Divers recover fuel tank from TWA Flight 800
Navy divers retrieved central fuel tank pieces from the TWA 800 crash in East Moriches as investigators keep open the bomb or missile theory. Officials would discuss a report of a missile launch near another aircraft tied to a Virginia facility. The USS Grapple continued salvage operations amid a broad debris field and additional wreckage nets.
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Former elementary principal pleads guilty to soliciting prostitution
George Meadows, 55, a former Sylvia Elementary principal in Beckley, admitted soliciting prostitution after offering to undercut a female competitor’s price for performing oral sex on two Charleston officers on Sept 1. He was fined $550 and resigned after 17 years. Co workers noted his recent divorce and that he is a father of two. Meadows declined comment outside court.
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Tupac Shakur Loses Lung After Las Vegas Shooting
The rapper Tupac Shakur was wounded in a Las Vegas ambush as he and Suge Knight rode near the Strip after a Tyson bout. Shakur had his right lung removed on Monday and remains in a coma with a reported 50 50 chance of survival. police expressed frustration over cooperation from witnesses from Death Row Records.
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FDA Warns on Imported Mascarpone Cream Cheese
The FDA warned Americans not to eat imported mascarpone cream cheese linked to Botulism in Italy. Brands Giglio Parmalat and Sol di Valle may be contaminated even if they look normal, with at least one death and three cases reported.
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Eleven honored in Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony
President Clinton awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 11 figures who advanced freedom in religion civil rights public service and humanitarian work. Recipients include Cardinal Joseph Bernardin Rosa Parks James Brady Morris Udall Millard Fuller David Hamburg John H. Johnson Eugene Lang Jan Nowak Jezioranski Antonia Pantoja and Ginetta Sagan for their lifelong dedication to human rights education and public service.
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