Leno opening tops Carson in first week ratings
Jay Leno's debut week as Tonight Show host drew a 6.6 average rating, 22 percent above Carson's final season average of 5.4. The week also showed a 53 percent rise from the year-ago period, with 921,000 households per rating point. In Las Vegas, the parents of Raymond Aker, a 7-month-old who died after being fed hot sauce and methamphetamine, were arrested on murder and child abuse charges.
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Leno
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Mary Aker
Raymond
Robert Michael Aker
John Lukens
AIDS victim quarantined and hearing set in Oklahoma City
A youth with the AIDS virus, IQ 68, has been quarantined at Griffin Memorial Hospital after escaping and admitting to sex with at least one person. Health officials say the boy may not grasp safe sex. a quarantine hearing is scheduled for Wednesday.
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Oklahoma City
Griffin Memorial Hospital
Union to switch long distance service not strike AT&T
The Communications Workers of America will pursue contract concessions from AT&T by urging members to switch to other long distance carriers, calling it an "electronic picket line." No weekend strike, despite a contract expiry, as talks continue with AT&T and IBEW though the stance is contested by AT&T officials.
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Communications Workers of America
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Yesterda
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CWA
Morton Bahr
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Bahr
William Ketchum
IBEW
Coroner rules assisted death by own action a homicide
In Pontiac Michigan a coroner ruled the death of Susan Williams 52 by carbon monoxide from a Kevorkian supplied mask as homicide. Williams died May 15 with Kevorkian present. he faces existing murder charges in other cases as the legal fight continues.
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Pontiac
Mich
Jack Kevorkian
Susan Williams
Kevorkian
Kanu Virani
Oakland County
Williams
Geoffrey Fieger
Richard Thompson
David Breck
Fieger
Breck
Rapid TB test slashes diagnosis to under two days
Researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences report a polymerase chain reaction based method that speeds TB diagnosis from weeks to about 36 hours, enabling quicker treatment and reducing transmission. The team predicts market availability in a year or two. experts call it a major breakthrough.
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Little Rock, Ark
Kathleen D. Eisenach
University of Arkansas For Medical Sciences
Ms. Eisenach
Earring mishap costs boy both feet in infection case
In Janesville Wisconsin a 15 year old boy Todd Deuel developed a severe infection after an earring was ripped out during play. Doctors amputated his left foot and part of the right as the infection spread from the hip to the bloodstream.
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Janesville
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Rose Deuel
Todd Deuel
Todd
Bone marrow twins wed after life saving transplant
Anissa Ayala and her sister Marissa Eve wed at a Victorian mansion in SAN BERNARDINO California. Anissa 20 and Bryan Espinosa 25 married before 350 guests following a bone marrow transplant a year earlier that saved Anissa from chronic myelogenous leukemia. Marissa, conceived to donate marrow, is now a healthy toddler and part of the couple’s family that also includes son Airon.
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Calif
Anissa Ayala
Marissa Eve
Marissa
Anissa
Abe Ayala
Bryan Espinosa
Los Angeles
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Airon
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