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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1998
Page
4
Five youths aged 8 to 14 plus a 12 year old girl were arrested in Akron for raping a 6 year old girl. They pleaded innocent in Juvenile Court as police say the abuse occurred at multiple locations over the summer. State law allows detention for those 12 and older, while younger children go to foster care.
Two U S Customs Service planes collided after takeoff from Aguadilla Puerto Rico while en route to Curacao with eight planes. One plane crashed into the ocean near Mona Island killing a pilot and co-pilot. the other landed safely. The incident followed by a separate church shooting in Dayton where Rev Andrew Lofton was fatally wounded after a Bible study. Kenneth Nance, 58, was arrested.
Loretta Randley, 58, who was jailed for eight years in 1981 for shooting her boyfriend to death, spent 16 years at home after a mistaken failure to deliver her sentence. A clemency board set her time served, noting she raised five grandchildren while living in the jurisdiction and awaiting appeal.
President Clinton received the final report of a seven member advisory board on racial attitudes and conditions. The board backs a permanent presidential council and a multimedia education campaign on how white privilege and prejudice formed American society. Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, Vaclav Havel and Rep. John Lewis attended the ceremony.
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