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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1998
Page
5
State College police report a riot after bars closed early, with up to 1,500 people clashing with officers. Fourteen officers injured, more than 20 arrests, and extensive property damage including three storefronts and 33 street lights damaged.
Eyewitness Mersiha Colakovic told Miami Beach police Versace did not see the gunman as he fired two shots near the designer’s mansion on Ocean Drive. She described a tourist-dressed attacker rushing Versace just as he reached his front steps, while Cunanan later killed himself on a nearby houseboat days later.
Harvard English professor Elaine Scarry argues electromagnetic interference from nearby military ships or planes may have caused the TWA 800 disaster. The NTSB is reviewing the idea alongside ongoing inquiries into the July 17, 1996, crash that killed all 230 aboard.
Michael Lauria, father of 1976 victim Donna Lauria, urges Spike Lee to abandon the movie Summer of Sam about the killer. Berkowitz, who called himself Son of Sam, killed six and wounded six during 1976 77 in New York and remains imprisoned. Lauria and Parents of Murdered Children protested outside a casting call for the film.
A wildfire about 10 miles north of Bakersfield burned at least 2400 acres near oil fields and grazing land before containment around 5 pm. No injuries or homes were threatened. Firefighters numbered about 70 with tankers, aided by U S Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management.
The Museum of Tobacco Art and History will close by July 24 to make way for United States Tobacco Co offices after 15,000 annual visitors. UST has operated the museum since 1982 on the second floor near the state Capitol. Readily shipped items include seven lifesize cigar store Indians and an 1850 Tecumseh carving among 1,500 pieces.
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