Video tape destroyed in Alps ski lift crash probe
Marine aboard the jet that killed 20 in the Italian gondola mishap helped prosecutors charge pilot Captain Richard Ashby and navigator Captain Joseph Schweitzer with obstruction of justice and conspiracy. The charges follow reports that a personal videotape of the Feb. 3 accident was made aboard the SA-6B Prowler during a training mission over the Alps. All 20 aboard the gondola perished when the jet clipped the lift cable.
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Richard Ashby
Joseph Schweitzer
Marine Corps
Alps
Nationwide settles discrimination suit in housing insurance case
A judge approves a 5.3 million settlement in a suit accusing Nationwide Insurance Co. of steering homeowners in minority neighborhoods away from insurance sales. The Toledo Fair Housing Center and homeowners filed the case in 1993, alleging practices like not returning calls to deter black-area homeowners from buying insurance. Nationwide denies discrimination but backs the settlement to avoid a lengthy fight. Separately, Allen Drury, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Advise and Consent, died on his 60th birthday, from heart failure in Tiburon.
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Toledo
Allen Drury
Drury
Tiburon
Scribner
U.S. Senate
New York Times
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Wall Street harassment suit targets Garban firms
New York Attorney General Dennis Vacco filed a 10 million lawsuit against Garban LLC and affiliates accusing about 300 brokers of harassment including lewd acts toward three female brokers. Separately a Chicago federal court approved Merrill Lynch settling gender discrimination claims, enabling 2,500 women to pursue mediation for potential awards.
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Wall Street
Atty
Dennis Vacco
Garban LLC
Chicago
Merrill Lynch & Co
Peanut free buffer zones on planes for peanut allergy
The Transportation Department requires peanut free buffer zones of at least three rows for passengers with medically documented severe peanut allergies under new disability rules. Airlines, including Delta, debate how to implement the guidance as airlines face a rule set effective in April while authorities note the affected population is under one tenth of one percent.
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Washington
Transportation Department
Wall Street Journal
Kay Horner
Delta Air Lines
Delta
Jimmy Carter
Horner
Air Transport Assn
Texas Almanac banned in Texas prisons for maps
Dallas AP reports the Texas Almanac is banned in state prisons due to detailed county maps that could assist escapes. Officials say maps help navigators plot routes once outside, while critics view the ban as punishment over education and security concerns.
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Dallas
Texas
Larry Fitzgerald
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Dallas Morning News
Powers-That-Be
Fitzgerald
Polk County
East Texas
Terrell
Pluck and
Ace
Piney
Menard Creeks
American Civil Liberties Union
Jay Jacobson
ACLU
Hill
Tom Mills
Almanac
Mary Ramos
GOP Lawmakers Clash Over Proposed Tax Cuts
Washington Republicans split on a plan to cut taxes as markets recover from steep losses. Rep. David McIntosh and Sen. John Chafee argued for and against large cuts, while House GOP leaders pursue a $70 to $80 billion package targeting the marriage penalty, Social Security income limits, and health insurance premium deductibility amid fiscal uncertainty.
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David McIntosh
R-Ind
John Chafee
R.I
Chafee
Finance Committee
Congress
McIntosh
House
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