Tennessee mailman charged in attempt to blow up supervisor
Burle McMahan Jr., 49, a Knoxville postal worker, was charged with federal assault on a postal officer after investigators say he placed a propane tank on his manager’s desk and tried to ignite it. The manager blocked the canister, McMahan then attempted to choke the supervisor as others restrained him until police arrived. He had 11 years with the Postal Service and was on leave.
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Knoxville
Burle McMahan Jr
McMahan
Katrina Chalmers
Florida Governor vetoes anti abortion specialty tag
Governor Lawton Chiles vetoed the Choose Life specialty license plate saying it would push a political message and divide the state. The yellow plate showed two smiling children and would fund private adoption groups, barring abortion agencies from the proceeds. Chiles argued the tag did not foster true choice.
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Lawton Chiles
Choose Life
Florida
Chiles
Choose Life Inc
Veteran WJSE broadcaster collapses on air in Crestview
Radio listeners heard an abrupt silence as veteran newsman George Cain, 53, collapsed during a Monday morning broadcast at WJSE AM Crestview after suffering four brain aneurysms. Mayor George Whitehurst aided responders. Cain lay unconscious at West Florida Regional Medical Center Pensacola awaiting possible surgery.
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George Cain
Wjse-Am
Crestview
George Whitehurst
Cain
Whitehurst
Annelle
West Florida Regional Medical Center
Pensacola
Pam Calhoun
Clinton vetoes D C voucher bill in education clash
President Clinton vetoed a bill to provide opportunity scholarships up to 3200 for 2000 DC children to attend private or religious schools and 2000 more for tutoring, funded by federal tax dollars. The measure would cost 7 million in the first year and 25 million over three years amid debates on public funding and local control.
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Washington
Clinton
Congress
Jim Nicholson
Republican National Committee
Chelsea
Nicholson
Sidwell Friends School
D.C
House
Dick Armey
R-Tex
GOP
District of Columbia
Heiress Treated Like Royalty in Va. Jail Stay
Susan Cummings, 35, serving 60 days for voluntary manslaughter in Fauquier County jail, enjoys private cell privileges. Sheriff Higgs moved prisoners for safety and allowed extended visits and meals from family, claiming jail policy. Cummings had been charged with first-degree murder for shooting Roberto Villegas in her Warrenton estate kitchen. she testified self defense and accepted the sentence after a May verdict.
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Susan Cummings
Fauquier
Joseph Higgs
Mings
Cummings
David Flohr
Higgs
Flohr
Sages
Blair Howard
Howard
Roberto Villegas
Warrenton
Genes link heredity to alcoholism risk in study
Washington researchers report that inheritance plays a role in alcohol abuse and have pinpointed probable neighborhoods for related genes. Experts say the identified genes indicate risk rather than destiny and could guide early prevention and targeted treatments while clarifying environmental influences.
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Washington
Enoch Gordis
National Institute On Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Jeffrey Long
National Institutes of Health
Cholestin labeled natural diet aid ruled a drug
Washington AP FDA says Cholestin a red yeast product from China contains the same ingredient as the prescription cholesterol drug Mevacor and thus is not a dietary supplement. The ruling marks a key test of when supplements cross into regulated medicines.
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Washington
China
Food and Drug Administration
Aggrastat study shows improved survival after mild heart attack
Two studies find a clot preventing drug Aggrastat improves survival for patients with unstable angina or mild heart attack. In one trial 3232 patients received Aggrastat or heparin plus aspirin. after one month deaths were 2.3 percent vs 3.6 percent, a 39 percent relative decrease.
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Evnen
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Titi Associated Press
Jerry Fiarpe
Kelley Thompson
Mark Edwards
Thompson
Edwards
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Lawrence
Hillcrest Shopping Center
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Terraplane Bicycles
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