Florida man gets life for murder in Halloween dispute
Richard Day, 59, was sentenced to life in prison for murder after running over neighbor Robert Campbell, 40, following a Halloween pranks dispute in Fort Lauderdale. Day cried and apologized, saying the act was not intentional and he wished to return home to his wife and son. Prosecutors said he fled with his 12-year-old son after eggs and shaving cream were thrown on his home.
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Richard Day
Woman shot after jail escape in Tennessee standoff
In Smithville an escaped inmate who stole a deputy's gun and patrol car and kidnapped her 3 year old son was shot outside a rural home as she pressed the gun to the boy's head. The child was uninjured. Karen Lovell, serving time for harassment and stalking, was transported to a Chattanooga hospital with a gunshot wound to the head. Captain Mark Collins fired the shot from about 10 feet away as law enforcement despite the risk, ending the standoff. The sheriff described the tense moment and the inmate's threat to kill the child.
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Lloyd Emmons
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Lovell
Nashville
Emmons
Columbine Students Stay Home After Threats Spread
Two thirds of Columbine High School pupils were absent Friday after threats scrawled in two bathrooms and a sidewalk warned of harm on Friday. Authorities said the notes were vague and unnamed. The campus was locked down with extra police inside. about 600 students attended district wide.
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Littleton
Colo
Columbine High School
Rick Kaufman
Jefferson County
Columbine
Jacki Tallman
Kaufman
Roger Moore released from hospital after pacemaker fit
Roger Moore 75, star of seven James Bond films, left a New York hospital Friday after being fitted for a pacemaker following a collapse during a matinee of The Play What I Wrote. UNICEF spokeswoman Mary Cahill said he is “feeling absolutely fine” and he planned to attend a UNICEF award benefit in Manhattan that night.
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Aretha Franklin to lead vigil for Luther Vandross in Detroit
Aretha Franklin will host a candle light vigil and prayer service on May 19 for Luther Vandross who remains in critical condition after a stroke. The event at Little Rock Baptist Church will feature The Four Tops and Ebenezer Mass Choir with overflow at Northern High School Pavilion. Vandross has not regained consciousness since the April 16 stroke, doctors hopeful for recovery.
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Four Tops
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Lois Najarian
U S helicopter crash in Iraq claims three soldiers
U S military officials said a Black Hawk crashed during a rescue near Samarra killing three American crew members and injuring a fourth. The incident occurred as two helicopters attempted to evacuate a wounded Iraqi child. one crew member survived and both injured parties were hospitalized. A separate Marine death in Kuwait raised U S troop fatalities to 146.
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Door bursts open on cargo plane over Congo
Dozens feared dead as the rear door of a Russian Ilyushin 76 opened at 33 000 feet over Kinshasa. Officials reported conflicting counts, with 129 as a high estimate and about half that later, while seven were confirmed dead and others survived by clinging to the aircraft.
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Kinshasa
Congo
Associated Press
Kikaya bin Karubi
Karubi
Africa
Kabamba Mbwebwe
SARS spread slows in Beijing amid cautious WHO pause
Beijing officials report signs of decline with 80,000 students set for college exams and quarantines lifted at six hospitals and four sites. More than 18,600 contacts remain isolated as fatalities rise to six and hospitalizations to 118 nationwide. WHO’s Jong-wook Lee avoids predicting a peak.
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Liang Wannian
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China
Jong-wook Lee
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