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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1996
Page
3
A 14 year old Glendale boy, smiling as police took him into custody, called 911 to say he killed his mother. Tinann Turner Davidson, 52, was found dead with a gunshot wound at the kitchen table. An .38 caliber handgun was recovered nearby.
TV viewership rose the fourth night of the Republican National Convention as Bob Dole and Jack Kemp delivered acceptance speeches. ABC CBS and NBC posted a combined 13.4 rating, about 2 million more homes than Wednesday's 11.3, with prior nights at 11.6 and 12.7. A rating point equals 959,000 households. Nearby Totowa resident Joseph Cerce, 79, sits in a lawn chair daily, waving to traffic and drawing horns from passing motorists, prompting concerns from neighbors and police requests to reduce noise.
A 3 year old boy fell 18 feet into a Brookfield Zoo primate exhibit and was rescued by an eight year old female gorilla named Binti Jua. He remained in serious condition with head injuries but showed improvement as keepers reopened the exhibit.
Washington officials report a Clinton era program speeds naturalization with over 1 million expected to be granted citizenship by year end. The spike raises concerns about test integrity and FBI fingerprint checks while INS scrambles to fix processing glitches and prevent ineligible grants.
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