Mourners stream to river's edge where boys fell through ice

Monday, December 16, 2002

LAWRENCE, Mass. -- With a sudden impulse to slide on the river's ice, 11-year-old William Rodriguez scurried 25 feet from shore and, with his six playmates looking on, plunged through.

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