Privacy partners unite for online safety campaign
Major Internet companies including America Online IBM Intel Microsoft Real Networks and Verizon join TRUSTe in a Priva Partnership 2000 drive to educate the public on online privacy with print radio and Web ads. The effort will funnel readers to privacy pages and run state wide ads financed by over 300000 in space. Master Lock recalls 752000 gun locks over safety flaw with free replacements.
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Priva Partnership 2000
America Online
IBM
Intel
Microsoft
Real Networks
Verizon Communications
Truste
San Jose
Calif
Orlando hostage standoff ends with two dead
A three day standoff at a Meadow Woods home near Orlando ended with the death of hostage Andrea Hall and the suicide of hostage taker Jamie Petron. Police say Hall was dead hours earlier and Petron killed himself after firing at a police robot. Two children were freed and the area was evacuated as officers surrounded the home.
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Orlando
Pla
Jamie Dean Petron
Andrea Hall
Hall
Cine
Orange County
Steve Jones
Petron
Jones
Michael Foreman
Althea Mills
Foreman
al Rodrigues
Pompano Beach
Meadow Woods
Thelma Mills
Mills
Norman West
Disney World
Fla
Miller appointed to Georgia Senate seat after Coverdell’s death
Former Georgia governor Zell Miller is named to the late Paul Coverdell’s U.S. Senate seat by Gov. Ray Barnes. Miller, 68, plans to run for the remaining four years in November, pledging bipartisan leadership and college scholarship programs as key strengths. The party balance stands at 46 Democrats and 54 Republicans. A nonpartisan November election will decide the term, with potential runoffs if no candidate clears 50 percent.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Zell Miller
Paul Coverdell
Ray Barnes
Miller
Senate
Coverdell
U.S. Senate
Washington
Firearm deaths fall among youths while life expectancy rises
CDC and National Center for Health Statistics report 1998 firearm fatalities for under 20 dropped 35 percent from the 1994 peak and 10 percent from 1997. Life expectancy rose to 76.7 years as deaths from heart disease cancer and stroke declined, though drug deaths increased and infant mortality held steady.
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Atlanta
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
National Center For Health Statistics
France
Germany
Japan
England
Neers
Assault claim tied to Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire groom
The groom Rick Rockwell says a fan assaulted him early Sunday in Grand Forks North Carolina after a late Saturday chat near his motel. The man followed him, scuffled when a window was locked, and Rockwell says a toenail was torn off. Police are treating it as an assault with a suspect in custody.
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Grand Forks
N.C
Rick Rockwell
Rockwell
Kevin Kallinen
Darva Conger
Fox TV
Specia
Conger
Playboy
Susan Roberts Compiles J-W Wire Reports Digest
Susan Roberts assembles a compact digest from J-W Wire Reports, curating concise items likely covering regional happenings. The compilation presents brief summaries suitable for quick newsroom ingestion.
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J-W Wire Reports
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Master Lock Co
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Food and Agricultural Organization
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Jim Solomons
Solomons
Rodrigues
Barnes
United States Senate
Democ
CDC
Life
Erin Brockovich
John Stossel
Stossel
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Hinkley
Pacific Gas & Electric
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Sickbay
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Athens
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Ican
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Graham
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Rochester
Mann
Peter Sellers
British Comedy Society
Elstree Studios
London
Sellers
Dr. Strangelove
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Pink Panther
Oracle Corp
Larry Ellison
October Rose
Monaco
Ellison
Florida
Estelle Getty
Iman
Ray Billingsley
Curtis
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Sonic Youth
Hleana Douglas
Matt LeBlanc
Brad Renfro
Grahar
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