Air tanker crashes amid California wildfires killing pilot
Santa Ana winds fueled fires across Southern California as the Mount Edna blaze grew to 18 000 acres near Banning and The Badlands, with 3 200 acres burning north in Cherry Valley. A mobile home and a roof fire damaged structures while a state air tanker, deployed against Mount Edna, crashed and the pilot was presumed dead.
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Santa Ana
California
Mount Edna
Banning
Riverside County
Moreno Valley
Cherry Valley
Karen Terrill
California Department of Forestry
Sacramento
Florida Teen Kills Mother Over TV Dispute
A 17 year old Apopka boy beat his mother Isabel Gomez 58 to death with a hammer during a television dispute. The body was found five days later in a wooded area. The son Raymond Emilio Gomez confessed and was charged with first degree murder. His 15 year old girlfriend, unnamed, was charged as an accessory for helping dispose of the body.
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Apopka
Isabel Gomez
Raymond Emilio Gomez
Kenneth LeTourneau
Gomez
LeTourneau
Protests mark court opening
The Supreme Court opened its 1998-99 term with orders in over 1,600 cases. It allowed Indiana rural district to continue random drug tests for all extracurricular students, not just those suspected of drug use, a move that could spur broader school testing while protests and arrests outside the court drew attention to minority law clerks.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Indiana
Library Club
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Kweisi Mfume
Illinois
Wisconsin
National School Boards Assn
Jay Butler
Rush County High School
Future Homemakers of America
Matthew Todd
Matthew
Justice Department joins suit against Columbia/HCA over Medicare fraud
The U S Department of Justice joined a civil suit accusing Columbia and Quorum Health Group of filing false Medicare cost reports to cheat federal health programs. The case, linked to a 1993 whistleblower claim by James Alderson, seeks triple damages and civil penalties, with over 11 states reviewing Columbia/HCA billing practices.
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Tampa
Fla
Department of Justice
Columbia
HCA Healthcare Corp
Montana
Quorum Health Group
James Alderson
North Valley Hospital
Whitefish
Mont
Quorum
Alderson
HCA
James Dalton, Jr
Jeff Prescott
Nashville
Columbia/HCA
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Florida
Nevada
Roderick Abeyta
Donna Martin
Las Vegas
Abeyta
Ms. Martin
Lawrence
Gopy —Soutique
Lowa St
Guatemala
Minnesota
Texas
Clinton
Monica Lewinsky
AP the
U.S. Supreme Court
Mfume
Shuck Implement Company, Inc
River Bridge
Hawker
JourNal
Justice Department
Gemlen RK Motors, Inc
29Th
Iowa
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
LMH
Thomas W. Fulbright
MDTA
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