The Recorder from Greenfield, Massachusetts • 6

I 6 The Recorder Thursday December 21 2006 STATE REGIONAL Greenfield Massachusetts StateRegion Briefs i I Big Big repairs will cost million Associated Press Chairman John Cogliano reports repairs panda in July prompteda Associated Press ffcafanum John Cogliano reports repairs panels in July prompted a are virtually completei Cogliano who also serves as trans review of tt system that uncovered more areas in need of repaic Underthe votes taken by the board the ImH nniir contractor McCourt OmstraefionCo hadmhSfol $15 mtUon miiIwi InmuMid tO $25 "rflWw MeanwhOsL another confracta JJ Write had an initial $3 nrilUen contract increased to $9 million The Big Dig file moat aqnenatve in US history been plagued fay problems and coat overruns throiqghout the two decades taken to design and build BOSTON Repairs to the Big Dig made since the fatal ceiling collapse in a connector tunnel this summer will cost an wtfimatarf $34 million the director said Wednesday in asking Ihrnpike officials to approve repair contracts Big Dig project manager Michael request to the braid- of the Massachusetts Ttarnpike Authority which oversees the $146 trillion highway project was approved unanimously It comes as Turnpike Authority In addition CogUano said the lest set of repairs in a tumid connecting the Southeast Expressway to the 1-90 ramp are 97 percent complete and then will receive the same state and federal inspections In all cases the inspections are requiredbefore they can be reopened to the public The request to approve the contracts for repairs provided the most specific estimate to date of the cost of fixing the damage in the Big Dig The collapse of ceiling portation secretary told die board repairs to the Interstate 90 connector westbound are finished have been inspected fay the state and are being inspected by federal authorities Repairs to 1-90 eastbound site of a July 10 ceiling panel collapse that killed a Boston motorist also are complete and are now being inspected fay file state he uM Cogliano said he wpiptaH federal inspectors to also begin their work Court: Police must justify closed files in UMass disappearance CONCORD NJL The state Supreme Court ruled Wedneedey state police must give more detailed description and reasone for refusing to madoM their inves-tigative records in the disappearance of University of Massachusetts at Amherst student Maura Murray State police not met their burden to demonatrato how disclosure of the requested documents could reasonably be expected to interfere with any invwitiga-tion or enforcement the court said in a unairimnua Judge rejects Iraq war veteran's lawsuit over BOSTON A federal judge on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit Tiled fay an Iraq war veteran who claimed filmmaker Michael Moore used a clip from a television interview without his permission to falsely portrqy him as anti-war in Sgt Peter Damon a National Guardsman from Middleborough had filed a $85 million lawsuit claiming of reputation emotional distress embarrassment and personal due to his appearance in Moore's scathing 2004 documentary criticizing the Bush administration and the war in Iraq Damon 34 who lost his arms when a tire on a Black Hawk helicopter exploded while he and another reservist were servicing the aircraft claimed that Moore never asked for his consent to use a clip from an interview he did with But a lawyer for Moore argued in court Wednesday that the film did not attribute any political viewpoint to Damon and did not defame him Romney appoints 4 judges to bench BOSTON Gov Mitt Romney on Wednesday nominated four people to the bench despite vowing at the beginning of November not to make any duck Romney nominated Robert Cosgrove to the Superior Court Michael A Uhlarik to the District Court Robert Powers as clerk magistrate of Barnstable District Court and Mark Jeffries as clerk magistrate to the Southeast Division of the Housing Court press office said he has now made 81 nominations over his four-year term filling 469 of 473 positions The nominations coming just 15 days before Romney leaves office appear at odds with pledges by Romney that he would not make nominations after Nov 8 not planning on bringing to you a whole slate of lots of people to fill lots of Romney said according to minutes of a Nov 1 meeting of the Council anticipate being able to complete all nominees next Wednesday (Nov AP photo Warm breath cold air A breath is backlit as he watches cleanup operations at the scene of a fire Wednesday in Lewiston Maine The fire destroyed an abandoned brick complex above a former restaurant the night before Murray was 21 years old when she waa test seen on the night of Ffah 9 2004 shortly after crashing her car into a snowbank next to Route 112 to HaverhilL Her tether Red Murray of Whymnirflv Mm md to the investigative files under the state Right-to-Know Lew His lawyer Timothy Ervin said Wednesday the ruling was and although the court did not require the release of any fOOQldli said all along 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