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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1992
Page
3
U S District Judge Edwin Nelson sentenced Birmingham Mayor Richard Arrington to 18 months in prison on weekends for refusing to release records to a grand jury probing City Hall. Arrington says prosecutors target him for being black and will begin the sentence the following Thursday.
Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh said he will petition the Supreme Court after a federal appeals court voided John Poindexter five felony convictions Nov. 15. The court ruled immunized testimony given to Congress had been improperly used against him.
A California man, Richard Farley, was sentenced to death for the murders of seven people in an office rampage sparked by unrequited love. Superior Court Judge Joseph Biafore Jr. described him as a vicious killer with complete disregard for human life.
The Florida Supreme Court removed Judge John Santora from the post of chief circuit judge in the northeast district on Friday. He will stay on the bench. The decision followed remarks deemed racist, including statements linking school violence to integration and opposing interracial marriage.
Federal agents seized hundreds of valuable wild parrots and arrested an alleged smuggler as part of a three year undercover operation. The New Zealand man was arrested near Los Angeles with search warrants executed in five states and two foreign countries targeting illegal birds and records.
Peter Simone, 46, pleaded guilty in U S District Court to federal gambling and money laundering charges tied to a northeast Kansas City casino operated from March 1990 to March 1991. He is linked to laundering over $50 000 from video poker machines and helped free 11 men jailed for refusing to testify.
Presidential hopeful David Duke says he is proud of his years as a Ku Klux Klan leader, noting he left the Klan in 1980 after serving as grand wizard in Louisiana. He maintains the basic Klan view and cites influencing youth toward mainstream ideas. Duke denied in New Orleans that he said he was proud of the Klan.
A surge of natural gas caused ten fires that damaged or destroyed 18 buildings across a 16 block area in Chicago. One person was killed, two are missing, five injured including three firefighters, and gas service was cut to about 640 customers overnight. A malfunctioning low pressure regulator was blamed.
President Bush laid a wreath at Martin Luther King Jr.’s crypt and praised King’s dream. Bernice King challenged the nation on health care, crime, racism, and recession as Maynard Jackson warned of gun violence and drugs in cities.
The move to earlier hours is driven by two earners per home and an aging population. Workers like Leonard Anderson and Brian Fiori note longer mornings and earlier bedtimes as a cultural shift. TV executives see rising dawn activity and lower late night energy.
In Portland an armed suspect shot by police after breaking into a home killed 12 year old Nathan Thomas and himself in a gun battle. Deputies say a four page undated note found in his apartment indicates intent to die in the confrontation and addresses his mother. The note states I hope to die tonight and expresses love to his mother. Authorities will determine if his death was by own action.
President Bush will ask for a large expansion of Head Start funding in the fiscal 1993 budget. The White House says the rise will exceed 500 million dollars, enlarging the program to serve more low income preschoolers in federally financed education medical and nutrition services. The announcment notes Head Start had 2.2 billion in 1992 and served 622,000 children and Bush will visit Emily Harris Head Start Center in Catonsville Maryland.
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