Death penalty sought for Nichols in Oklahoma City bombing case
Witnesses described the horror of the 1995 blast as prosecutors argued Terry Nichols deserves the death penalty. Jurors heard graphic accounts of victims, including a child found with a pink sock and a rescue worker recalling the crumbling federal building. Nichols faces a possible life sentence or death if the jury chooses execution by injection.
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Denver
Oklahomta City
Terry Nichols
Timothy McVergh
Patrick Ryan
Oklahoma City
Herston
Nichols
McVeigh
Jerry Flowers
Flowers
Federal
Richard Matsch
Matsch
Michael Tigar
Tigar
Turbulence injures many on United flight 826
A United Airlines jumbo jet bound for Honolulu from Narita plunged 1000 feet amid severe clear air turbulence over the Pacific injuring 102 passengers and killing one woman, as the plane returned to Narita. Tokyo traveler Hiroaki Hanai described the terrifying drop while others recalled the jolts and shattered windows.
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Narita
Japan
Hiroaki Hanai
Hanaf
United Airlines
Mr. Hanai
Tokyo
Konomi Kateura
Pacific Ocean
United
Kristina Price
National Transportation Safety Board
Matthew Furman
NTSB
Washington
Plans for mental defense dropped in Unabomber trial
In Sacramento, Theodore Kaczynski’s lawyers abandoned a psychiatric defense after the suspect refused government psychiatric examination and resisted any portrayal as mad. The withdrawal ends the 122B notice while the guilt phase starts next week. mental state may still be argued during potential life-or-death proceedings if found guilty.
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Sacramento
Calif
Theodore Kaczynski
Kaczynski
Dr Kaczynski
Kaczynsk
Kaczynsi
Garland Burrell Jr
El Al Flight to Nowhere Offers Cheap Test Run
El Al piloted a Flight to Nowhere from Ben-Gurion Airport to Rhodes and back for 300 tour representatives. The test, sponsored by Boeing, featured Hanukkah songs, meals, and films with a price around 85 dollars per person. The carrier plans to broaden the service to individuals to fill empty seats in winter.
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Jerusalem
el Alits
London
Paris
Nachman Kielman
Boeing
Ben-Gurion
Rhodes
Kleiman Sai
Death by own action Hill claims two sledders’ lives
Milwaukee AP reports that a man and his 2 year old grandson sledding on a slope known as death by own action Hill slammed into a tree. The 2 year old Jack C Folayter died. grandfather Bernard Fulayter 52 sustained serious injuries. several others were injured. Neighbors warned about the danger posed by trees near the sledding area.
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Milwaukee
Thomas Doehling
Jack C. Folayter
Bernard Fulayter
Froedterth Memorial Eutheran Hospital
Gregory Baur
Michael Patton
Former nurse charged in string of hospital deaths
Orville Lynn Majors, 36, a former nurse on duty during a wave of patient deaths at Vermillion County Hospital, faces charges of killing six patients by injections. Investigators say 130 of 147 deaths between 1993 and 1995 remain unexplained, with witnesses claiming injections and a large police probe costing millions.
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Orville Lyan Majors
Indiana
Don Rose
Frank Turchi
Mr. Majors
Vermillion County Hospital
Newport
Ind
Orville Lynn Majors
Paula Holdaway
Mr Majors
Dorothea Hixon
Ms. Hixon
Majors
Marshall Pinkus
West Centralt Community Hospital
Refugees flee as gunmen roam free in Puebla hills
Federal police and soldiers enter a southern Puebla community to rescue residents held in terror by armed gunmen. Officers establish a perimeter and offer departures. about 60 leave, part of a mass exodus totaling up to 5,000 since Saturday. Survivors accuse PRI affiliates of orchestrating a massacre and killings in neighboring Acheal. 40 men from nearby villages are charged with murder.
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Puebla
Mexico
Institutional Revolutionary Party
PRL
Acheal
PRI
McCaughey septuplets mom braces for chaotic home life
Iowa AP describes Bobbi McCaughey’s plan to manage feeding, changing, and baths for seven newborns while caring for older daughter Mikayla. She expects hard days but sees a scheduling path to a lively home, with the septuplets still in hospital and due home after January.
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Iowa
Ladies’ Home Journal
CBS
Bobbi McCaughey
Mikayla
McCaughey
Kenny
Cariisie
Des Moines
Blank Children’s Hospital
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