Principal Apologizes Over Marked Face Incident At School
Atlanta mother Mary Kuelper contemplates a lawsuit against North Jackson Elementary and the Jackson County school system after teacher Mary Grace Blackstock marked her son Joseph with an orange word book on his face arms and legs to remind him of an overdue library book. The incident led to a meeting with Principal Vic Stewart and a school system representative. The student returned the book the next day and counseling was offered.
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Mink farms tighten security after mass mink release
Thousands of mink escaped from a fur ranch near here leaving 6 000 to 8 000 baby mink unaccounted for and at least 2 000 confirmed dead. About 400 of 1 600 adult females are dead or missing amid suspected animal rights group action. No arrests reported. The incident echoes past underground Animal Liberation Front releases.
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Canada election reshapes parliament amid Liberal slip
The Liberal Party barely holds a reduced majority as Reform Party rises to threaten in Ottawa. Chretien survives a tight Quebec race while Reform dominates Alberta and British Columbia, challenging Liberals with regional divides and Quebec separatism looming in a close national contest.
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Hearing postponed for Malcolm Shabazz in arson case
Yonkers New York, a 12 year old grandson of Malcolm X appeared in Westchester County Family Court in handcuffs as a suspect in a fatal arson targeting Betty Shabazz. Judge Spitz postponed the hearing awaiting his mother’s arrival. attorney Percy Sutton seeks psychiatric evaluation. Betty Shabazz remains in critical condition at Jacobi Medical Center.
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Slow start in secondhand smoke crash trial in Miami
In Miami, jury selection began for a $5 billion class action by 60,000 flight attendants claiming secondhand smoke aboard planes caused illness. Judges and lawyers sifted through 250 potential jurors, with only five kept by day’s end and nineteen asked back next day. The industry denies causation, while plaintiffs plan to call former U.S. surgeons general and doctors.
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Kenny Rogers weds amid poultry protest at Georgia estate
In Lexington Georgia Kenny Rogers, 58, married Wanda Miller, 30, in a barn ceremony on his estate while two PETA protesters clashed outside. Activists accused Rogers Roasters of mistreating chickens, tossing feed pellets as signs waved.
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Divorce's lingering effects on children persist decades later
Twenty five years after their parents split, children show lasting emotional repercussions. California psychologist Judith Wallerstein, author of a long running study, says divorce trauma hinders adolescence and early adulthood, shaping romantic relations in the late twenties and thirties and fueling debate on the modern American family. The study, based on hundreds of interviews over 25 years, describes lives of hundreds of families without direct comparison to intact families.
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