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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1999
Page
2
A Nashville woman Tonya Avery shot her three children aged 4, 5 and 7, then killed herself with shotgun blasts. Police found the bodies on a bed, and a death note was present. Avery’s father said she had shown signs of mental illness recently before the tragedy. Neighbors alerted authorities after noticing an unusually quiet home and a porch light left on.
Stacy Arruda 26 of Derry New Hampshire was found guilty by a Massachusetts judge on two elder abuse counts and seven patient abuse counts. The case involved assaults on five residents all over eighty at Wilmington Woods Nursing Home in Cambridge.
NBC and General Electric deny bending to corporate or nuclear industry pressure in altering the miniseries Atomic Train. The edit swaps references from nuclear waste to hazardous materials. Advocacy groups claim GE influence. GE says nuclear units are a small share of its $100 billion revenue, far less than NBC’s $6 billion.
Detectives use prints from a severed finger found at Bowen Auto Body to identify gunmen who shot and killed 47 year old Spurgeon Bowen during a dispute with three men on Wednesday. Investigators seek motive and suspect details as they pursue the case.
Columbine student Lance Kirklin 16 suffered a massive shotgun wound to the jaw and leg injuries from the attack. He described moments before the gunmen opened fire outside the commons. Kirklin, who says he does not remember details, faces at least six more face surgeries and a medical bill near one million dollars. He recalls friends Daniel Rohrbough and Sean Graves, with Rohrbough killed and Graves injured, as he works toward recovery and sending a hardy message to Graves.
U S District Judge Peter Leisure ordered the release of thousands of pages of grand jury testimony from the late 1940s Hiss case, a move that could open records from the 1951 Rosenberg spying probe. Legal experts caution such disclosures remain rare despite the historic push.
President Clinton’s bid for two new base-closings in 2001 and 2005 stalled in the Senate Armed Services Committee after party-line votes. The $288.8 billion defense bill backed extra funding and pay raises, with leaders promising another try on the Senate floor amid concerns about politics influencing base closures in California and Texas.
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