Calm Returns After Citywide Riot In St Petersburg Florida
In St Petersburg Florida a riot followed a traffic stop that left a black man dead after Officer Jim Knight fired through a car windshield. At least 11 people were injured including a police officer and a photographer. 28 buildings were set ablaze, and a police substation and a post office were torched. By midnight most fires were out and barricades were removed as police planned 12 hour shifts and increased patrols.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Darrel Stephens
Denny Simmons
Stephens
Jim Knight
Knight
St Petersburg Times
Lisa Craft
Tyron Lewis
Bayfront Medical Center
Pope Endorses Evolution Theory as Compatible with Faith
Pope John Paul II declared evolution and Catholic faith can coexist, stating Darwin’s theory is compatible with creation by God. He noted scientific advances strengthen the view of human origins and addressed the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in Rome, emphasizing faith and science as complementary.
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Vatican City
John Paul 11
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Rome
Pius XII
Charles Darwin
Darwin
Vatican
Simpson lawyer attacks Nicole's character at trial
OJ Simpson defense counsel opened with a sweeping attack on Nicole Brown Simpson. He alleged she slept around after her divorce, aborted a lover's baby, and hosted parties with drug dealers who could have killed her, while noting she had a date with Ronald Goldman the night they were slain.
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Santa Monica
Calif
O.J. Simpson
Nicole Brown Simpson
Robert Baker
Ronald Goldman
Mr. Simpson
Mr. Baker
Helicopter from USS Enterprise Crashes in Persian Gulf
A HH-60H Seahawk with 12 aboard crashed during a training exercise in the northern Persian Gulf near Kuwait. One American killed, two crew missing, nine rescued. No evidence of enemy action. Carrier Air Wing 17 part of Operation Southern Watch.
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Dubai
United Arab Emirates
Persian Gulf
U.S
Gulf
Kuwait
Navy
Washington
Carrier Air Wing 17
The
Enterprise
Two life terms for teen who killed mother and father
Nathan Brooks, then 17, received two consecutive life sentences for the 1995 family slayings near Bellaire Ohio. He was convicted of murder despite insanity claims and will be eligible for parole after 43 years. The victims were Terry and Marilynn Brooks, attacked in their home. the father was shot and decapitated.
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ST. Clairsville
Ohio
Nathan Brooks
Terry Brooks
Marilynn Brooks
Bellaire
Mass grave bodies in Croatia linked to Vukovar massacre
Forensic experts tentatively ID 30 bodies from an eastern Croatia mass grave as men dragged from hospital beds and executed five years ago. Indictment names three Yugoslav army officers tied to the Vukovar massacre, as the siege and shelling by Serb-led forces culminated in the 1991 fall that left about 10,000 dead.
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Zagreb
Croatia
Vukovar
Clint Williams
U.N. War Crimes Tribunal
Veselin Sljivancanin
Miroslav Radic
Mile Miksic
Yugoslavia
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