She fought him off until he fled in a yellow Jeep Wrangler that had a yellow smiley face on the spare tire cover and, possibly, Illinois license plates, police said.

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Floodwaters rising, the staff, increasingly cut off from the outside world, fled the building famously in the back of newspaper delivery trucks.

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In February 2010, he cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet and fled, a day after being given a last chance at freedom by a judge who released him despite multiple probation violations.

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Some 30, 000 north-easterners fled from Bangalore, nine of them being thrown off a moving train.

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By the time we reach the car, the antelopes have fled the scene and the elephants and lions are facing off.

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But others have noted that his legacy of public service was counter-balanced by heavy drinking in his early years - and the death of a female companion, Mary Jo Kopechne, in 1969 when he drove off a bridge at Chappaquiddick in Massachusetts and fled the scene.

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Even those like a former prime minister, Nguza Karl I Bond, who had fled into exile where he denounced Mr Mobutu, could be bought off, brought back and reinstated.

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Worse off, though, are many of the 220, 000 or so people who fled earlier wars in Abkhazia and South Ossetia in the early 1990s.

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The court was told the pair fled and tried to hijack a car belonging to a passer-by, but she screamed and they ran off.

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