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Paul Grellong, the Brown University graduate who now writes for the popular television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, has won an Elliot Norton Award for his Radio Free Emerson, a play about a silver-tongued radio talk show host from Rhode Island.

The play, which won for best new script, was commissioned by Pawtucket’s Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre and produced there last May.

The Norton awards, given each year to recognize achievement in the Greater Boston theater community, were announced Monday night at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. The prize is bestowed by the Boston Theater Critics Association in honor of longtime Boston theater critic Elliot Norton, who died in 2003 at the age of 100.

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Drew Barrymore was involved in a hit-and-run accident, but instead of staying put, she followed the other driver and took down the license plate number.

The 33-year-old actress wasn’t injured when her car was rear-ended Monday in West Hollywood, said Los Angeles County sheriff’s Sgt. Kristin Aloma.

Aloma said Barrymore followed the other vehicle and got its license plate number, which she then handed over to sheriff’s deputies.

No arrests had been reported as of yesterday.