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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 2000
Page
3
A federal judge in East St. Louis approved a 30 million dollar settlement of a class action accusing Publishers Clearing House of misleading sweepstakes entrants. The ruling preserves state actions but bars further restitution claims. PCH admitted no wrongdoing.
New Jersey authorities used a raid on the New Hall Tavern to seize witnesses to a deadly Seton Hall University dorm fire. Nearly a dozen students arrested were subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury as investigators pursue leads amid withheld information. The January 19 blaze killed three freshmen and injured 62.
Dakin Andrews Weekley, 71, son of Mayor Jimmy Weekley, was detained after allegedly threatening to shoot a local high school during an argument with bus driver Robert Roberts over a fare dispute. No charges filed. Weekley described as a community college student.
Cape Canaveral reports that Endeavour's crew completes a last day of radar mapping, reaching 43.5 million square miles mapped at least twice. They gain 9 hours 10 minutes by conserving fuel, enabling a final Australia pass before a planned 6 a.m. CST shutdown, with data to fill 20 600 compact discs and years of analysis ahead.
Jeanne Hurley Simon, wife of former Senator Paul Simon, died Sunday in Marianna Indiana at age 77 from brain cancer. An advocate for education and libraries she chaired the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science in 1993 and later taught at Southern Illinois University Carbondale while supporting her husband’s policy work.
Two skiers died in New England and New York as avalanches struck Mount Washington in New Hampshire and Wright Peak near Lake Placid. David McPhedran of Maine and a companion were buried on Mount Washington's Gulf of Slides. only Aimee Reiter survived. In New York, Toma Jacob Vracarich, 27, died while five others were injured in an Adirondacks avalanche off Wright Peak.
In St. Albans WV 58 words within the Balanced Budget Act blocked 83 year old Una Thomas from blood tests preventing strokes. She died on New Year’s Day after an 18 month gap in tests costing about 80 dollars each. Lawmakers say cuts went too far harming rural elderly.
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