanted to be a bridesmaid in a friend's wedding. Your advice broke down thus: Do it: 16 votes Back out: 9 votes Either/It depends: 4 votes I am strongly in the "stay in the wedding" camp, myself. Let's assume that the LW's discomfort is merely that, social awkwardness, and not that the wedding activities are putting her under serious financial and moral strain. (She bought the dress already!

Monday's question was an unusually black-and-white one, from a young woman who no longer wanted to be a bridesmaid in a friend's wedding. Your advice broke down thus: Do it: 16 votes Back out: 9 votes Either/It depends: 4 votes I am strongly in the "stay in the wedding" camp, myself. Let's assume that the LW's discomfort is merely that, social awkwardness, and not that the wedding activities are putting her under serious financial and moral strain. (She bought the dress already!

A flash flood has swept through a village in northern Afghanistan, killing 21 people, many of them members of a wedding party. The deputy police chief in Sari Pul province says 45 houses were destroyed in Dahmra village late on Sunday as heavy rains caused floodwaters to rush down the mountains. Sayed Jahangir Kramat says rescue teams were headed to the area on Monday. He says the dead included men, women and children, many who were attending a wedding in the village.

YORK, England - What a place for a wedding. When I arrived at the York Minster, a bride and groom were posing for photos in front of an elaborately carved and sculpted side door. The wedding party - men in military uniforms and women in those curious fascinator hats - lent a dashing modern air to the limestone bulk of the largest medieval Gothic cathedral in northern Europe. Although the first Minster, or mission church, was built in the 600s, the current masterpiece was constructed between 1220 and 1472.

When Guy and I decided to tie the rainbow knot next summer after 13 years of unwedded bliss, no one was surprised. But everyone still wants to know: What are you going to do with your ex-wives? My ex told me that a friend had the temerity to suggest that she, my ex-wife, should be the one to "give me away. " Hadn't she raised our two sons with me? Hadn't she stood by me during my midlife coming-out process? Not to mention the parties at Guy's and my home where she made clever repartee with our gay friends.