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The headline to a Boston Globe story this week was an attention-grabber: “Family terrorized by golf balls wins nearly $5 million from neighboring country club.” My initial reaction was that of John McEnroe to a chair umpire when he got a ruling he disagreed with: “You cannot be serious!” A family with three daughters, ages 2 to 5, sued Indian Pond Country Club in Kingston, Massachusetts, “for trespass over the continual bombardment — and won a permanent injunction against golf balls on their property.” A jury awarded the Tenczars $3.5 million for damages and mental and emotional suffering. The Globe...

As golf balls, they're not all that big. Florida’s Governor has a pair. That’s the slogan emblazoned on new merchandise — golf balls — that debuted Wednesday as the Legislature made a decisive drive toward passing legislation Gov. Ron DeSantis called for to fortify Florida against those pesky federal vaccine mandates. “Hold the line,” says the box, under the line about the Governor having a pair. Even if the line isn’t specified on the new merchandise, there’s plenty of double entendre. Allusions to anatomy abound. “Standing firm and setting an example for the rest of the nation in defending freedom...

Someone was obviously using a potato field as their personal driving range. According to a report at NBC News, McCain Foods of North Carolina is recalling frozen hash browns from stores in nine states because pieces of golf balls were found in the potatoes. The recall notice said the golf balls were “inadvertently harvested,” meaning some old golf balls were scooped up, along with the potatoes, by the farming rig.

A Doberman had to have five golf balls removed from his stomach in an emergency operation - and some of them may have been trapped inside him for more than six months. Worried owner Graham Saysell, 54, rushed Zac to the vets the day after he collapsed at home last month. Mr Saysell had no idea the balls were there until he was shown an X-ray.

Golf balls are bombarding the Port of Everett and anti-terrorism cameras are being trained on a residential neighborhood to hunt down the source.Port officials believe someone on Rucker Hill is whacking golf balls down the hill onto port property, endangering dozens of workers and millions of dollars worth of equipment and cargo."We're trying to use any means possible to stop it, aside from posting somebody in the field of fire all day and night," said Ed Madura, a port security official.The port says the flying golf balls constitute a threat to personal safety. Pointing video surveillance cameras toward the...

The California Supreme Court took a look today at a lesbian couple’s claim that a golf country club discriminated against them by charging them higher membership fees than spouses pay. The case could be a preview of how the court approaches the same-sex marriage issue. By granting family memberships only to married couples, the San Diego country club “chose criteria that same-sex couples could not possibly meet," said Jon Davidson, legal director of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund and lawyer for the couple who filed the suit. His argument – that a spouses-only policy amounts to discrimination against...

<p>QUINCY, Mass. (AP) A Milton man has been indicted for manslaughter in connection with the November beating death of a Quincy grandfather after a dispute over abandoned golf balls.</p> <p>A Norfolk grand jury on Thursday indicted Robert Carnathan, 54, on charges he killed Donald King, 79, during an altercation at President's Golf Course in Quincy on Nov. 9.</p>