Voter News Service under fire after Gore call in Florida
The AP reports that VNS, formed to aid networks in exit polls and results, faced heavy scrutiny after a premature Florida call for Gore. Networks and AP initially backed the call, while VNS defended its data led to the decision as actual votes later questioned the call’s confidence.
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Voter News Service
al Gore
Florida
George W. Bush
Fox News Channel
Roger Ailes
ABC
CBS
CNN
Fox
NBC
Associated Press
Dan Rather
Don Imus
VNS
Gore
Bush
Murray Edelman
News Election Service
United Press International
UPI
Warren Mitofsky
Voter Research & Surveys
Sheldon Gawiser
Kathleen Frankovic
Frankovic
Gawiser
Carolyn Smith
Tom Hannon
John Ellis
John Moody
Federal raid linked to Duke donations gambled away
Federal agents searched the New Orleans home of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke amid allegations he gambled away hundreds of thousands raised for white supremacist causes. Court papers cited informants and casino records. no charges filed. Duke, leader of NOFEAR, was not reachable.
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New Orleans
David Duke
Duke
U.S. District Court
Mississippi
Louisiana
Nevada
FBI
Internal Revenue Service
Postal Inspection Service
Wa Be Hsin
National Organization For European American Rights
Nofear
United States
Vince Edwards
Mike Foster
Foster
State Board of Ethics
Teen pleads guilty in Canadian Columbine copycat shooting
A 16 year old Canadian boy pleaded guilty to one count of first degree murder and two counts of attempted murder for the April 28 1999 W R Myers High School Taber Alberta shooting. Judge Gerald DeBow sentenced him to three years in a juvenile detention center and seven years of community supervision plus a lifetime guns ban. The incident came eight days after the Columbine attack in Littleton Colorado.
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Lethbridge
Alberta
Columbine
W.R. Myers
Taber
Gerald DeBow
DeBow
Littleton
Colo
Jason Lang
Deaf students learn Mexican Sign Language in McAllen
In McAllen Texas deaf students are learning Mexican Sign Language marking a rare bilingual program in a border city where Spanish and English mix on billboards classrooms and radio. The program teaches 10 students and highlights how sign languages differ by country with Margarita Schulse and her cousin illustrating cross border communication challenges.
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Texas
Margarita Schulse
Rio Grande
Schulse
Margarita
Jennifer Powell
Cardenas
Memorial High School
Mexico
Reynosa
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