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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1997
Page
3
Bay Bridge tolls were waived for 72 hours funded by part of a 1.5 million settlement after a 1993 publicity stunt by radio DJs caused a traffic jam. The waiver ran from 2 a.m. Tuesday to 2 a.m. Friday as drivers noted heavier traffic and the payout aims to compensate irate motorists.
Mikail Markhasev 18 pleaded innocent in Los Angeles Superior Court to murder charges in the shooting death of Ennis Cosby on January 16. The defendant did not speak as his attorney entered the plea. The case involves the son of Bill Cosby.
In Media, Pennsylvania, John du Pont received a sentence of 13 to 30 years in state custody for the murder of Olympic wrestler David Schultz. The court considered aggravating factors and du Pont's ongoing mental illness, with the final placement to be decided between a mental hospital or prison after the sentence ends.
The Pentagon opened a formal review into allegations that military investigators mishandled gay service member cases and that harassment was ignored. The probe, not aimed at changing the policy, seeks proper enforcement of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell rules under Defense Secretary William Cohen.
In New York a Danish mother Annette Sorensen and father Exavier Wardlaw faced endangering the welfare of a child and disorderly conduct charges after leaving 14 month old Liv in a stroller outside a Dallas BBQ. The child was placed in foster care but a family court judge ordered her return to her parents later that day.
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