Tokyo. - Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. will co-host the 9th National Wheelchair Marathon “NISSAN Cup Oppama Championship 2008″ for three days from December 5 to December 7, 2008. The special marathon will take place at its Oppama Plant (Natsushima-cho …
Saturday, November 15, 2008 (11-15) 06:41 PST BERKELEY — An intoxicated man in a wheelchair was arrested after he stabbed two people who tried to intervene as he argued with a Berkeley liquor-store clerk refused to sell him alcohol, police said …
Boston Globe (USA) - Apr 8, 2005:
Just weeks after the joy of that January night at Green Bay’s Lambeau Field, Lee, who has muscular dystrophy, has been stripped of the title — and made to return the prizes, including the new scooter — after she was seen in a newspaper photograph standing up. Now the Ms. Wheelchair America pageant is in an uproar over just how disabled a winner must be. A national advocacy group protested that the dethroning reflects ”backward thinking” on the part of the pageant.
KansasCity.com (USA) - Apr 5, 2005:
As she prepared to compete in this summer’s national pageant, Ms. Wheelchair Wisconsin had carefully selected two dresses and matching shoes that would not clash with her teal-green motorized scooter. Janeal Lee had also started growing her hair long, scheduled an appointment for professional photos and was delighted to discover that students at the high school where she teaches had raised more than $1,000 for her trip. But after a local newspaper published a photo of Lee standing in her classroom, she was told by pageant officials that she was not disabled enough, and her state title was taken away.
TwinCities.com (USA) - Apr 2, 2005:
Janeal Lee thought she would be representing Wisconsin in a national Ms. Wheelchair pageant in New York this July. Instead, Wisconsin state pageant officials have informed Lee, who has muscular dystrophy, that she is losing her crown as Ms. Wheelchair Wisconsin after she was shown in a newspaper photograph standing in the classroom where she teaches math at Kaukauna High School.
BBC (INTERNATIONAL) - Mar 31, 2005:
Matthew Nagle, 25, was left paralysed from the neck down and confined to a wheelchair after a knife attack in 2001. The pioneering surgery at New England Sinai Hospital, Massachusetts, last summer means he can now control everyday objects by thought alone.